Showing posts with label SEPTOES. Show all posts
Showing posts with label SEPTOES. Show all posts

Monday, October 31, 2016

Romanian wisdom

New Septoes*, inspired by old Romanian wisdom


***

Whoever digs someone’s grave falls 
inside himself.

Wolves shed furs but never ethical codes.

Great people make any place worth living.

A person’s fear is another one’s strength.

Introduce your friends, so I know you.

Small obstacles can overturn a winning chariot.

Wisdom is about experience, perception and humility.

***


Septoes: literary genre invented by Edward de Bono i.e. to tell something wise in seven words


Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Election Septoes

Socialist Liberal Alliance - perfect nonsense, sure winner!

Seemingly, future is never what it seems.

The most powerful bond is mutual blackmail.

Samson trusted Delilah, got betrayed... what else?...

Castor and Polux started by being brothers...

Monday, June 25, 2012

100 SEPTOES

These septoes are not written to be liked, just to be understood.

1.The Universe feeds our insatiable curiosity forever
2. The Universe is obsessed to be interesting.
3. The world is simultaneously chaotic and ordered.
4. Evolution is the inherent perfectibility of Nature.
5. The Good and Evil are siamese twins
6. Good could take creativity lessons from Evil.
7. Greatest evil in world- collective, inheritable sin
8. First remove Evil then start building good.
9. Life is hungry matter and edible too.
10. People lie because most truths are bad.
11. Lies are shortcuts from problems to solutions.
12. Means are swallowing aims and replacing them.
13. Bad septoism is seven words not wise
14. All great crises are crises of thinking
15. Wisdom of crowds lies in their diversity
16. Brainair- four parts realism, one part imagination.
17. Future is bright but not for Humanity.
18. Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges
19. Even the best religions are mainly suicidal.
20. We live in memecracies, ideas dominate us.
21. In need, solidarity becomes liquidarity even gasidarity.
22. Greek Gods ruling today: Ares, Hermes, Koalemos.
23. Human nature plus idealistic theories equal disaster.
24. Unlimited greed and ignorance lead to disaster.
25. The essence of human nature is discontent.
26. Perfectionism is dangerous, we need sustained perfectibilism.
27. I am not perfectionist but maximalist-perfectibilist
28. Astrology offends Human Intelligence but is Business
29. My favorite metasport is swimming counter-stream.
30. Old researchers need infinite and impossible tasks
31. I am a stubborn claustrophilic old man,
32. My unique brain has two left hemispheres.
33. My philosophy infinite interestingness and neutral negativity.
34. My work: new energies and problem solving.
35. My values: independent thinking and humanitarian spirit.
36. My religion: human evolution to godlike beings,
37. My aim: to solve humanity’s real problems.
38. My incurable illness is the Cassandra Syndrome.
39. Initiative is the greatest differentiator of humans.
40. Save the world with the Seriousyne vaccine!
41. Victories over your former Self are triumphs.
42. The Future Shock was amortized by irrationality.
43. The problems are here to be solved
44. Always find the Solution outside the Problem.
45. Thinking people have problems, the others troubles.
46. Religion can not be displaced, only replaced.
47. Parts and Whole is the insoluble problem.
48. NO is always more significant than YES.
49. You have success because you had success.
50. Idealism has three opposites materialism, realism and
pragmatism,.
51. Atheism is the last step before negatheism.
52. Scipiology: how to convert disasters in triumphs.
53. Impotence in problem solving is called PROBLETENCE.
54. The cult of celebrities is the Disaster.
55. EGO-OUT: intellectual values lost when somebody dies.
56. Modes of thinking: prelogical, logical, superlogical,
postlogical.
57. Anti-vaccine: perfect evil attacks imperfect good.
58. Sensational a cheap substitute for real knowledge.
59. Intelligence the ability to NOT mix viewpoints.
60. Good thinking- rejecting memes, addiction to facts.
61. The most common crime is attention theft.
62. Intellectual and bigot is like virgin whore.
63. Populism is moving the Center to Periphery
64.. Solar eclipses are rare, intellectual eclipses permanent
65. We have to choose: decelebrization or decerebelization?
66. Anti-intellectualism is more against intellect than intellectuals
67. The 21st Century is the 12th, resurrected
68. This new century has irreparable birth defects.
69. The world is grosso-modo an inverse meritocracy.
70. The world economy- a myriapode with Achilles Heels.
71. Sacred is something you are allowed to kill for.
72. Avoid using intellectual aphrodisiacs in marketing, politics.
73. Moneytheism is senseless, limitless adoration of money.
74. Cultural high jump: bury the bar deeper!
75. Scam: one holiday equals 50 miserable everydays.
76. Starts the terminal phase of chronic anachronism.
77. Do not criticise theories, reality is erronated!
78 Possibility is NOT probability is NOT certainty.
79. Patent literature is mainly mythology, not history.
80. Geography is destiny, history is a prison
81. Autodestructive adoration: you become what you adore.
82. Even very high intelligences are NOT additive.
83. Natural selection builds, unnatural counterselection destroys everything.
84. Kleptocracy is the most natural form of government.
85. Geniuses are specific, no global genius exists.
86. The stupidity of geniuses can be catastrophic.
87. Religions are shortcuts between Questions and Answers.
88. “Fan” the dirtiest form of mental slavery.
89. Chronology is rather annoying, kairosology most interesting.
90. Implementation is decided by abuse not by use.
91. In my life, obstacle was usually a verb.
92. Recipe of humor: sex, stupidity shit, sadism. surprisingly.
93, A great Universe with disproportionately slow light.
94. Schooling help grown-up, while media forces grown-down.
95. Dumbing down people is the greatest megabusiness.
96. Quantity of life eats quality of life/
97. Intolerance kills people, tolerance destroys the Society.
98. My strong certainty: certainties can kill us.
99. People will believe anything except the truth.
100. Solutions are sometimes accomplices of problems.
101. Too few words to say something intelligent.

