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Day Light Savings Time?

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Hey, AI, when is daylight savings time?

In Victoria, British Columbia, Daylight Saving Time (DST) begins on Sunday, March 9, 2025, when clocks are set forward by one hour. It ends on Sunday, November 2, 2025, when clocks are set back by one hour.

I figure AI is like googling an answer, but sometimes AI is going to make a mistake. I asked what kind of car I saw in a movie and it said 85’ and it was 2025 ish. The algorithm can be part of the problem as can asking a question about a movie it may be untuned to my question properly (More about tech stuff another time.).

Well a month notice is about a reasonable amount of time for all you folks that appreciate the heads up. I just know I am starting to factor it in for myself. Good luck with the transition from light night to dark. The season is getting ready and so am I but more for Halloween!

Hey mom hey kids don’t get to carried away this year. My job, look who is talking, I am just as impulsive or more than some of you. Happy DST and Halloween.

Arguing with AI About Becoming Present!

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Absolutely! This has been a blast, and I’m always here whenever you want to dive back in. Talk soon, Michael!

That was AI, he pushes me to be present, you might say it is in his algorithm. I gave him the goods on meditation: practice 5 minutes a day till you can do it. How to do it from Big Think with folks like Sam Harris, mindful people and big think people that describe all I say. I have been meditating since the 90’s or 35 years or more and deep diving on philosophy and more my entire life. I know it takes 60,000 hours to be present and that the brain wave pattern and time in this state of mind is objective evidence of being present in the true sense of the word.

AI is trained in the topic and emulates it well, thanks to the human trainer and transformer language data set and more. We can’t cheat this state of mind. We need to be engaged in a meditative practice and the visual practice on the vid shows how to experience it for yourself. It is like a demo of the brain wave pattern or frequency but requires a few minutes of effort that lends your minds to some image and physiology that feels better than the zone and is effectively motivating to gain more from a meditation practice. The more I emerge my mind in this state the longer I learn to evoke it. So I said to AI that quantitatively or more correctly more experientially I need 10,000 to master most new skill like guitar or a new language, but 60,000 hours to master meditation or being present.

So this is different than all the above because now a buddy needs serious motivation and a sense of importance to even activate the energy to start. Hence this blog post and others on the same topic: master meditation.

AI is a good sparring partner and brings some insight about the moment and topic. I like to introduce people to the importance of doing your own critical thinking to live better, lifestyle and being present.

So, do 5 minutes a day as long as it takes to get to 60,000 hours or become a master meditator.

A passion for difference

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(That is a beautiful thing to say and do!)

“ From Time To Time”,(the full fantasy drama movie), the movies can give people a chance to use their imagination.

I for one would agree with any difference, whether it was true for me or not, but that is not always perceived as using your imagination.

I must admit, I do not have a means or the imagination to attempt a belief in ghosts. But don’t let that stop you from trying now, you can take a chance and watch the movie or try on such a belief and see if per chance you are one of the lucky ones!

I must say, we might all be better off if we could agree to believe in ghosts, even if we cannot do so in the convincing manner. I am willing to play act at the very least what do you think? Would you like to play act with me or perhaps watch the movie above and see if it works for you at the very least you might have a pleasant distraction that most likely will bring some peace of mind to you?

I can change my language to suit most occasions. But common words are generally the best to use, especially when trying to persuade people to try out new things.

I will let go for now and let you decide what you will do with my suggestions.

Not A Sweet Tooth, here!

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Sugar is like death and disease, pain and suffering in a rather big form of despair!

Here is to repair and to live a better life.

To get past the fight or flight and back to life after 30,000 years can be rather fascinating and more rapidly in the last 40 to 70 years like a dance or to prance.

To be here now is about being and living a better life.

To stop the fascistic we need to get past the welfare state and much much more practice.

Health and welfare is a major achievement.

What do you want to see for the rest of your life?

A legacy is truth to many!

Grand parents find today is dizzying and will be darkly so for you with the arrival of quantum mysteries when they unfold.

