Dec 22, 2009

Ways to stimulate your Brain

Experience the third dimension - properly.
Birds are far more intelligent than their brain size should give them a right to be. Why? A myriad of reasons, and one of them is: Birds fly. We grounded folk live all to frequently in a world reduced to two dimensional plans of places. Rebel. Live in your birthright as a three dimensional creature.

Learn a new language.
Don't be hemmed in by the way your parents talk! Language is the soul of the human race, and divided we are far more diverse. A language is more than just a set of words: it is the life-blood of a culture. The English-speaking world is far more homogenous than it should be for its size. Europe is far less homogenous than it should be, for its size. Learn a language, learn a life.

Change your route.
Shake up this idle brain of yours! Give it a new set of sights and sounds and smells to deal with! Change your route: change the way you get from one place to another. If you drive, walk Or cycle. Maybe roller-blades are more your speed? Or go down that alley, turn left instead of going straight through... take the scenic route to your destination.

Sense something different.
As above, only in one place. Listen to weird music, find pictures of Aurora Polaris, burn incense, eat insects (clean!), feel petals and leaves and the bark of the largest tree you can find.... expand all your senses, for they are the gateway to your mind.

Nov 27, 2009

Live

Every day is precious. Every time you get in a car you could crash and die. If that happened to you, would you be satisfied? As you lay dying, what and who would your thoughts turn to? And would you say your life had been worthwhile?

Nov 5, 2009

NaNoWriMo!!!

Oh. My. Goodness.
30 Days of Literary Abandon they call it. It's more than that. It's less. It's crazy, it's easy, it's trying to write a book in a month.
It's NaNo!

Oct 30, 2009

You never achieve real success unless you like what you are doing.

Oct 8, 2009

Stone

Stone is used for permanent buildings, sculpture, walls, and other such things. It can be quarried from hills and mountains, and sometimes flat plains, though less often.

Oct 3, 2009

Saltpeter

A powerful food preserver and an explosive, saltpeter would not have been a curiosity to antiquitous civilisations.

Sep 23, 2009

Does anyone in the world have evidence against creation? I have seen none. When you argue that the universe was created by an all-powerful supernatural being, it's exceedingly hard to be argued against.