For this special Mothers Day edition of the Weekly we have a video interview that goes into the practical aspects of the fusion principle. My friend Kyla is a single mother of twins, chef for a household of eight, an accomplished artist (check her work at www.thenerdyhippie.com), and apparently she can even fix your car if you are in the area. It’s a long interview and I will work on writing up a consolidated transcript, but we covered a lot of ground and it is worth checking out if you are interested in how to follow your dreams in the face of seemingly insurmountable challenges – by establishing a loving…
Hello again BBL readers. I’m back for my long overdue and hopefully anticipated follow-up to my first and only guest post on the Blue Belt Life blog. It has been nearly a year since I stayed at the Blue Belt household in Tokyo and attempted to adhere to Chris’s strict vegetarian, no alcohol diet. Trips to the farmer’s market at Yurakucho filling backpacks with vegetables, eating rice, homemade butter and concoctions of vegetables that I didn’t know existed and fighting the temptation to go anywhere near meat or booze (although I did eat quite a bit of sushi as Chris conceded going full vegie would be near impossible from my starting…
After discussing the third law of thermodynamics and its relation to human life, consumption, and work, it should be clear why we go through the formidable task of bringing new life into this world. Those who have had the experience can probably comment on the huge energy drain involved – I already feel it in the lead-up to my first attempt. But as fusion is necessary to perpetuate the sun’s life, so it is with ours. Reproduction (the Fusion Principle) It is interesting how human fusion corresponds to hydrogen fusion within the sun. The hydrogen atom contains a proton and an electron, an inner core and an outward projection. Similarly…
Recently we have been looking at human behaviors and their relation to the third law of thermodynamics. The third law explains why we consume, sleep, work, and reproduce, which account for close to all of the behavior we engage in throughout life. We can see how nature mandates these behaviors by looking at the consequences of not engaging in them. Life is a precious and spectacularly improbable gift, and if we violate the laws of nature, the creator of life, we justly relinquish that gift. Specifically, we know that if we stop breathing we will die after a few minutes. If we stop taking in fluids we will die in a few…
I spend most of my time eating, sleeping and working. Intuitively I know there is more to life than this, but this is the current level of my consciousness – thoroughly blue belt. But it is fun, this cycle of life that achieves the dissipation of the sun’s energy but also pushes us forward into new and interesting realms and experiences. Somewhat synchronystically, the same week I chose to write a discourse on our dissipation through work, I participated in an enormously dissipative event – the Tokyo Eco Slow Marathon in Chiba, an hour outside of Tokyo. My good mate A-town and I jogged, walked and flowed a full marathon…
The current topic of discussion is the physical laws of nature and how they dictate our behaviors in the world. Specifically we are looking at the third law of thermodynamics, which we have shown explains the existence of life as we know it. I am attempting to extend from this physical law to a moral law supported in nature, in order to remove the ambiguity that surrounds most moral dogma. Last week we started to look at what behaviors are in harmony with the third law, namely consumption and rest – two of the qualities that comprise the Feminine principle in our nature. Now let’s look at the other half.…
Laws of nature govern our physical reality. They vary in how readily apparent their existence and effect are, but they do exist and are in effect at all times. Gravity is probably the most obvious. It is also the best at making the point that we should live in accordance with the laws of nature in order to maximize our experience here. You better know there’s a trampoline below or be wearing one of those flying suits if you plan on walking off any cliffs. It is clear that our physical movements are bound by the laws of nature, but what about our behavior? Do the physical laws also have…
“Entropy and the Inevitability of Life” by Iridium Alchemist There are many elegant ways to state or (often mis)interpret the infamous third law of thermodynamics. Its most precise and current formulation states that as the temperature of a system tends to absolute zero the entropy of a perfect crystal also approaches zero. This statement has broad and far reaching implications that are not immediately obvious. Arthur Eddington poetically referred to the third law of thermodynamics as the arrow of time. According to him time apparently moves in the direction of increasing disorder. As far as experiment has borne out this is a very good approximation of the universe in which…
Last week I threw out a little underhanded statement about marriage to see if it might spike some controversy or debate. No one mentioned it so far, which I take to mean one of the following – my mom hasn’t read it, no one read it they just liked it on FB,1 or I’m right and everyone agrees with me. I’ll lean toward the latter, especially since this week I am going to break it down and prove conclusively that marriage really doesn’t matter. So what does matter? Well, as the word implies, something that is material – not in the sense of being tangible, like a piece of paper, but…
I got married recently. Now, we all know that marriage doesn’t matter, but weddings can. Naturally I shun social obligations of any kind and am partial to the Money Mustache approach. But MasterDebator and other friends have persuaded me of the potential merit of the public ceremony of a committed relationship. Here are some of the worthwhile aspects of wedding ceremonies: – growing filial love with close friends and family – proclaiming your vows publicly for the universal record – speeches – doing things that scare us – dancing And here are some of the aspects better left out: – writing invitations or thank you letters – long drawn-out religious…
