The Gospel of Buddha

The glory of the world is like a flower: it stands in full bloom in the morning and fades in the heat of the day. 

Technological Slavery Notes

- The whole point of technology, of society, is, after all, to have a good life; and a good life requires almost nothing at all.
- Lao Tzu, the venerable Chinese philosopher of 2,500 years ago, observed: "The more sharpened tools the people have / the more benighted the state." Sharp tools cut through the social fabric, separating people from themselves and from the world. Such tools cast us all into a dark time, from which we are unable to see our way ahead. We build them at our own risk.
-Paraphrasing Lao Tzu: the sharper the tools, the darker the times. We live in an age of very sharp tools. Consequently, it is also a very dark time. But tools cut both ways.
- If global warming destroys the Earth's ability to sustain life as we know it, then all the wonderful gains of the industrial age will be utterly worthless.
- Black walnuts, white walnuts (butternuts), and hickory nuts are extremely nutritious and often abundant. The Indians used to collect huge piles of them
- As Nietzsche said, "The most common lie is the lie one tells to oneself; lying to others is relatively the exception." In other words, self-deception often precedes deception of others.