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#philosophy #thought #mind #neuroscience #humanity

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. #thought

Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. #thought

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. #thought

Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. #thought

A quotation from Cicero

MARCUS: The power of separating the intellect from the senses, and reason from instinct, is characteristic of the highest genius.
 
[Magni autem est ingenii sevocare mentem a sensibus et cogitationem ab consuetudine abducere.]

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC) Roman orator, statesman, philosopher
Tusculan Disputations [Tusculanae Disputationes], Book 1, ch. 16 (1.16) / sec. 38 (1.38) (45 BC) [ed. Harbottle (1897)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/cicero-marcus-tulliu…

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🌱 Thought for the Week

Let us learn the art of mindful spending...

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending. - Dada Bhagwan

#Money #Mindfulness #Finance #Thought #Spirituality #Dadabhagwan #SeaWednesday

🌱 Thought for the Week

Let us learn the art of mindful spending...

If money is spent in the wrong way, then ‘control’ the spending and if the money is spent in the right way, then ‘decontrol’ the spending. - Dada Bhagwan

#Money #Mindfulness #Finance #Thought #Spirituality #Dadabhagwan #SeaWednesday

When you become a Die Hard fan of any celebrity, your entire identity becomes a shadow of that person.

Your life revolves around them.

You see their staged personality, which is highly inauthentic and made up.

Many of them are not good people in Real Life.

#psychology #thought #opinion #truth #fan #celebrities #advice #philosophy #reality #analysis #Journalism #celebs #BlindFollower

When you become a Die Hard fan of any celebrity, your entire identity becomes a shadow of that person.

Your life revolves around them.

You see their staged personality, which is highly inauthentic and made up.

Many of them are not good people in Real Life.

#psychology #thought #opinion #truth #fan #celebrities #advice #philosophy #reality #analysis #Journalism #celebs #BlindFollower

Trump signs Executive Order to maximize parental choice over vaccinations for their children

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to recognize Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations that maximize parental choices over vaccinations for their children and align three categories of childhood immunizations with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
  • The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them. 
  • The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
  • States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
  • All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information. 
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data. 

link

Looks like a good start.

When you consider the vaccine topic from a vague ‘national’ and ‘science’ POV, it can appear complex, leading to individual resignation or stubborn belief based on unthinking habituation. When you consider it from a state’s POV or a schoolboard’s, the absurdity of government coercing medical treatments for children is easier to see for what it is. The smaller the state or the dumber the schoolboard, the more obvious it becomes. USA local and state governments are filled with people entirely unqualified to rule on matters like this. When ‘national standards’ are blindly followed, anyone who can read and think understands relevant agencies have all been captured by Big Pharma and Big Money. ABN

Trump signs Executive Order to maximize parental choice over vaccinations for their children

DELIVERING GOLD STANDARD CHILDHOOD VACCINE RECOMMENDATIONS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to recognize Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations that maximize parental choices over vaccinations for their children and align three categories of childhood immunizations with scientific evidence and best practices from peer, developed countries.

• The Order provides recommendations that give parents more information and options when making immunization decisions for their children.
  • The Order recommends all children get immunizations to provide protection for 11 diseases – a decrease from the 18 diseases recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2024. Immunizations no longer recommended for all children are now recommended for shared clinical decision-making, ensuring that parents have all options available to them. 
  • The Order recommends separating out the combined MMR vaccine into three single-disease shots and recommends administering all vaccines during separate medical visits to give parents more options regarding the timing and frequency of this vaccine administration.
  • States that enact school vaccine requirements are advised to consider the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations and consider updating their laws to reflect the recommendations.
  • All Federal agencies are advised to advance the Gold Standard Childhood Vaccine Recommendations based on their relevant authorities to ensure Americans have the best scientific information. 
• The Order maximizes parental choice over childhood vaccines by promoting State compliance with constitutional and Federal law related to parental authority, religious freedom, disability accommodations, and equal protection under the law, including States’ obligations to provide religious and medical exemptions from childhood and adolescent immunization requirement.
• The Order directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS), through the HHS Task Force on Safer Childhood Vaccines, to present plans to the President to improve vaccine research and options for American parents, including continuous evaluation of the risk and benefit profiles of all childhood vaccines based on U.S. and international data. 

link

Looks like a good start.

When you consider the vaccine topic from a vague ‘national’ and ‘science’ POV, it can appear complex, leading to individual resignation or stubborn belief based on unthinking habituation. When you consider it from a state’s POV or a schoolboard’s, the absurdity of government coercing medical treatments for children is easier to see for what it is. The smaller the state or the dumber the schoolboard, the more obvious it becomes. USA local and state governments are filled with people entirely unqualified to rule on matters like this. When ‘national standards’ are blindly followed, anyone who can read and think understands relevant agencies have all been captured by Big Pharma and Big Money. ABN

Time is the most important thing in your life. Once it's gone, it's gone.

