Thoughts while watching the movie ‘Valkyrie’ the second time, this came to mind: Soldiers who do not obey orders are useless. Soldiers who obey all orders are dangerous. - Stonepeace Related Article: The Success of Operation...

Super Short Story (116): Con While wondering who is conning who in the movie, he forgot that he is already being conned by both actors, into thinking they are not merely acting as a con-man and a...

Seeing an empty bottle of poison by the well, and unsure of whether the first was emptied into the latter, he realised that a whole well of pure water with a few hidden drops of poison is more treacherous than a whole labelled bottle of poison. It’s how the masses are poisoned...

It’s important to know others better, as it leads to more understanding, but as familiarity might breed contempt too, she’s at the juncture where she’s uncertain if she should find out more about him or not. Would it make things better or worse? But isn’t understanding...

Because he nursed a grudge against his friend, that is actually unfounded, and because it was never clarified, he punishes himself indefinitely whenever she comes to view or mind, while she wonders what happened to their...

The world is full of fools who do not know they are fools - including you and me… sometimes.

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We cast our own shadow of delusion. We shed our own light of wisdom. - Stonepeace From http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/hide-and-seek/201204/jung-the-man-and-his-symbols: ‘… Jung had a dream in which he was making painful headway through dense fog, with a tiny light in the cup...

Gil tells Adriana in ‘Midnight in Paris’, when they travelled back in time to an era of Paris (Belle Epoque) more appealing to her, ‘Adriana, if you stay here, though, and this becomes your present, then pretty soon you’ll start imagining another time was really your,...

Possibly more potentially troubling than a thought troubling you now is what is not troubling you now. For example, you might have something stuck between teeth, that goes undetected, that leads to decay. Ignorance in the long run isn’t bliss. Worse than undetected physical trouble is...

Think the most convoluted ways possible, believe in improbable theories, clutter yourself with imaginary worries. Say the most useless stuff possible, spread many unprovable rumours, confuse others with unfounded fears. Do the most meaningless things possible, live with near or total...

If one only looks for things done wrong, all the things done right does not seem to matter. If one only looks for things done right, all the things done wrong does not seem matter. Let us see each matter as it is, as how each really matters. - Stonepeace (About the picture, if how you see...

If there is universally accepted reasoning, there would be not a single conflict in the world. The question is whether the deluded can or are willing to acknowledge sound reasoning to be reasonable, whether the less deluded can or are willing to show why it is reasonable. (I used to think...

A Tit for a Tat (347) Tit: You can never win a seriously deluded person in argument – even if you have good reasoning! Tat: I just hope I am not the deluded one, who imagines myself having good reasoning! Tit: Most of us alternate between being the more deluded and the less deluded...

Struck me that Elmo is the opposite of Emo! Emo: One who has negative emotions often. Elmo: One who has positive emotions often,  such has loving-kindness, compassion, rejoice and equanimity.  If Oscar’s the snobbish grouch, then Elmo’s the cheery! The littlest but best monster...

S: Sometimes, the most agreeable teacher is the worst [or least appropriate] – because you learn nothing new from him or her, that challenges your delusions, that spurs growth in your compassion and wisdom. (If everybody thinks alike, many might not be thinking enough. Groupthink!) C: I...

Question: Sometimes, I feel tired and worried. Despite diligence in Dharma learning, I seem to still be in the darkness of delusion, uncertain of whether I am improving or backsliding. Answer: I think it could be because you lack a clear unshakable direction. In terms of the diligence, maybe...

Either you are not aware of your self-contradictions, or are aware but contradict yourself - which is doubly self-contradicting! Who are you trying to...

While the humans try to nip the problem in the bud by preventing Skynet from forming, why doesn’t the robots just nip the problem in the bud by time-travelling to the past to terminate John Connor at birth? They can try endlessly. Then again, the humans can time-travel back to...

A review of Radiohead’s ‘Give Up the Ghost’: Lyrics: Don’t haunt me don’t haunt me… Gather up the lost and sold In your arms In your arms Gather up the pitiful In your arms In your arms What seems impossible In your arms In your arms I think I have had my...