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Posted 12 years agoMorning Musings: 2013-02-23
Posted 12 years agoMeditation is a wonderful mental hygiene. The gentle defragmentation of mental processes…it feels as though it could be comparable to the importance of sleep. The thoughts and feelings it inspires…letting my thoughts flow like a river and make associations….build bridges to other thoughts and build those thoughts up to be better by the reinforcing by those same bridges. They build further, stronger foundation. They clear so much fog. It really is an essential thing so many people ignore. You can do so much with it. Not only clear this fog, build stronger mental…ness….but you can do almost anything you want with it. Create a safe place of acceptance inside yourself, reach inward, evaluate…assess your reason and emotion juxtaposed with each other, compartmentalize, be objective…
But the thought I kept ignoring while writing this was that I don’t want to write about meditation. I want to write from within. I see so much beauty and accidentally express it sometimes. I want to cultivate it. It is something in me that I want to harness. I want control over my raw talents. The things with which I have raw facility should be not mere, blunt talents, but sharpened into fine tools to be wielded with skill. I want to be better. Every day. I want to be better for the sake of everyone around me. To be less of a burden. To have less reason to hate myself. I already have little enough reason…but truly letting go of it, to wash away the scars to the point that they are invisible, if still there…it feels like I need to reach a truer potential to do so. To be proud of myself…
…imbalance. The asymmetry in my priorities is my problem to a large extent. I focus so much on certain aspects of betterment that are more immediately internalized. But bad habits that are also naturally present and cyclical must be cut off so that I can shift the pendulum. My shitty habits of spending money and so forth, for example. I need to take better care of my body. To listen to my aches, pains, my muscles telling me they aren’t worked enough, my back telling me to straighten my posture…so many little things can accumulate into big changes while some seemingly big issues require as little as a shift in perspective to immediately ameliorate the behavior until that can blossom into habit and solidify as a new lifestyle. The first step is so often the hardest because it is blind…but the rest is merely following the steps on up to the conclusion of one’s goal being met by repetition.
Be cognizant of that step, take it, make it habit…and find your love for yourself…and your happiness in adapting actively to the world…every day. Change.
But the thought I kept ignoring while writing this was that I don’t want to write about meditation. I want to write from within. I see so much beauty and accidentally express it sometimes. I want to cultivate it. It is something in me that I want to harness. I want control over my raw talents. The things with which I have raw facility should be not mere, blunt talents, but sharpened into fine tools to be wielded with skill. I want to be better. Every day. I want to be better for the sake of everyone around me. To be less of a burden. To have less reason to hate myself. I already have little enough reason…but truly letting go of it, to wash away the scars to the point that they are invisible, if still there…it feels like I need to reach a truer potential to do so. To be proud of myself…
…imbalance. The asymmetry in my priorities is my problem to a large extent. I focus so much on certain aspects of betterment that are more immediately internalized. But bad habits that are also naturally present and cyclical must be cut off so that I can shift the pendulum. My shitty habits of spending money and so forth, for example. I need to take better care of my body. To listen to my aches, pains, my muscles telling me they aren’t worked enough, my back telling me to straighten my posture…so many little things can accumulate into big changes while some seemingly big issues require as little as a shift in perspective to immediately ameliorate the behavior until that can blossom into habit and solidify as a new lifestyle. The first step is so often the hardest because it is blind…but the rest is merely following the steps on up to the conclusion of one’s goal being met by repetition.
Be cognizant of that step, take it, make it habit…and find your love for yourself…and your happiness in adapting actively to the world…every day. Change.
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Posted 13 years agoIn response to criticism of this video.
The following is almost entirely authored from this comment section: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=K7JSRO1G88g
*****
Maintaining concision and complexity in tandem with each other is more intelligent in the context of language, but I think I merely aspire to the meager intelligence required to maintain both quality and quantity in my common vocabulary. As evidenced right there, as I couldn’t possibly just say, “It takes the most smarts to make something complicated sound simple.” But, why is the former more intelligent? Because it forces one to consistently maintain the use of complex nuances present in the terms you speak.
Many, however, have basically deemed these words too difficult to learn, which could be done by merely consulting a dictionary. But these terms then allow for an even deeper understanding of what you are intending to say. For example, the qualitative difference between the terms "large" and "colossal." One has a more nuanced meaning that implies something extremely large. Or, the difference between something being evil and maleficent, monstrous, or inhuman. The latter terms carry more weight and meaning.
