eating for your health, listening to dr. John McDougall:
http://video.google.nl/videoplay?docid=-2348910096409126100&ei=gkjrStvCNYvM-AaT8dSJDw&q=mcdougall&hl=en
hmmm...
hmmm...
sounds familiar. :)
sounds good :)
and yes: i think i'm really going to be / am quite an alternative person (really: already am)... :P it is fun though!
peace,
fedde
vrijdag 30 oktober 2009
thinking of... CTTB :)
i've really been missing CTTB lately. I just looked at the CTTBusa.org website and saw the photos of the ordination and recognized quite a few familiar faces. I found it especially gladdening and inspiring to see those (male - i never really got the faces of the female) novices whom i saw/met last summer walking as fully ordained Bikkshus in their beautiful robes.
see the photos here:
http://www.cttbusa.org/12ordination/cttb.asp
see the photos here:
http://www.cttbusa.org/12ordination/cttb.asp
donderdag 29 oktober 2009
hey, this is interesting
a NYtimes article on a very strange phenomenon: mind-body interaction in multiple personality patients:
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/28/science/probing-the-enigma-of-multiple-personality.html?pagewanted=1
this article (at least the phenomena) should pose us questions about what our concept of ''personality'' and ''mind'' is... ask them!
enjoy,
fedde
http://www.nytimes.com/1988/06/28/science/probing-the-enigma-of-multiple-personality.html?pagewanted=1
this article (at least the phenomena) should pose us questions about what our concept of ''personality'' and ''mind'' is... ask them!
enjoy,
fedde
zaterdag 24 oktober 2009
vrijdag 16 oktober 2009
Is this called happinesss? - some feeling, and more philosophical thought
First a question: why does the english-writing world think it is necessary to write a useless ''s'' on the end of happiness? (just as in useless?)
Second question:
Is it? I mean, is it happiness? This vague feeling of ''everythings will work out'' and ''everything is working out'' and ''i'm on the right place'' and ''i'm meeting the right people'' and ''my world is working''... i guess it is :D
on the last one: i am learning to live with another conception of TRUTH. More pragmatically oriented. That's why it's not: ''my worldview is right'' - which is arrogance (from the believer (which can be a religious believer as well as a ''scientific'' believer) and also why it is ''world'' and not ''worldview'': in taking up a worldview you make it your experience of the world too, nb: YOUR world - in contrast to an objective world).
Now to follow up on the last paragraph: i stated a purely individual subjectivity... do i believe in such a pure single person subjectivity of ''MY WORLD''? NO! I believe in intersubjective worldviews... which are far more difficult to change. (Perhaps some hermits have a purely personal worldview - but even then...) But all worldviews we hold are formed (duh) by others, though will and do (at least should!) have a personal component - not to have a personal part is weakness. I believe in an almost nietschian virtue (even though i never liked Nietzsche - admitting i've never read him): there is strenght in being able to be true to yourself, to keep your own view, strongly differing from others.
Another thought:
on the concept ''to believe''
you CANNOT set a clear demarcation from inside between ''believing'' and ''knowing''. There is only a demarcation from a second or third persons perspective - but this is a dangerous one: it makes believe into that which is unproven knowledge. (this already implies actually that believe is a form of knowledge)
Since i would state (not going to argue for it, not now - please do force me to do so): don't use a second or 3rd person perspective to differentiate between two inner (!)states!
thus: there is no difference! (at least not theoretically)
thus: beware if someone states things like: ''that's what you believe, we know however that...''
