Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts

Friday, July 18, 2008

Nothing and no one is anything.

"Is" is a verbal construct bearing no witness to reality.

[For bonus points you can spot the logical fallacy in that last sentence.]

Rule # 13.

It is what you think it is. It isn't what you think it is.

Both of these are true. Dualisms aren't.

Rule # 12.

Sunday, July 13, 2008

Never fall in love with your plan.

Rule # 11.

A subset of the - ubiquitous in the Marine Corps - quote "No plan survives initial contact with the enemy." Which Google tells me should actually be:
“Therefore no plan of operations extends with any certainty beyond the first contact with the main hostile force.”
- from Prussian Field Marshall Helmuth von Moltke in the mid-nineteenth century.

Regardless. Applies to everything. Plans don't mean anything.

Sunday, January 27, 2008

We are all. Free. To do. Whatever. We want. To do.*

[There will, of course, be consequences.]

Rule # 9.

*From Illusions, by Richard Bach.

Sunday, January 13, 2008