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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
AIO2
This book will teach you how to do magic. Actually it's really easy. When I first started experimenting, I made up a little mantra for myself: Magic is Easy, Magic is Fun, Magic is Easy, Magic is Fun. Let's start with a little experiment for you to do.
Step 1: Think about your foot. Either of your feet will do. I don't want to be too too prescriptive here. Choose your left foot or your right foot. Hey, be a rebel and pick your whole legs instead, but try to concentrate on just one, either the left or the right. Right? OK. I'm thinking about my left foot. What are you thinking of? Whatever your answer, just become aware of the thing you've chosen to focus on. Okay saying it like is actually redundant because 'to become aware of' is the same as 'focus on'. Never mind. Don't let your attention stray. Focus on what you have chosen to focus on. By the way it has to be a body part, and preferably a limb or something. I tell you what just do exactly as I say and focus on your left foot. Your LEFT FOOT, okay? Okay. Right. Now everyone is focusing on your left foot.
Step 2: Now wiggle your left foot. Go on. Do it. Do it again.
End of experiment.
What you just did is what I call magic. When you wiggle your left foot you're doing magic. When you smile at someone you're doing magic. Whenever you make any decision whatsoever, it's magic. Do you believe in that kind of magic? Do you realize the magic of making your foot wiggle is no less complicated than the magic of getting away from an abusive spouse, deciding to seek help for your drug addiction, telling the girl you love that you want to marry her, looking for a new job, etc. Insert desire here. Every single thing in your life begins with a decision. A decision to climb Mount Everest isn't more difficult than a decision to move your left foot. Climbing Mount Everest is more difficult that wiggling your left foot, but making the decision isn't hard at all. You can do it sitting down, with your eyes closed, in the middle of the night, on the way to a movie, while driving your car. It isn't even dangerous. You can make a decision while driving your car without causing an accident, the way you would if you were using a cellphone without the hands free kit.
Making decisions are totally harmless and fun. After you've made the decision though, many other things need to happen before the magic happens. What happens between the moment of decision and the moment of relaization is what this book is about.
Step 1: Think about your foot. Either of your feet will do. I don't want to be too too prescriptive here. Choose your left foot or your right foot. Hey, be a rebel and pick your whole legs instead, but try to concentrate on just one, either the left or the right. Right? OK. I'm thinking about my left foot. What are you thinking of? Whatever your answer, just become aware of the thing you've chosen to focus on. Okay saying it like is actually redundant because 'to become aware of' is the same as 'focus on'. Never mind. Don't let your attention stray. Focus on what you have chosen to focus on. By the way it has to be a body part, and preferably a limb or something. I tell you what just do exactly as I say and focus on your left foot. Your LEFT FOOT, okay? Okay. Right. Now everyone is focusing on your left foot.
Step 2: Now wiggle your left foot. Go on. Do it. Do it again.
End of experiment.
What you just did is what I call magic. When you wiggle your left foot you're doing magic. When you smile at someone you're doing magic. Whenever you make any decision whatsoever, it's magic. Do you believe in that kind of magic? Do you realize the magic of making your foot wiggle is no less complicated than the magic of getting away from an abusive spouse, deciding to seek help for your drug addiction, telling the girl you love that you want to marry her, looking for a new job, etc. Insert desire here. Every single thing in your life begins with a decision. A decision to climb Mount Everest isn't more difficult than a decision to move your left foot. Climbing Mount Everest is more difficult that wiggling your left foot, but making the decision isn't hard at all. You can do it sitting down, with your eyes closed, in the middle of the night, on the way to a movie, while driving your car. It isn't even dangerous. You can make a decision while driving your car without causing an accident, the way you would if you were using a cellphone without the hands free kit.
Making decisions are totally harmless and fun. After you've made the decision though, many other things need to happen before the magic happens. What happens between the moment of decision and the moment of relaization is what this book is about.
All In One With The Universe
Title: All In One With The Universe: How to win at Facebook Poker and influence reality.
Cover:
Chapter 1: Card tricks
This book is not a self-help book. This book is a book about magic. If you want a self-help book, please put this book down right now and browse a little to the left or right. You're sure to find what you need just a couple of titles away. If you don't believe in magic, please put this book down, go home and wash your hands, because you've just gotten some fairy dust on you. Go on now. Go! I mean it! DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER.
