Shintoism

Buddhist Temple, Shino Shrine!  (SS)

Japanese myth, tradition, shinto, poetry?


Shinto quotes??

Know thyself

How to know thyself; via

Philosophy
sharing how to know one's self
drinking from the well of one's self

knowing is knowing that there is more to know
meditation??

Why TX is an overrated POS

Texas is the most overrated state because: 


Virginia is the best state in the south
New Orleans is th
No, Austin is not a liberal city

Lessons in humility

OFten need to be humble to heal others....and one's self??

Japanese quotes!!1

Here are some quotes by some JApanese people:

https://www.azquotes.com/author/10191-Yukio_Mishima



Quotes by Shunry Suzuki!


https://www.azquotes.com/author/14339-Shunryu_Suzuki

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quotes from Japanese literature!!111

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/tag/japanese-literature

Chinese proverbs!!

5. 读万卷书不如行万里路。 (Dú wànjuànshū bù rú xíng wànlǐlù. 'reading 10,000 books, not as good as walking 10,000 li road') — It's better to walk thousands of miles than to read thousands of books.

Japanese Proverbs!

HEre, we will make a list of Japanese proverbs....

As well as Japanese myth and poetry!!111


https://wisdomquotes.com/zen-quotes/

NoFap

Here, we will get in to the merits of nofap....

Could it somehow effect reading ability?  Or even meditation?


FAPTRAPS:

Free pron?

Best philosophers (in order!)

Best philosophers and self improvement gurus:

Buddha
Vivekananda
Lao Tzu

Joseph Campbell
Viktor Frankl

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Jocko Willink
Brian Tracy
Leo of actualised
Tony Robbins
Noam Chomsky
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Jordan Peterson
Balthasar Gracian
Aristotle
Sun Tzu
Seneca the younger
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Socrates
Epicurus
John Taylor Gatto
Steve Pavlina
Edmund Burke
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William James
Ryan Holiday
Yogananda
Napoleon (well, good for quotes....)
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Elliot Hulse
Will Durant (OK, more of a historian...)
Tim Ferris
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
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Saddhguru
Zoroaster
Voltaire
Diogenese
(Newman K Lin...)

Find quotes from most of these on azquotes.com

Dune REview

Dune is an overrated pile of balls


read Dune Online:

https://novels77.com/241224-dune.html#list-chapter

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https://novels77.com/241224-dune.html#list-chapter

How to escape Texas

Have an exit strategy

Why Texas is a pretentious piece of shit

This, here, is to "debunk" Texas, that pretentious pile of shit.

A:  Red state

B:  Gets too much credit relative even to the south (not just northern California.....)

C:  Dallas is better than most parts of Texas; and is still a glorified shopping center (albet with some nice museums.)

D:  The weather

E:  Pretentious

F:  Austin is overrated (the cultural capital is more like Houston)

G:

You know what the greatest thing about the death penalty in Texas?  Few Texans!
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_U.S._states_by_American_Human_Development_Index

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• They really do live the Ayn Rand gospel of rugged individualism: Which is why Texas ranks first in percentage of uninsured children, fourtth in percentage of children living in poverty, first in percentage of population uninsured, first in percentage of non-elderly uninsured, 49th in percent of low Income population covered by Medicaid, 48th in percent of population with employer-based healthcare, 49th in per capita spending on Medicaid, and fourth in percent living below the poverty level. Oh, and Texas is almost always first in executions. Lovely state.

But corporations there aren’t required to be quite so responsible for themselves: Which is why Texas ranks first in 1st in carbon dioxide emissions, volatile organic compounds released into the air, amount of toxic chemicals released into the water, amount of recognized cancer causing carcinogens released into the air, and amount of hazardous waste generated. And Texas keeps trying to export this philosophy to the rest of us!

https://www.phillymag.com/news/2012/11/14/ten-ways-america-texas/

Texas. It’s very proud of being the largest state in the contiguous United States, and seems to cultivate in its inhabitants a habit of constant self-congratulation that is almost as irritating as the constant self-congratulation of New York City dwellers. Its history is grim, having been settled by Americans while it was still part of Mexico as a place where they could keep slaves, despite the fact that slavery was already illegal in Mexico. It fought for and got its independence, but then turned to the United States to annex it 10 years later to protect it from further war with Mexico… and 15 years after that, showed its gratitude by joining the Confederacy in the Civil War.

Of course it has oil, and a great seaport, and Johnson Space Center, and many other valuable things; but it’s either hot and dry or hot and humid depending on where you are, and it is one of the most regressive states in the Union. Its efforts to suppress abortion—a civil right—have been unrelenting, and its state school board is notorious for insisting on alternative interpretations of American history in their school books, including downplaying Jefferson because he wasn’t a proper Christian, and suggesting that slavery wasn’t all that bad.

None of this would be that unusual (Mississippi is equally regressive; Florida is equally hot and humid) if it weren’t for the attitude. Even their anti-littering signs have the tone of a cheap bully:

Psychological procession

A key to psychological health, as well as learning from mistakes, is the concept of "processing".......


Find a place inside where there is joy.......and the joy will burn out the pain....

Carpe Diem

Seize the day.  Drop all excuses.  It is later than you think.

Advised not just by Horace; but even Seneca the younger.  It is in a way stoic; live every day, nay, every hour, as if it were your last. 

Why wage labor (if not employment generally) is bullshit

Because it is.........

If you want to be wrong; follow the crowd......

Study of Myth

The study of myth as follows

Tale of Percival

Tale of MAui

Tristan and Isolde

Persian Myth; Persian Paladins

Goal Setting techniques

Learn proper Goal Setting techniques.  More importantly, REVIEW your goals.  Why?

Success.........that will be your magic piece of paper. 



After all, what is your outcome?


As per goal setting techniques

So here are some tips:

Clarity is power
What's your outcome?

SMART Goals
BHAG Goals
Supergoals








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Here are some thought about goal setting from Brian Tracy.............

Best Links

Best, or prize sections of my blog?


 https://piccolodaimaou.blogspot.com/2018/04/why-college-is-overrated.html

 https://piccolodaimaou.blogspot.com/2017/06/top-50-philosophers-in-history.html

On HL Mencken

Who was HL Mencken?  A man, and a journalist. 

Alternative Education

Arlight folks, time for a re-spec.  the best source for education is:



Crash Course
Brian Tracy
Leo of actualized.org
Jocko excerpts
Tony Robbins RPM method (as per proper goal setting techniques)


See also:  Tools of Titans (by Tim Ferris)
John Gatto (not quite intellectual enough IMO; yet too smart, qualified and experienced to ignore.....)
 https://www.youtube.com/user/johntaylorgatto/featured

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History:

Check out Noam Chomsky, Will Durant, Gore Vidal, and the noted scientist and sinologist Joseph Needham.

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General wisdom:

Check out azquotes.org

Chomsky.info

Jordan Peterson (notsomuch for his politics, but for a few of his insights.  ).  Check out his "7 epoch" method of psychological procession. 
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Philsophers:

See:  50 greatest philosophers