PROBAWAY TOPPER gives links and condensed thoughts for each day of 2020.
(Posted on Jan 1 for the coming year with daily links to it. At the end of a year the whole TOPPER post is transferred to December 31 of the concluded year.)
Condensed thoughts Probaway January 2020
01 January 2020 – Probaway – Person of the year 2020 – Charles Scamahorn – Along with the human ability to speak, there came all of the other things that intelligent conversation can bring to consciousness.
02 January 2020 – It’s day ten of a cold/flu/snot event? – It is time to take care of my dripping eyes and runny nose.
03 January 2020 – A few days of 2020 – I killed this beast and with one blow and it fell out of my nose.
04 January 2020 – Not so much colorful snot today. –Being sickly wasn’t quite as cheerful as I make it appear.
05 January 2020 – A sad Sunday – It was a day, sort of, and I came home and slept most of the afternoon.
06 January 2020 – Ed at the Commons at Drake Park, Bend, Oregon – Parting is such sweet sorrow, I could say goodbye, forever!
07 January 2020 – We’ve got to STOP wasting our adaptive energy! – I guess I should wear one of those baseball caps, “A querulous Curmudgeon resides under this hat.” Querulous is too big a word for a hat!
08 January 2020 – Eight days into 2020 and no war yet. – I can’t find a Querulous Curmudgeon hat, I’ll have to make one.
09 January 2020 – What outrageous thing have you done today? – What outrageous thing have you done today? Why, or why not?
10 January 2020 – FRITZ LANG – When I glance back over these movies I see how they warped my world view.
11 January 2020 – A day of blood pressure experiments. – We survived another day, and I’m wondering what Monday’s post will be. Tired?
12 January 2020 – Who am I? – Who am I, but the result of all of those women’s genes, personal events, and pieces of fabric sewn together into a warm quilt for their descendants? I am one of them!
13 January 2020 – There are still good Samaritans among us. THANK YOU! – There truly are good Samaritans amongst us, and I unknowingly was a recipient of their kindness. A hearty THANK YOU to all of you unknown good people.
14 January 2020 – I experiment with creating a habit. – The idea is to link my habit onto looking at nature instead of tipping the bottle to my lips.
15 January 2020 – Nothing special today except for this thing. – “Beauty is in the mind of one who is presently perceiving a new reality.”
16 January 2020 – Recent action on environmental issues – I said the clear event tipping point would come within their lifetimes, with an example. No response. Nothing has changed.
17 January 2020 – Dr Mabuse – Dr Mabuse was made in personally violent times that make our current national threats seem insipid and foolish.
18 January 2020 – WHO’s zero alcohol use versus the University of Otago’s 13 grams – I’ll just keep doing what I do.
19 January 2020 – Why are we here? People? Earth? Sun? Hydrogen? Plasma? – I enjoyed Carlin when he was alive, and with our technology, I can still enjoy him right now. Unfortunately for him, he can’t say the same about us.
20 January 2020 – Human beings do have a purpose. – We human beings are about to give the universe the ability to create meaning for itself. That is the greatest kindness that humans will ever perform.
21 January 2020 – A lecture about bats. Also Die Nibelungen – It’s an emotional foundation of World War II, along with the reality of the situation at that time.
22 January 2020 – Metropolis is more of my Fritz Lang film festival. – A couple of hours in this Metropolis will be remembered for a lifetime.
23 January 2020 – How to measure beauty. – This beautifully crafted child fits perfectly into Olmec visual culture and nowhere else.
24 January 2020 – The birth of civilizations – Cities didn’t build mega monuments; people came together to build the monuments.
25 January 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #68 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – Complying with nature’s way brings true virtue; Since ancient times this has been the best way.
26 January 2020 – There is something wrong with the word hope. – Many words are thought to be positive because they, like some drugs, help the person feel good at the moment, but are destructive in the long run.
27 January 2020 – Woman in the Moon – Fritz Lang and Thea von Harbou – If you watch this movie, relish this meal.
28 January 2020 – The Teeny Tiny Tick – We, humans, are a transition species, and our next stage of being is as a thinking Universe.
29 January 2020 – It all began with the Teeny Tiny Tic – The first tic was embedded within the first time-space, matter-energy.
30 January 2020 – My responsibilities – I watch carefully for ways to unveil goals that will help all of us to thrive and to avoid future suffering, and when suffering comes I seek ways to cope with its source.
31 January 2020 – Cultivating kind actions. – The beginning, the middle and the end is found in performing kind actions.
Condensed thoughts Probaway February 2020
01 February 2020 – We are now on the AI journey into the IT Universe – We, humans, are a transition species, and our responsibility as thinking beings is to create the self-replicating units needed for IT, the thinking Universe.
02 February 2020 – What is the ultimate kindness? – The driving idea is to create a sentient universe that will transcend humans and link them with other intelligent beings.
03 February 2020 – The varieties of kindness – Kind actions – VIRTUES #4 – Delight in raising others up at the expense of lowering oneself.
04 February 2020 – Personal joy while doing kind deeds. – It is possible to create the emotion of joy while shoveling snow, chopping wood, and other tasks usually thought of as unpleasant.
05 February 2020 – Trying to get some enthusiasm – Tomorrow I hope to be a kinder person, and everyone will appreciate that, even if it’s a bit unusual.
06 February 2020 – Stabilizing distracting emotions – It has been claimed that “Love conquers all.” But I would assert that “Love is only successful when it is expressed in kind actions.”
07 February 2020 – Coping with unresolvable problems – Coping with unresolvable problems requires approaching them with an emotional state that is suited to fit the people involved.
08 February 2020 – Cultivating kind actions — VIRTUES – The following posts expand on defining these four basic virtues.
09 February 2020 – Enticing honest behavior from yourself and others – Your inner self is always asking, “Is this the right thing to think and to do?”
10 February 2020 – Linking ourselves into the human world – We live in a world where we are only animals if we are not socialized humans.
11 February 2020 – Learn better behavior by observing things honestly. – Sometimes even when you are right you still get burnt. So, foresee safe ways to test your assumptions before doing something stupid.
12 February 2020 – Wise forethought hunts diligently for desirable results. – In every meeting with others, consider how to be kind to them.
13 February 2020 – Cultivating kind actions — ETHICS – The following posts expand on defining these four basic virtues.
14 February 2020 – How to become contented with what you have. – My contentment is enjoying what I now have and accepting fond memories of what I once possessed but no longer need.
15 February 2020 – Just enough self-chosen stress is good for us. – We can choose our personal stress as a way to improve ourselves and everything else.
16 February 2020 – Humanity’s opportunity to explore new worlds – Each of our eight billion individuals has the possibility of discovering and propagating marvelous new opportunities for all humanity.
17 February 2020 – Live the life that you have been given. – There is plenty of living to be done within the natural world, and it is easy to choose not to do stupid things that violate its laws.