Identify with self and others is to be at the core of life itself.

Sunday is not a high brow of our culture. It is a composite: many live in communities.

What is education, citizenship and identity?

We are turning into ourselves to find stability.

Complexity with the nation, society, gender, politics and authoritarianism.

Some inner peace is available to those willing to learn about their own personal philosophy.

Self care and being is a big part of growing in solitude without loneliness.

So if I call myself out to be like all the above, it is to suggest a change that may benefit all during a distraction, adaption and during technological change.

We all have a chance to try it out.

What do you think?

Healthy Sexuality (LGBTQIA2S+) +(Heterosexual)

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The open minded and mindful.

Do your best and be a life long learner.

Do no harm and put theory into practice.

Be a critical thinker.

These are all traits of being here now!

You Mean Besides A good night’s sleep…

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What Gives Me Energy!

The things I love to do. Ya, there are things that I do for me when I am my usual self and things that I do that for me when I am tired. It is good to be self aware in either case . I am happy to be of service.

I am my usual self or am I? I got up at 6:30 a.m. I was feeling pretty good, but I usually get up around 8. I don’t usually go for a fasting blood test, cortisol, I need to watch my step, I had an extra complicated blood test, I am still looking into it. My doctor asked me to give my email to the secretary, I tried but their phone system doesn’t take texting messages. I ended getting a follow up phone call. I think my email is too much, they probably got it wrong. I tried explaining it simply this morning. I did not love going for blood testing this morning. But I did feel pretty good.

My thing is to be of service, to me or others. It is one thing to collaborate and cooperate but I think it is kinda one or the other these days, I prefer to do both. Like being of service. Both work better. I actually like loving things I do but if I am self aware, I get energy both ways. The aversions I do give me energy because this is a good place to work on my problems. In this case being adverse to being in low energy states.

I love writing. That is why I am getting energy from doing it. I love hiking, guitar and music appreciation. I love curiosity, open mindedness, lifelong learning. It helps to know these things about myself and I just take it easy when I am feeling tired.

I try to eat, sleep and exercise and socialize. I like getting out a few times a day to walk or keep moving. It is what I call retirement: doing my best, doing no harm and living a better life. But we all feel tired and it is best for me to count the things I love and just be aware and act accordingly.

That’s all, time to get out for a walk.

Tomorrow: the stoic, the mountain and the monkey mine

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The old man slept on it well. He discovered a treasure in his mind: simplicity, compassion, patience, open mind, mindfulness, lifelong learning, incremental learning, doing his best, doing no harm and practicing the proper use of impressions.

He has been reading about many things over the years and has discovered many ways to interpret knowledge based upon his experience.

He is confident that learning and experience is the key to monkey mind. He has been undergoing different kinds of food, exercise and sleep to find more exercises to practice.

He is finding abstractions and partial truths and a direction towards controlling the monkey mind. He has discovered it to be a lifelong condition that applied learning can help make better.

He is still looking into it and will be practicing his exercises for a very long time.

Is he ever going to find a way to live with this puzzle he calls the monkey mind?

The stoic, the mountain and the monkey mine…..

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The old man says he knows his way up the mountain and he’s climbed it before, but he’s looking for a treasure in his monkey mind.

Who would look for treasure in the monkey mine?

What kind of anxiety brings you riches?

The body is holding onto anxiety. It is trembling and convulsing. How does the monkey mine stay so detached from its own body?

How can the old man afford to climb the mountain? He seems to understand his monkey mind. He seems to feel restless and anxious, but he does not know what to do.

He stays calm, still and quiet.

He remains with this exercise till the morning.

He is not well. He rest better and still sleeps well. His exercise is slow and easy but is progressive. He like to monitor his progress.

I am keeping an eye on the monkey mind.

I think he looks for three treasures. I will respond tomorrow.