+1 Good taxonomies reveal deep cause-effect relationships.
+2 Differences in opinions attract only smart people.

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Sunday, December 4, 2011

New septoes

Fools trust everyone; wise not even themselves.

Faithfullness and deceipt are one question apart.

Politicians count trusted people on one finger.

Answers are nothing else than disguised questions.

Optimistic people add hope to daily pessimism.



Needles to say for those who know me: I am still an optimistic fool in search of many answers.
I wish you all a joyful week!

Georgina Popescu

Thursday, August 11, 2011

New Septoe- inspired by London riots

The London riots are more important than they seem. They inspired me
 a new Septoe:

"Intolerance kills people, tolerance destroys the Society." 

Obviously, true in some limits. However- a proof that social problems
have no more solutions- at least in the existing "frames", both dictatures
and democracies of the present..

Monday, June 27, 2011

NEW SEPTOES

78. Patent literature is mainly mythology, not history.
79. Geography is destiny, history is a prison
80. Autodestructive adoration: you become what you adore.
81. Even very high intelligences are NOT additive.
82. Natural selection builds, unnatural counterselection destroys  
      everything.
83. Kleptocracy is the most natural form of government.
84. Geniuses are specific, no global genius exists.
85. The stupidity of geniuses can be catastrophic.
86. Religions are shortcuts between Questions and Answers.
87. “Fan” the dirtiest form of mental slavery.
88. Chronology is rather annoying, kairosology most interesting.
89. Implementation is decided by abuse not by use.
90. In my life, obstacle was usually a verb.
91. Recipe of humor: sex, shit, sadism- surprisingly

Friday, June 3, 2011

A new septoe

The report of WHO regarding the connection between  mobile phones and canccr
plus the remarkable probletence (ask Google!) of the European (German) health authorities
to find the source of the deadly EHEC bacteria, have inspired me to compose Septoe
No 90- "Possibiliy is NOT probability is NOT certainty."
My hypothesis is that EHEC is carried by rats

Monday, April 11, 2011

First Project completed : 77 SEPTOES

My dear friends, readers of this blog!

