"The growth of knowledge depends entirely on the existence of disagreement."
-Karl Popper
I disagree.
Leaves me with a paradox doesn't it? Then again, it's a typhical Popper thing to say. The founder of the falsification method, constructed that sentence in a way that it's falsification will justify it. But that's just lowly human logic. I'm not gonna get stuck in those games.
Most of our inventions were made by accident. So what was there to disagree with in the first place? Nothing. When man discovered fire, did it happen because he disagreed with the opinion that we can't make fire? He probably didn't even know what it was, but was just amazed at what suddenly happened.
How were te Vedas written in old India? Because of initial disagreement, with what? It's more likely the other way around; the knowledge came first, disagreement came later. Now we disagree with everything! The only thing worth disagreeing about are opinions. This information is created and maintained on the level of the mind. I would say any information coming from higher up should be accepted in favor of that what comes from lower levels of consciousness.
We can disagree with everything, but there's little use in trying to understand the things that surpass our understanding. In the end there's nothing to understand; it's all about knowing, and not knowing. In a place with no causality there's nothing to understand about anything, just observation.
So what I think about Popper's quote is that it's a typhical human thing to say.
Monday, 26 April 2010
Friday, 16 April 2010
Values
Intellect is a blessing, if you can put it in harmony with values. There is no such thing as a golden skill that will make everything else obsolete. First, you need values, after that, everything will come naturally and will be in harmony. Knowing the values is not the same as living them though. Nothing new, but still applicable. For me that is.
Like this job my doctor gave me. It was a very simple job, I didn't really know how long it would take me to do, but I ended up postphoning it for days! Then just a minute ago, I decided lets get this over with. Turns out it took me about 2 minutes. This is something I find hard to understand; why do I wait so long with stuff that takes 2 minutes to finish? I can occupy myself for hours before I do the things that take minutes!
The thing is, when I'm focused, I can work really fast. I like fast and precise, this is possible when focused. Rushing is not the same, that is too fast, because it will stop being precise at that point. Then you have to backtrack, do it over again, and you'll end up putting more time into it even though you were rushing in order to save time!
If I do all the important things first, I will be so succesful, like owning the world in 5 years, and with that I mean my world. So what is it? Values. Live them!
Like this job my doctor gave me. It was a very simple job, I didn't really know how long it would take me to do, but I ended up postphoning it for days! Then just a minute ago, I decided lets get this over with. Turns out it took me about 2 minutes. This is something I find hard to understand; why do I wait so long with stuff that takes 2 minutes to finish? I can occupy myself for hours before I do the things that take minutes!
The thing is, when I'm focused, I can work really fast. I like fast and precise, this is possible when focused. Rushing is not the same, that is too fast, because it will stop being precise at that point. Then you have to backtrack, do it over again, and you'll end up putting more time into it even though you were rushing in order to save time!
If I do all the important things first, I will be so succesful, like owning the world in 5 years, and with that I mean my world. So what is it? Values. Live them!
Tuesday, 6 April 2010
The Working Class
Since I've been home, I've been thinking about what I can do regarding work. Basically, I don't really care as long as it pays. Or at least, I didn't. I discovered this is not the right mentality. And no, I don't mean concerning the employer, cause I couldn't give 2 shits about them, but concerning myself. When I get to the point that I'll do anything for money, I feel that I start losing morality and my values. After all, as long as you go down that path far enough, eventually you'll end up robbing and killing if it's profitable.
Also, given the fact that any work you do earns you money, money is actually not a relevant factor when it comes to choosing work. All that's relevant is what you do, and if you want to do that. So I decided from now on I'll give myself a clear idea what kind of work I will be looking for, and at the same time I'll be open to other possibilities. I think that's the best way to get what I wanted in the first place. Because basically I would just like to work temporary jobs, giving me different experiences.
However, getting work is not so easy! I thought the recession didn't really hit Holland, but I guess it did. At least, it did in the way of going to an employment agency to find work. Also, I realized that with my current papers, my education is basically useless. I might as well not have graduated, because best they can offer me is production work; packing things together. Great, more donkey work. Then again, almost everything is donkey work. Stuff that you go to university to for 3 years is also donkey work. As long as you have the intellectual capacity to understand what you do, everything else is just automated pilot. Ok then, smart donkey work.
I realized today that my chances of getting a job are very slim when I put all my faith in employment agencies. I'm gonna have to be creative and do something by myself, which is also more rewarding. So what will that be? First off, I should be looking for something I can start with directly. My long term occupations will be organizing workshops, making music, writing a book. At least that's what I can think of right now. But for now, I can look around to see where there's places I can offer myself as a host for events, or go into sales.