- to believe is to know and to know is to believe
(push people into saying they don't believe what they know - they won't give in (i predict... and would you say you don't know what you believe? (haha, that's a wordplay... not the same meanings) but for true now: if you believe in God (for example, i do not believe in the monotheistic god, but that besides the point) you must hold the notion of ''God'' in your worldview -- knowledge....
ps: though i'm just now typing an e-mail using the word ''believing'' in another sense: to suspect... I believe he'll come... hmm.. interesting. I wouldn't change the above stated
just some friday-evening thinking... :P
Krippners lecture was intersting - hanging out with Isis even better yet. Nice to talk with people.
peace,
fedde
(disclaimer: all above subjects do not represent ''fedde'' or ''fedde's unchangable thought system'' nor does it represent a system i believe in per se (though it might) - i do hope it will inspire people. It will certainly be subject to severe changes)
Second question:
Is it? I mean, is it happiness? This vague feeling of ''everythings will work out'' and ''everything is working out'' and ''i'm on the right place'' and ''i'm meeting the right people'' and ''my world is working''... i guess it is :D
on the last one: i am learning to live with another conception of TRUTH. More pragmatically oriented. That's why it's not: ''my worldview is right'' - which is arrogance (from the believer (which can be a religious believer as well as a ''scientific'' believer) and also why it is ''world'' and not ''worldview'': in taking up a worldview you make it your experience of the world too, nb: YOUR world - in contrast to an objective world).
Now to follow up on the last paragraph: i stated a purely individual subjectivity... do i believe in such a pure single person subjectivity of ''MY WORLD''? NO! I believe in intersubjective worldviews... which are far more difficult to change. (Perhaps some hermits have a purely personal worldview - but even then...) But all worldviews we hold are formed (duh) by others, though will and do (at least should!) have a personal component - not to have a personal part is weakness. I believe in an almost nietschian virtue (even though i never liked Nietzsche - admitting i've never read him): there is strenght in being able to be true to yourself, to keep your own view, strongly differing from others.
Another thought:
on the concept ''to believe''
you CANNOT set a clear demarcation from inside between ''believing'' and ''knowing''. There is only a demarcation from a second or third persons perspective - but this is a dangerous one: it makes believe into that which is unproven knowledge. (this already implies actually that believe is a form of knowledge)
Since i would state (not going to argue for it, not now - please do force me to do so): don't use a second or 3rd person perspective to differentiate between two inner (!)states!
thus: there is no difference! (at least not theoretically)
thus: beware if someone states things like: ''that's what you believe, we know however that...''
- to believe is to know and to know is to believe
(push people into saying they don't believe what they know - they won't give in (i predict... and would you say you don't know what you believe? (haha, that's a wordplay... not the same meanings) but for true now: if you believe in God (for example, i do not believe in the monotheistic god, but that besides the point) you must hold the notion of ''God'' in your worldview -- knowledge....
ps: though i'm just now typing an e-mail using the word ''believing'' in another sense: to suspect... I believe he'll come... hmm.. interesting. I wouldn't change the above stated
just some friday-evening thinking... :P
Krippners lecture was intersting - hanging out with Isis even better yet. Nice to talk with people.
peace,
fedde
(disclaimer: all above subjects do not represent ''fedde'' or ''fedde's unchangable thought system'' nor does it represent a system i believe in per se (though it might) - i do hope it will inspire people. It will certainly be subject to severe changes)
zaterdag 10 oktober 2009
busy?
I don't know - today is useless though. Had to catch up sleep -> couldn't get up as early as usual -> haven't done much usefull stuff yet -> will have to do stuff tomorrow :(
I should get back into the habit of posting regurarly - when i did it it gave me a chance to get my head straight on stuff.
AND i should upload my photos from china to facebook... hmm... other stuff to do first.
Like writing a paper for Ancient Religions... blah; why is it restricted to 400-500 words? It is truly annoying.
peace,
fedde - the one who is meeting new people and having quite a good time at Leiden and is looking forward to the three day visit of his mother, brother, sister wednesday next week.
I should get back into the habit of posting regurarly - when i did it it gave me a chance to get my head straight on stuff.
AND i should upload my photos from china to facebook... hmm... other stuff to do first.
Like writing a paper for Ancient Religions... blah; why is it restricted to 400-500 words? It is truly annoying.
peace,
fedde - the one who is meeting new people and having quite a good time at Leiden and is looking forward to the three day visit of his mother, brother, sister wednesday next week.
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