— Hitesh Choudhary

(He teaches programming on the Hitesh Code Lab YouTube channel)

#Quote #truth #opinion #thought #time #reality #Life #HiteshChoudhary #inspiration #motivation #YouTuber #advice #priority #programmer #coder

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. #thought

Either you run the day, or the day runs you. #thought

https://www.evshift.com/506926/hold-that-thought-%f0%9f%a4%ab-peugeote308-peugeot/ Hold that thought… 🤫 #PeugeotE308 #Peugeot #ElectricCars #ElectricVehicles #EV #Hold #peugeot #PeugeotUK #PeugeotE308 #THOUGHT

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. #thought

Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom. #thought

People have stereotyped image of scientists.

A white old man with grey hair wearing formal clothes uninterested in most things.

People often call them 'Mad' or 'Crazy' scientists.

People don't give respect that they deserve while they worship some corrupt politicians & characterless celebrities.

Scientists dedicate their lives to making technologies for you.

#science #physics #knowledge #scicomm #research #stem #scientists #opinion #thought #truth #blog #Journalism #psychology

People have stereotyped image of scientists.

A white old man with grey hair wearing formal clothes uninterested in most things.

People often call them 'Mad' or 'Crazy' scientists.

People don't give respect that they deserve while they worship some corrupt politicians & characterless celebrities.

Scientists dedicate their lives to making technologies for you.

#science #physics #knowledge #scicomm #research #stem #scientists #opinion #thought #truth #blog #Journalism #psychology

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. #thought

We must not allow ourselves to become like the system we oppose. #thought

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. #thought

In the sky, there is no distinction of east and west; people create distinctions out of their own minds and then believe them to be true. #thought

I hate when I feel a friend is losing interest in me. It makes me feel like my value is slowly fading.

I try to be honest and transparent, but sometimes I wonder how much of myself I should show when I’m already struggling to be me.

#healing #thought #Emotional #friendship

I hate when I feel a friend is losing interest in me. It makes me feel like my value is slowly fading.

I try to be honest and transparent, but sometimes I wonder how much of myself I should show when I’m already struggling to be me.

#healing #thought #Emotional #friendship

Mises Institute’s 5 Purges: Omitting Jewish Bankers

Five Private Steps in the Statist Censorship Continuum

Censored image: This Substack distills every article into clear syllogistic infographics—saving readers time and preventing shaky premises and reasoning from being hidden behind a torrent of words. However, AIs often refuse to generate politically incorrect infographics. Initially Grok refused to generate this infographic and gave instead a long lecture on the great trustworthiness of the Mises Institute. Here is an example:

After being pushed, Grok finally agreed to generate an infographic but refused to include the terms “Jewish monopolies” (historical tax farmer, slave trade, war contractor, trade and banking monopolies) and “Jewish Problem” (Diaspora group refusing to assimilate). Yet other American AI models are even more censorious. ChatGPT, for instance, flatly refuses to discuss historically documented Jewish monopolies, while China’s DeepSeek allows these conversations.

Introduction

The Ludwig von Mises Institute serves as the headquarters for the Austrian School of economics and the rationalist-conservative strain of libertarianism known as Austro-Libertarianism. Although Ludwig von Mises passed away in 1973 and his leading disciple, Murray Rothbard, in 1995, their memory and intellectual message are carried on by the Institute. Led by President Llewellyn Rockwell Jr., the Institute’s foremost resident intellectual is David Gordon—a close friend and disciple of Rothbard. Like Mises and Rothbard, Gordon is Jewish. So too was Burton Blumert, whose Center for Libertarian Studies helped establish the Mises Institute before later integrating into it.

Following Blumert’s passing in 2009, only Rockwell and Gordon remain from the original guard. Gordon serves as the scholarly editor of the Mises Review and stands as the ultimate authority on all things Rothbardian. He is deeply revered by the Institute’s student body; some of his student fans even affectionately refer to him as the mastermind or “God” due to his encyclopedic knowledge on virtually every subject.

Image: Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon and Murray Rothbard

Together, Rockwell and Gordon have led the Institute for decades, dramatically expanding its footprint into a multi-building campus where thousands of university students and scholars have been educated on the principles of liberty.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRmJyfnCl2M?feature=oembed

Video Link

Link to video Why I Support the Mises Institute.

