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from The Black Swan: a quote

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The distance between opinions is remarkably narrower than the distance between the average of opinions and truth.

from: The Black Swan

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

So… take all opinions and boil them down to their very essence.  This will be farther from the truth than the distance between each individual opinion. Juxtaposed opinions have varying degrees of validity…  especially when contrasted with one another.

Hove you read The Black Swan?  Tell us your opinion below

It seems that the collective mind of man is far from understanding absolute truth. Moreover, each individual man may have ideas that are tangential, yet closely related to his fellows. If someone has a tangential thought off of an opinion that is flawed, it is more than likely that the resulting idea will be flawed as well. It may even be considered more flawed than the initial opinion.

But these are just my ideas… and in my mind every single thought ever thought is flawed and not absolute truth. The thought is just a representation of the truth. A symbol pointing towards the truth. Not absolute in itself. Every step you take towards absolute truth opens up a rabbit hole that leads to even more layers of reality built on a construct that hides the pure essence of the universe.

I was recommended this book by Sommer Gentry a highly esteemed academic, the professor of Mathematics at the United States Naval Academy .  I have been researching a lot about business and investing.  I was curious on suggestions of an amazing logical mind, about books on investing.

I found the richness of this philosophical quote quite delicious.  It Seems that Taleb considers himself a philosopher foremost.  However he does have great understanding of economies and history.

I am aware that my previous waxing addresses this quote in and of itself.  I have removed it from the context of book as a whole.  I have enjoyed considering the quote in more general terms rather than how it pertains to markets.  Its relation to peoples opinions of markets is just as viable as it is to opinions in general.  The Universality of Taleb’s statement is delightful to me.

80s pop music was a little out of place at this truck stop 

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But I’ll take Peter Gabriel’s Games Without Frontiers any day

Yeah… Country music is definitely more common at truck stops. So when it was all Paula Abdul and B-52s back to back, it felt a little strange. Don’t get me wrong I can rock out to some 80s pop. That’s the stuff I grew up with… It just seemed diametrically opposed to a country pride restaurant. LOL

Through The Crystal Vortex

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Passing the microscopic geometric lattice, one may peer into a space of writhing verve.  Bridge between the manifest and desist. Fortune told, past and future announced… time collapses.

While on the road I have my handy crayons to draw with, and get back to my roots in visual art, without making a terrible mess.

I am working on a series where I combine two styles that I enjoy. One I began developing as early as high school, with whole compositions of squiggle lines. The other, consisting of hard straight lines, developed a little later as I began a renewed appreciation for math and geometry

I feel these two styles compliment one another, where theoretically, straight lines represent the masculine, and curvy lines feminine.  Joining polar opposites of hard and soft, structure and amorphous space, emotion and logic.

The Universe and Facebook know about my Polyamorous Lovers

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I recently made a post on Facebook where I  requested my friends to write “Charles is” and then press the word suggestion button on the app as many times as they liked. The narratives that ensued were fascinating and hilarious. Some of the words generated are based on literary algorithms but some are based on people’s typing habits.

I find it very interesting and synchronistic that the series of word suggestions from both of my polyamorous lady interests were exactly the same.

 

Charles is a good time to get the best way to get the best way to get the best way to…..

 

Well isn’t that quite flattering?!?!  None of the other umpteen friends who responded to this post had this word selection. Only the two women in my life who have open marriages. I am quite pleased.

I find that I am most comfortable dating women in an open marriage. I think it is largely because their needs for a nesting partner are fulfilled so they don’t desire nesting from me. I consider myself solo-polyamorous because I greatly value my autonomy and solitude. While my girlfriends are preoccupied with their husbands I am free to work on my projects without worrying that their emotional needs are met or that they feel neglected.  I have not yet dated a solo-poly woman but I imagine that would be quite nice. We would both be on the same page with relationship ideology.

It is no fun when I date a woman who claims to be ok with my polyamory but deep down wants monogamy. It winds up coming through and creates an unhealthy dynamic

Yoga Synthesis: music for you

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Initially I created this primarily for an hour long yoga practice. The tracks are spaced out, alternating particular selections of trance and groovy beats.  This places the yogi in a perfect mind state for the best practice.

I have taught yoga for almost 20 years and I always prefer intrumental music during a practice. Words have a great effect on the mind, particularly when one is in an opened yoga state. So we must be careful what words enter our mind and effect our psyche.  So, this album is entirely instrumental, although vocal tracks may be released in the future.

The album is a perfect backdrop for a yoga practice it is also useful to get one in the flow of creative processes. So feel free to play while you are writing, painting, thinking, studying or any other activity that benefits from flowing non obtrusive music

Available on iTunes: Click here