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Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Everything begins with a single thought

I continue to be amazed by "Everything begins with a single thought" which Yanni (yes, that guy) implanted in my brain sponge many moons ago. Machu Picchu began as a single thought.  Thomas Watson thunk a thought, and IBM grew one bit (pun intended) at a time and now is a major force underlying our digital lives.

Creation isn't just god(dess)'s handiwork. We create every moment. Creations are transformations of one energy to another. As a dualistic universe, we see the tensions between yin and yang creating systems from the simple to the complex. Modern computers giving you these very words you see are underpinned by the ancient Chinese philosophy expounded in the I Ching. In 1679, the German mathematician Gottfried Leibniz came across the I Ching. Studying the Chinese hexagrams, which consist of two type of lines, solid and broken, he came to realize that the hexagrams could be transformed into a numbering system, and so birthed binary - the 1's and 0's that run every computer system on the planet.

You look out the window - its raining. What a horrible day it is, you think. The world isn't horrible, but you just created a horrible world for yourself. I hate winter. Nothing wrong with winter, but you just made it ugly. Your choice. I don't have time. Of course you don't, 'cause you just created no time. I can't do that - of course you can't - argue for your limitations, and sure enough, they are yours. No is just an uneducated Yes. So say Yes. Just say YES. Yes.

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