INTERESTING TIMES

I don't really have time for a thoughtful post about this but I do want to get my notes off of this ripped up envelope and into digital legible form.
( deciphering notes on a tattered envelope which I just squashed a fly in )

This is my simple religion. There is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophy... Our own brain, our own heart is our temple, the philosophy is kindness.
--the Dalai Lama

http://www.symphonyofscience.com/

Seems like these amazing things on the web are popping up everywhere. Unfortunately I have no time for extra surfing, because am going surfing on REAL WATER. So I just save up these links. A friend sent me this one by email. I intend to watch the one she recommends. Here's what she said about it:

We've discovered this wonderful project designed to deliver scientific knowledge and philosophy in musical form. It's incredible...I am in awe watching it. Watch "Ode to the Brain" which is on the first page of the link and you'll see what it's all about. Of course, you need sound turned on and full screen if your computer can handle it. Wow!

Mundus vult decipi: the world wants to be deceived. The truth is too complex and frightening; the taste for the truth is an acquired taste that few acquire.

Not all deceptions are palatable. Untruths are too easy to come by, too quickly exploded, too cheap and ephemeral to give lasting comfort. Mundus vult decipi; but there is a hierarchy of deceptions.

Near the bottom of the ladder is journalism: a steady stream of irresponsible distortions that most people find refreshing although on the morning after, or at least within a week, it will be stale and flat.

--Martin Buber in I AND THOU, pages 9-10

Many thanks to 1bigguy for posting this one. I'm getting better all the time at letting things slide. ( Tyler's Rules of Innovation )

The Cult of Done Manifesto
By Bre Pettis | Posted Mar 3, 2009
http://www.brepettis.com/blog/2009/3/3/the-cult-of-done-manifesto.html

Dear Members of the Cult of Done,

I present to you a manifesto of done. This was written in collaboration with Kio Stark in 20 minutes because we only had 20 minutes to get it done.


The Cult of Done Manifesto


1. There are three states of being. Not knowing, action and completion.

2. Accept that everything is a draft. It helps to get it done.

3. There is no editing stage.

4. Pretending you know what you're doing is almost the same as knowing what you are doing, so just accept that you know what you're doing even if you don't and do it.

5. Banish procrastination. If you wait more than a week to get an idea done, abandon it.

6. The point of being done is not to finish but to get other things done.

7. Once you're done you can throw it away.

8. Laugh at perfection. It's boring and keeps you from being done.

9. People without dirty hands are wrong. Doing something makes you right.

10. Failure counts as done. So do mistakes.

11. Destruction is a variant of done.

12. If you have an idea and publish it on the internet, that counts as a ghost of done.

13. Done is the engine of more.

Swiped straight from inibio, this is a warmer upper for the mind and soul. =-]

In Japan for an international conference on religion, [Joseph] Campbell overheard another American delegate, a social philosopher from New York, say to a Shinto priest, "We've been now to a good many ceremonies and have seen quite a few of your shrines. But I don't get your ideology. I don't get your theology." The Japanese paused as though in deep thought and then slowly shook his head. "I think we don't have ideology," he said. "We don't have theology. We dance."

As they put it on Joseph Campbell Foundation web site, "One cautionary note - it's nearly impossible to watch this without bursting into a beatific grin ..."


Where the Hell is Matt? (2008) from Matthew Harding on Vimeo.