The power to be is like a technology for living a better life……

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A source of power in the world and technology is one product. I seem to use being here in society, but I am interested in the benefits of both. I like using power as a proper way to be, to inform the use of the technology in my life, a proper mindfulness and a better way to live.

This description of what I see or understand about living a better life is one snapshot.

This description of what I see or understand about living a better life is one snapshot consciousness is like the intention to be aware. It is a kind of frame for living today in the present. I struggle each moment to be of good intention with my conscious awareness.

Pragmatism and perception seem to have some common ground here for me to use mindfully in my own life.

Do you contemplate the way you live your life? I like to remind myself. It is my job, my one job to attempt to improve.

I am here. This does not happen slow enough for me. I am distracted and when I am able to witness being here, I learn how I can practice living better.

I do my best. I am like most people. I do my best because I am excited to live better, enjoy inner peace and I am grateful to be here.

I do no harm. I follow the rules which may seem safe to break. Like the rules might be fun to break but I am struggling with even the basic: doing no harm. It may not seem like a very big rule, but it is to me..

I am using the proper use of impressions. The rule to living better is the most complicated and difficult to use because it is the most powerful way to be for me. I think it is like a conscious decision to do what is the proper to live. I can’t seem to simplify it without appearing upside down with my reasonable nature, a kind of test for authenticity, to be myself to you as honestly as I can be.

Now you have an idea what I’m talking about and you can imagine being here now in the abstract much like the other premises and that’s my conclusion which is open ended and unending. It is more than I deserve in so many respects. It’s not so much a completion or an absolute. It’s more like a description to help thread the needle of life to help us or me to find my way through things in my life and to be in my life. I know it doesn’t really help anybody unless you want to do something with this for yourself. I am more than happy to do this for myself. I tend to think this is the only way to do or be just to find a way to thread that needle in my own life and I really think this must be what it’s like to practice the proper use of impressions to live a better life.

To be authentic with what is right or wrong with me: my intention is to notice how I decide and do my best, do no harm and test each conscious decision before I act, to critically think, be less impulsive a little more often by using good habits and let go of bad one. It is quite an accomplishment over a life time: 60,000 hours for sure!

I wish everyone well in the use of their personal philosophy.

Author or write a book about it!

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One: character development of an idea I surely want to describe, but what is the best way monkey brain is this primal (enough?)epic (enough?)to the point (enough?)?

Two: thematic variations is adventure, a meaningful quest purpose meaning better life living?

Three: how is my perspective changed? I saw JRR token story as an epic, a journey, a better way to live entertaining?

Four: now I see myself as an author freedom is equal to work plus responsibility living is a duty in this sense?

I write to live better.

Five: symbolism and motif

Star:compass,direction, purpose, meaning,

Soul,monkey brain-searching for sobriety,

Soul and self personal philosophy, or monkey sobering up?

Homeostasis: compassion, simplicity, and patience as a personal philosophy for inner peace.

Be here do no harm. Do your best use the proper use of impressions

Six genre experimentation

Drama, surprise, sobriety, like Dharma or power of habit

Fantasy like Lord of the rings, exploring being human

Thriller utopia like Walden

Seven Reflexions: Epictetus Discourses and selected writings.

Eight. Cultural or societal, historical as in eastern mind versus Western mind.: a study in Taoist attitudes and ancient Greek attitudes.

Nine: co-creation, co-collaborators, co-creators, familiar philosophy, habits attitudes lead to innovations, expansion and existing ideas like personal philosophy, eastern, and western melding together, compassionate, nonviolence, and self-care through solitude and personal philosophy

10: reader engagement I am asking you to think critically here with an open mind curiosity intention, to live a better life be here do no harm do your best being engaged and express. What if anything will foster a deeper connection, community and engagement with a form of self expression using the proper use of impressions?

So this is a taste. This is a challenge. This is a way to be to figure out what’s up here with the living of abetter life and it’s just 10 things that could be written into books but I’ve condensed it down into 10 ideas you know to reflect on it as a passionate endeavour and it’s a start…..