Posts tagged thought.

Asked: You don’t believe it’s possible to influence our lives via our will?

OS: Never said this.

And what I mean by “never said this” is that I may have said something like it or perhaps even those words exactly, but my meaning when I say these things is loaded —

I don’t approve of the whole “Secret” phenomenon that encourages people to think believe that they have control over their lives via magical/supernatural/”energy”-related phenomena.

Thought influences action. It influences chemistry. It influences processes, and thus what an individual system notices, what they focus on and carry out and look for.

Thought is definitely powerful, but let’s think about why that happens and how, and find out more about it… not just chalk it up to magic*.

That’s all I’m saying.

*Nor attribute it to wave-particle duality &/or quantum physics.

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6 months ago on November 09, 2012
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We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It is a fact today that one in ten thousand of us can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today are absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian-Darwinian theory, he must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

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by Elizabeth Barlow in New York Magazine (30 March 1970), p. 30

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10 months ago on July 18, 2012 via nevver
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11 months ago on June 12, 2012 via bon-vivant-et-plus
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People fear thought as they fear nothing else on earth - more than ruin - more even than death. Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought looks into the pit of hell and is not afraid. Thought is great and swift and free, the light of the world, and the chief glory of humanity.

Bertrand Russell

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1 year ago on August 28, 2011 via slychedelic
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