Stimulation creates the simulation. A method I've used for my own scribbles is taking random tarot cards and pulling them out of my favourite deck and randomly placing them with my eyes closed and then building a storyboard around the placed cards and start tracking the arcs based on what the cards represent and where they were laid down.
Couldn't agree more that with all this AI nonsense (my opinion), kids need less electricity powering soulless automatons for their amusement and supposed edification and education and get back to the basics of playing together. Working on social skills, navigating conflict and sharing resources. Problem solving, learning to share, always a crucial skill for potential global leaders, Fighting over contested resources when they grow up.
Having empathy for one's peers is a great way to add some humanity back into the mix as well as stimulate that treasured imaginary land in our head that produces so many items like Japanese Zippos and ways to domesticate relatives of wolves in our favour. Or producing useful items like butter churns.
The Good Book says that we need to become like little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, With that sense of wide-eyed wonderment and shedding the cynicism that is so endemic to modern Life today.
Francis Schaefer would have called it the postmodern disease.
A simpler way of looking at the world does wonders to establish Joy, that rare and precious emotion that banishes negativity and restores positive outlook and hope to depressed and suffering minds.
Imaginarium should be a element on the periodic table, it might be fanciful and you can't quantify it, but it definitely exists somewhere in the consciousness of the multiverse and in our hearts.
Building off what you write, I think that unstructured play is vitally important for kids growing up. It teaches so much, including all the things you mention.
But I fear that it is lacking in a lot of kids lives today. There's lots of structured activity, team sports leagues, things of that sort that parents drive the kids too, but there is much less unstructured play with the neighbor kids than there was when I was young. And in that I fear that much of value is lost. For how can children learn to work together within society if everything they do is directed by adults?
I greatly appreciate the “quacks” comment. We’ve firmly resisted all the pressures to test our kids and see if they need “medication” because we don’t want zombies.
I always had a great imagination as a kid…but they everyone tries to beat it out of you as you grow up.
I was a little hesitant to use that word, presuming that it would offend someone, but I have to write the truth as I understand it, and I think that it is completely true.
In a lot of cases, schools are no longer allowed to adequately maintain discipline, and in other cases are afraid to do so. As a result, classrooms can grow out of control. The quick and ugly solution they have found is to declare our children nuts, and as you rightly point out, medicate them into zombies.
Giving psychoactive drugs to normal kids is horrific. And without a doubt, most of the kids taking them are normal.
Though my BS is in Industrial Engineering, we speak of our science as "People Engineering"? This is like the term "Make a good man a better man"! Work Measurement Time Study is for Scientific Improvements, to make works tasks safer and more effective (esp. how our brains work, and improve thru education and experience.
I think they did a study that identified "genius indicators" in early childhood that were present in highly successful people. They found that most people possess the level of creativity and imagination required until entering the public education system, where upon repetitive testing the pool of individuals drastically dropped off. I need to find that...
Reading an astrology chart requires intuition as an inspiration to find the hieroglyphics meaning that will convey the needed message. There are so many things we can say about a sign and a sign planet pairing but there is one that meets the moment. I also read tarot and I like the Rider Waite deck because all the symbols are on that and they speak to the intuitive or psychic receiver. I have lots of other decks, but keep going to the symbolic when an important message is needed. Where would I go if someone hadn't imagined a deck like this?
Thanks for this. I've never read an astrology chart, so find it interesting to read that it too involves intuition and inspiration!
Like you, I'm a Rider-Waite person. There are other decks that I can read well, but I always find myself going back to that one, it is just where I'm most comfortable. And yeah, had Waite and Smith not imagined it, where would we be? Particularly with their imagining of the illustrated Minors. And of course without it, we wouldn't have all of its clones and other decks of the system, potentially thousands of decks we would be without.
Stimulation creates the simulation. A method I've used for my own scribbles is taking random tarot cards and pulling them out of my favourite deck and randomly placing them with my eyes closed and then building a storyboard around the placed cards and start tracking the arcs based on what the cards represent and where they were laid down.
Couldn't agree more that with all this AI nonsense (my opinion), kids need less electricity powering soulless automatons for their amusement and supposed edification and education and get back to the basics of playing together. Working on social skills, navigating conflict and sharing resources. Problem solving, learning to share, always a crucial skill for potential global leaders, Fighting over contested resources when they grow up.
Having empathy for one's peers is a great way to add some humanity back into the mix as well as stimulate that treasured imaginary land in our head that produces so many items like Japanese Zippos and ways to domesticate relatives of wolves in our favour. Or producing useful items like butter churns.
The Good Book says that we need to become like little children to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, With that sense of wide-eyed wonderment and shedding the cynicism that is so endemic to modern Life today.
Francis Schaefer would have called it the postmodern disease.
A simpler way of looking at the world does wonders to establish Joy, that rare and precious emotion that banishes negativity and restores positive outlook and hope to depressed and suffering minds.
Imaginarium should be a element on the periodic table, it might be fanciful and you can't quantify it, but it definitely exists somewhere in the consciousness of the multiverse and in our hearts.
Building off what you write, I think that unstructured play is vitally important for kids growing up. It teaches so much, including all the things you mention.
But I fear that it is lacking in a lot of kids lives today. There's lots of structured activity, team sports leagues, things of that sort that parents drive the kids too, but there is much less unstructured play with the neighbor kids than there was when I was young. And in that I fear that much of value is lost. For how can children learn to work together within society if everything they do is directed by adults?
Completely agree.
I greatly appreciate the “quacks” comment. We’ve firmly resisted all the pressures to test our kids and see if they need “medication” because we don’t want zombies.
I always had a great imagination as a kid…but they everyone tries to beat it out of you as you grow up.
I was a little hesitant to use that word, presuming that it would offend someone, but I have to write the truth as I understand it, and I think that it is completely true.
In a lot of cases, schools are no longer allowed to adequately maintain discipline, and in other cases are afraid to do so. As a result, classrooms can grow out of control. The quick and ugly solution they have found is to declare our children nuts, and as you rightly point out, medicate them into zombies.
Giving psychoactive drugs to normal kids is horrific. And without a doubt, most of the kids taking them are normal.
Though my BS is in Industrial Engineering, we speak of our science as "People Engineering"? This is like the term "Make a good man a better man"! Work Measurement Time Study is for Scientific Improvements, to make works tasks safer and more effective (esp. how our brains work, and improve thru education and experience.
That makes sense to me, to design tasks to work with rather than against the normal way people will tend to do things.
I think they did a study that identified "genius indicators" in early childhood that were present in highly successful people. They found that most people possess the level of creativity and imagination required until entering the public education system, where upon repetitive testing the pool of individuals drastically dropped off. I need to find that...
Yeah, that would be really interesting to read!
Reading an astrology chart requires intuition as an inspiration to find the hieroglyphics meaning that will convey the needed message. There are so many things we can say about a sign and a sign planet pairing but there is one that meets the moment. I also read tarot and I like the Rider Waite deck because all the symbols are on that and they speak to the intuitive or psychic receiver. I have lots of other decks, but keep going to the symbolic when an important message is needed. Where would I go if someone hadn't imagined a deck like this?
Thanks for this. I've never read an astrology chart, so find it interesting to read that it too involves intuition and inspiration!
Like you, I'm a Rider-Waite person. There are other decks that I can read well, but I always find myself going back to that one, it is just where I'm most comfortable. And yeah, had Waite and Smith not imagined it, where would we be? Particularly with their imagining of the illustrated Minors. And of course without it, we wouldn't have all of its clones and other decks of the system, potentially thousands of decks we would be without.