Masterminds

Austro-Libertarianism is renowned not only for its free-market ideology and cultural conservatism, but particularly for its anti-war, isolationist foreign policy. This stance is rooted in an Austro-Libertarian Theory and historical narrative that views the United States as the world’s foremost imperialist power. At first glance, the Austro-Libertarian theory of history appears paradoxical. Much like Marxist theory, it posits that world history is largely driven by genetic and economic forces. However, unlike Marxism, it assigns a key role to specific individuals who operate at the crossroads of history when economic crises and wars create turning points. These key actors can be great generals, politicians, or entrepreneurs—but they can also be intellectuals. Occasionally, these intellectuals act as true masterminds, steering the course of history toward either liberty or tyranny through the sheer force of their ideas and personality.

Austro-Libertarians believe that during the last century, two great masterminds successfully turned the wheel of history toward liberty: Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Mises championed the fight against socialism. His disciple, Rothbard, not only expanded Mises’ work into a comprehensive, rationalist anti-statist paradigm, but also laid the foundations for the modern paleolibertarian movement alongside allies like Howard Buffett, Ron Paul and Patrick Buchanan.

The most famous of these allies is former Congressman Ron Paul, who remains closely associated with the institute. His historic campaigns in 2008 and 2012 brought him remarkably close to securing the Republican presidential nomination. Today, the Ron Paul Liberty Movement continues to exert significant influence within the Republican Party, MAGA and the larger libertarian movement.

link

Mises Institute’s 5 Purges: Omitting Jewish Bankers

Five Private Steps in the Statist Censorship Continuum

Censored image: This Substack distills every article into clear syllogistic infographics—saving readers time and preventing shaky premises and reasoning from being hidden behind a torrent of words. However, AIs often refuse to generate politically incorrect infographics. Initially Grok refused to generate this infographic and gave instead a long lecture on the great trustworthiness of the Mises Institute. Here is an example:

After being pushed, Grok finally agreed to generate an infographic but refused to include the terms “Jewish monopolies” (historical tax farmer, slave trade, war contractor, trade and banking monopolies) and “Jewish Problem” (Diaspora group refusing to assimilate). Yet other American AI models are even more censorious. ChatGPT, for instance, flatly refuses to discuss historically documented Jewish monopolies, while China’s DeepSeek allows these conversations.

Introduction

The Ludwig von Mises Institute serves as the headquarters for the Austrian School of economics and the rationalist-conservative strain of libertarianism known as Austro-Libertarianism. Although Ludwig von Mises passed away in 1973 and his leading disciple, Murray Rothbard, in 1995, their memory and intellectual message are carried on by the Institute. Led by President Llewellyn Rockwell Jr., the Institute’s foremost resident intellectual is David Gordon—a close friend and disciple of Rothbard. Like Mises and Rothbard, Gordon is Jewish. So too was Burton Blumert, whose Center for Libertarian Studies helped establish the Mises Institute before later integrating into it.

Following Blumert’s passing in 2009, only Rockwell and Gordon remain from the original guard. Gordon serves as the scholarly editor of the Mises Review and stands as the ultimate authority on all things Rothbardian. He is deeply revered by the Institute’s student body; some of his student fans even affectionately refer to him as the mastermind or “God” due to his encyclopedic knowledge on virtually every subject.

Image: Burton Blumert, Lew Rockwell, David Gordon and Murray Rothbard

Together, Rockwell and Gordon have led the Institute for decades, dramatically expanding its footprint into a multi-building campus where thousands of university students and scholars have been educated on the principles of liberty.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/kRmJyfnCl2M?feature=oembed

Video Link

Link to video Why I Support the Mises Institute.

Masterminds

Austro-Libertarianism is renowned not only for its free-market ideology and cultural conservatism, but particularly for its anti-war, isolationist foreign policy. This stance is rooted in an Austro-Libertarian Theory and historical narrative that views the United States as the world’s foremost imperialist power. At first glance, the Austro-Libertarian theory of history appears paradoxical. Much like Marxist theory, it posits that world history is largely driven by genetic and economic forces. However, unlike Marxism, it assigns a key role to specific individuals who operate at the crossroads of history when economic crises and wars create turning points. These key actors can be great generals, politicians, or entrepreneurs—but they can also be intellectuals. Occasionally, these intellectuals act as true masterminds, steering the course of history toward either liberty or tyranny through the sheer force of their ideas and personality.

Austro-Libertarians believe that during the last century, two great masterminds successfully turned the wheel of history toward liberty: Ludwig von Mises and Murray Rothbard. Mises championed the fight against socialism. His disciple, Rothbard, not only expanded Mises’ work into a comprehensive, rationalist anti-statist paradigm, but also laid the foundations for the modern paleolibertarian movement alongside allies like Howard Buffett, Ron Paul and Patrick Buchanan.