To those of you who are left, let's get right to the point. Magic really exists. In fact, there is not only one kind of magic in the world, there are many different kinds. These days fairy godmothers seem to be on strike, because I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for mine to show up and so far she hasn't. I had high hopes about knights in shining armor but it seems they've been delayed somewhere by dragons. Well never mind, this book is even better than a knight or a fairy.
Cover:
Chapter 1: Card tricks
This book is not a self-help book. This book is a book about magic. If you want a self-help book, please put this book down right now and browse a little to the left or right. You're sure to find what you need just a couple of titles away. If you don't believe in magic, please put this book down, go home and wash your hands, because you've just gotten some fairy dust on you. Go on now. Go! I mean it! DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER.
To those of you who are left, let's get right to the point. Magic really exists. In fact, there is not only one kind of magic in the world, there are many different kinds. These days fairy godmothers seem to be on strike, because I don't know about you, but I've been waiting for mine to show up and so far she hasn't. I had high hopes about knights in shining armor but it seems they've been delayed somewhere by dragons. Well never mind, this book is even better than a knight or a fairy.
Monday, July 5, 2010
The New Pen
Nami, Jinho and Joon are walking to school. It is early in the morning.
Nami: It's hot.
Jinho: Let's go swimming this afternoon.
Joon: I can't. I have a headache.
Nami: What day is it today?
Joon: It's Monday.
Nami: Let's go shopping. Today is market day.
Joon: OK. Good idea. Wait. I will write it in my book.
Joon writes: Monday July 5th: shopping with Nami and Jinho.
At school: Nami, Jinho and Joon are sitting in their classroom. Joon is looking for his pen.
Joon: O no! Where is my pen?
Nami: Isn't it in your bag?
Joon: No!
Jinho: What does it look like?
Joon: It's green.
Nami: Was it expensive?
Joon: Yes. It was 4000 won.
Jinho: Wow. That's expensive.
Nami: This morning you had your pen. We were walking on York Street. Did you drop it? Is it on the street?
Joon: I think so. O no!
Jinho: You can buy a new pen at the market this afternoon.
Joon: OK.
After school. At the market. The children are looking at pens in the cheakmungu.
Nami: How much money do you have?
Joon: I have 10 000 won.
Jinho: Wow. You are rich! What does your father do?
Joon: My father is a doctor.
Jinho: O I see.
Nami: Buy a cheap pen. If you lose it it will be OK.
Joon: I like expensive pens.
Jinho: A cheap pen is the same as an expensive pen. Put your money in the bank.
Joon: OK. Good idea.
THE END
Nami: It's hot.
Jinho: Let's go swimming this afternoon.
Joon: I can't. I have a headache.
Nami: What day is it today?
Joon: It's Monday.
Nami: Let's go shopping. Today is market day.
Joon: OK. Good idea. Wait. I will write it in my book.
Joon writes: Monday July 5th: shopping with Nami and Jinho.
At school: Nami, Jinho and Joon are sitting in their classroom. Joon is looking for his pen.
Joon: O no! Where is my pen?
Nami: Isn't it in your bag?
Joon: No!
Jinho: What does it look like?
Joon: It's green.
Nami: Was it expensive?
Joon: Yes. It was 4000 won.
Jinho: Wow. That's expensive.
Nami: This morning you had your pen. We were walking on York Street. Did you drop it? Is it on the street?
Joon: I think so. O no!
Jinho: You can buy a new pen at the market this afternoon.
Joon: OK.
After school. At the market. The children are looking at pens in the cheakmungu.
Nami: How much money do you have?
Joon: I have 10 000 won.
Jinho: Wow. You are rich! What does your father do?
Joon: My father is a doctor.
Jinho: O I see.
Nami: Buy a cheap pen. If you lose it it will be OK.
Joon: I like expensive pens.
Jinho: A cheap pen is the same as an expensive pen. Put your money in the bank.
Joon: OK. Good idea.
THE END
Wednesday, June 16, 2010
LOM14
ACT 3
Scene 1 - Day of the big televised event. Meaning stands in front of a row of microphones and with camera lights flashing every few seconds he delivers the following monologue.
