What’s that saying? It is what it is?
I used to think of this as a bit of a cop out. But I’m coming to realize that this is simply a statement of fact. It’s what you do with that fact that makes all the difference.
Tag: #bekind
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Seriously, what is with the growing trend of assholes running red lights? And I’m not talking about “last second, almost made it” kinda running red lights – I’m talking “oh, look, this light is red, has been for a bit, I’m gonna drive through it anyway” kinda bullshit. wtf?
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Understand why you are doing what you are doing. If you don’t, you are simply mindlessly following instruction, the crowd, or your own (quite possibly flawed) programming.
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Some days, you’re just in one of those “stare at the wall/floor/screen saver lost in thought and not do a damn thing” kinda moods.
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What was your favorite subject in school?
Pretty much anything science related. If it involved the inner workings of anything, I was in. Biology, chemistry, physics, and any subset of those three, didn’t matter. Earth science was cool too, but not as utterly fascinating.
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I have no fucking clue what I’m doing, and that’s ok.
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I don’t think I know what a magpie looks like. I don’t know if I’ve ever actually seen one.
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Do you need time?
Or a need of time.
In any case, I don’t know that anyone “needs” time. Time just is…. You can’t have any more or less than your life allows. 24 hours a day, 365 days a year for however many years you live. The measurement and perhaps experience of time may simply be a human construct, but it does exist and is the same for everyone and everything. Relatively speaking, of course.
Could I use more time? Or the ability to stop time for the world while I sort some shit out? Absolutely. But I can’t really need more of something that perpetuates itself. Time is there, regardless (unless you are a photon, apparently). What matters is how you use it.
If you feel that you need more time, examine how you are spending this insanely valuable currency, and adjust that to fit the real priorities.
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I have been thinking. Is anything truly random? Even those things that seem random have some sort of antecedent cause. Thoughts, events…. even if we don’t realize it, there is something that caused it.
For example, I have the ‘Random Thought of the Day’ section on my site. But each and every one of those thoughts had some kind of thought that inspired it, and therefore, is not truly random. It’s random to other people because they are not in my head and have no idea what I’ve been thinking about. It’s possibly even random to me because I’m not aware of what my subconscious mind is thinking about or processing, and that randomly interjected thought could very well be caused by relationships or events that have been simmering in the background all along.
This brings back the idea of determinism, which I have already said is not something that I can put stock in, but this whole randomness thought process is interesting either way, especially when it comes to thoughts. I don’t know if any of our thoughts are truly random, now that I think about it.
Now, I will not be changing my site or my daily blurbs of “random thoughts” because to a third party, they are random. So I’m not lying, it’s just a matter of frame of reference.
I find myself thinking about random number generators now, too. How does that work, and could that be considered something that truly is random? And is it only truly random because there is no human thought involved? Because, I can pretty much guarantee that when someone says “pick a random number” to another person, there is definitely a thought process behind it, conscious or not.
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What causes your stomach to growl? I mean, I know it’s cuz you’re hungry, but what is the mechanism that causes the sound?
A Peculiar Cerebral Tangle 