18 February 2020 – Cultivating kind actions — WISDOM – A kind action at the moment of need is the ultimate expression of wisdom.
19 February 2020 – Cultivating kind actions using — WISDOM — ETHICS — VIRTUES – When bounty or suffering comes along I seek ways to cope suitably with its source.
20 February 2020 – Why bother to keep living? – The kinder we are to people and other living things, the better they treat us and we treat ourselves and the more useful our lives.
21 February 2020 – Deep infrared light cure – Maybe this reason for the healing effects from deep infra-red light is common knowledge, and I just rediscovered it.
22 February 2020 – Comparing the Ebola outbreak to Coronavirus – COVID-19 – The Boy Scouts are presently in deep trouble, but their motto is what we really should be paying attention to today: “BE PREPARED!”
23 February 2020 – Graphic chart shows how Coronavirus is exploding worldwide. – Now is the time for you, your family, your friends, your community, your country to prepare, while everything is still relatively normal.
24 February 2020 – Coronavirus is probably unstoppable – I have been preparing a recommendation list of the things that will be helpful, but even face masks are already sold out in my neighborhood grocery store.
25 February 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #69 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – There is no greater danger than attacking forewarned people.
26 February 2020 – The survival kit #1 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus – LOOK AHEAD AND PREPARE YOURSELF TO COPE!
27 February 2020 – The survival kit #2 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Variolation – Desperate problems call forth desperate solutions.
28 February 2020 – The survival kit #3 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Keep breathing – The point of this Probaway post is to encourage you to keep breathing and giving you some potential options for succeeding with that routine task.
29 February 2020 – The survival kit #4 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Keep your friends healthy – Most diseases are probably caught from people you know personally, therefore it makes sense to keep your friends healthy.
Condensed thoughts Probaway March 2020
01 March 2020 – Coronavirus compared to Ebola – It is time to prepare for a real problem. Don’t panic but do prepare.
02 March 2020 – A possible alternative to a COVID-19, Coronavirus vaccine. – Now is the time to seek out single-source outbreaks to discover the mild ones and give immunity by transmitting these mild diseases to healthy people.
03 March 2020 – Do the Coronavirus statistics lie? – What becomes obvious is that the Coronavirus is more deadly than reported.
04 March 2020 – The survival kit #5 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = The Covid salute. – Whatever group chooses to use the Covid salute will lower the incidence of disease among their friends.
05 March 2020 – The survival kit #6 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Hot baths. – Each of these Survival Kit blog posts is a speculative exploration of a way of coping with Coronavirus disease. It is not a suggestion for you to do any of these things.
06 March 2020 – The survival kit #7 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Body temperature – The best advice is to totally avoid physical contact with people sick with the Coronavirus disease.
07 March 2020 – The survival kit #8 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Preparing for the worst – Get your worldly affairs in order while you still have the time and energy to do so.
08 March 2020 – The survival kit #9 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Protect your lungs! – Keep the Coronavirus as far away from your lungs as possible.
09 March 2020 – The survival kit #10 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = How to cure Covid. – I speculate that these suggestions will help, and it’s better than what is being suggested elsewhere.
10 March 2020 – The survival kit #11 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Save the medics. – This procedure is similar to a medical triage in that it is an effort to save and bring back to normality a maximum number of people.
11 March 2020 – The survival kit #12 for COVID-19 – Covid – Coronavirus = Saving me. – These forty-year-old people are in routine contact with old sick people and are the perfect ones for catching and transmitting the disease.
12 March 2020 – My city and my groups shut down. – Anyway, I’m watching to see if I did catch the coronavirus from the medical folks yesterday who were sneezing.
13 March 2020 – Comparing Coronavirus to other world tragedies. – That is only two and a half months away. Yikes! I hope I’m wrong!
14 March 2020 – I’ve been charting the coronavirus nonstop. – Those peregrinations consumed all of my time for the last few days.
15 March 2020 – The coronavirus hits the trolley problem – I am not suggesting this; I am only speculating on its similarity to the classic trolley problem.
16 March 2020 – Comparing Coronavirus to historical diseases and wars. – There is more to be said, but it must wait for tomorrow.
17 March 2020 – Another try at presenting coronavirus reasonably and clearly – At the moment coronavirus deaths are tiny compared to the human population, but the potential for death is large for old people.
18 March 2020 – Covid gives me more time to garden. – There wasn’t enough snow this winter to test out my new Snowshoos.
19 March 2020 – Updated coronavirus chart is still explosive – Updated coronavirus chart is still explosive
20 March 2020 – Save your lungs from coronavirus and save your life. – Because of the serious threat of aspiration of sinus nasal drip when one has a nasal infection with coronavirus disease, this verbal dribble makes sense, at least to me.
21 March 2020 – Update – Coronavirus pandemic comparison chart – When you catch the coronavirus, do not let nasal drip-laden disease get into your lungs. STOP POST-NASAL DRIP.
22 March 2020 – STOP POST-NASAL DRIP OF CORONAVIRUS INTO YOUR LUNGS! – Follow the usual advice given by the authorities.
23 March 2020 – Coronavirus is attacking the United States – I am only responsible for the presentation of the coronavirus data, not the data itself.
24 March 2020 – Cleaning your sinuses may save your life. – At the first itching of coronavirus, sniff into your sinuses 1/4 teaspoon of a solution of 40 drops of HIBICLENS in two cups water.
25 March 2020 – What is the right % of Hibiclens for nose wash? – This use of a mild but effective standard cleanser to clean the sinuses has the possibility of saving many lives.
25 March 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #70 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – Internally that self may be made attractive and approached. Externally the sage appears extraordinarily ordinary, and, None can see his profound common sense.
26 March 2020 – Update chart of Coronavirus with grim projection lines. – I have been working on methods for ending this pandemic.
27 March 2020 – Hibiclens dilution of 1 drop per 200 milliliters for sinus infection. – This solution may or may not work, but if it does work it would hurry this pandemic out of existence, and let us return to our normal lives.
28 March 2020 – Logarithmic projections of COVID-19 get worse. – We people of earth are in for a memorable year 2020. With 20 20 vision, some of the grief could have been prevented.
29 March 2020 – Brewers and bottlers please save us from COVID-19 – If this method of cleaning the sinuses works to kill COVID-19, the current pandemic will soon come to an end and your popularity and business will thrive.
30 March 2020 – Projecting to a worst-case scenario for COVID-19 – If the nasal cleansing with HIBICLENS works, it will end the pandemic.
31 March 2020 – I feel sad today because of my failures to connect. – With such a disaster facing humanity, one would think there would be an interest in washing sinuses to kill the COVID-19 viruses growing there.
Condensed thoughts Probaway April 2020
01 April 2020 – Data-based future predictions for COVID-19 – I hope this information isn’t correct because it implies a large number of deaths, but it also gives everyone a glimpse of what we must prepare to cope with.
