Sunday, 13 March 2016

Thought of the Day #37

The devil
is in
the details.
But god
is in
the grand scheme of things.

Friday, 26 February 2016

Thought of the Day #36: Don't interact with people who turn your brain off

Don't interact with people who turn your brain off. 

Interact with the intellectually stimulating, with people smarter than you, if you can.
Don't buy products with ads that are too flashy. Just look at the specs and compare.
Be wary of "instant rewards", "gifts". Look for the strings attached.
Don't talk to salespeople who are too good at selling things. Just get the catalog.
Don't support politicians who are too good at public speaking techniques. Just don't support any.
Don't date women who makes you think "cute" or "sexy" instantly. Date the people who turn you off.
Don't call sexually-mature human females "girls".  Call them women/people.
Women, stop calling sexually-mature human males "guys". Call us men/people.




"The most important rule there is, the Wizard's Sixth Rule: the only sovereign you can allow to rule you is reason. The first law of reason is this: what exists, exists, what is, is and from this irreducible bedrock principle, all knowledge is built. It is the foundation from which life is embraced.
Thinking is a choice. Wishes and whims are not facts nor are they a means to discover them. Reason is our only way of grasping reality; it is our basic tool of survival. We are free to evade the effort of thinking, to reject reason, but we are not free to avoid the penalty of the abyss that we refuse to see. Faith and feelings are the darkness to reasons light. In rejecting reason, refusing to think, one embraces death."
Faith of the Fallen

In my experience, very Randian and hard to live by. But the way I see it, that is the way things seem to be heading.

Wednesday, 24 February 2016

Email of the Day #1: "Alumni Profile"

Since this blog is called "SEAT at south island school", SIS news has to come in somewhere.

How do you feel about this?

http://www.esf.edu.hk/alumni_profile

Friday, 19 February 2016

The importance of Free Time

Free time makes me feel free.

The whole purpose of free time to be be free to do whatever you please. The moment time is scheduled, you aren't as free. The time is allocated.

The mystery here is, this is not the only way to look at time.

Sunday, 14 February 2016

Thought of the Day #33: Odd Things make me happy!

http://www.odditycentral.com/news/most-frugal-woman-in-the-uk-lives-on-just-3500-a-year.html

Frugal woman truck driver who finds fashion, credit difficult to comprehend? That's special.

Thought of the Day #32

What is good for you as an individual may not be good for your genes.
What is good for your genes may not be good for you as an individual.

You are not just your genes. We are so much more than our genes.