I made Peach Melba today. I'm no chef, but you poach peaches in syrup, blend raspberries with caster sugar, add vanilla ice cream, and you get this total world-class dessert.
Confession 426.87: Cried a bit too much about the Robin Williams news considering that I didn't know him.
People are crying that he's dead, which is par for the course, but they should also be crying that this guy had to live with a difficult mental illness for forty/fifty years, that's the part worth crying about.
People are crying that he's dead, which is par for the course, but they should also be crying that this guy had to live with a difficult mental illness for forty/fifty years, that's the part worth crying about.
I'm not crying because he is dead. People die.
I'm just sad that making us happy wasn't enough for him.
And you should read again the line about the future light cone. Because the future light cone is the spacetime subset, the set of 4d points that an event can influence, ie our future lifeline is always inside some lightcone that some past event defined (eg the point we were conceived or the point parents met first time or whatever like that) and only certain women when you meet them, even briefly interacting with them, define your future in a more comprehensive manner. If they can also do it because their eyes look upwards like that, even better, as the future lightcone is drawn upwards lol. So its a physicist's form of poetry and insider joke.
And the "here's looking at..." partial line is from Bogart, used when he still had'nt met her...
I guess the best line you can offer a woman is that you may have never met her before but you have met her idea...in your dreams/mind/thoughts and found temporary comfort in the knowledge she already existed at that moment somewhere else, as the universe patiently waited...
Ps: That interview was in my original links but i removed it because you added it before me. It was the reason i took some time to post after effectively Zeno broke the news for me (notice the time stamps difference lol). You can underestimate my thoughts and intentions but the universe wont...
PS2: As for Williams, if one didnt like him already at Good Will Hunting, they ought to have taken notice in dead poets' society and what dreams may come. I wish he had asked my opinion before the suicide, as ridiculous as this sounds, since he was a "neighbor". Depression in the purest of its forms, when the universe cooperates, is what partially launches the ultimately successful effort to bring a beautiful future to a present that leaves you somewhat unsatisfied...
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PS2: As for Williams, if one didnt like him already at Good Will Hunting, they ought to have taken notice in dead poets' society and what dreams may come.
Bicenntenial Man, did you see that? Awesome.
Very sad news. Because we won't get to see any more of his movies, because it's a damn waste, and because he couldn't make himself happy.
We can thank also his wives that had to make him financially stressed for so many millions each after divorces as if they played such a profound role for all this work.
Yes i recall that Asimov movie where he dealt with futuristic AI issues and the nature of being human.
So here is my gift ; (always full movies from me until they last, then go buy them or record them from DVR damn it lol)
The sadness may be harder to understand without seeing it from his own perspective because it may be in fact even deeper. Maybe the toughest part is to not have heard from those that love you how much you mean to them. To not have the close interaction that spots the critical point and intervenes to neutralize/help abort the decision. It has to be a brave decision to end it actually but only if you go to it fully aware of everything that takes you there. I will not join the people that simplistically call it weakness. I still think its wrong to give up if one can medically neutralize the "pain". I think i am optimistic (maybe naively) to expect that all it takes to stop such person is a show of profound interest in making their battle your own as well and then trying together to find the solutions medically and with proper daily activities.
I think all people that are depressed should try to understand the chemical nature of the problem and recognize that all this they are feeling is an illusion (not a character deficit or a lack of value in their lives) that can be removed with simple steps we have yet to master well but will eventually. It is one of the reasons i refuse to be spontaneously hard with people. You do not know where they are coming from. Do not give them the last reason to think its ok to go for it. Too many kids at school even are bullied and go over the edge.
Its sad that it seems he had expressed concern recently and he needed help. Maybe that help by your family or a close friend is what you need in the end. But sure without being inside his environment we cant judge and say anything other than speculate from surrounding partial evidence and extrapolation of what close families would do. (i mean a close wife would never allow husband alone during a period of such recent anxiety for example).
But its a very complex problem that shouldnt be minimized by self help ideas only;
I always thought that if all has failed you have to be able to tell yourself in the end that maybe its all an illusion, maybe the low self esteem, the lack of mood and motivation, the lack of pleasure, all is completely made up by a combination of chemical processes that either do not take place as they should or are missing. It is a made up lack of mood. Its not a real reflection of the world as it is, its the transformation of the real thing because of complex chemistry games and you must not fall an easy victim to this blurred reality. Its like wearing the completely wrong prescription glasses and thinking that this is what the world looks like. You must try to reject this masked reality and treat it as an attack on yourself. But also of course bravely examine personal life choices and daily rituals that may play a role in it.
Too many great ones have suffered from depression. And yet it helps to have felt pain and personal failure in order to appreciate the great and even simple basic things of life better. Often their work reflects that knowledge and suffering.
I think most addictions are connected to forms of depression too.
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This is how Krishnamurti would suggest to in order to "cure it" we must see it for what it is. But he wants it to be the means AND the ends, and most people understand it as an ends and quickly ask for the means. Depression is slightly more complex but the worry I think is that the means that arises in peoples becomes that state of depression.
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I think most addictions are connected to forms of depression too.
How do we equate this with the world as it is though. It's easy for many to not be depressed by ignoring many truths about the world around them or more specifically by ignoring the suffering of the people around the world. But I don't mean to be esoteric, I'm talking of real wars and conflict that is easy for many to ignore.
Real depression perhaps is more over bearing (and chemical) but how can one honestly not remain somewhat heavy hearted, without ceasing to face the reality of what is (society sucks)?
I came up with this after reading "implicate order". There wasn't "light" involved but cones for sure. Is it true if we play with the axioms we could time travel? Are there axioms?
Her school in Tehran was near a street full of bookshops and because browsing was not allowed, she ended up buying a lot of random books.
I confess I grew up thinking women could have played a more prominent role in the history of man if they had the chance too. Watching cosmos I realized the ignorance of such a thought.
I was at a thrift store the other day and I almost bought a 8-track tape of "The Best of Petula Clark". Then it hit me - Oh, yeah; I no longer own that 1961 Ford Galaxy 500 with the 8-track tape deck and the cue ball on the column shifter. Damn. That was one cool car. And it only cost me ~$250 back in about 1975 I think it was.
I was at a thrift store the other day and I almost bought a 8-track tape of "The Best of Petula Clark". Then it hit me - Oh, yeah; I no longer own that 1961 Ford Galaxy 500 with the 8-track tape deck and the cue ball on the column shifter. Damn. That was one cool car. And it only cost me ~$250 back in about 1975 I think it was.
I used to work with her daughter, met Petula a couple of times.
I had completely forgotten this for decades. Petula Clarke got mentioned a year or so ago and I had a weird feeling as the memory slowly returned and kind of surprised me.
I used to work with her daughter, met Petula a couple of times.
I had completely forgotten this for decades. Petula Clarke got mentioned a year or so ago and I had a weird feeling as the memory slowly returned and kind of surprised me.
super lol. my woman (in the same room as me, at most 10 feet away) sent me a text to take the video off of repeat because she "can't become a hot Asian girl with a wiggly butt."
super lol. my woman (in the same room as me, at most 10 feet away) sent me a text to take the video off of repeat because she "can't become a hot Asian girl with a wiggly butt."
I don't understand. Did you mean to type "can" instead of "can't"? Otherwise this would seem to be a reason to leave it on, not turn it off.
