Less bright and loud
More strong and deep
Neither open nor hidden
There lingering
A happiness
Me contented
…
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What’s the algorithm behind the behaviour
Algorithms are data processors
If the data is bad: garbage out
If the algorithm is bad: garbage out
Behaviour is the result of an algorithm
It takes in data and information
And produces garbage or wisdom
What’s the algorithm behind the behaviour
The teacher opens the door
The teacher opens the door
Interesting that the door is open
Do I like the teacher, or not
The presentation and delivery
What a door
And the door frame
Okay, let’s enter
But through another door
That’s what it feels like sometimes, some days, with my students. As it appears, getting us to ‘know’ requires that we go through several other rooms in class (or life) that we find more interesting or easier to enter into—whether or not directly relevant to the teacher’s teaching end. All in order for us to develop the mind that finally enters the room the teacher meant for us to enter from the beginning.
“Knowing and doing are two different things, …”
“… especially when it comes to pleasure.” An ‘o so true’ statement by Levitt and Dubner in Superfreakonomics.
It got me thinking…
Knowing and doing are two different things, especially when it comes to [a] pleasure:
Have you ever known the pleasure of pride or ignorance, or of ‘happiness’ or an addiction, etc, to prevent some one (I, for instance) from seeing/following the ‘truth?’ Likely yes, at least on television.
Knowing and doing are two different things, especially when it comes to [a] pain:
Have you ever known the pain of future responsibility or success, or of failure or ridicule, or of losing a pleasure or a happiness, etc, to prevent some one (I, for imstance) from doing the ‘truth?’
Knowing and doing are two different things, especially when ….
[Complete the statement for you, then move—on/off—as you please.]
And you might find that knowing and doing are two different things, especially when it’s not inconvenient for them to be so.
So, if I want change, it would be helpful to make it inconvenient for knowing and doing to be different.
Debts for which I am credited
Debt to spouse, by marriage
Debt to children, by parenthood
Debt to parents, by sonship
Debt to friends, by friendship
Debt to self, for Christ’s sake
Debt to man, for the dignity inherent in mankind
Debt to God, for the dignity inherent in God
…
Against our Sense
Progressing towards a shifting target
It looked like we were walking backwards
Things receding as we approached
The hill was within reach
A reach that simply extended
Like Sisyphean
Until we had come close enough to look so that we could see
All the while making progress against our sense.
Swept off her feet
So he swept her off her feet
And she gave her soul
What did he really do
It was she that lept
So he swept her off her feet
And she got possessed
What did he really do
It was she that let
So he swept her off her feet
And she fell in love
What did he really do
It was she that fell
Wanted, Lost
There was when I wanted her
I called it love
And so I thought
There was when I lost her
She called it love
And so she thought
There was when it didn’t matter
We called it love
And so we thought