Meaning: You humans think you are special. (A gasp goes through the crowd followed by nervous laughter). And you are right! (Laughter). Language makes you special. But what if everything you thought you knew about language was wrong? (Silence). I am here to tell you that learning a langugae, any langugae, is actually very easy. See ... look at me, even a parrot can do it! The question you should ask yourselves though is this: Am I understanding what I'm saying or am I just delivering a long, memorized, scripted monologue?
(Murmurs)
What if language were easy? Well it is easy because you speak it without thinking, you even talk in your sleep. It hardly requires any effort. Only when you try to learn a new language does it seem very difficult, and that is the puzzling thing - how can something so easy be so hard? (Everyone is listening attentively now). That we don't know why should show us we still don't understand what language really is, and maybe it's important to figure it out. Because people today speak so many different languages and misunderstand each other so much, that it would truly be wonderful if people could learn to speak new languages really easily. Compare it to the days before aeroplanes were invented ... No one thought it possible for humans to fly.
(Here Meaning takes off in flight and circles around the room before again settling before the bank of microphones. Everyone is aghast and the camera's start flashing much faster, blinking like neon strobe lights).
Then someone figured out aerodynamics. And the built a plane. What if meaning is like aerodynamics. An unchartered area of knowledge ... something waiting to be discovered. And what if, if we discover the nature and working of meaning, it becomes possible to cross great distances in a far shorter time than would be possible if we were travelling on land, on horseback, or even with teh fastest car or train. What if, if we discovered the meaning of meaning, we could construct learning programs that make it possible, for instance, for adults to learn a new language in a few days? Wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe it's possible. Maybe not. But let us not kid ourselves that we have exhausted the meaning of meaning, because I believe that if we already had, such miracles would be possible.
I thank you for your attention.
Meaning bows slightly.
Scene 1 - Day of the big televised event. Meaning stands in front of a row of microphones and with camera lights flashing every few seconds he delivers the following monologue.
Meaning: You humans think you are special. (A gasp goes through the crowd followed by nervous laughter). And you are right! (Laughter). Language makes you special. But what if everything you thought you knew about language was wrong? (Silence). I am here to tell you that learning a langugae, any langugae, is actually very easy. See ... look at me, even a parrot can do it! The question you should ask yourselves though is this: Am I understanding what I'm saying or am I just delivering a long, memorized, scripted monologue?
(Murmurs)
What if language were easy? Well it is easy because you speak it without thinking, you even talk in your sleep. It hardly requires any effort. Only when you try to learn a new language does it seem very difficult, and that is the puzzling thing - how can something so easy be so hard? (Everyone is listening attentively now). That we don't know why should show us we still don't understand what language really is, and maybe it's important to figure it out. Because people today speak so many different languages and misunderstand each other so much, that it would truly be wonderful if people could learn to speak new languages really easily. Compare it to the days before aeroplanes were invented ... No one thought it possible for humans to fly.
(Here Meaning takes off in flight and circles around the room before again settling before the bank of microphones. Everyone is aghast and the camera's start flashing much faster, blinking like neon strobe lights).
Then someone figured out aerodynamics. And the built a plane. What if meaning is like aerodynamics. An unchartered area of knowledge ... something waiting to be discovered. And what if, if we discover the nature and working of meaning, it becomes possible to cross great distances in a far shorter time than would be possible if we were travelling on land, on horseback, or even with teh fastest car or train. What if, if we discovered the meaning of meaning, we could construct learning programs that make it possible, for instance, for adults to learn a new language in a few days? Wouldn't that be awesome? Maybe it's possible. Maybe not. But let us not kid ourselves that we have exhausted the meaning of meaning, because I believe that if we already had, such miracles would be possible.
I thank you for your attention.
Meaning bows slightly.
Monday, June 14, 2010
LOM13
Helen: Well it really is time that we discuss our little ... situation.
Ned: Indeed. Indeed.
Helen: Well it really is most unfortunate that our littole feathered student should have attracted the notice of the news media. I really rather wish we could have kept this under wraps.
Ned: Well it's been three months now that they've been clamoring for a televised appearance. Meaning is quite popular in the tabloids you know. I don't see how we can put it off for much longer.