I could even make something myself, but I don't know what. Thing is that most jobs for my kind of people are offered in summer, but then I want to be in Croatia, so I need to have money before that. I'll have to see what comes on my path, but it's not gonna be easy to find work soon. And I really don't have a dime! It will be alright though. I can always just buy a one way ticket to Costa Rica and teach English classes there. Or go to Africa and build a school. Steven's Academy for Health and Happiness; Harvard eat your heart out!
Anyway, it's not easy being the working class here. You get to do stupid, insignificant jobs, for a lousy salary that you even have to pay taxes over. It's clear that this is not for me. It's not meant to be, I'm supposed to do something different. Using my creativity, I'll find a way to get by. When I went to the agency this morning this guy was trying to break my balls asking me what I was good at. I said everything, it's all just practice. Then he continued that for every job there's about 100 applications, so what makes me different from the others? I said my attitude.
In reality, there is no difference other than your attitude. Do they really think their jobs are so complicated? It's all donkey work. The only reason why I wouldn't be able to do a job is because I would get so bored of it. You don't need experience, you don't need education. You just need to do it, everything else will come by itself. My dad told me when he finished law school, the first thing they told him in the office was: Ok so now just forget everything you've learned.
I said it in one of my songs that education is a race about who repeats the fastest and that's exactly what it is. Yesterday there was this guy from Oxford University in this talk show who was talking about this rowing race against Cambridge. He said that all guys in the boat were really smart and can do something. Amongst them the founders of Facebook. Did they have to go to university to think of something like Facebook? No! And when the interviewer asked him "So what can you do?" he gave a typhical bullshit answer along the lines of "In 5 years I'll work somewhere abroad". The genius!
This society is sick, and it's gonna die. A cancer of civilization, it's disgusting. In a few years, I'll be somewhere else. In a place that I can truly call home. Where friendliness and compassion will be most important. This world is not for me; it's that simple. I'll not settle with any of it.
Also, given the fact that any work you do earns you money, money is actually not a relevant factor when it comes to choosing work. All that's relevant is what you do, and if you want to do that. So I decided from now on I'll give myself a clear idea what kind of work I will be looking for, and at the same time I'll be open to other possibilities. I think that's the best way to get what I wanted in the first place. Because basically I would just like to work temporary jobs, giving me different experiences.
However, getting work is not so easy! I thought the recession didn't really hit Holland, but I guess it did. At least, it did in the way of going to an employment agency to find work. Also, I realized that with my current papers, my education is basically useless. I might as well not have graduated, because best they can offer me is production work; packing things together. Great, more donkey work. Then again, almost everything is donkey work. Stuff that you go to university to for 3 years is also donkey work. As long as you have the intellectual capacity to understand what you do, everything else is just automated pilot. Ok then, smart donkey work.
I realized today that my chances of getting a job are very slim when I put all my faith in employment agencies. I'm gonna have to be creative and do something by myself, which is also more rewarding. So what will that be? First off, I should be looking for something I can start with directly. My long term occupations will be organizing workshops, making music, writing a book. At least that's what I can think of right now. But for now, I can look around to see where there's places I can offer myself as a host for events, or go into sales.
I could even make something myself, but I don't know what. Thing is that most jobs for my kind of people are offered in summer, but then I want to be in Croatia, so I need to have money before that. I'll have to see what comes on my path, but it's not gonna be easy to find work soon. And I really don't have a dime! It will be alright though. I can always just buy a one way ticket to Costa Rica and teach English classes there. Or go to Africa and build a school. Steven's Academy for Health and Happiness; Harvard eat your heart out!
Anyway, it's not easy being the working class here. You get to do stupid, insignificant jobs, for a lousy salary that you even have to pay taxes over. It's clear that this is not for me. It's not meant to be, I'm supposed to do something different. Using my creativity, I'll find a way to get by. When I went to the agency this morning this guy was trying to break my balls asking me what I was good at. I said everything, it's all just practice. Then he continued that for every job there's about 100 applications, so what makes me different from the others? I said my attitude.
In reality, there is no difference other than your attitude. Do they really think their jobs are so complicated? It's all donkey work. The only reason why I wouldn't be able to do a job is because I would get so bored of it. You don't need experience, you don't need education. You just need to do it, everything else will come by itself. My dad told me when he finished law school, the first thing they told him in the office was: Ok so now just forget everything you've learned.
I said it in one of my songs that education is a race about who repeats the fastest and that's exactly what it is. Yesterday there was this guy from Oxford University in this talk show who was talking about this rowing race against Cambridge. He said that all guys in the boat were really smart and can do something. Amongst them the founders of Facebook. Did they have to go to university to think of something like Facebook? No! And when the interviewer asked him "So what can you do?" he gave a typhical bullshit answer along the lines of "In 5 years I'll work somewhere abroad". The genius!
This society is sick, and it's gonna die. A cancer of civilization, it's disgusting. In a few years, I'll be somewhere else. In a place that I can truly call home. Where friendliness and compassion will be most important. This world is not for me; it's that simple. I'll not settle with any of it.
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