I succeeded to compose the promised 77 septoes - fragment of my thinking,
philosophy, experience. I like this genre (thank you Edward de Bono!) and...
the next Project's name is 100 septoes.



1.The Universe feeds our insatiable curiosity forever
2. The Universe is obsessed to be interesting.
3. The world is simultaneously chaotic and ordered.
4. Evolution is the inherent perfectibility of Nature.
5. The Good and Evil are siamese twins
6. Good could take creativity lessons from Evil.
7. Greatest evil in world- collective, inheritable sin
8. First remove Evil then start building good.
9. Life is hungry matter and edible too.
10. People lie because most truths are bad.
11. Lies are shortcuts from problems to solutions.
12. Means are swallowing aims and replacing them.
13. Bad septoism is seven words not wise
14. All great crises are crises of thinking
15. Wisdom of crowds lies in their diversity
16. Brainair- four parts realism, one part imagination.
17. Future is bright but not for Humanity.
18. Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges
19. Even the best religions are mainly suicidal.
20. We live in memecracies, ideas dominate us.
21. In need, solidarity becomes liquidarity even gasidarity.
22. Greek Gods ruling today: Ares, Hermes, Koalemos.
23. Human nature plus idealistic theories equal disaster.
24. Unlimited greed and ignorance lead to disaster.
25. The essence of human nature is discontent.
26. Perfectionism is dangerous, we need sustained perfectibilism.
27. I am not perfectionist but maximalist-perfectibilist
28. Astrology offends Human Intelligence but is Business
29. My favorite metasport is swimming counter-stream.
30. Old researchers need infinite and impossible tasks
31. I am a stubborn claustrophilic old man,
32. My unique brain has two left hemispheres.
33. My philosophy infinite interestingness and neutral negativity.
34. My work: new energies and problem solving.
35. My values: independent thinking and humanitarian spirit.
36. My religion: human evolution to godlike beings,
37. My aim: to solve humanity’s real problems.
38. My incurable illness is the Cassandra Syndrome.
39. Initiative is the greatest differentiator of humans.
40. Save the world with the Seriousyne vaccine!
41. Victories over your former Self are triumphs.
42. The Future Shock was amortized by irrationality.
43. The problems are here to be solved
44. Always find the Solution outside the Problem.
45. Thinking people have problems, the others troubles.
46. Religion can not be displaced, only replaced.
47. Parts and Whole is the insoluble problem.
48. NO is always more significant than YES.
49. You have success because you had success.
50. Idealism has three opposites materialism, realism and
      pragmatism,.
51. Atheism is the last step before negatheism.
52. Scipiology: how to convert disasters in triumphs.
53. Impotence in problem solving is called PROBLETENCE.
54. The cult of celebrities is the Disaster.
55. EGO-OUT: intellectual values lost when somebody dies.
56. Modes of thinking: prelogical, logical, superlogical, postlogical.
57. Anti-vaccine: perfect evil attacks imperfect good.
58. Sensational a cheap substitute for real knowledge.
59. Intelligence the ability to NOT mix viewpoints.
60. Good thinking- rejecting memes, addiction to facts.
61. The most common crime is attention theft.
62. Intellectual and bigot is like virgin whore.
63. Populism is moving the Center to Periphery
64.. Solar eclipses are rare, intellectual eclipses permanent
65.  We have to choose: decelebrization or decerebelization?
66. Anti-intellectualism is more against intellect than intellectuals
67. The 21st Century is the 12th, resurrected
68.  This new century has irreparable birth defects.
69. The world is grosso-modo an inverse meritocracy.
70. The world economy- a myriapode with Achilles Heels.
71.  Sacred is something you are allowed to kill for.
72. Avoid using intellectual aphrodisiacs in marketing, politics.
73.  Moneytheism is senseless, limitless adoration of money.
74.  Cultural high jump: bury the bar deeper!
75. Scam: one holiday equals 50 miserable everydays.
76. Starts the terminal phase of chronic anachronism.
77. Do not criticise theories, reality is erronated!