Helen: Then there is the question of the legality of the entire thing ... while the law allows for eccentricity when it comes to wills, the government through it's Department of Education can't quite fit this into their little drop-down lists. They're insisting that we remove Meaning from the student roll and that he shouldn't have a student number and library access and so on ... I mean really I can see their point but why can't they just leave us alone?
Ned: Sighs. Why indeed. Well, we rely on the taxpayer and this particular taxpayer just happened to have a great deal of misplaced generosity so actually the goverment shouldn't be sticking it's nose into our affairs.
Helen: Exactly. By the way, how's your new BMW?
Ned: Drives like a dream. And speaking of by the ways, Helen, I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but you really are looking years younger.
Helen: blushes in a maidenly fashion: Oh I've had some discreet work done. It's not a good idea to go to extremes of course but really the medical science of beauty has progressed remarkably. Now if you promise not to take offense I could really recommend to you the absolute specialist in hairplugs.
Ned self consciously touches his hair: They look so silly for the first few months though.
Helen: Oh for goodness' sake mam, take a sabbatical ... you'll have to fly to the States to have it done of course so you might as well take a bit of a holiday ... get a suntan, come back looking like a new man.
Ned: Well yes I must say you do give good advice as to how to spend our new little fortune.
Helen: That's because philosophy is fundamentally concerned with happiness.
Ned: It is?
Helen: Well, if you take Aristotle as your guide to point of life is eudamonia, the finding of happiness.
Ned: I though you bunch were a lot less material.
Helen: Oh no no no ... we're very material indeed these days. You might say that since we are living in a material world, ours is a material discipline.
Ned: But what about social justice and so on. Shouldn't I be feeling guilty about spending a fortune on ... pardon your own decisions in this regard ... physical vanity while millions can't keep body and soul together?
Helen: Well I shall put it to you this way Professor Denver: it is not the work of philosophy to prescribe to you what to do. I can merely lay out the decisions and their consequences before you and let your own conscience choose it's own best path. After all there are no correct decisions. The consequence of your having hair plugs implanted in order to give you the appearance, if not the actual fact, of youth shall be, given your nature as a human being, an increase in your self-confidence due to changed perceptions of others, who will treat you with greater respect. Gone are the days of unattractive Professors with silly goatee's and beret's to hide their bald spots. In the modern world we must compete and, human nature being what it is, your research papers are more apt to get a positive response at a conference if you look younger and healthier. Thus your research will caryy more weight and change the world more. However, if you donate the money Meaning is given us to some other cause, that will actually truly be a material cause and not an intellectual one. What is the sense in keeping alive those who could not possibly contribute to humanities body of knowledge? I know I sound harsh but it is the job of philosophy to tell the honest truth.
Ned: So, you're saying that a new head of hair will do more good than donating to Habitat for Humanity?
Helen: I know it's contra-intuitive but then so much true wisdom is, isn't it.
Ned: You certainly know how to talk in circles ... I can't shake the feeling that if I analyzed your words more carefully when sober I'd see the flaw in your logic.
Helen: I welcome you to do so but I assure you the principles are sound.
Ned: Well ... I'll think about it. Now as to Meaning's upcoming television appearance. I do think we should ask the students to have him prepare a little demonsr\tration to us of his abilties to quite and to cite and so on. We wouldn't want to look like asses on National breakfast TV.
Helen: We certainly wouldn't. More wine?
Ned: Indeed. Indeed.
Helen: Well it really is most unfortunate that our littole feathered student should have attracted the notice of the news media. I really rather wish we could have kept this under wraps.
Ned: Well it's been three months now that they've been clamoring for a televised appearance. Meaning is quite popular in the tabloids you know. I don't see how we can put it off for much longer.
Helen: Then there is the question of the legality of the entire thing ... while the law allows for eccentricity when it comes to wills, the government through it's Department of Education can't quite fit this into their little drop-down lists. They're insisting that we remove Meaning from the student roll and that he shouldn't have a student number and library access and so on ... I mean really I can see their point but why can't they just leave us alone?
Ned: Sighs. Why indeed. Well, we rely on the taxpayer and this particular taxpayer just happened to have a great deal of misplaced generosity so actually the goverment shouldn't be sticking it's nose into our affairs.
Helen: Exactly. By the way, how's your new BMW?
