The universe is a little bit of everything

Or, maybe a lot of it!

It's going to get better, even if it gets worse.

(inspired by Tim H.)

Sometimes i feel ok, sometimes i don't.

is there a crime in that?

Why do i need advice in the second case,

but nothing in the former?

There's no use pretending we are the original of anything.

We are only just a version of everything.

Artificial Intelligence

the whole point of artificial intelligence is to create something that doesn't need us anymore,

so shouldn't that be our objective too,

to meet our makers, and educate them?

For at least one Indian friend of ours,

"the ego grows in proportion to your distance from god."

For us, however - loosely borrowing from our inspriation Sir Isaac Newton - "the intensity of the Ego is inversely proportional to the square of the distance from the source."

We must therefore ask ourselves, what is our energy source, and how far are we away from it, from ourselves?

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(Given we accept some sort of dualism, or some degree of separation between the "heart" and "mind", including modern neuropsychological experiments in which a 100-300 ms gap between decisions we make and our conscious awareness of them is observed)

(one might also accept that we overthink our lives in that we are constantly in the process of explaining ourselves, or justifying ourselves, rather than living the life we would ultimately, had we not depended too much on other's plans for us (or our ability to report on ourselves))

How many kinds of people are there in the world?

7,467,101,558 (as of this second)

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(updates automatically at 4.1 per/s)

Nothing is pathological.

There's only ever a struggle of insanities,

for power.

We do what we have to do, and accept that, given the circumstances (and limited processor speed)

we did what we had to did.

Meditation.

Giving the universe an opportunity to communicate with us.

Birth.

I don't want to but I have to.

It is said we should think positive(ly).

Sure. But whose positive should we think?

If hindsight is 2020 vision,

enlightenment is a study in total blindness.

There's no sense pretending we are the original of anything.

We are only just a version of everything.

It seems our ability to enjoy life is directly correlated

with our ability to be captivated by its transience.

If there's anything certain that can be said about free will,

it's that ignorance explains everything we can't.

For much of its life a nail lies around waiting for its time,

unaware that its time means getting clobbered briefly and then, most likely forgotten forever.

Recognizing we are NOT the center of the universe's plan

is probably why most people do not spend their lives in search of enlightenment,

It is said we shouldn't fear the unknown,

given, if nothing else, the known is behind so many of our problems.

This makes sense, in at least leaving us the possibility that what we don't know of yet can't hurt us, when given what do know of has, so often,

obliterated even our most imperishable of hopes.