Stoic flowchart

At the Vienna Opera. An aria from the Csardas Princess sung by Piotr Beczala (great Polish tenor) & Aida Garifullina (wonderful soprano from Tartarstan) youtu.be/o7oCaLcStF8 Beczala is wearing the medal of the Order of the Restitution of Poland.

A Reader lives a thousand lives before s/he dies, and s/he who doesn't read, lives just one. *** George R.R. Martin

Acerbic aphorism "Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it." Moses Hadas

More acerbic aphorisms "This book fills a much needed gap"  "I read your book and much like it."

Conjecture: We, persons, in space-time, are verbs, not nouns. Our permanent self is deceptive.  It is really a continuously changing stream of physical, biological, mental, and sensory processes.

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A Russian proverb. When talking to fish one must speak about worms.

The Sicels were farming in Sicily (from 2,000 BCE.) before the Greeks arrived ( around 700 BCE): They had 2 rules; 1. Don't bring weapons to gatherings for discussion of important matters .  2. If you divorce yr. wife you may not remarry anyone younger than yr. divorced wife.

Google's Ngram viewer is on a Big Dataset of 80 m. digitised book titles (mainly scientific). Type up to 5 terms or names into the Viewer & it will draw a graph of the number of times your chosen terms / names have been used since the 1800's.

A philosophical conjecture: Everything changes. Might be true in philosophy, science and elsewhere. We, persons, in space-time, are verbs, not nouns. Our alleged permanent self is really a continuously changing set of physical, biological, chemical, and brain processes.

Humans goals in the West: economic growth, unfettered consumption, good health, and personal happiness. Little concern for the health of the biosphere & sustainability of the planet. Will excess greenhouse gases, heat waves, rising sea levels, forest fires, make us think?

Twitter was a better name for this viewpoint discussion platform. Re-naming it "X" subtracts vibrancy & dynamism. Musk didn't have his thinking cap on. Sure, Google named its holding com. Alphabet, and Facebook chose Meta. "X" is OK as a parent com. name. Doesn't work here.

Here is a link to my YouTube video, The Art of Critical Thinking, in 5 steps: youtu.be/6hhgYWGxXD8?si…