So, you who would contend that I should “dumb down” my language…you are literally advocating anti-intellectualism. Fuck off.
You are literally telling me to dumb myself down because you are advocating for me to dumb down my language, language literally being foundational to higher thought. You are literally telling me to appeal to a lower common denominator. You are putting the owness of someone else's ignorance of the terms I use on me.
And you expect me to take you seriously?
“Well, the problem is that…” you don’t want to consult a dictionary. I know. That is the problem, isn’t it? Your problem. Not mine.
“That gets in the way of putting your message across!" It doesn't to anyone interested in learning new words. And I can put across my message however I please.
"Many people have trouble understanding you!" That's not my fault. I'm not obligated to speak down to my audience by changing how I talk.
You have trouble understanding me, so my verbosity must be interfering with my message? It couldn't be that you're just too ignorant to understand it or too lazy to pay attention to what I‘m saying, no matter how I word it. No, it has to be that I'm just using words that are too big for anyone to get! Right?
Dumb fucks…
"It’s just that its unnecessary and gets in the way of the point you’re trying to make!" No, it's just part of who I am, and I'm not changing for you.
"But it just makes you hard to follow!" Sounds like a personal problem.
"Your delivery makes you sound like a dickhead!" That's your opinion, and you’re entitled to it. But no matter what I do, there will always be someone who hates me for exactly what it is I’m doing. And if that person just happens to be you, then kindly get the fuck over yourself?
You’re offended? Maybe that’s not a bad thing!
"But isn’t your message more important than sounding like a dictionary?" I’m honestly curious when consulting a dictionary became somehow taboo or too difficult to do. And again, it’s the responsibility of others to educate themselves, not mine.
Just don’t be so afraid to learn that you shy away from even consulting a dictionary. Challenge yourself to speak with higher quality and not second guess yourself. After all, why shouldn’t you speak better, and why should you second guess yourself so much that you aren‘t yourself anymore? Who wants to put up a false air of who they really are, how they really want to act, and never have any real friends? Then you have friends whom technically qualify as friends of a façade that isn't really you. I'm sorry, but I'd rather they be *my* friend than some made-up person's.
So, I say, be you.
Accept that you are ignorant of some of the terminology I use, or too lazy to follow it. And remember that it‘s not necessarily a negative commentary on you personally. Like, if we’re having a conversation and you throw out the name of a theologian whom I’ve never heard of and say, “Well, have you read so-and-so?” And not in a sense of one-upmanship, just a, “…this guy is a useful referent for what we’re talking about. Have you read him?” And I say, “Well, no. I’m, I’m ignorant.” It’s not a denigrative term; it’s merely a statement of fact. You are unfamiliar with certain data. Period.
It is not a reflection of or comment on the quality of conclusions. It is not to be conflated with stupidity. So, there’s nothing wrong with being ignorant of the meanings of certain terms I use. There’s something wrong with telling me to condescend to everyone by assuming they are as craven as you in regards to learning. Don’t be one of those people, and I‘ll kindly not take your advice to lower the intellectual standards I maintain for my audience.
Be secure in yourself, and don’t necessarily consider your lack of knowledge on such trivial things to be an at all meaningful mark against you as a person. We’re all human and prone to error and not aspiring to our true potential. Just learn. That's the best thing to do when you discover yourself to be ignorant of something. Be grateful for the excuse to learn something new, and learn it!
So, I often find that people use my verbosity as an excuse to ignore/dodge the point I'm trying to make. If they legitimately don't understand me, that's one thing. However, if they try to turn me into the bad guy for properly using my good ole book learnin', I want to fuck their faces with my diction.
For god’s sake people, stop telling me to talk more stupid to your dumb faces. Lern 2 logik moar gooder.
Please maintain perspective.
Be yourself, accept that people will always hate you, so you might as well be hated for who you really are! And if you're too lazy or willfully ignorant to consult a fucking dictionary, then that's your problem!
I hope this video finds you all well.
Long days and pleasant nights.
The following is almost entirely authored from this comment section: http://www.youtube.com/all_comments?v=K7JSRO1G88g
*****
Maintaining concision and complexity in tandem with each other is more intelligent in the context of language, but I think I merely aspire to the meager intelligence required to maintain both quality and quantity in my common vocabulary. As evidenced right there, as I couldn’t possibly just say, “It takes the most smarts to make something complicated sound simple.” But, why is the former more intelligent? Because it forces one to consistently maintain the use of complex nuances present in the terms you speak.
