Now you Know

the power of the mind is a funny thing. you either realize the potential of the mind and utilize it full-force, or you let that power go to waste and thus become a waste of human capital (solely a consumer)

in the past couple of weeks, i've been realizing that i have a choice in my thoughts. i can think about whatever i want, along with think HOWEVER i want about anything. my perspective is my choice, along with my actions and reactions. what i choose to think about during the day is completely based on me. it's a complex concept, thinking about the fact that you have the power to think about whatever you please. this action about thinking about thinking is what seperates us from the rest of the animals. we are homo sapiens "wise thinkers".. we are conscious of ourselves.

i was looking at the street this morning while i was driving to work and i was straining to see as far ahead of me as i could possibly see. then i started to imagine the street at a 2-dimensional picture that my eyes are painting for my thoughts. because really, that's all it really is. we only know that the tiny trees in the distance are not really tiny because eventually we have tha ability to move closer to them and see perspective and depth within our 2-dimensional thought transfer from eyes to mind. if it were not for the experience-based perspective of the image, we would not realize that the trees far off in the distance were not really tiny, but just far away. trying to imagine the image from eyes to be just a 2-dimensional painting is a really hard thing to do, but it's weird that if i so pleased to think that way, i would be pleased in seeing the world in that fashion

i have to get back to reading accounts of galileo's inquisition, which just so happens to land on my bday (april 12).. so this will make April 12, 2009 the 376th anniversary of galileo's inquisition

all he wanted was to show the world that there's more to thinking than the divine thought. that we have potential to exceed the limits of what "god has logically allowed."

now you know.