Where else could you find Chrismas in Hollis and Richard Feynman back-to-back. I love you guys! Merry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: Bryon | Dec 25, 2008 11:12:41 AM
Wonderful Abbas. This was truly a Christmas treat. What infectious enthusiasm. I loved the part where he says and i paraphrase "I take it all back. Find me the right man in any field who has gone all the way and come up against mystery and awe and I can have a great conversation with him".
Happy Holidays!!
Posted by: Fawad | Dec 25, 2008 1:33:50 PM
Haha. I had to stop it 30 seconds in. Brushing my teeth is superstition? Yeah okay buddy. I can tell by no proof put forward by anybody else that my teeth and mouth feel better after brushing my teeth. Haha! What a joker this guy is. Possibly the stupidest person I have ever heard try to prove a point.
Posted by: Glen | Dec 27, 2008 5:29:08 PM
I can't quite get my hands on this, but I just realized that the way in which Feynman speaks, seems very similar to that of Glenn Gould. They both produce very long strings of words, as though their mouths can barely keep up with the speed of their minds. You can actually some times hear them grasping for air after long speeches. Also, the tone varies a lot, putting great emphasis on certain words and pausing for a moment before continuing talking. Can anyone explain this? Is this another mark of the eccentric genius?
Posted by: Anonymous | Dec 27, 2008 10:25:18 PM
glen. get a brain and learn to think. the man is trying to provoke a thought stream. he's not saying that brushing your teeth is superstition, he's just giving en example on taking an interesting point of view. think, like a ritual, the globe, turning, the sun's shadow tracing the edge, and on that edge, where the night turns to light people are brushing their teeth, on the other side, where the light turns to dark, people are brushing their teeth. and imagine for a second that brushing teeth had no effect on your teeth and that everybody was doing this as a superstitious ritual. not that because it is, but that it is fun to think like that. part of the story is true, that people on that very edge of switching are all doing the same ritualistic action, put paste, brush teeth. "possibly the stupidest person" is possibly you. spend more time listening and less time judging, may do you some good someday. and the rest of the bunch: this is philosophy, this is thinking, this is poking at train of thoughts that are accepted as solid, and became dogmatic. not that because they are wrong, but it is good to inquire, to poke, to turn upside down and look at it from another point of view, with a childish curiosity.
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Where else could you find Chrismas in Hollis and Richard Feynman back-to-back. I love you guys! Merry Christmas everyone.
Posted by: Bryon | Dec 25, 2008 11:12:41 AM
Wonderful Abbas. This was truly a Christmas treat. What infectious enthusiasm. I loved the part where he says and i paraphrase "I take it all back. Find me the right man in any field who has gone all the way and come up against mystery and awe and I can have a great conversation with him".
Happy Holidays!!
Posted by: Fawad | Dec 25, 2008 1:33:50 PM
Haha. I had to stop it 30 seconds in. Brushing my teeth is superstition? Yeah okay buddy. I can tell by no proof put forward by anybody else that my teeth and mouth feel better after brushing my teeth. Haha! What a joker this guy is. Possibly the stupidest person I have ever heard try to prove a point.
Posted by: Glen | Dec 27, 2008 5:29:08 PM
I can't quite get my hands on this, but I just realized that the way in which Feynman speaks, seems very similar to that of Glenn Gould. They both produce very long strings of words, as though their mouths can barely keep up with the speed of their minds. You can actually some times hear them grasping for air after long speeches. Also, the tone varies a lot, putting great emphasis on certain words and pausing for a moment before continuing talking. Can anyone explain this? Is this another mark of the eccentric genius?
Posted by: Anonymous | Dec 27, 2008 10:25:18 PM
glen. get a brain and learn to think. the man is trying to provoke a thought stream. he's not saying that brushing your teeth is superstition, he's just giving en example on taking an interesting point of view. think, like a ritual, the globe, turning, the sun's shadow tracing the edge, and on that edge, where the night turns to light people are brushing their teeth, on the other side, where the light turns to dark, people are brushing their teeth. and imagine for a second that brushing teeth had no effect on your teeth and that everybody was doing this as a superstitious ritual. not that because it is, but that it is fun to think like that. part of the story is true, that people on that very edge of switching are all doing the same ritualistic action, put paste, brush teeth. "possibly the stupidest person" is possibly you. spend more time listening and less time judging, may do you some good someday. and the rest of the bunch: this is philosophy, this is thinking, this is poking at train of thoughts that are accepted as solid, and became dogmatic. not that because they are wrong, but it is good to inquire, to poke, to turn upside down and look at it from another point of view, with a childish curiosity.
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