Sadhguru talks about stuff.. ouch it is happening.. soap bubbles /  by mirena

It is everyone's favorite thing to know how things are done. In fact I believe we are here to find out how things are done. While we are here going about charging phones and having dinner - our bodies are made of particles that have profound connection to everything else in the universe, and tremble. We are ships, traveling. Yes, we are having conversations, and checking out social media, yet profoundly and very close to us we have absolutely no idea what we are. We are light lattices that constantly consume and give off light.. . .

Dali VR /  by mirena

the Dalí-conceived piece entitled "First Cylindric Chromo-Hologram Portrait of Alice Cooper's Brain" created in April of 1973, which depicts a three-dimensional Alice Cooper who sat for the artist wearing two million dollars worth of jewelry including a tiara and necklace while holding a statuette of Venus De Milo as if it were a microphone. A plaster sculpture of Alice's brain, topped by a chocolate éclair covered in ants, another Dalí oeuvre, was placed behind the cross-legged rock star and the set-up was documented by Dalí using (then) cutting-edge hologram technology.. . . . Yep, that happened. . . ,

What my Mac Reads to Me - Edge.org annual question - 2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN? /  by mirena

2017 : WHAT SCIENTIFIC TERM OR CONCEPT OUGHT TO BE MORE WIDELY KNOWN?

 

https://www.edge.org/responses/what-scientific-term-or%C2%A0concept-ought-to-be-more-widely-known

 

A fascinating read so I had my mac read the entirety of it and I just put it in dropbox for your listening pleasure. It is 1gb, 16 hours of smarts- Actually, need to backtrack a bit here - what is smart? is a blade of grass smart or.. stupid? Why would anyone be stupid? how is a thing stupid? Killing is stupid and abuse is stupid,.. anything else is fair game.

So follow 16 hours of a computer voice talking about things that people found interesting in their fields and worthy of several paragraphs and I found them interesting too. Although to be fair i'd be interested to know what anyone thinks, of their field of inquiry, i don't think a street sweeper is any less worthy of the computer voice, i guess they are simply being ignored as of now. For one reason or another we are conditioned to believe that school and science is more elevated in certain respects than street sweeping. I don't think so, I just am brainwashed like everyone else. I'd love to be be less so..:

 

https://www.dropbox.com/s/vikxurpt70wrd5q/Answers-to-EdgeOrg-Annual-Question-2017.m4a?dl=0

Just watched Les Misérables and reminded me how many men have fought to have the liberties we take for granted today. /  by mirena

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Just seen now the Les Misérables ( the movie, it is beautiful  ) and i think of this great book and the incredible ideas in it that fascinate us century and a half and more later. The idea that man is born free, that thought is important, that the rights of peoples are important, that having Monarchs rule over peoples is idiotic, and that examining civilization from a moral perspective is a noble pursuit.

some excerpts:

The book which the reader has before him at this moment is, from one end to the other, in its entirety and details ... a progress from evil to good, from injustice to justice, from falsehood to truth, from night to day, from appetite to conscience, from corruption to life; from bestiality to duty, from hell to heaven, from nothingness to God. The starting point: matter, destination: the soul. The hydra at the beginning, the angel at the end.

 

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I don't know whether it will be read by everyone, but it is meant for everyone. It addresses England as well as Spain, Italy as well as France, Germany as well as Ireland, the republics that harbour slaves as well as empires that have serfs. Social problems go beyond frontiers. Humankind's wounds, those huge sores that litter the world, do not stop at the blue and red lines drawn on maps. Wherever men go in ignorance or despair, wherever women sell themselves for bread, wherever children lack a book to learn from or a warm hearth, Les Miserables knocks at the door and says: "open up, I am here for you".

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Waterloo, by cutting short the demolition of European thrones by the sword, had no other effect than to cause the revolutionary work to be continued in another direction. The slashers have finished; it was the turn of the thinkers. The century that Waterloo was intended to arrest has pursued its march. That sinister victory was vanquished by liberty.

thank God I can read.

 

 

Imagine having to spend a life as a slave, having never learned about the world, the great noble things in it, never read a decent book or seen a great painting, never learned about science or the planets, never created anything beautiful or meaningful, having to serve soup to people who treat you badly. oh my.