Traditionally:
Force = mass of an object x its acceleration
This law describes how we (as humans and part of the universe) go forward.
Transformed to apply to Success:
Success = your pre-existing money x your luck in terms of finding a job
OR... Transformed to apply to Life:
Life = your total amount of happiness x your circumstances
Either way these things are a force over which you only have partial control.
Tuesday, 22 May 2012
Children vs Adults
What adults see:
(sinx + cosx)^2 + (sinx – cosx)^2
What children see:
2
These two expressions are equal. What do they do to us?!
Saturday, 14 April 2012
Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle of Life
One cannot know all the secrets of the universe or else the world will collapse.
Friday, 25 November 2011
Materialism
Look around you... look familiar? How much of the stuff around you is yours? Did you pay for most of it with the money you earned?
How would you feel without any of it? Say you planned to go on a vacation, one that lasts for the rest of your life. You're going to start all over again, so that you can purify yourself for life, and start anew. What would you bring with you? People have grown very attached to their belongings, and I for one feel like I couldn't live without them. When I look around and think "There's just too much!" I feel overwhelmed...
Now, when I go away from home for a few days, I'm fairly able to bring a reasonable sized suitcase, knowing that wherever I am, I will be provided with everything I need.
But there are some moments where I find myself just hating every material object I lay my eyes on. I picture myself living without the object and contemplate trashing it for eternity. But the idea of trashing a potentially useful object (it must have been useful at some point or else why would I have bought it and not gotten rid of it yet?) sickens me, as I think about the waste I would be responsible for. Wastefulness bothers me just as much as materialism. How ironic.
By that point, I subtly realize in my conscious mind how different both of these opinions are from each other, and I cannot come to a decision within my own mind. Torn in two directions, what do I do? The easiest thing to do, the only tie-breaker: the same thing I've always done. Why change my ways when what I am doing and have been doing seems to be working just fine and pleases everyone else? So I keep almost every material item I've ever owned.
But now I've just acted against my own previously-self-imposed philosophy. My habit of contradicting myself remains ever-present. I complain about the arbitrary rules of the English language, the failures of most political systems, the inefficiencies found in any or all aspects of life, opting instead for a new way of living life. (I am an aquarian after all.)
When will I be able to mix my binary opposite opinions? How will I become the catalyst for change I know I can be when I don't know exactly what is stopping me from changing?
Maybe this is what maturity means:
1. Deciding how you want to be.
2. Attempting to be that way.
3. Realizing either that you have changed or that you are not meant to change.
4. Finally, stopping trying to fix things, and living (whatever that means).
Hopefully, eventually I'll get through these steps. But there's a chance I never will.
Well, my first step will be to attempt to change my culture's addictive materialism. But before that I must see if I can bring myself to change my own hoarding tendencies.
How would you feel without any of it? Say you planned to go on a vacation, one that lasts for the rest of your life. You're going to start all over again, so that you can purify yourself for life, and start anew. What would you bring with you? People have grown very attached to their belongings, and I for one feel like I couldn't live without them. When I look around and think "There's just too much!" I feel overwhelmed...
Now, when I go away from home for a few days, I'm fairly able to bring a reasonable sized suitcase, knowing that wherever I am, I will be provided with everything I need.
But there are some moments where I find myself just hating every material object I lay my eyes on. I picture myself living without the object and contemplate trashing it for eternity. But the idea of trashing a potentially useful object (it must have been useful at some point or else why would I have bought it and not gotten rid of it yet?) sickens me, as I think about the waste I would be responsible for. Wastefulness bothers me just as much as materialism. How ironic.
By that point, I subtly realize in my conscious mind how different both of these opinions are from each other, and I cannot come to a decision within my own mind. Torn in two directions, what do I do? The easiest thing to do, the only tie-breaker: the same thing I've always done. Why change my ways when what I am doing and have been doing seems to be working just fine and pleases everyone else? So I keep almost every material item I've ever owned.
But now I've just acted against my own previously-self-imposed philosophy. My habit of contradicting myself remains ever-present. I complain about the arbitrary rules of the English language, the failures of most political systems, the inefficiencies found in any or all aspects of life, opting instead for a new way of living life. (I am an aquarian after all.)
When will I be able to mix my binary opposite opinions? How will I become the catalyst for change I know I can be when I don't know exactly what is stopping me from changing?
Maybe this is what maturity means:
1. Deciding how you want to be.
2. Attempting to be that way.
3. Realizing either that you have changed or that you are not meant to change.
4. Finally, stopping trying to fix things, and living (whatever that means).
Hopefully, eventually I'll get through these steps. But there's a chance I never will.
Well, my first step will be to attempt to change my culture's addictive materialism. But before that I must see if I can bring myself to change my own hoarding tendencies.
Saturday, 8 October 2011
My favourite quote
"The problem with seeing the world through rose-coloured glasses is you can't see roses. The glasses cancel them out. You just see stems."
~ Demetri Martin
~ Demetri Martin
Newton's First Law of Life
Lately I've been fascinated by how much science is a metaphor for life.
Newton's First Law of Physics is (simply put):
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Objects at rest tend to stay at rest.
I've always believed that SOMETHING happens when one dies. I've never thought it possible for a soul to simply disappear. That would go against too many laws in science, such as Newton's First Law and the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. And so is the case with one's spirit or soul (depending on the word you use, I mean it in the "personality" sense).