Ned: Drives like a dream. And speaking of by the ways, Helen, I hope you won't take this the wrong way, but you really are looking years younger.
Helen: blushes in a maidenly fashion: Oh I've had some discreet work done. It's not a good idea to go to extremes of course but really the medical science of beauty has progressed remarkably. Now if you promise not to take offense I could really recommend to you the absolute specialist in hairplugs.
Ned self consciously touches his hair: They look so silly for the first few months though.
Helen: Oh for goodness' sake mam, take a sabbatical ... you'll have to fly to the States to have it done of course so you might as well take a bit of a holiday ... get a suntan, come back looking like a new man.
Ned: Well yes I must say you do give good advice as to how to spend our new little fortune.
Helen: That's because philosophy is fundamentally concerned with happiness.
Ned: It is?
Helen: Well, if you take Aristotle as your guide to point of life is eudamonia, the finding of happiness.
Ned: I though you bunch were a lot less material.
Helen: Oh no no no ... we're very material indeed these days. You might say that since we are living in a material world, ours is a material discipline.
Ned: But what about social justice and so on. Shouldn't I be feeling guilty about spending a fortune on ... pardon your own decisions in this regard ... physical vanity while millions can't keep body and soul together?
Helen: Well I shall put it to you this way Professor Denver: it is not the work of philosophy to prescribe to you what to do. I can merely lay out the decisions and their consequences before you and let your own conscience choose it's own best path. After all there are no correct decisions. The consequence of your having hair plugs implanted in order to give you the appearance, if not the actual fact, of youth shall be, given your nature as a human being, an increase in your self-confidence due to changed perceptions of others, who will treat you with greater respect. Gone are the days of unattractive Professors with silly goatee's and beret's to hide their bald spots. In the modern world we must compete and, human nature being what it is, your research papers are more apt to get a positive response at a conference if you look younger and healthier. Thus your research will caryy more weight and change the world more. However, if you donate the money Meaning is given us to some other cause, that will actually truly be a material cause and not an intellectual one. What is the sense in keeping alive those who could not possibly contribute to humanities body of knowledge? I know I sound harsh but it is the job of philosophy to tell the honest truth.
Ned: So, you're saying that a new head of hair will do more good than donating to Habitat for Humanity?
Helen: I know it's contra-intuitive but then so much true wisdom is, isn't it.
Ned: You certainly know how to talk in circles ... I can't shake the feeling that if I analyzed your words more carefully when sober I'd see the flaw in your logic.
Helen: I welcome you to do so but I assure you the principles are sound.
Ned: Well ... I'll think about it. Now as to Meaning's upcoming television appearance. I do think we should ask the students to have him prepare a little demonsr\tration to us of his abilties to quite and to cite and so on. We wouldn't want to look like asses on National breakfast TV.
Helen: We certainly wouldn't. More wine?
LOM12
Scene:
Professor Carver and Professor Denver are having lunch. It is their first meeting regarding the status of Meaning.
Ned: Some more wine for you Helen?
Helen: Don't mind if I do.
Ned: (Pours wine for them both ... the remnants of a delicious meal is on the table and a waiter is hovering nearby waiting for the opportunity to clear their dishes and ask if they'd like to see the desert menu. Ned however summons him): More wine please. The waiter clears the dishes and disappears.
Helen: I must say it is rather a luxury to eat here and claim it to department expenses.
Ned: It's the least we can do for ourselves in light of the trouble we've been through justifying having a parrot on our student roll.
Helen: Well if you put it that way ...
They both drink some more ...
Professor Carver and Professor Denver are having lunch. It is their first meeting regarding the status of Meaning.
Ned: Some more wine for you Helen?
Helen: Don't mind if I do.
Ned: (Pours wine for them both ... the remnants of a delicious meal is on the table and a waiter is hovering nearby waiting for the opportunity to clear their dishes and ask if they'd like to see the desert menu. Ned however summons him): More wine please. The waiter clears the dishes and disappears.
Helen: I must say it is rather a luxury to eat here and claim it to department expenses.
Ned: It's the least we can do for ourselves in light of the trouble we've been through justifying having a parrot on our student roll.
Helen: Well if you put it that way ...
They both drink some more ...
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