Category: Analysis

There’s the Plotter and the Pantser

And then there's the plotting pantser, who does both. As Ray Bradbury says, you need to surprise yourself with what you write. It's all about the surprise. But I like a general goal, or idea. Like, stories will be playing in my mind for years, sometimes, and then just get put down on the paper one day, when I've collected enough material to write it.

I usually make outlines of many stories, or sometimes I pants them. But, I always have a general goal of where I want it to go. But, sometimes I don't. I incorporate all disciplines into my writing routine. A lot of essay, a lot of poetry, and some short stories or novels. Like I'm all about the idea; making the audience think. And all about Metaphor and packing as much thought into each line as I can. A lot like George Eliot or Adam Smith, but not quite as dense as them. Like, they're on a whole other level. Like Adam Smith or George Eliot could hit thirty extremely dense ideas in two paragraphs. Every line was poetry.

Work and Play (Why Kids Lose Curiosity)

It’s because it becomes work. It’s the same reason kids love to help you with things, until you make them do it. As a rule, you usually hate work until you get really good at it, and then you basically transition your play instinct to work. That’s why we play, and a healthy adult begins to associate their work with the same dopamine rush they get when they’re playing. In fact at a certain age play becomes more boring than work. That’s when you’ve grown up.

Like learning PEMDAS and Direct and Indirect objects is like pulling teeth, unless you enjoy learning, as then you’ve transitioned to where it is now work you enjoy. Or reading hard books. Everything becomes structured into organizational patterns, and if you don’t find an interest that’s really because you didn’t push through the boring phase of your employment.

Also, if you learn a thing, learn it from a true master. That can help speed up the process of learning, as they know their skill better than anyone, and can easily communicate it.

Metaphysics

I don’t particularly like “Metaphysics” as a word for simply stating “What is”. It’s kind of a messy middle man, that proves a difference between people who perceive things right, and people who can’t. If anything, the mere invention of the word proves the bulk of humans are liars.

I simply think the concept of relating what you know to the bedrock of reality, that is what Metaphysics is. But so many people can’t do that, it’s almost impossible at a point to go around in silly arguments with them. So generally, what happens is it becomes mystified, and then mocked, and then locked away as a secret.

Cuing and Phonics

You need both Cuing and Phonics. That's the best program. Not one or the other, but both combined. Because phonics helps you sound the word out, but cuing helps you look at the surrounding words and paragraphs, to intuit a meaning, so you don't have to be running to the dictionary all the time--basically, using what's surrounding the text, to assume a word's meaning. That's how I got so good at reading. Sometimes, you just got to ignore a word or assume its meaning. If it's absolutely necessary to know to comprehend something--and you can be taught how to do that, too--you look it up. Also having a core intuition of latin prefix and suffixes helps too. That's a huge part of reading retention, learning how to break words down into their phonyms and understand its meaning through that.

My Dream Chess Set

I always wanted a chess set where there were Jihadists and Crusaders, set in green and white jade. The knights would be camels and horses, and the rooks elephants and chariots. Imams and Bishops carrying a crescent moon and cross, and the pawns different kinds of knights. And the queens with a face gown and a tenth century royal quilted gown. And the kings with one of those large head plumes and a crown. That'd be an expensive chess set... but one I've imagined. Do I really want it? Maybe in the next life, because I'd have to basically be a millionaire to own that kind of chess set.

“Physics Proves Math Can’t Always Work”

I'm sure it can, we just forget how to do it right. Like this got some "Kim Jung Un" vibes, of putting two water droplets together, and thinking he proved 1 + 1 = 1. It's 1 x 1. Three water droplets it's 1 x 1 x 1. And it works in base 1, like Heron's formula, which some things the number gets distorted when exponentiated. There... physics problem solved. Geez people are going backward these days.

Like no offense, but it's the same as adding a new dimension to a cube. You have one line, then another, then another. The whole cube equals 1. Adding three water droplets together, you're multiplying it, essentially. If you took the dimensions within it--and this is beyond my grasp--you could create a formula that describes the augmentation of the droplet. That's generally what happens when you get into more advanced geometry, is the number is defined by equalities.

So, physicists are probably wrong, and they made a huge and absurd leap of conjecture, based on the fact that "Nah nah nah nah boo boo, I just don't want it to be true."

Like, generally, shapes are defined by formulas, and how they interact with each other is its own geometry. You could use this same notion to solve P Versus NP, too, to look at the shapes, and work out conclusions based on geometric principles, or define new geometric principles. But, physics is generally geometry. Gravity, for instance, is quadratic--perfectly--and all physics works off of geometry. And maybe the problem is too much advanced physics is based in specious and non extant substance, that it's basically imaginary at this point. Meaning you'll have to throw most of it out, and observe things through their geometric relations. I'm not saying I can do this... but there's people who can, and that's what work in physics should be, is looking at the reality of something, and forming shapes through equations to describe the patterns they observe. If you can't, then it just doesn't exist. Maybe at a Quantum level math begins to break down... but that even has some aspect of number to it. But that's because it's basically random bursts of energy, which can only be measured through their appearance and frequency.

On a Modern Crusade

This would go down as one of the greatest tragedies in history, if Christians actually did this. It'd prove to the world how backward we are, and make the religion die in one flew. People like me would understand, and stand out of it... and just be like Noah or Abraham, one of only a few people in the world who know God... but this is not good lines of thinking. This is bordering on dangerous... and I just got to put my two cents in, as my goal is to see the religion flourish a long time from now. Let us be the victims, rather than the barbarians. As then we'll have the support we need. Like in Rome, we didn't fight Rome, we allowed ourselves to be victims, and that gained the ear of Constantine.

The Force and Knowledge

[W]hat corrupted [Anikin] was acting loose with the force. It’s like knowledge, you can corrupt yourself by finding perverted uses for it. Especially when you abandon what’s natural and pure for what’s artificial and coercive.

Like, knowing psychology and sociology you can use it to get what you want, or build up people. Knowing history, you can use it to undermine peace, or establish it. Knowing science you can build perverted pleasures, or use natural methods to foster cleanliness and peace—Also ties into The Lord of the Rings, is the main conflict is raw power and the waste of industry warring with peaceful authority.

That’s why I’m Christian, is Christ establishes peace, as His philosophy is pure.

Interestingly, the Northern King, the main antagonist in Daniel 11 and 12, worships a God of Forces, which may be prophesying that this king believes in the religion of Star Wars.

On Gangs

That’s a fundamental problem you just elucidated, that murderers, thieves and liars are more trusted than police. Gangs are not justice. You have to understand that. Before you can have true justice.

I mean, frankly, that’s tribal feudalism you’re describing, and not civilization. It’s barbaric.

I don’t know if you’re in a gang, but it’s just not healthy, nor does it make happiness. Your subjects are in constant fear of two blocks down, and travelling to the wrong road. That’s not freedom. At all. That’s tyranny, guised in the form of philanthropy. And many people it’s divided down racial barriers. It’s an old problem in America, but one people have to decide not to put up with. Police should be trustworthy, and where they’re not you get these primitive politics.