Why? Because we live in a world where nearly everything is defective, and being defective feels normal.
My solution? Write my own apps, using the Python programming language - as taught by DataCamp.
I just started and it looks like fun.
For most people, this sounds crazy "Learning is fun?"
Saturday, April 4, 2020
Friday, April 3, 2020
Alcohol
We cannot live with it, and we cannot live without it.
I have just experienced this myself. I bought some Rompope (a local beverage with 4% alcohol). Just to see what it tasted like. I didn't like it. And I put it back in the Refrigerator, with the firm intention of disposing of it the next day. The next day, I liked it and drank the whole thing.
What happened? I developed a tolerance for alcohol overnight!
I can see why alcoholics can say "I don't know what came over me!" And then take another one.
They will not Share their Personal Lives with Anyone
They can be clever at hiding this. I was married to a woman for five years, before she had a mental breakdown, ended our marriage - and then, a few years later. killed herself.
Why? I will never know. But I can be sure it was because of her crazy family. Just as my problems are caused by my crazy family.
This is a crucial point that many people will not admit - that our problems are caused by others. Or even more fundamentally, that they have serious problems.
We all have serious problems, they are part of the human condition. They make us interesting, if we can look through a crack in their shell.
Why? I will never know. But I can be sure it was because of her crazy family. Just as my problems are caused by my crazy family.
This is a crucial point that many people will not admit - that our problems are caused by others. Or even more fundamentally, that they have serious problems.
We all have serious problems, they are part of the human condition. They make us interesting, if we can look through a crack in their shell.
Thursday, April 2, 2020
The Coming of the Secular Organization
America has always had a mixture of secular and religious components. The Enlightenment was s mostly secular, and America led the world with its Constitutional government, which produced great wealth.
During the 19rh Century, there was the Second Great Awakening which produced new churches, such as the LDS (Mormon) church - and Industrialization. And the Civil War over Slavery. These were huge events, and they consumed the American public, which had little awareness of what was going on.
The 20th Century produced WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. And in the last half of that Century: the Computer, with its Internet and Cellular networks.
These were Secular organizations (as well as Technical). The world became divided into those who understood these new technologies - and those who could not (most of the population).
Another Religious organization arose: Evangelicalism. who wanted to return to the past. and its wealth.
During the 19rh Century, there was the Second Great Awakening which produced new churches, such as the LDS (Mormon) church - and Industrialization. And the Civil War over Slavery. These were huge events, and they consumed the American public, which had little awareness of what was going on.
The 20th Century produced WWI, the Great Depression, and WWII. And in the last half of that Century: the Computer, with its Internet and Cellular networks.
These were Secular organizations (as well as Technical). The world became divided into those who understood these new technologies - and those who could not (most of the population).
Another Religious organization arose: Evangelicalism. who wanted to return to the past. and its wealth.
Wednesday, April 1, 2020
Why Decentralization Matters
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There is some deep thinking here, I can hardly fathom. But also something that grabs my brainstem - that mediates between my brain and my body.
This js new stuff, where we feel like we did when we descended from the trees in East Africa.
There is some deep thinking here, I can hardly fathom. But also something that grabs my brainstem - that mediates between my brain and my body.
This js new stuff, where we feel like we did when we descended from the trees in East Africa.
How did it All End?
I am thinking this morning about my life in the Sixties and Seventies. Looking back on it, it seems amazing. But it seemed ordinary enough at the time.
We were all doing the Right Thing together. And what the Right Thing was, was obvious.
I was living in Denver. And I went every weekend to a workshop. The ones I usually attended were run by a young woman, another engineer, who had her own boyfriend, who she was sexually active with (everyone was sexually active). She called her organization People House.
Some of her workshops taught Gestalt therapy, a therapy taught by Fritz Perls who lived at the Esalen Institute in Californa. He taught a different therapy each year and would teach that therapy to his students every year. Who would then teach in workshops all over the country - and even abroad.
This teacher had been a Psychology professor before he went into Gesralt. And Frtiz had been part of Freud's gang (which contained people who did not believe in him at all).
All of this fit comfortably together in California. But this was the scenic desert in Southern Utah, close to Arches National Monument.
My teacher had become a publisher for Fritz, in a company he called Real People Press. And was making a lot of money that way. He bought a ranch in this area, that gone broke because it lacked water, when there was plenty of water in the Delores river that ran along the property.
Then Electricity was brought to the area. and everyone could have water by installing a pump.
There were houses on the property, that my teacher was renovating. I moved into one of them and was sleeping with wife #1, in another house close by.
We frequently went skinny-dipping in the river.
All this ended in 1980. and we now have a computer world, where skinny-dipping is not so easy.
We were all doing the Right Thing together. And what the Right Thing was, was obvious.
I was living in Denver. And I went every weekend to a workshop. The ones I usually attended were run by a young woman, another engineer, who had her own boyfriend, who she was sexually active with (everyone was sexually active). She called her organization People House.
Some of her workshops taught Gestalt therapy, a therapy taught by Fritz Perls who lived at the Esalen Institute in Californa. He taught a different therapy each year and would teach that therapy to his students every year. Who would then teach in workshops all over the country - and even abroad.
This teacher had been a Psychology professor before he went into Gesralt. And Frtiz had been part of Freud's gang (which contained people who did not believe in him at all).
All of this fit comfortably together in California. But this was the scenic desert in Southern Utah, close to Arches National Monument.
My teacher had become a publisher for Fritz, in a company he called Real People Press. And was making a lot of money that way. He bought a ranch in this area, that gone broke because it lacked water, when there was plenty of water in the Delores river that ran along the property.
Then Electricity was brought to the area. and everyone could have water by installing a pump.
There were houses on the property, that my teacher was renovating. I moved into one of them and was sleeping with wife #1, in another house close by.
We frequently went skinny-dipping in the river.
All this ended in 1980. and we now have a computer world, where skinny-dipping is not so easy.
People who Want to be Deceived
I continue to wonder about the people around me, and I continue to correspond with my family about the family Church.
And I have concluded that they are people who want to be deceived. And this desire is strong in their lives.
This is most easily seen in their devotion to the Book of Mormon, which they believe in.
You may reply that this is only natural for religious people, and I should not expect anything different.
You are right, and I will confine most of my critical comments to this blog.
And I have concluded that they are people who want to be deceived. And this desire is strong in their lives.
This is most easily seen in their devotion to the Book of Mormon, which they believe in.
You may reply that this is only natural for religious people, and I should not expect anything different.
You are right, and I will confine most of my critical comments to this blog.
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