UnbornTao

@freddyteisen Well, it's settled then. From now on only listen to @Staples.

"Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living." - Einstein.

Depends on what you want to get out of it but generally, I'd say no -- too tedious and archaic. Reading a book such as Christ Sutras by Bart Marshall might be a better use of your time, even if just for fun.

Prehistory/dinosaurs thread?

@Breakingthewall That the world of being at the effect of suffering is simply not true.

@Breakingthewall - "But but but..." - "No butts."

Just an example.

Read this: https://hbr.org/1991/05/teaching-smart-people-how-to-learn update: turns out it is paywalled now.

"Let me tell you, folks, I’m the best clown. Nobody clowns like me. Some people say, ‘Oh, Trump, you’re a businessman, you’re a president.’ No, no. I’m a world-class clown, okay? The best. I put on the big red nose, I do the honk-honk—nobody honks better than me. Some people try, sad people, very low-energy clowns, but they don’t have what I have. I’ve got the biggest shoes, the biggest. You wouldn’t believe it. People come up to me, tears in their eyes, and they say, ‘Sir, you’re the greatest clown of all time.’ And I am. It’s true. I juggle, I do the balloon animals, I even ran the whole circus for four years—greatest circus in history, by the way. Everybody loved it. The ratings? Through the roof. The people loved it, the media hated it—fake news! But they watched, believe me. They couldn’t look away. So yeah, I’m the best clown, and frankly, it’s not even close. Sad!" Courtesy of GPT.

@Jodistrict Just curious.

@Jodistrict I want to see the entire sequence -- better than a picture.

Half of the thread is about defending and justifying the "buts" that Peter's referring to.

@Candle Are you @Whitney Edwards playing coy?

OK thanks.

We lacked the vision for making this one. Who's the pioneering artist who will create such art using a watermelon?

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Just had a bowl of fried cockroaches for breakfast, with some coffee. Mmm...

Open up your questioning. What are you looking into?

That's true. Also, even if it ultimately doesn't have much utility in your life, it can still enhance your learning ability, whether in a small or significant way. And that is worthwhile in itself.

Did people like Da Vinci in his time?

Sounds like GPT

Merely exposing yourself to a variety of subjects and ways of thinking about the world can be worthwhile, depending on what you make of it. I'd rather pick a set of subjects that pique my curiosity instead of strictly following a given school's curriculum, unless that's what you want to do.