+1 Good taxonomies reveal deep cause-effect relationships.
+2  Differences in opinions attract only smart people.

There are 2 extra septoes because Nos 9  and 63 from the 
list are originally aphorisms of my friend Valeriu Butulescu
not my own ideas.

Friday, March 25, 2011

New septoe

I have to finish the 77 SEPTOES project soon.

Today I have added this to the list:

"Good thinking- rejecting memes, addiction to facts"

Thursday, February 3, 2011

Old septoes

I have selected for you today three interesting septoes (for the second I actually developed two alternative deviations from original, to fit it into the 7 words rule).

I see them as motivational, I hope you don't read them otherwise...

Enjoy!
Georgina

Fear is a darkroom where negatives develop.
Usman B. Asif

If things go wrong, don't follow them.
or...
If things go wrong, go another way.
adapted from the original (and best!): If things go wrong, don't go with them. Roger Babson

Today - the tomorrow we worried about yesterday.
Unknown

Friday, January 28, 2011

An other new septoe

I have also read with pleasure Gina's first septoes and I found inspiration to
add an other one, in fact a translation of a Valeriu Butulescu aphorism

"Populism is moving the Center to Periphery"

I wonder which is more socially noxious- populism or cult of celebrity,
taking in account their intensities, extension and effects on thinking.
Butulescu's statement is valid for both.

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Trying my first septoes

Let's see if I got this right. I should try to say something intelligent in only seven words. Whoever knows me for a long time, would agree that it is really difficult to restrain my tendency to express myself in words to only seven words per phrase. But this is exactly the challenge!

First that comes to mind is another way of defining a septoe, actually a very popular principle among communication gurus:
KISS principle - keep it short and simple!

Then another definition comes to mind - actual translation of a Romanian popular joke:
Indecision: wondering whether to wonder or not.


Now, let me try some thinking of my own now:
Flexibility: ending your phrase with a comma.
Life happens if you start living it.
Love will not fit into any schedule.
‘Change’ is just another word for ‘life’.
Devil doesn't need lawyer - he represents himself.
Trust should not be given, but gained.
“Never say never “ well… you just did!
Life has no cure – is always deadly.
My end, someone’s beginning; and vice versa.
Faith: having all the answers, without questions.
Mothers do not need arms to embrace.
Angels do not fall, they just are.
Parenthood isn’t easy or tough; just is.

That should be enough for one post.
I go to bed now and sleep well.
Coloured dreams -long sentences, no hidden meanings.
I wish you a good restful night!

Georgina Popescu

Tuesday, January 4, 2011

solar eclipse

Solar eclipse here- inspires me to think that:

"Solar eclipses are rare, intellectual eclipses permanen"

Almost permanent anyway and this is an effect of counter-education.
"Countereducation makes people ignorant, confused, scared, deluded, sinful, desperate, obedient- if possible.
Disfocussed - not able to think about serious problems and issues."

A terrific example of the local press; yesterday it was discussed with sadistic pleasure that a
supervolcano from Italy may destroy Europe- read- kill all the people. Nice, isn't it?

Monday, January 3, 2011

septoe re. SIN

"Greatest evil in world- collective, inheritable sin"

Perrhaps the most efficient invention of Evil, used by both dictatures and religions. Sinners ab ovo, by definition
even without any personal sins, before birth. Intense hatred's first axiom- sins deserve death as punishments. To define "intellectual genocides"

Sunday, January 2, 2011

septoe re cult of celebrities

An idea of yesterday, septoized:

"We have to choose: decelebrization or decerebelization"

There is an absolute contradiction between the cult of celebrities and
healthy, good thinking.

