Science is talking about a symbol of the real universe, and this symbol has much the same use as money. It is a convenient timesaver for making practical arrangements. But when money and wealth, reality and science are confused, the symbol becomes a burden.
I'm Aaron - machine enthusiast, nature lover, music junkie, coffee snob and senior software engineer. Here's a collection of favourite quotes and various musings on technical concepts, start-up woes, spirituality, philosophy and the meaning of life.
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Hollow Food Theory
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Mi Corazón
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Three Weeks In
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Happiness is simply the absence of desire.
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Legally Prescribed Criminal
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The Bloated Internet
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I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past, I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.
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Creative Blocks and the Art of Doing
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Does it really take any considerable time or effort just to understand that you depend on enemies and outsiders to define yourself, and that without some opposition you would be lost? To see this is to acquire, almost instantly, the virtue of humor, and humor and self-righteousness are mutually exclusive. Humor is the twinkle in the eye of a just judge, who knows that he is also the felon in the dock.
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Omens
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Burning Down Babylon
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When you possess great treasures within you, and try to tell others of them, seldom are you believed.
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My Favourite Kind of Walk
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It is important to expect nothing, to take every experience, including the negative ones, as merely steps on the path, and to proceed.
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Why Is My Head So Quiet?
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I am not right wing or left wing. I am a human being who listens, empathizes, learns, and thinks. People want to assign labels to each other so they can judge without trying to understand a person. Labels lessen our capacity for empathy and free thought.
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The Crash
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The Beauty of the Bush Doof
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When you seethe in vengeance and are unable to forgive someone, you are just wasting your time by engaging yourself in the thoughts of the very person you hate utmost.
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Nature, Economy and the Metaphysical
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Isolation in the Age of Connectivity
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Stress causes both mental and physiological responses and tends to amplify the other biases. Almost all human mental biases become worse in the face of stress as the body goes into a fight-or-flight response, relying purely on instinct... Stress causes hasty decisions, immediacy, and a fallback to habit, thus giving rise to the elite soldiers’ motto: "In the thick of battle, you will not rise to the level of your expectations, but fall to the level of your training."