accumulation

«So now, we are going to explain the Second Holy Truth – the Truth of
Accumulation. Accumulation means amassing, piling up; it means
accumulating afflictions. But accumulation is beckoned by our own
self-nature, and so it is said, "Accumulation beckons by nature." If
there is a filthy place, then a lot of flies come. But if everything
is clean and pure, then the flies won't come. So absolutely everything
is called in by your self-nature.» --
http://cttbusa.org/fas8/fas8.asp

nothing doing

"Non-doing is, above all, an attitude of mind. It's a wish. It's a
decision to leave everything alone and see what goes on, see what
happens. Your breathing and your circulation and your postural
mechanisms are all working and taking over. The organism is
functioning in its automatic way, and you are doing nothing." "If
you're going to succeed in doing nothing, you must exercise control
over your thinking processes. You must really wish to do nothing. If
you're thinking anxious, worried thoughts, if you're thinking exciting
thoughts that are irrelevant to the situation at hand, you stir up
responses in your body that are not consistent with doing nothing.
It's not a matter of just not moving--that can lead to fixing or
freezing--it's a matter of really leaving yourself alone and letting
everything just happen and take over." "This is what we're aiming at
in an Alexander lesson, and if we're wise, and we understand, it's
also what we aim at in our own practice of non-doing. It is something
that requires practice. Like most other things in life, it isn't
some-thing that you can achieve by simply wishing to do so, by just
thinking, 'Well, I will now leave myself alone and not do anything.'
Unfortunately, it doesn't work out like that. The whole process
requires a lot of practice, and a lot of observation. Out of this
process a tremendous lot of experience is to be gained..." -- Walter
Carrington, Thinking Aloud, quoted in Practising Detachment by Mike
Cross, http://the-middle-way.org/subpage12.html

learning & evolution

"If you step back and, for example, look at the mathematical approach
to learning theory, people understand very well that there's a
learning strategy, a search process, and there's a space that is being
searched. Only the two together give you a mathematical description of
learning. I would say the same is true for evolution. Evolution is
the search strategy, but the space that is being searched is generated
by the laws of physics and chemistry in a way that nobody actually
understands. You could say that to really understand the structure of
life around you, a much deeper description would actually be required,
and would describe not the algorithm for search, but what is being
searched. So, in that sense, our current understanding of evolution,
I think, is actually very incomplete." --
http://edge.org/conversation/evolution-of-cooperation-nowak

found biblical cutup

Anger, for your wives, and raiment to pass, when he said, I curse: and
dwelt by whoredom. And Jacob a household: and the children of the
first-born according as a Hebrew midwives, of the borders with us. And
she shall bow in the land of a servant Jacob a help thee, and return
unto him, My lord be Jehovah hath triumphed gloriously: The name any
finding him should have borne him both of Egypt died: and our lives:
let the place where he gathered to a lamb, according unto them. And
God heard that is said, This day was Rachel.

Journeyed east, and said unto him, We cannot, until the wicked?
Peradventure there reigned in the service which Pharaoh and I pray
you. And he could not be thy two years: the spirit of Merari: Mahli
and he said, Lest I am Esau her unto them, Go forth jewels of Canaan,
the flood of his sons, and fro, until his host of his mother, Behold,
we speak? or beast: it may sacrifice to see my son were not with
blindness, both man, and there in and this house: only unto him,
she spake unto him, and I not let now. Wept and Abraham bowed himself
strange unto me all the bow down themselves to thy nativity. And the
way, and the field, which he may be circumcised with her, and she
laid upon their asses of them abroad from thence two sons, and the thigh,
and evil in the guard. And I will go in the land, the fat thereof. One of
Isaac, and said, I will not let the inhabitants of the door.

-- http://www.latex-community.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=45&t=6157&start=0

KeepGrabbing@Home

>> If as an academic, you see a problem where peer reviewed content is not
>> cited in Wikipedia, I would strongly encourage you to join the movement
>> lobbying for openness in scholarly work.

A distributed version of keepgrabbing2.py and a little bit of civil
disobedience on the part of some scholars and wikipedians would go a
long ways towards cutting this particular Gordian knot.  (We could
call the project KeepGrabbing@Home --- the search for intelligent life
on THIS planet.)

You may well disagree with this approach.  In fact, I see two options;
the other may be attractive.  (But I don't see any reason to imagine
that "lobbying" will get the job done.)

The two options:

  (1) building an infrastructure that makes the old one obsolete;
  (2) or recognizing the non-obsolescence of the old system, and
stealing whatever it has to offer.

Both courses can be pursued in parallel.