Shmuck!

Absurdism

Feast upon my hunger! The Uses of Paradox  (Religion, Transformation, and the Absurd)

Cognitive ascetism:  cultivating hunger through fasting to reduce fasting, eating with fingers at a banquet

K’an hua Chan (Ta-hui Tsung kao) perplexities to form a ‘great doubt’, exerting pressure on meditators intellect, until doubt explodes reliance on ego

Festinger: add or change cognitive elements

1. Proportion distorted, reducing magnitude of dissonance (proselytize) ie. Convincing others to share your belief adds cognition consonant
2. Reduce Importance
3. Reconcile two to remove the first one ie. The kingdom of god is within you (apocalyptic movements)

Many people of the same opinion with the same facial expression

(see Buswell, Jr. “The ‘Shortcut’ Approach” )

Physical mortifications: depriving the single individual of the “fear and trembling” accompanying the leap of faith

“when worldly wisdom cannot see a hand’s-breadth before it in the dark night of suffering, Faith can see God. For faith sees best in the dark.” –Kierkegaard

Anything capable of description cannot be explanatorily ultimate, mustikos agnosia of the henosis

! Because one expects to not understand, there is less dissonance in ignorance

Mahayana anupalabdhidharmaksanti , enabling aryajnana

John of the Cross

 “Ascent of Mount Caramel” “The Dark Night”

1. Departure: Soul mortify desires for worldly goods (nightfall) (The Womb)
2. Road: Faith (ie revoke imagination, feeling, understanding, will in place of transparency so light can penetrate you, or rather, inscript you)
3. Destination: God (The incapacitation of judgement, or barely controlled insanity)

The trick: make god make sense to you through linear dreaming which makes you revoke your sense of reality upon seeing the light

Human Communities and Outsiders: Spectrum of exchanges, Anomalous  Intruders (horror and loathing) vs. Positive Mediators (awe and reverence) merging at the Sublime, or Personification

Question: Areas of social order, exogamy and endogamy, science of insomnia (mystic, political, social, cognitive)

Subjective availability: drawing attention to potential cause increasing suspicion yada yada… in regards to outsiders: greater importance of boundary, more critical nature of picket lines , intimate danger

Mind within the mind Samadhi on the atman which is Brahman , and the world melts away.

Buddhism: samatha, dhyana, Samadhi, a pseudo question where no answer is possible

Important Nonsense

Camus

 

 

Romantic

One must see the Tree to believe its existence. What is its secret? How can it still be living in spite of the multitudes of camels which trample at its sides. How at each azalai does not a lost camel eat its leaves and thorns? Why don’t the numerous Touareg leading the salt caravans cut its branches to make fires to brew their tea? The only answer is that the tree is taboo and considered as such by the caravaniers. There is a kind of superstition, a tribal order which is always respected. Each year the azalai gather round the Tree before facing the crossing of the Ténéré. The Acacia has become a living lighthouse; it is the first or the last landmark for the azalai leaving Agadez for Bilma, or returning.[4]

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Perhaps the most famous acacia is the Arbre du Ténéré in Niger. The reason for the tree’s fame is that it used to be the most isolated tree in the world, approximately 400 km (249 mi) from any other tree. The tree was knocked down by a truck driver in 1973.

It has been replaced by a simple metal sculpture representing a tree.

Video Video Video Cheetah

Look what Raw Food did to my skin!

I am not avoiding work – Job clarification

I’m feeling the effects of a bad academic track record. with nothing to excuse me but indesicivity and waiting.

I am going to UofA to get funding to travel and become dirty, cultured, and weathered and interesting. From there, I’ll hopefully be your entertainment for tonight.

I feel good meeting high standards. Heres the deal: School has to be treated kind of like an office job, I work from 9-5 without too much questioning, go home, and then I do my leisurely stuff and my questioning.

How am I going to make sure I do that? Sheer willpower.

The only restrictions I’m putting on my day is that from 5-8 I exersice the machinery, from 8-4 I exersice my persistance and results-drive and efficiency, and from 4-10 I work on spontinaty and following my nose. Every hour I should have some outcome/vision/focus in mind, the more I need to stretch or focus, the better.

if it takes less than 10 minutes, I don’t sleep until it’s done.

I need to set very clear and inventive goals. “Make english teacher laugh” worked out, acknowledged my wisecrack title. Never take anything too seriously, just make the details feel welcome and try to be useful to your family members. Life’s a joke, have fun – brainwork can be fun too.

The great thing about this year is I actually notice differences in the way I’m acting and writing after this semester. PHIL250 and Dance350, thankyou. Even if I fall down, it puts the 100′s in perspective right?

Now I’ve trained myself to perceive anything less than a 3.5 as very shameful. I’ve also trained myself to think that I am very good at design and visuals. I underestimate the arts, which is very dangerous.

Its been a very slow 4 months love, but now we’re shifting back into gear!

I’ve got some good people around me, and good words, and good thoughts, and a good mind, and a good direction.

Now I need to hack out of this cocoon called Edmonton. Lesgo.

Best Banana Green Smoothie Recipe

Blend the following:

2 massive handfuls of spinach (15 calories)
1 Leaf lettuce
Pinch of ginger
Pinch of cinnamon
2 bananas (200 calories)
1 cup of soymilk (80 calories)
1 tsp flax oil (70 calories)

Kabam! You have a meal. A serving of that with everymeal will leave you full, fat-free, and de-famished of minerals and vitamins. Now who could possibly want more than that?

Now if you would like my full account of what it’s like to eat only this 5 times a day for 7 days straight – stay tuned. I’m beginning tomorrow. Hey ho lets go.

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