Monday, September 2, 2024

"Death and Life are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit" -Proverbs 18:21

We are not knowledge computers. We are souls that possess knowledge. And when we bring our knowledge to our tongues, we feel the live "spirit" of the knowledge we possess.

Knowledge not expressed remains backstage. Knowledge that walks off the tongue's red carpet onto the stage of consciousness produces a play of intellectual improv. The spotlight of unscripted energy shines on a cast of connected concepts climaxing into coherence.

Friday, August 9, 2024

When you see people who claim they’re “not into hip-hop” being exposed to an undeniably “sick” beat vibrating the atmosphere (e.g. in the mall), something happens. You see their nervous systems leak acknowledgement of how cool the rhythmic bass is that is vibrating their soul. It’s like their depths are rebelling against their mind’s command to not find the beat cool because they’re “not supposed to”. They give themselves a top-down executive order to suppress the inclination to “bob their head”.

A similar thing occurs when someone who claims “they’re not religious or spiritual” being exposed to an otherworldly type of love that’s not merely human.




Sunday, May 26, 2024

Amidst AI's advancements...

With all of AI’s advancements, many see its potential to enrich life. This may or may not be true.

We forget that AI, at the end of the day, just makes tools. Tools are means for purposes. Well, with all of AI’s advancements, what purposes are they meant to accomplish? Convenience? Getting what you want right away? Immersing yourself deeper in a digital world? 

Millions of humans have tried these purposes, and they’ve been left empty. If this is the case, more effective means of these purposes will just hasten emptiness.

Thursday, May 9, 2024

 Desire for certainty makes you anxious. Acceptance of uncertainty makes you less anxious.

Get rid of the certainty, you get rid of the anxiety.

Friday, February 23, 2024

To Control or Not Control

 You may think you want to control 100% of your life. But stop and think of whether you want to control 100% of the stories you read or the movies you watch.

If you controlled 100% of any story/movie, you'll take away the surprising dopamine. The surprising alliances. The surprising identities. The surprising choices. The surprising turn of the tables. The surprising plot twists.

There is an inner war between the desire for control and the desire for surprising dopamine. They come from 2 different parts of you, each with their own motivations.

Movie critics slam "bad movies" for being "predictable". If that is the case, do we really expect the quality of our non-fictional life movie to be "two thumbs up" if it's nothing but "predictable" and completely in our control?