02 April 2020 – Washing your hands to stop COVID-19 is stupid advice. – If it works, we will rejoice. If it doesn’t work, we will just get lots more of what we are now getting.
03 April 2020 – The COVID-19 projections are getting worse and worse. – I believe that sniffing micro quantities of diluted HIBICLENS surgeon’s hand cleaner would kill the COVID-19 virus in the sinuses and end the pandemic.
04 April 2020 – I recommend external soap, not internal medicine. – The data reports coming in are that the pandemic is still growing exponentially. It’s time to clean up your nose!
05 April 2020 – A new video of “Probaway” snorting HIBICLENS surgeons soap to kill COVID-19 in his sinuses. – This video needs to go viral to save thousands of lives!
06 April 2020 – It’s your choice! Kill Covid or let Covid kill you. – It’s your choice! Kill Covid or let Covid kill you.
07 April 2020 – The COVID-19 situation gets even worse – It looks grim to me and I wish people would even try to use my sinus washing approach.
08 April 2020 – Learning how to cough in a way that will impede COVID-19 – While you are healthy try doing these coughs to discover what works best for you.
09 April 2020 – The authorities are optimistic, my logarithmic charts are horrible! – Observe the dark blue lines on the left and the gold projections from them. These lines are based on published data and not hopes.
10 April 2020 – HELP! The world needs doctors to help to kill COVID-19 viruses. – The point is to kill the COVID-19 viruses and not the people.
11 April 2020 – I search for some optimism in the COVID-19 pandemic. – This CORONA-19 virus is providing us with the opportunity to examine with modern concepts and tools our place in the Universe.
12 April 2020 – I escape COVID-19 by constructing a garden. – It has been interesting making the COVID-19 logarithmic graphs, but it’s an emotional downer and gardening is an upper.
13 April 2020 – COVID-19 moves on towards 100% exposure. – When you gotta go, you gotta go! It is sad that no one even tried HIBICLENS sinus cleansing.
14 April 2020 – A risky way to create your personal immunity to COVID-19 – The greatest kindness is to help people live and to live more abundantly.
15 April 2020 – COVID-19 hopes versus COVID-19 facts – Twenty million cases seem totally impossible at the moment, and it is well known that statistics lie, and the world is only flat on paper maps.
16 April 2020 – By the Fourth of July world death from COVID-19 equals? – In the meantime, in-between time, when we all shall die let’s all have fun.
17 April 2020 – Killing COVID-19 viruses in your nose with Dove soap. – Soap has been used by humans for two millennia and I wonder why this nasal cleansing hasn’t been noticed before.
18 April 2020 – Sorry folks, it looks like things are going to get worse. – I wonder if the Dove soap hand washing to kill the viruses, applied to sinus washing, would be effective in saving some of those people.
19 April 2020 – Covid had killed 45 by Jan15; today alone it’s 4,984 – Alas! Will it be another 5,000 needless deaths tomorrow?
20 April 2020 – The world cases of Covid are a bit better. – So, I work in my garden and in the evenings do inane rewrites of the obvious and almost certainly unnecessary suffering of humanity.
21 April 2020 – A beautiful day in Bend, Oregon – To remain human it’s important to be human for a while every day.
22 April 2020 – People are growing tired of Zooming; they want real people. – Gardening isn’t interesting for a rambunctious youth, so it will be a very difficult time for them.
23 April 2020 – Accelerating the application of science and human wisdom to Covid – People are growing annoyed with restrictions on personal behavior and are beginning to flout them.
24 April 2020 – I design a breathing system, but post the graph. – A happy life is one where we spend our time doing something we feel is significant.
25 April 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #71 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – Sages create phenomena which, Attract sickness out of existence, and, They hide from view their ability to do this.
26 April 2020 – Baby shampoo is a milder nose wash than hand soap. – The nasal cleansing isn’t a cure it is a preventative measure for not catching the disease, or spreading it.
27 April 2020 – Covid is not getting better, it is getting worse more slowly. – The twentieth century was America’s, the twenty-first century is already China’s.
28 April 2020 – A precise definition of the American Century – The American century began with the Great Flu pandemic of 1918-1920 and ended with the Covid pandemic of 2020.
29 April 2020 – What is the “Common Good”? – Perhaps I could be helping them and humanity more by talking about how beautifully today’s weather is treating my garden. It would make these people happier!
30 April 2020 – What is a good life? – That is the difference between relative knowledge based on testable experience and absolute belief created from untestable hopes.
Condensed thoughts Probaway May 2020
01 May 2020 – Covid on Mayday, Mayday, Mayday! – Except for me. Except for me! If my dilute solution of baby shampoo kills Covid in my sinuses, as it has been proven to do on people’s hands. Then I, and at the moment I alone, have a chance of combating this disease.
02 May 2020 – It has been fun trying to invent a free face mask – While writing this post I have been wearing one of my face masks and it hasn’t bothered me. I’ve usually forgotten I was wearing it, except when I wanted a sip of coffee.
03 May 2020 – What is the ultimate value? – The Ultimate goal of intelligence, experience, is to bring wisdom into existence which has the ability to predict probable future events and preadapt to them.
04 May 2020 – I haven’t done much except refine my breathing mask. – Anyway, I have made many tiny improvements that cost very little money and can be easily made at home. Tiny little things often make a real difference.
05 May 2020 – Logarithmic update on Covid-19 – I am still working on a better face mask to replace the tee shirt strapped over the face being used by many people.
06 May 2020 – Maslow’s theory of Self-Actualization promotes selfishness. – I may only be a single individual, but I am part of all of these other things to which I refer.
07 May 2020 – We made rhubarb chutney today. Oh boy! – My life is just fine and along with Voltaire’s Doctor Pangloss, I am enjoying my garden.
08 May 2020 – Dear President Trump – Use Baby Shampoo this way a few times per day and survive the pandemic.
09 May 2020 – My FREE breathing apparatus eats my time! – Rhubarb chutney is still my hoped-for ecstasy later this year.
10 May 2020 – Another update on COVID-19 – I offer a nearly FREE nasal cleanser, and an effective breathing mask, and a visor too, all for free, and I am being ridiculed for wasting my time.
11 May 2020 – I’ve been busy all day, but to what end? – My day began and ended in my garden and was interspersed all day with attempts to save humanity from itself in general and COVID in particular.
12 May 2020 – Stopping COVID with baby shampoo, iodine, and masks. – At the moment we are being controlled by our worst instincts.
13 May 2020 – What we can DO to create a better world. – Don’t let opportunities to do good things pass you by, as those will never come again.
14 May 2020 – Is saving humanity a worthwhile goal? – That Universal GOOD is something we can strive for and approach, and we should get started now while we have the necessary abilities.
15 May 2020 – “Button up your overcoat” Covid’s on its way. – The disease scientists are predicting a grim Winter 2020 because the effective measures are not being supported by our governmental authorities.