The most famous of these allies is former Congressman Ron Paul, who remains closely associated with the institute. His historic campaigns in 2008 and 2012 brought him remarkably close to securing the Republican presidential nomination. Today, the Ron Paul Liberty Movement continues to exert significant influence within the Republican Party, MAGA and the larger libertarian movement.

link

Jimmy Tip: Three Conversations That Grow Your Business Every Week

https://mybuddyjimmy.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/jimmy-tip-three-conversations-that-grow-your-business-every-week/

Jimmy Tip: Three Conversations That Grow Your Business Every Week

https://mybuddyjimmy.wordpress.com/2026/08/06/jimmy-tip-three-conversations-that-grow-your-business-every-week/

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. #thought

A man is great by deeds, not by birth. #thought

A quotation from Douglas Adams

You can’t help but try and follow an animal’s thought processes, and you can’t help, when faced with an animal like a three ton rhinoceros with nasal passages bigger than its brain, but fail.

Douglas Adams (1952-2001) English author, humorist, screenwriter
Last Chance to See, ch. 3 (1990) [with Mark Carwardine]

More about this quote: wist.info/adams-douglas/30101/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #douglasadams #lastchancetosee #rhino #rhinoceros #animals #empathy #inscrutability #size #thinking #thought #thoughtprocess #understanding

“What, uniquely, does #writing do? It compels #thought. It compels #thinking in ways that silent contemplation or spoken language rarely can.”

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3msdzp2qho227

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. #thought

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. #thought

AI's chain of thought is not a transcript

Like and share if you enjoyed this.

https://1ban.news/ai-chain-of-thought-not-transcript/

#1ban #chain #thought #transcript #science #research

AI's chain of thought is not a transcript

Like and share if you enjoyed this.

https://1ban.news/ai-chain-of-thought-not-transcript/

#1ban #chain #thought #transcript #science #research

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. #thought

First, have a definite, clear practical ideal; a goal, an objective. Second, have the necessary means to achieve your ends; wisdom, money, materials, and methods. Third, adjust all your means to that end. #thought

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. #thought

You can't stop the waves, but you can learn to surf. #thought

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. #thought

Edison failed 10,000 times before he made the electric light. Do not be discouraged if you fail a few times. #thought

Long-term and short-term memory are obviously connected

And also, they are separably analyzable, and fundamentally one in the same thing working on different percepta1, at different speeds and at different and combined times. They have different capacities, become conscious at different times or at the same times in different measure. They hold or embrace all we know of our bodies and minds. Are they existential YOLO solipsisms? Or are they connected to something else, as time and space are connected, God and man, the Buddha mind and the ordinary mind? Are they beyond time or do they manufacture it or simply dwell in it?

1. Percepta is the plural form of the Latin noun perceptum, meaning “something perceived” or the objects/aspects apprehended during the act of perception.  ↩︎

Long-term and short-term memory are obviously connected

And also, they are separably analyzable, and fundamentally one in the same thing working on different percepta1, at different speeds and at different and combined times. They have different capacities, become conscious at different times or at the same times in different measure. They hold or embrace all we know of our bodies and minds. Are they existential YOLO solipsisms? Or are they connected to something else, as time and space are connected, God and man, the Buddha mind and the ordinary mind? Are they beyond time or do they manufacture it or simply dwell in it?

1. Percepta is the plural form of the Latin noun perceptum, meaning “something perceived” or the objects/aspects apprehended during the act of perception.  ↩︎

A quotation from Schopenhauer

But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.
 
[Aber freilich suchen viele Schriftsteller gerade unter dem Wortüberfluß ihre Gedankenarmuth zu verbergen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #schopenhauer #arthurschopenhauer #communication #content #eloquence #logorrhea #loquaciousness #pithiness #thought #verbiage #wordiness #writing

A quotation from Schopenhauer

But, as we have seen, many people try to conceal their poverty of thought under a flood of verbiage.
 
[Aber freilich suchen viele Schriftsteller gerade unter dem Wortüberfluß ihre Gedankenarmuth zu verbergen.]

Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher
Parerga and Paralipomena, Vol. 2, ch. 23 “On Authorship and Style [Über Schriftstellerei und Stil],” § 283 (1851) [tr. Saunders (1890)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/schopenhauer-arthur/…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #schopenhauer #arthurschopenhauer #communication #content #eloquence #logorrhea #loquaciousness #pithiness #thought #verbiage #wordiness #writing

@GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.

@GeraldKutney Unfortunately not. See Paul Krugman's latest blog post: https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/the-fire-this-time. We are talking about people who hate #science, hate #scientists, hate #scholarship, hate #universities, hate #thought, #knowledge, #reason & #facts. These are people who don't believe there is such a thing as #objective #truth - "truth" is what they say it is, what suits their convenience. You can't defeat obscurantism with arguments based on #scientific facts.

You can do what's reasonable or you can decide what's possible. #thought

Compassion and happiness are not a sign of weakness but a sign of strength. #thought