Newton's First Law of Life (restated by me):
Things that exist stay in existence. Things that don't exist never come into existence. Things just are the way they are.
Newton's First Law of Physics is (simply put):
Objects in motion tend to stay in motion. Objects at rest tend to stay at rest.
I've always believed that SOMETHING happens when one dies. I've never thought it possible for a soul to simply disappear. That would go against too many laws in science, such as Newton's First Law and the Law of Conservation of Mass/Energy. Matter cannot be created or destroyed. And so is the case with one's spirit or soul (depending on the word you use, I mean it in the "personality" sense).
Newton's First Law of Life (restated by me):
Things that exist stay in existence. Things that don't exist never come into existence. Things just are the way they are.
Wednesday, 24 August 2011
Balance
What I've often wondered is how is it determined which universe we are in at the present?
First of all, think of time as being like a conveyor belt, infinitely reciprocating, with a bar somewhere on it. Only because it always feels like the present to a human being, the bar does not move its place on the conveyor. But it may seem or look like it is moving because it is relative to the moving conveyor belt.
I've come to the conclusion that life, the cosmos, and all, must be balanced. It always has perfect balance. If the world were to be unbalanced, it would literally go off kilter and we'd seize to exist. But by balanced, I meant more that there needs to be a balance of good and bad in the world. So naturally nothing can be all good or all bad, but somewhere in between. This doesn't mean that something is <50% good and >50% bad, or vice versa, because that would mean that it is mostly either good or bad. Rather, there is no way of separating the good qualities of something and the bad. (For example, one man's trash is another man's treasure. So the trash/treasure can be seen as "good" or "bad", yet it is still the same thing.) The way it is is just the way it has to be in order for the cosmos to remain in balance.
This belief gives me the confidence to go forward, to not worry so much about what may go wrong. I know that whenever something bad happens, it's so that the next time something good happens, I can appreciate it that much better. Like when you go up on a roller coaster just so that you can be that high in order to experience the drop. Or like this quote by Demetri Martin:
"The problem with seeing everything through rose-coloured glasses is that you can't see roses. The glasses cancel them out. You just see stems…"
Or like the saying "One cannot experience true happiness, without having first experienced true sadness."
And if ever something gets thrown off balance in our lives, our conscious mind travels to a different parallel universe. If we experience too much sadness, and commit suicide, our conscious mind doesn't die. It gets transported without our noticing to a different universe, one that is more in balance.
So really, whichever universe we are in right now, it is the one that is most balanced, the centre of the cosmos.
That's not to say we should live our lives recklessly, expecting nothing bad to happen to us. It means that I expect both good and bad things to happen, and I don't have to get depressed about having no control over the bad things. If I make what seems like a "bad" decision at some point (which will inevitably happen) it will make all successive "good" decisions afterward seem even better because "good" is only "good" relate to "bad".
I know that the concept Ma'at (an ancient Egyptian concept meaning the way and order of the universe) has everything under control. I am free to act however I want to, but I do not have the power to mess up the balance of the cosmos. I am simply a part of it, as is everyone else.
First of all, think of time as being like a conveyor belt, infinitely reciprocating, with a bar somewhere on it. Only because it always feels like the present to a human being, the bar does not move its place on the conveyor. But it may seem or look like it is moving because it is relative to the moving conveyor belt.
I've come to the conclusion that life, the cosmos, and all, must be balanced. It always has perfect balance. If the world were to be unbalanced, it would literally go off kilter and we'd seize to exist. But by balanced, I meant more that there needs to be a balance of good and bad in the world. So naturally nothing can be all good or all bad, but somewhere in between. This doesn't mean that something is <50% good and >50% bad, or vice versa, because that would mean that it is mostly either good or bad. Rather, there is no way of separating the good qualities of something and the bad. (For example, one man's trash is another man's treasure. So the trash/treasure can be seen as "good" or "bad", yet it is still the same thing.) The way it is is just the way it has to be in order for the cosmos to remain in balance.
This belief gives me the confidence to go forward, to not worry so much about what may go wrong. I know that whenever something bad happens, it's so that the next time something good happens, I can appreciate it that much better. Like when you go up on a roller coaster just so that you can be that high in order to experience the drop. Or like this quote by Demetri Martin:
"The problem with seeing everything through rose-coloured glasses is that you can't see roses. The glasses cancel them out. You just see stems…"
Or like the saying "One cannot experience true happiness, without having first experienced true sadness."
And if ever something gets thrown off balance in our lives, our conscious mind travels to a different parallel universe. If we experience too much sadness, and commit suicide, our conscious mind doesn't die. It gets transported without our noticing to a different universe, one that is more in balance.
So really, whichever universe we are in right now, it is the one that is most balanced, the centre of the cosmos.
That's not to say we should live our lives recklessly, expecting nothing bad to happen to us. It means that I expect both good and bad things to happen, and I don't have to get depressed about having no control over the bad things. If I make what seems like a "bad" decision at some point (which will inevitably happen) it will make all successive "good" decisions afterward seem even better because "good" is only "good" relate to "bad".
I know that the concept Ma'at (an ancient Egyptian concept meaning the way and order of the universe) has everything under control. I am free to act however I want to, but I do not have the power to mess up the balance of the cosmos. I am simply a part of it, as is everyone else.
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