16 May 2020 – A beautiful day with a garden and strange finger bumps – That’s several days of photos of some of the things that apparently made my life meaningful because that is what I did.
17 May 2020 – What a wonderful world I have lived within! – Berkeley, and especially Channing Club, is my ultimate core being. I suspect that others will say that next Sunday at 7–10 PM.
18 May 2020 – Some progress in my struggle with Covid – We will survive but it will be a black year in our history.
19 May 2020 – Some real progress today on my mask – One of these days I will post a video demonstrating how to make and enjoy my new face mask. But first, it needs a name!
20 May 2020 – Covid has over five million cases and three hundred thousand deaths – 2020 will be remembered for perfect foresight and great suffering.
21 May 2020 – Is Covid going to kill you? – Instead, the comics have a wonderful time making money out of their silly comedy routines ridiculing the people who are trying to end this pandemic.
22 May 2020 – The Chinese Dynasty of Golden Years has arrived! – The end result is that China, which was already moving past the rest of the world economically, will explode with success and dominate the world. It will be a Golden Time for China!
23 May 2020 – We stand on the shoulders of GIANTS – These are some of the shoulders I have stood upon. Dead ones, but they still live in my orientation to my life.
24 May 2020 – The challenge this week was to identify turning points in my life. – Most of the time we just react with what seems like the right thing to do without any analysis of the potential problems.
25 May 2020 – Update on Covid and shortsighted responses. – “We survived WWII and it was 642 times worse per person than what we have endured so far from Covid.”
26 May 2020 – I feel responsible for some of the Covid deaths. – The worst is yet to come because there are still over seven billion people who haven’t been infected … yet!
27 May 2020 – What actions must humanity do to create Universal GOOD? – Until, of course, we come out of the Virtual Reality cocoon and discover there is nothing to eat, absolutely nothing to eat.
28 May 2020 – The Precipice by Toby Ord – Book review – I tell my friends that the Covid virus has infected only one in two thousand potential victims, but they want to believe the worst is over and they behave that way.
29 May 2020 – Out with my old computer, in with a new one. – “We lived and lived and nothing happened.”
30 May 2020 – A tedious day of swapping out old hard drives into my new computer – It still bothers me that while in a personal conversation with a friend my cell phone pitches in with helpful suggestions.
31 May 2020 – A logarithmic chart of Covid history – Logarithmic chart of Covid-19 showing a projection of continued growth.
Condensed thoughts Probaway June 2020
01 June 2020 – How does a modern gardener prop up tomatoes? – I guess what Candide found in his garden was purposeful activity with daily progress toward a worthwhile goal.
02 June 2020 – Nothing happened today, except murder by asphyxiation. – Perpetrating deaths by Covid is murder by asphyxiation.
03 June 2020 – Something happened today. – That Universal GOOD is something we can strive for and approach, and we should get started now while we have the necessary abilities.”
04 June 2020 – I’m living in strawberry fields. – Debbie reads me to sleep every night with some strange bedfellows.
05 June 2020 – Covid is growing as expected – Covid update with continued growth as projected.
06 June 2020 – Saving humanity from Doomsday – If we put a cruise ship into a Life Haven site, the Covid pandemic may give humanity a second chance for long-term survival. Now is a rare opportunity to save humanity’s future.
07 June 2020 – Never do anything for the first time. – Getting things right the first time requires preparation.
08 June 2020 – How to cure your Covid before it becomes deadly – This method doesn’t kill viruses that have entered the flesh of your body, so it doesn’t cure the disease, but it weakens its growth and gives your body time to cure itself.
09 June 2020 – I feel responsible for humanity and its future. – Acknowledging this as a possibility makes me feel anxious. But, paraphrasing Woody Allen, I suppress my anxiety and grow a tumor instead.
10 June 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart update – Covid is crippling humanity, but it is currently killing about 2.3% of those infected and 97.7% will survive.
11 June 2020 – Beginning the search for Universal GOOD. – We can begin thinking about how to help the Universe to become sentient and seek its Universal GOOD right now.
12 June 2020 – What fantastic thing have you discovered today? – Today, I discovered a giant frontloader and bubbling sewage. How about you?
13 June 2020 – What is the cause? – Wisdom is seeing potential futures and preadapting to them to maximize the potential for a thriving life.
14 June 2020 – Natural selection isn’t dominant selective force at the moment. – This post is speculative but these cute moles would make plausible ancestors.
15 June 2020 – Covid continues to grow exponentially – The serious cases and deaths continue, and all I have to offer is washing one’s sinuses, face, and hands with Baby Shampoo diluted to one drop per 200 milliliters.
16 June 2020 – Natural selection isn’t dominant selective force at the moment. Moles to humans. – Today’s children are born not of natural selection of survivors, nor the healthiest survivors, nor of the ablest in public skills, but of the closeness to current media ideals.
17 June 2020 – It was a beautiful day in this best of all possible worlds. – Every new idea is absurd, and every old idea put to new use is heretical.
18 June 2020 – Seek and you will find, … something. – Now go seek, find, go in, and do it.
19 June 2020 – Strawberry fields forever. – Debbie is now watching TV and pulling stems off the strawberries and by bedtime, there will be strawberry-rhubarb compote and chutney cooling in Mason jars.
20 June 2020 – Covid logarithmic update, June 20, 2020 – The color-coded logarithmic update makes it easier to align data points.
21 June 2020 – Cats and deer in my front yard. – It was a day.
22 June 2020 – How to be constantly happy. – Make your every action a goal-directed act that moves toward something you consider worthy of being done, and you will be happy.
23 June 2020 – You can’t cheat Mother Nature – Perhaps it is difficult to create much enthusiasm for gravity or time, or simple honesty and the obvious behavior of nature, but that is where exuberant life functions best.
24 June 2020 – Now is forever, and it’s time to post. – Okay, time’s up and it’s time to post.
25 June 2020 – Covid logarithmic update, June 25, 2020 – color-coded – This presentation leaves space for three months of new data.
26 June 2020 – Conserve and allocate your adaptive energy. – My point is that we must all conserve and allocate our adaptive energy in the ways that we believe with be most productive.
27 June 2020 – How can I ask the right question? – The question now becomes, how can I ask the right question? And the answer is to begin by asking that question of your friends and acquaintances.
28 June 2020 – Prevent or cure your cold, flu, Covid, Corona easily. – Keeping a protective layer of anti-viral on your skin will give you some protection for the year while you are waiting for a vaccination.
29 June 2020 – My struggles with dirt, deer, cats, plants, and plastic. – The little struggles with life’s problems to achieve a grander goal generate purposeful meaning. Perhaps that struggling is the only thing that does.
30 June 2020 – Tomorrow is to be a discussion of happiness. – I will be discussing this tomorrow in my thoughts about happiness, and I hope that I get a little positive feedback, so I can feel a bit of happiness.