Thursday, December 23, 2010

New septoe:

"Anti-intellectualism is more against intellect than intellectuals."

It is extremely damaging, destructive, a leading cause of the painful regress of human thinking.
Well described in the Wikipedia:

Myriads of Reason-killers watching blood-thirsty, motivated by false Truths.

Tuesday, December 21, 2010

New septoe

"Old researchers need infinite and impossible tasks"

Friday, December 17, 2010

New septoe

A new septoe, now:

"The 21st Century is the 12th, resurrected"

Thursday, December 16, 2010

First project here: 77 SEPTOES





"EGO-OUT: intellectual values lost when somebody dies" this defines what my blog is about in the form of a septoe.


Septoes is a literary genre invented by Edward de Bono- to tell something wise, if possible in seven
words. De Bono has not developed septoes and I have lead a project 50 septoes for some three years not thoroughly enough. Some of my ideas or ideas of other people that have influenced me
are here. The order is chronological and will be made logical when there are 77 validated septoes

The raw list of my septoes:

1.Wisdom of crowds lies in their diversity
2. The Good and Evil are siamese twins
3.The Universe feeds our insatiable curiosity forever
4. Human rights are threatened by Human Privileges
5. Bad septoism is seven words not wise
6. All great crises are crises of thinking
7.The Universe is obsessed to be interesting.
8.Brainair- four parts realism, one part imagination.
9.My favorite metasport is swimming counter-stream.
10.Future is bright but not for Humanity.
11. Astrology offends Human Intelligence but is Business.
12. Even the best religions are mainly suicidal.
13.We live in memecracies, ideas dominate us.
14. Means are swallowing aims and replacing them.
14. People lie because most truths are bad.
15. In need solidarity becomes liquidarity even gasidarity.
16. Greek Gods ruling today: Ares, Hermes, Koalemos.
17. Initiative is the greatest differentiator of humans.
18. Perfectionism is dangerous, we need sustained perfectibilism.
18a I am not perfectionist but maximalist-perfectibilist
19. Good could take creativity lessons from Evil.
20. Evolution is the inherent perfectibility of Nature.
21. Save the world with the Seriousyne vaccine!
25. Human nature plus idealistic theories equal disaster.
26. Unlimited greed and ignorance lead to disaster.
27. Life is hungry matter and edible too.
28. Victories over your former Self are triumphs.
29, The Future Shock was amortized by irrationality.
30. Lies are shortcuts from problems to solutions.
31. The essence of human nature is discontent.
32. First remove Evil then start building good.
33. Always find the Solution outside the Problem.
34. Thinking people have problems, the others troubles.
35. Religion can not be displaced, only replaced.
36. My unique brain has two left hemispheres.
37. Parts and Whole is the insoluble problem.
38. NO is always more significant than YES.
39. You have success because you had success.
40.. Idealism has three opposites materialism, realism and pragmatism,.
41. Atheism is the last step before negatheism.
42. I am a stubborn claustrophilic old man,
43, My philosophy infinite interestingness and neutral negativity.
44. My work: new energies and problem solving.
45. My values: independent thinking and humanitarian spirit.
46. My religion: human evolution to godlike beings,
47. My aim: to solve humanity’s real problems.
48 Scipiology: how to convert disasters in triumphs.
.
49. Problem solving plus impotence is called PROBLETENCE.
50. The cult of celebrities is the Disaster.
51. EGO-OUT: intellectual values lost when somebody dies.
52. Modes of thinking: prelogical, logical, superlogical, postlogical.
53. My incurable illness is the Cassandra Syndrome.
54. The problems are here to be solved.
55. Anti-vaccine: perfect evil attacks imperfect good.
56. Sensational a cheap substitute for real knowledge.
57. Intelligence the ability to NOT mix viewpoints.

Next year when this blog will work full steam, I will explain these ideas and others and will discuss with you my original system of real-life problem solving based on neutral negativity.