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This site is an eclectic collection of texts, images and more, handpicked and clustered in random or not-so-random ways; aiming at assisting in this noble task: “Define yourself or be defined”.

According to Robert Anton Wilson, most of us function as badly wired robots due to our upbringing. Shall we want to reverse the damage, we have to be courageous enough to travel the path less traveled. “We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

Why woohoobits?

* woohoo: A word used when you are overly excited, hyper, having fun, or when something great happened to you

* bit: A small piece or quantity of something

also

* bit: BInary digiT. The smallest unit of information on a computer/machine. A single bit can only hold one of 2 values, either 0 or 1; The least amount of information there is, i.e. yes or no, true or false, on or off.

So, let us have some serious fun with puns, machine-generated randomness, conceptual cut-ups and other beautiful stuff.

Heraclitus: Man is most nearly himself when he achieves the seriousness of a child at play

id.ea: Be my guest, explore and play ;)

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on dark motives

(...) but one of the worst motives goes unmentioned: rage and a base desire to see crushed someone who dares resist the power which has already crushed you.

Albert Camus

, born 1913

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classics

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an example of pure life energy

Normally, we move our bodies through artificial and mechanical motion. Remember our discussion of the baby as an example of pure life energy? A baby moves purely by the feeling of her Chi. She kicks, plays, laughs, cries automatically and with pure wholehearted intention. This force is extremely powerful. Anybody who has experienced a baby grasping his or her finger, or a baby pulling his or her hair, can tell you how powerful a baby’s Chi is!

If a baby wants a toy, she will reach out with her whole body to grab it. She doesn’t think about how to move her arm or tell her arm to move with her brain. She moves from the pure, spontaneous life energy within her.

However, when you grew up, you learned how to walk, to write your alphabet, to ride a bicycle, or to knit a sweater. All of these physical activities are done through mechanical motion, not from the pure spontaneous feeling of life energy. You learned how to coordinate your motion with your brain. The more you learned how to coordinate your physical activity with your artificial brain, the more your body lost its original connection with your life energy. In order to make your Chi strong and pure, you must restore that original form of motion you enjoyed as a baby. But that restoration takes some time.

_{Waysun Liao, born 1948}

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contemporary

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new continents/new men

The earth does not need new continents, but new men.

Jules Verne

, born 1828

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classics

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