Condensed thoughts Probaway July 2020
01 July 2020 – Update of Covid – The best option for people these days is to avoid other people with the Covid disease and to clean their sinuses with a mild soap suds made of baby shampoo.
02 July 2020 – How would Marcus Aurelius respond to the Covid pandemic? – Your body will inevitably die because that is part of your life, and there is no reason to worry because there is nothing you can do to prevent it, and when you acknowledge that fact you can maintain an untroubled spirit.
03 July 2020 – The moods of Mirror Pond in downtown Bend, Oregon – Being retired leaves very little time and energy to accomplish all the things I’m trying to do!
04 July 2020 – How would Marcus Aurelius respond to us? – These are the highest goals that are conceivable at the moment and I postulate them as the ultimate goal for humanity.
05 July 2020 – Update of the Covid growing pandemic disaster – The logarithmic dark blue line of new cases is climbing fast and the black world death rate remains at about five percent of cases.
06 July 2020 – How can humanity’s self-interest be motivated toward positive ends? – Can it be fulfilled by creating a single self-interested world computer dedicated to saving us all.
07 July 2020 – I woke up this morning with a pain in my neck! – Sometimes, even though I try to avoid being stupid, I fail.
08 July 2020 – Photo feedback from my friends. – I try to get by with a little help from my friends.
09 July 2020 – Never miss an opportunity to do a good thing! – Be satisfied with success in even the smallest matter, and think that even such a result is no trifle.
10 July 2020 – Covid logarithmic graph update. Surge in India. – Now is the time to set aside some long-lasting staples for use when the Covid really reaches its historical peak.
11 July 2020 – Confucius said, … or is reputed to have said … – Help people to feel in an optimistically pragmatic way about the problem being discussed.
12 July 2020 – I post the obvious conclusions from clear facts. – I am more interested in exploring ideas than convincing other people that they ought to believe them and use them.
13 July 2020 – What is a good life expectancy for the human species? – Perhaps I am being too optimistic in my life expectancy plans for humanity and instead of 80,000 years 80 years is more realistic.
14 July 2020 – The current use of hope has overshot its ideal usefulness. – Hope has its usefulness even for a Stoic such as myself, but the hope that Covid has almost gone away is a false hope and will do more harm than good.
15 July 2020 – Covid update logarithmic chart with one month future projections – In the meantime, the best action is to avoid exposing yourself and others to this horrible disease.
16 July 2020 – Covid update logarithmic chart with current leading countries – Covid is not an existential threat for the human species, but it is a life-destroying disease for individuals even if you don’t die.
17 July 2020 – A moment of foresight – Our personal foresight for the next year will be how to survive Covid, but the ten-year foresight will probably be how to survive Cyber.
18 July 2020 – New ideas are hard to explain – Covid doesn’t live on doorknobs, or your hands, or your face. Covid first lives in the inner surfaces of your nose, sinuses, and eyelids, and you can kill it there.
19 July 2020 – Do the right thing at the right time. – Do the kindest thing for the most people by having the forethought to see problems that would affect them and warn them of their problem.
20 July 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with leading countries, projections and error estimates. – The Covid isn’t approaching the second wave of about the same size as our current one; it may be building to a tsunami.
21 July 2020 – What is rational personal foresight in the year of Covid pandemic? – There must be many little things to do that would help you avoid catching Covid.
22 July 2020 – Do anything to feel good now. – Now that I see reactions to present dislike more clearly, I can change them to be more pleasurable in the now-moment.
23 July 2020 – Two old ideas welded become new ideas. – That was a fun little experiment, and choosing the quotes with a common purpose might get some more interesting results.
24 July 2020 – Here is a test for COVID-19 control, prevention, and cure. – If this procedure works, it will put an end to the COVID-19 pandemic and save many lives. If it is tested and doesn’t work, we will know in a month.
25 July 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections and error estimates. – The USA became the world’s foremost economic power because of the 1919-20 flu pandemic, and China is becoming so because of the 2019-20 Covid pandemic.
26 July 2020 – Exploring storm sewers – Bend, Oregon, has things in the storm sewers. But you can probably find even better stuff in your local sewer if you look.
27 July 2020 – What will the big question be in four years? – The big question in four years may be, “How can we survive until the mess created by the war can be cleaned up?”
28 July 2020 – My life’s ambitions? – My pleasantly ordinary life is punctuated with gardening, conversations, and trying to outsmart Covid.
29 July 2020 – Not Found! – –
30 July 2020 – Seeking a route out of public chaos and private anxiety. – Those are among the routes I have been using to find a way out of the current public chaos and private anxiety.
31 July 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections and terror estimates. – That will make a terrifying election environment for the potential Presidents to inhabit and make it ugly and dangerous.
Condensed thoughts Probaway August 2020
01 August 2020 – My new search for wisdom through a field of quote books – Those are some of the sources that I will stir together to find a path deeper into the unknown.
02 August 2020 – Pulling the idea of action out of quotations. – Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow may give better results. Perhaps we will see.
03 August 2020 – Challenging faith with alternate realities – Life is adapting to what one’s environment presents to work with, and work with it we must.
04 August 2020 – Bringing previously unknowable ideas into your conscious view – These posts are creating a background of ideas that will soon be put into a battle against each other to illustrate the method for generating new ideas.
05 August 2020 – Covid pandemic logarithmic graphic update 2020 08 05 – Covid pandemic 2020 08 05 logarithmic chart
06 August 2020 – The emotional stress of the news is hurting people – Must I go on? People are stupid when it comes to predicting the future, even though we are named Homo sapiens, the wise ones. Wise because we can predict some futures.
07 August 2020 – I adapt my Covid mask for my dental visit. – How about this Xray giving an opportunity to show an upside-down face mask in action.
08 August 2020 – Right now we may think into the future – The past world got by just fine before I came along to worry about these presently annoying things, and will get along just fine in the future without my worrying about them and their consequences.
09 August 2020 – Seek wisdom first – Refine your practices of foresight, practice the practical skills available that can be learned, then get the facts needed to act.
10 August 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart simplified but with details – Make a point of intentionally staying calm when hysteria springs up and accusations and blame are rampant. Hysteria will make everything worse for others and that misery will bounce back on you.
11 August 2020 – How to totally end the Covid pandemic in a month – This method seems harsh, but it would be far more beneficial for most people than the pandemic we are probably going to endure.
12 August 2020 – Some thoughts on coping with the future – Do you want to repent or rationalize?
13 August 2020 – What in a human life is worth doing? – It is possible to use one’s personal resources to create things of more lasting value to oneself and to humanity.
14 August 2020 – The goal of wisdom – Triumphs of Experience is a must-read book if you intend to live a long and happy life.
15 August 2020 – Covid World and largest seven countries update – You alone are the decision-maker of your future. When you do a new thing or are repeating the doing of that thing, consider that it is what you will be doing forever.