Many, however, have basically deemed these words too difficult to learn, which could be done by merely consulting a dictionary. But these terms then allow for an even deeper understanding of what you are intending to say. For example, the qualitative difference between the terms "large" and "colossal." One has a more nuanced meaning that implies something extremely large. Or, the difference between something being evil and maleficent, monstrous, or inhuman. The latter terms carry more weight and meaning.
So, you who would contend that I should “dumb down” my language…you are literally advocating anti-intellectualism. Fuck off.
You are literally telling me to dumb myself down because you are advocating for me to dumb down my language, language literally being foundational to higher thought. You are literally telling me to appeal to a lower common denominator. You are putting the owness of someone else's ignorance of the terms I use on me.
And you expect me to take you seriously?
“Well, the problem is that…” you don’t want to consult a dictionary. I know. That is the problem, isn’t it? Your problem. Not mine.
“That gets in the way of putting your message across!" It doesn't to anyone interested in learning new words. And I can put across my message however I please.
"Many people have trouble understanding you!" That's not my fault. I'm not obligated to speak down to my audience by changing how I talk.
You have trouble understanding me, so my verbosity must be interfering with my message? It couldn't be that you're just too ignorant to understand it or too lazy to pay attention to what I‘m saying, no matter how I word it. No, it has to be that I'm just using words that are too big for anyone to get! Right?
Dumb fucks…
"It’s just that its unnecessary and gets in the way of the point you’re trying to make!" No, it's just part of who I am, and I'm not changing for you.
"But it just makes you hard to follow!" Sounds like a personal problem.
"Your delivery makes you sound like a dickhead!" That's your opinion, and you’re entitled to it. But no matter what I do, there will always be someone who hates me for exactly what it is I’m doing. And if that person just happens to be you, then kindly get the fuck over yourself?
You’re offended? Maybe that’s not a bad thing!
"But isn’t your message more important than sounding like a dictionary?" I’m honestly curious when consulting a dictionary became somehow taboo or too difficult to do. And again, it’s the responsibility of others to educate themselves, not mine.
Just don’t be so afraid to learn that you shy away from even consulting a dictionary. Challenge yourself to speak with higher quality and not second guess yourself. After all, why shouldn’t you speak better, and why should you second guess yourself so much that you aren‘t yourself anymore? Who wants to put up a false air of who they really are, how they really want to act, and never have any real friends? Then you have friends whom technically qualify as friends of a façade that isn't really you. I'm sorry, but I'd rather they be *my* friend than some made-up person's.
So, I say, be you.
Accept that you are ignorant of some of the terminology I use, or too lazy to follow it. And remember that it‘s not necessarily a negative commentary on you personally. Like, if we’re having a conversation and you throw out the name of a theologian whom I’ve never heard of and say, “Well, have you read so-and-so?” And not in a sense of one-upmanship, just a, “…this guy is a useful referent for what we’re talking about. Have you read him?” And I say, “Well, no. I’m, I’m ignorant.” It’s not a denigrative term; it’s merely a statement of fact. You are unfamiliar with certain data. Period.
It is not a reflection of or comment on the quality of conclusions. It is not to be conflated with stupidity. So, there’s nothing wrong with being ignorant of the meanings of certain terms I use. There’s something wrong with telling me to condescend to everyone by assuming they are as craven as you in regards to learning. Don’t be one of those people, and I‘ll kindly not take your advice to lower the intellectual standards I maintain for my audience.
Be secure in yourself, and don’t necessarily consider your lack of knowledge on such trivial things to be an at all meaningful mark against you as a person. We’re all human and prone to error and not aspiring to our true potential. Just learn. That's the best thing to do when you discover yourself to be ignorant of something. Be grateful for the excuse to learn something new, and learn it!
So, I often find that people use my verbosity as an excuse to ignore/dodge the point I'm trying to make. If they legitimately don't understand me, that's one thing. However, if they try to turn me into the bad guy for properly using my good ole book learnin', I want to fuck their faces with my diction.
For god’s sake people, stop telling me to talk more stupid to your dumb faces. Lern 2 logik moar gooder.
Please maintain perspective.
Be yourself, accept that people will always hate you, so you might as well be hated for who you really are! And if you're too lazy or willfully ignorant to consult a fucking dictionary, then that's your problem!
I hope this video finds you all well.
Long days and pleasant nights.
Maintain Humble Perspective...
Posted 13 years ago...or be swallowed by your arrogance.
