Happy New Land

Quoting an example of medical jargon:

ABIN-1 regulates RIPK1 activation by linking Met1 ubiquitylation with
Lys63 deubiquitylation in TNF-RSC pp58 - 68
Slawomir A. Dziedzic, Zhenyi Su, Vica Jean Barrett, Ayaz Najafov,
Adnan K. Mookhtiar, Palak Amin, Heling Pan, Li Sun, Hong Zhu, Averil Ma,
Derek W. Abbott & Junying Yuan
doi:10.1038/s41556-017-0003-1
Dziedzic et al. show that the ubiquitin-binding protein ABIN-1 is
recruited into TNFR1 signalling complex in a manner dependent on
Met1-ubiquitinating complex LUBAC to regulate K63 de-ubiquitination
to activate RIPK1.

I suppose it is risky to use a quote that someone out there understands, as an example of the border of verbal coherence,(and thereby misses my point) but that edge, in my mind, reminded me of something Jan said, and, continuing our holiday freedom to repeat his words, I will share Jan's thought:

There is an actual physical component in blood that affects mystical attention.

A Solstice Surprise

A few words now in celebration of today's solstice event. I am quoting Jan Cox. Normally I avoid this in any large amount since this blog celebrates the HOW he showed his students, the how of orienting your attention, and remembering.  Original thinking was a big part of this, and so that is what I do in this blog.  Not for its own sake, but because original thinking helps loosen the grasp of the mechanical cerebrations that are an  aspect of the planet.

Today though, a little holiday:

It was in the 1970s the Jan Cox mentioned to his students that the state of religion, at least in the western world, was "putrefied." He did not seem to think the way established religions operated then, could be reversed.

And in the 1990's he said, "Now people have nowhere to go." Both comments illuminate current events.  Especially the last, since it speaks to the planet as a whole. A glimpse of history shows migration as a common, maybe defining, process. "Now people have nowhere to go."

One more, and this will confound many. In the 1980s he said there is not life elsewhere in the universe, and there are no extraterrestrials. My take on this is that the strength and recurrence of sentiments in favor of such scenarios, speaks to a basic urge in human nature. Of course Jan also said, there is no god.

"There is no god that you can name."

You can't talk about hormones

Not really. Your words will be from the mind, the hormones have no words to explain themselves.

And this points to the reality that the influence of hormones on activity is rarely even mentioned, and so, the myth of rational behavior, flourishes. It is of course necessary for the evolution of folks--- that they think they are self-directed actors.

But remembering the behavior of alpha wolves, explains a lot of what is in the headlines lately. The alpha wolf takes what he wants.  Now of course, when caught out, there is no story, response, excuse, that sounds right, because speech is not really involved.  Most people can I believe, sense the yucky in these verbal apologies.

Not that my explanation is meant to be encompassing. Just a strand of insight. And here, is a jolly example of ---- alpha geese.

Anglophone philosophy

"Apes don't read philosophy."

"Oh yes they do, Otto, they just don't understand it."

Perchance to -

So yesterday in a used book store I found a philosophy book that had an old lover's name in it.  I must say, I had excellent taste in cads. And now, today, the song du jour has these lines: I bet you think this song is about you.  

The meaning of timelessness

https://blog.oup.com/2017/10/confucius-philosophy-infographic/?

To ponder.

What can one say to ordinary consciousness

Anger
never
clarifies.
It
can only
obscure
at the
level
of a person.
There is
a
structural
building
function
when
anger is
viewed
long
term:
after
the angry
individual is
gone.

Except
for the
fact
struggling
against
one's own
helps
clear the
fog.