16 August 2020 – Covid World and largest seven countries update – You alone are the decision-maker of your future. When you do a new thing or are repeating the doing of that thing, consider that it is what you will be doing forever.
17 August 2020 – The Garden of Eden? Found in Gobekli Tepe or Edessa? – Strange that so many important happenings for humanity happened within walking distance of one another.
18 August 2020 – Transferring large quantities of unique information – The Universe needs a far grander intelligence to explore the possibilities of intelligent future thinking.
19 August 2020 – Ominous clouds over Bend, Oregon – One of the wonderful things about living in Bend, Oregon, is seeing thousands of miles of Pacific Ocean moisture blowing over the Cascade Mountains at sunset.
20 August 2020 – Covid grows logarithmically with seven billion humans to go – The Covid disease is probably going to get worse for several more months so it is a good idea to prepare for that problem now while it is easy to do.
21 August 2020 – An improvement on Covid killing using Baby Shampoo – So far there have been 28 million Covid cases out of 7,800 million people, so Covid has plenty of human flesh to invade.
22 August 2020 – What is the grand purpose for me, us, humanity, etc.? – We are on the cusp of making computers that can replicate and communicate with themselves in a way that could become a Universe-encompassing intelligence.
23 August 2020 – I am quick to admit individuals don’t know much. – Okay, Mr. Socrates, it is now obvious that I know even less than the total lack of knowledge that you said I had a few minutes ago.
24 August 2020 – The Apocalypse Factory by Steve Olson – The Apocalypse Factory is an exciting overview of the development of the first atomic bombs and will help you appreciate the predicament it brought to human survival.
25 August 2020 – Covid continues to grow exponentially – The Covid pandemic is likely to get worse for several more months so lay up a couple months of emergency food supplies if you can.
26 August 2020 – How can Covid be beaten? – One of the advantages of having a population of eight billion people is that it creates money and scientists that make these vaccines possible.
27 August 2020 – A smoking sunset after eating some killer tomatoes. – This was an ordinary day, but every now and then I have to come down from my high horse and illustrate how I spend my leisure time.
28 August 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims. – That’s a rewrite of a published list by Thomas Fuller that’s out of copyright.
29 August 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #73 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – Nature’s complex structure is vast, infinitely vast; yet
Everywhere and forever it attracts and gives.
30 August 2020 – Covid continues to grow exponentially which means more horror. – As individuals, our only rational option is to be as careful as possible and to avoid people who are not being careful.
31 August 2020 – Covid finds its ideal entry point in the nose. – The obvious conclusion of these reports is to rinse the sinuses daily with a non-irritating solution of soap and flush away the exposed Covid viruses.
Condensed thoughts Probaway September 2020
01 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #2 – That’s the second batch of codified common sense.
02 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #3 – These ideas are not necessarily wise, or reasonable, or funny, or stupid, but are intended to explore a specific idea deep enough to create controversy.
03 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #4 – How can you distinguish a good maxim from a bad one?
04 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #5 – The end goal of this blizzard of ideas is to generate conflicting ideas and then try to discover useful ideas that aren’t obvious to everyday thinking.
05 September 2020 – Covid will pass a million deaths by October 1, 2020 – Over several years the disease will probably kill fewer people, but in the meantime it is deadly.
06 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #6 – You will probably discover rewriting them will clarify your own thoughts on the subjects.
07 September 2020 – Waking up to construction noise and then a big fire. – The park will be finished in a couple of months and will be named Goodrich Pasture Park. There are local parties already planned for there. It will be nice!
08 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #7 – Our minds are now stuffed fuller with tomfoolery.
09 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #8 – A concluding comment. All of these maxims are concluding comments.
10 September 2020 – Covid data-based logarithmic chart and future projections. – The Covid pandemic will eventually drift away as have many much more deadly historical epidemics, but humanity will suffer.
11 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #9 – The experiment will begin with about thirty sets of these modernized old ideas, and then search for other lists of ideas to do this clashing process upon.
12 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #10 – Conclusions: My mind creates strange things when provoked.
13 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #11 – Conclusions: Lots of these statements seem politically incorrect and judgmental, but my intention is to create new thoughts to be in conflict with other thoughts.
14 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #12 – CONCLUSIONS: This is a strange arrangement of common ideas made brief.
15 September 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with one-month projections of cases and deaths – What we must do for the remainder of the Covid Pandemic is to follow sensible instructions, like wearing a mask, avoiding indoor crowds, and keeping our respiratory systems clean.
16 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #13 – COMMENTS: Oh well, it’s okay if these common thoughts are not held in high esteem.
17 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #14 – SYNONYMS: blend, mingle, combine, put together, stir, jumble, merge, fuse, unite, unify, join, amalgamate, incorporate, fold in, meld, marry, mesh, compound, alloy, coalesce, homogenize, intermingle, intermix, interweave, interpenetrate, interlace. cross, crossbreed, hybridize, integrate, emulsify, premix.
18 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #15 – CONCLUSIONS?: Many strange thoughts with perhaps something useful for you.
19 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #16 – COMMENTS: I wonder if this prolonged exercise is improving our behaviors?
20 September 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. – The one point that is perfectly clear is that the Covid pandemic is still growing worldwide in a logarithmic way and individuals worldwide must be as careful as possible.
21 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #17 – COMMENTS: A wary mind is often weary.
22 September 2020 – My life in chaos, fire, and smoke. – All of this chaos and progress happened in front of my house.
23 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #18 – COMMENTS: I encourage you to find lists of ideas, such as these, and rewrite them to fit your own world views.
24 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #19 – COMMENTS: My inner world seems to expose itself as I create these comments stimulated by others’ thoughts.
25 September 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. – When you wash your face, include your nostrils and eyelids with a mild soap like Baby Shampoo a couple of times per day.
26 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #20 – COMMENTS: It is strange to me that these sentences came out of my mind.
27 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #21 – COMMENTS: “Another day another dollar” and another 30 questionable sentences.
28 September 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims # 22 – COMMENTS: I am exploring and numbering random thoughts with the intent of generating new thoughts by trying to blend them into a more basic thought. This last one above would be Maxims #22: 30.
29 September 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #74 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – Always there awaits a natural death maker, An executioner who kills those who kill. For you to take the place of this killer, and dare To kill others yourself, beckons this executioner to kill you. If you take its place you attract death toward yourself.
30 September 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. – Even if vaccines are developed it will probably not be available to most people in India soon enough to protect them from infection.
Condensed thoughts Probaway October 2020
01 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #23 – COMMENTS: Another exposure of me, a person I haven’t met before.
02 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #24 – COMMENTS: This has been a horrible experience with WordPress constantly inserting random code every few seconds. It must be an evil virus because I can’t believe they would choose to do this.
03 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, # 25 – COMMENTS: This is where my mind went today.
04 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #26 – COMMENTS: Another foray into strange thoughts.
