February 2012
58 posts
“The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for...”
– Albert Einstein (via lucifelle)
“Through our eyes, the universe is perceiving itself. Through our ears, the...”
– Alan Watts (via moonhymns)
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via observedintoexistence)
“Instead of reality being passively recorded by the brain, it is actively...”
– David Eagleman, neuroscientist at Baylor College of Medicine, where he directs the Laboratory for Perception and Action and the Initiative on Neuroscience and Law, Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain, Pantheon Books, 2011 (tnx johnsparker)
“General Systems Theory says that each variable in any system interacts with the...”
– Marilyn Ferguson, American author, editor, public speaker, and founder of the Association of Humanistic Psychology (1938-2008)
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“Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems...”
–
R. Buckminster Fuller, American engineer, systems theorist, author, designer, inventor, futurist and second president of Mensa International (1895-1983)
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“The whole idea is to distract us any way so that we don’t see clearly.
If we...”
– louque (via solitaryforager)
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Stop Bill C-51, The Canadian Internet surveillance...
On February 14th, the Conservative Party tabled bill C-51, the “Investigative Powers for the 21st Century Act”. If passed, the bill would mandate internet service providers to monitor and store all email, internet and telephone activity from their users. Police would be authorized to search an ISPs records and obtain information on a Canadian Citizen without obtaining a warrant. ...
“When you control your thoughts, you control your reaction. When you change your...”
– Catherine Hidalgo (via app1ejuice)
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“Don’t focus on the problem, rather make your heart vast, so that the problem...”
– Sadguru Whispers (via thejuicyshow)
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Spaceflight over the United States
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mlmjr asked: Re: Protect your privacy. This is an honest question. I'm sincerely not trying to be a dick. But why is Google (or any site) tracking a bad thing? Besides targeted ads, what exactly can this information they're gathering be used for? What makes it so scary? Every time this topic comes up, I feel ignorant. I'm missing something. If I'm going to be sacred, I want it to be for...
Why is data tracking scary?
On the small scale, gathering information to sell ads isn’t really that scary. It’s useful for all parties involved, even if it is kind of creepy. However, large scale data mining poses a serious threat to human freedom and the health of our society. When corporations and governments have access to vast amounts of specific data on a population, they gain the power to manipulate...
Protect your privacy
Please stop using Google. When you search on Google, it records your IP address and search terms, and stores them in a database. Google also scans your Gmail for keywords. This information is used to build a personal profile of your activity, linked to your Google account. Google then targets you with ads and search results based on the type of person it assumes you are. Google will sell your...
“Stop your mind and the circle of thought disappears. Suddenly only your being is...”
– Osho (via primordialnrg)
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via mypretentiousblog)
And everything belongs, nothing is a blasphemy to Nature.
(via anirishginger)
“Remember to look up at the stars, and not down to your feet. Try to make sense...”
– Stephen Hawking (via lookatthesefuckinstars)
“The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you...”
– Ken Kesey (via prometheanreach)
