Ideas through time

Tuesday, June 09, 2020

Nice Helpful Useful

First : let's put Modesty away ..it is OK to be nice in public .. no more no less .. not necessary among friends. 

Nothing is great about being nice.. being useful is good.. no more no less. The difference should be clear.

Being nice could have motivations, can be artificial and useless and even harmful.. being useful is just what it is.

Useful doesn't mean helpful. you can help somebody getting his much needed Heroin shot. is that useful?

A nice physicist is not necessarily an expert in piano playing or sociology.  useful when he talks about physics ..useless when he talks about piano and sociology.

A nice musician is not necessarily an expert on children psychology or economy.

Nice spiritual leaders (Guru, Profit, shaman .. ) are useless at best. and mostly dangerous and fatal.

Nice People who try to impress others by bullshit personal experiences are assholes .. people who listen, believe and follow them are idiots who can in turn be assholes. it might be useful to tell them that.

Believing nicely or strongly in bullshit doesn't mean it is fact or even right.. it just shows how nice or strong a believe can be.

Your opinion doesn't matter .. Don't say good or bad .. say I like it or I don't. Tell others about what you know if they don't. it is useful.

talking about what you don't know to others (who don't know) is useless bullshitting. a conversation among idiots.

It is not hard to talk about what you know and there is no shame in asking about what you don't. Nobody knows everything. 

It is useless to criticize a wrong doing by somebody, if  you are doing the same (but) in a different way. There is always a (but I am) .. always.

It is useless to try to change an opinion of an idiot.. but it should be done. estimating the idiocy can be wrong. After all everybody is somebody else's idiot.


Tuesday, June 02, 2020

60 and counting

What did I do in the last 60 years.
Almost nothing ..
learn, work . survive , suffer .. enjoy .. almost everybody does the same .. more or less.
History has extremely special people, But the majority are you and me..
we outnumber by far all Einsteins,  Beethovens, Davincis , Hitlers and Stalins..

There is nothing special in living in the world or leaving it.
It is just what you make out of it and I didn't make much.

The aggregation of millions of incidents that happen around us and far away effect us in ways that we cannot know..
What happen in the white house ?? what happen in Japan ?? Korea ?? Syria ..
We call it life .. just because we still live  .. once we die .. what are we going to call it ??

Things did and will continue to happen and we will continue being incapable of knowing what's going on  .. we assume , feel and call that thinking and knowing ..
That's wrong .. straight forward .. wrong ..
We lie to everybody including ourselves in many different ways .. and that's what we call personality.

The question of: why do you live, has only 1 answer: why not  ..