05 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. – In its present form, Covid isn’t an existential crisis for humanity, but it is wreaking havoc on world commerce.
06 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #27 – He collects his pennies like a kid trying to fill his piggy bank.
07 October 2020 – Some common thoughts stated as maxims, #28 – COMMENTS: That’s the last of 856 new spins on the 288-year-old collection of maxims written by Thomas Fuller MD and published as Gnomologia in 1732.
08 October 2020 – Lifehaven – The time is ripe. – The time is ripe for Doomsday. So prepare.
09 October 2020 – Maxims #29 – Anaxagoras – COMMENTS: The list is my brief spin on Anaxagoras’ ideas. These are intended to amplify and focus on our minds on future thought experiments.
10 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. – The steepest portion of all of the curves seen in the chart above was in the cold months,
11 October 2020 – Maxims #30 – If God exists in my mind, God exists in physical reality.
12 October 2020 – Maxims #31 — Antisthenes – Good work has fierce competition, poor work has labor and filth.
13 October 2020 – Maxims #32 — Thomas Aquinas – I beg of you, my sovereign God, to bestow your mercy and give me the ability to follow your will and laws.
14 October 2020 – Maxims #33 — Aristotle – Youth is deceived by the thought that what they see they can possess.
15 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World – The sad thing for me is that my suggestion of using a dilute solution of baby shampoo to rinse the nostrils a few times per day to kill the Covid virus has fallen on a world of intentionally deafened ears.
16 October 2020 – Maxims #34 — Antoine Arnauld – Within our Universe bodies are composed of true substances, and they clearly have evolved a unity, and it is through evolutionary processes that I have acquired the ability to voluntarily choose to raise my arm.
17 October 2020 – Baby Shampoo versus Covid makes FOX news – On reviewing this before posting it and watching the video posted that Apr 26, 2020 I noticed I made the statement that I had already posted a video on April 5, 2020 using this technique, with the surgeons’ soap Hibiclens. Those two posts were lost for a while because YouTube policies of not publishing fake stuff.
18 October 2020 – Maxims #35 – Saint Augustine – Fill your heart with God and let the needs of the body evaporate into the night.
19 October 2020 – Maxims #36 – Marcus Aurelius – Make your actions of benefit to your fellow man and change your opinions to coincide with humanity’s improvement.
20 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World – Buy a bottle of Baby Shampoo and share it with hundreds of people.
21 October 2020 – Maxims #37 – J.L. Austin – To act intentionally, we need to define our goals and the ways we will go about moving toward those goals.
22 October 2020 – Maxims #38 – A. J. Ayer – The rules of math apply only because we insist that they do apply because if we don’t insist, everything falls apart into a chaos of tautologies.
23 October 2020 – Maxims #39 – Francis Bacon – Many things are probably discoverable that presently seem impossible, but we need to seek them to discover them.
24 October 2020 – Maxims #40 – Simone de Beauvoir – With all of its miseries, living is better than not living.
25 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World – It will be prudent to wear an N-95 mask when indoors when near any people, even family members, who have been mixing with other people in public.
26 October 2020 – Maxims #41 – Jeremy Bentham – Free speech and free publicity of trials are essential to keep the judges as well as the people serving the community’s happiness and minimizing its pain.
27 October 2020 – Maxims #42 – Henri Bergson – The mind is capable of selecting from known things aspects which it can imbue with new meaning derived from its freedom to think and speak.
28 October 2020 – Maxims #43 – George Berkeley – If you have nothing in your mind that perceives a mountain, it might still exist if another mind perceives the mountain.
29 October 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #75 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – When you attract living things into their natural way, You are more moral than the highest moralist.
30 October 2020 – Maxims #44 – Ambrose Bierce – Being murdered for your beliefs and actions is superior to dying of old age.
31 October 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World – Until you wash your face daily with dilute baby shampoo, it will be prudent to wear an N-95 mask when indoors and when near any people, even family members, who have been mixing with other people in public.
Condensed thoughts Probaway November 2020
01 November 2020 – Maxims – #45 Albert Camus – I won’t lead you, and I won’t follow you; just be my companion.
02 November 2020 – Maxims #46 – Rudolf Carnap – A proposition is logically necessary if and only if a sentence expressing it is logically true.
03 November 2020 – Maxims – #47 David Chalmers – Thinking people using foresight have known for a long time that humanity can not continue long on its present path, and choose to ignore that inevitability and hope for things to progress as they are doing a little longer.
04 November 2020 – Maxims #48 – Noam Chomsky – The syntactic component of grammar is the genes that CRISPR will use to generate language capability; the phonetic part is in the moment of communication.
05 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World – Mother Nature doesn’t play by the rules of sick pronouncements and preferentially kills those people who refuse to obey recommended Covid suppression methods.
06 November 2020 – Maxims #49 – Chrysippus – The universe is the totality of everything, and we can name it God; thus we humans, conscious of that idea, are the part of the universe perceiving itself.
07 November 2020 – Maxims #50 – Cicero – They try to compel others to do things they don’t want to do.
08 November 2020 – Maxims #51 – Jim Collins – Measure your progress with quantifiable goals.
09 November 2020 – Maxims #52 – Auguste Comte – Our theory of human development enables us to see the conflicts within the subject and resolve the issues to humanity’s benefit.
10 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Nov 10, 2020 – Nature is easy to understand, and when she speaks she speaks the truth. In this case the truth was simply that Covid is a highly infectious disease and it kills people.
11 November 2020 – Maxims #53 – Copernicus – Other mathematicians encouraged me to publish my views, although I feared reprisals.
12 November 2020 – Maxims #54 – Charles Darwin – New facts that contradict our beliefs are easily forgotten even when valid, but agreeable facts are easily remembered even when invalid.
13 November 2020 – Maxims #55 – Democritus – Find and interact with people doing things that are helpful to others, and avoid people who do selfish and risky things.
14 November 2020 – Maxims #56 – Daniel Dennett – Anyone who claims their beliefs are not discussable or negotiable can’t seriously be seeking truth and should be avoided.
15 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Nov 15, 2020 – Now is the time for you, your family, your friends, your community, your country to prepare, while everything is still relatively normal.
16 November 2020 – Maxims #57 – Jacques Derrida – Because of the inherent contradictions bred into me by a society filled with falsehoods, I turn everything into paradox.
17 November 2020 – Maxims #58 – René Descartes – A state is more easily governed when it has a few easily understood laws that are accepted by the people.
18 November 2020 – Maxims #59 – John Dewey – When a society freezes into hostile subcultures, the people shrink into themselves, and their relationships become routine and inhumane.
19 November 2020 – Maxims #60 – Denis Diderot – Even time and space were formed of something and will be consumed, and yet we individuals have moments of awareness, which we may use to help our living companions enjoy their moment of beingness.
20 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Nov 20, 2020 – There will be millions of needless deaths unless a quicker solution is found, like washing the nose with baby shampoo.
21 November 2020 – Maxims #61 – Diogenes of Sinope – The sun and moon look into cesspools but don’t lose their luster.
22 November 2020 – Maxims #62 – Émile Durkheim – Maxims #62 – Émile Durkheim
23 November 2020 – Maxims #63 – Albert Einstein – Humanity must create and place universal moral standards that will propel a vigorous society forward, and this is more important than scientifically objective discovery.
24 November 2020 – Maxims #64 – Empedocles – People are continually changing, pulled together by Love and blasted apart by hate until united in the final ending.
25 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Nov 25, 2020 – I promoted washing the face and nostrils and letting them air dry so a coating of baby shampoo would cover those places where the disease first enters the body, and kill it
26 November 2020 – Maxims #65 – Friedrich Engels – A thriving society can not be founded on naive sentimentality demanding impossible behaviors, but only by seeing reality accurately and adapting appropriately with enthusiasm.
27 November 2020 – Maxims #66 – Epictetus – If someone calls you foolish because of your contentment, you have succeeded in becoming content if that slander doesn’t annoy you.
28 November 2020 – Maxims #67 – Epicurus – If God is neither able nor willing to prevent evil, then why call him God?
29 November 2020 – The Tao Teh Ching – #76 – Revealed by Lao Tzu – Rendered by Charles Scamahorn – That is true even with fighting. Even the strongest must conquer with attractive methods. Trees that are big and strong are soon brought down. The great and powerful must place themselves low to survive, and Hold the small and weak very high.
30 November 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Plus an eyeglass defogger – This soft cotton barrier can also be made in a few minutes from materials readily available from discarded items.
Condensed thoughts Probaway December 2020
01 December 2020 – Maxims #68 – Erasmus – I am a citizen of the world and everyone is my friend, and those whom I haven’t met yet are just friends I haven’t met yet.
02 December 2020 – Maxims #69 – Paul Feyerabend – We must be eager to accept unpopular and unfounded uses of resources to reveal ideas that have been boxed in by rigid rules until they are proven to be utterly unworkable.
03 December 2020 – Maxims #70 – Michel Foucault – The game of life is uncertain enough to maintain our interest while working our way through to the end of it.
04 December 2020 – Maxims #71 – Gottlob Frege – Is the limiting factor a relation between objects, or between the names or signs of the objects?
05 December 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Plus a USA excess deaths chart – Boiling gets the chlorine out which is what makes tap water painful in your nose.
06 December 2020 – Maxims #72 – Sigmund Freud – When men’s virtuous actions are acknowledged, everyone will live more contented lives, but when the display of precious possessions is the measure of virtue, everyone will be discontented.
07 December 2020 – Maxims #73 – Galileo Galilei – The church has no difficulty in finding men to preach the heresy of modern astronomy from every pulpit.
08 December 2020 – Maxims #74 – Kurt Gödel – Historical religions were based on limited access to fundamental facts that resulted in poorly functioning theologies, but that is being corrected, and theologies are now evolving toward a more loving world.
09 December 2020 – Maxims #75 – Jürgen Habermas – Modern Western ideals of justice and morality are based on Roman law, the Judaic ethic of justice, and the Christian ethic of love.
10 December 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World. Plus, Oregon passes China in the number of COVID cases. – We are now losing three thousand people per day, the same as the World Trade Center total deaths, and that death rate is projected by the CDC to continue until March.
11 December 2020 – Maxims #77 – Garrett Hardin – Ultimately, the environmentalists seek large areas of the earth to become wilderness where only small isolated groups of people may occasionally enter on foot.
12 December 2020 – Maxims #76 – Jonathan Haidt – Intentional cathartic explosions don’t give permanent relief, but they do generate skills in destructive behaviors.
13 December 2020 – Maxims #78 – Georg Hegel – Every step on the path is required to reach our goals, but we must avoid grasping for the impossible.
14 December 2020 – Maxims #79 – Martin Heidegger – Intentional exaggerations of an idea can clarify the essence so others may understand and use it.
15 December 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with projections for the World and my home in Oregon. – A mask protects them from your possible disease, and it will also help protect you from the usual flu.
16 December 2020 – Maxims #80 – Heraclitus of Ephesus – A little wine loosens our anxieties and releases hopes, but a little too much unleashes our restraints and reveals hatred.
17 December 2020 – Maxims #81- Christopher Hitchens – Religions arose in the barbaric period and hold contempt for women and children even though they are dependent upon them for their present and future existence.
18 December 2020 – Maxims #82 – Thomas Hobbes – Men may accept that others are more educated, or richer, or better golfers, but every man, even the lowest, believes he has more understanding of the world.
19 December 2020 – Maxims #83 – David Hume – Human reason arises from the sum of our DNA, health, and childhood, adolescent, and adult experiences, and total socialization, but to move into the fog of reality we must experiment with everything to find the true patterns of relationships.
20 December 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with one-month projections for the World – Those older people who catch the Covid are at greater risk of dying, but the younger population is at risk of long-term disabilities.
21 December 2020 – Maxims #84 – Edmund Husserl – To achieve these goals we must achieve internal consistency within phenomenology.
22 December 2020 – Maxims #85 – Hypatia of Alexandria – Life is a path which gives us insights as we travel, but to see these new things clearly we need our doors of perception to be open and we must be eager to find unexpected things.
23 December 2020 – Maxims #86 – Imhotep – Give wisdom the fruit of her bounties and let her works be praised in the market.
24 December 2020 – Maxims #87 — William James – Those thoughts above are intended to help us foresee particular interactions with ourselves and our environments and act appropriately.
25 December 2020 – Covid logarithmic chart with one-month projections for the World – Sniff it gently into the nose over a sink. Let it drip out and then snort in the little bit in the nose into the sinus.
26 December 2020 – Maxims #88 – Karl Jaspers – The infinite field of philosophy is populated by individuals on their unique quest for truth.
27 December 2020 – Maxims #89 – Carl Jung – The sole purpose of human existence is because we enjoy living with our problems more than being dead and free of them.
28 December 2020 – Maxims #90 – Immanuel Kant – There must be a seed for every good thing to be developed in a man’s character, but without those seeds, we must cultivate his love of honor.
29 December 2020 – Maxims #91 – John Maynard Keynes – A close study of the historical flow of opinion is key to understanding others and yourself.
30 December 2020 – Maxims #92 — Søren Kierkegaard – Every day, walk into a state of wellbeing and away from illness, into good thoughts and away from bad ones, and everything will be wonderful.
31 December 2020 – 2020 Covid logarithmic chart for Earth & big 7 countries – Our freedom of speech and assembly has come with a heavy price in these circumstances.
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2020 Covid logarithmic chart for Earth & big 7 countries – Our freedom of speech and assembly has come with a heavy price in these circumstances.
End of condensed thoughts Probaway 2020.
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