According to poll, noone of geirknappen blog readers cares about sports, but I am going to write about it anyway just to bother my most dedicated, and almost only blog reader: JakobR. In a post late November, I wrote that I had begun with sports: qwan ki do and underwater rugby (uwr). Geir + uwr is the most unsuccessful combination: the water in the swimming pool is too cold, and I always start to freeze after about 30 minutes, no matter how active I am. In addition: I am not so clever at holding my breath. If you thought uwr; wrestling with scantily clad people to get a ball and put it in a goal, was a bit erotic, then you were wrong, very wrong. Anyway... I plan to participate once a week.
Geir + Qwan ki do is a less unsuccessful combination. I used to look forward to it for a period. The dance-like ting I learned, is not a dance, but a pattern, and it has a purpose: it helps you remember the moves. The master often sent me to corner to practise these patterns, since I was a little behind when it came to knowing them. Today I was a little disappointed when I learned that the master had taught me wrong, at least some details were wrong. "You were not supposed to move your left arm first, instead of the right arm", and so on. I hereby confirm that I know no patterns technically correct. There will be a sports gathering on 27th of February, and the master has for the occasion given me the honorable task to demonstrate how to be beaten up by my qwan ki do -fellowmen.
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The book... I have had an idea for the book lately: to find a general rule for what kind of conditions that is needed for something to fail or succeed. I have only found some conditions for failure: Noone has taught you have to succeed. Someone have taught you wrong. The chance that you would find out for yourself what had to be done to succeed, was limited. The ambitions were to big; more than one should expect. I am open to suggestions from my blog readers.
mandag 11. januar 2010
tirsdag 5. januar 2010
And Yoda said...
"Patience"
What did Yoda really mean? Having patience is an unpleasant feeling? Having impatience is also an unpleasant feeling? Maybe it is just impatience that is the unpleasant feeling, while patience is not? Maybe it is opposite?
Although I imagine patience as a positive thing, I have nothing in my wisdom book about patience. I am open to suggestions from my blog readers about what they think of as wise opinions about patience, that should be noted in the book.
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Yesterday I trained qwan ki do, It was only me and the master who had come. Today I feel it in my muscles that I have trained a bit hard, but that will pass. Anthropology lectures will not begin until the end of the month. I have been thinking lately that it could be wise to get in advance when it comes to studying, but motivation is missing, I should probably try to find it.
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According to geirknappen polls, my blog readers want to hear about romance, and it would be fair that I mentioned the topic one more time. If no romance occurs in 2010, my conlusion will probably be that I have the unexplainable personality atribute X, which makes me unsuitable boyfriend material in my current surroundings (Norwegian culture?).
What did Yoda really mean? Having patience is an unpleasant feeling? Having impatience is also an unpleasant feeling? Maybe it is just impatience that is the unpleasant feeling, while patience is not? Maybe it is opposite?
Although I imagine patience as a positive thing, I have nothing in my wisdom book about patience. I am open to suggestions from my blog readers about what they think of as wise opinions about patience, that should be noted in the book.
...
Yesterday I trained qwan ki do, It was only me and the master who had come. Today I feel it in my muscles that I have trained a bit hard, but that will pass. Anthropology lectures will not begin until the end of the month. I have been thinking lately that it could be wise to get in advance when it comes to studying, but motivation is missing, I should probably try to find it.
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According to geirknappen polls, my blog readers want to hear about romance, and it would be fair that I mentioned the topic one more time. If no romance occurs in 2010, my conlusion will probably be that I have the unexplainable personality atribute X, which makes me unsuitable boyfriend material in my current surroundings (Norwegian culture?).
fredag 1. januar 2010
2010
To all who thought that yesterdays blog post was the last: you were tricked. This was the exact thing you were thinking: " the last blog post of hopeless-Geir... NOOOOOOOOO!"
I wonder what 2010 will bring. The future is to some extent unpredictable, and to some extent predictable. I think it is quite predictable that I will not experience to have any luck; I am more likely to experience that obstacles and bad luck will find their way to me. To anticipate some obstacles that may occur, is probably possible, but to anticipate all obstacles is impossible. I am prepared for anything.
No matter how pessimistic it may sound, I think it is predictable that I will not meet anyone that will understand me as a person that is wise and full of experience, in a manner that she will be fascinated by me, and maybe even develop a romantic interest for me. I guess that most people understand me as someone who most certainly is not afraid to walk outside the path most people walk. Maybe they would evaluate whether it is wise to stand out from the crowd, and maybe they would come to the conlusion that, they at least, will not try to stand out. I can undrestand why people would prefer to be part of the crowds "innocent" anonymity: it is more safe and it is easier to have things in common with people. The one who stands out, risk to end up as a lonely person. The one who choose the crowds anonymity, risk to not be his real true self; to be a fake person.
I have a hypothesis why there are so many divorces in the world: When two people who think they are romantically interested in eachother meet, they radiate themselves as ideal characters, and after a X amount of time they reveal their true self, example: The man prefers to watch footall instead of taking account of the guest that the woman has invited.
I see the wisdom in beeing ones true self. Geirs true self is dominated a little by complex philosophical thinking. Almost every position and opinon Geir has, is according to me, based on the most solid of argumentation. Be aware that many of Geirs logical reasonings are deductive, which means that a conclusion stays because all premises are proven to be true.But I am still willing to let myself be influenced by others if they can argue for that their suggestions leads to something that is good and beneficial. If a person were trained like the Greek philosophers were trained by the sophists to lead a discussion or a dialogue, then it is a small chance that person may influence Geir's opininons.
This became a rather messy blog post. Romance is a non-topic for Geirs blog 2010 because speculations regarding such a topic, can according to wisdom book, most likely not lead to anything good. Don't take any advice from Geir regarding romance. One can appreciate a person for a reason as simple as: he/she is cozy and fun to be around.
I wonder what 2010 will bring. The future is to some extent unpredictable, and to some extent predictable. I think it is quite predictable that I will not experience to have any luck; I am more likely to experience that obstacles and bad luck will find their way to me. To anticipate some obstacles that may occur, is probably possible, but to anticipate all obstacles is impossible. I am prepared for anything.
No matter how pessimistic it may sound, I think it is predictable that I will not meet anyone that will understand me as a person that is wise and full of experience, in a manner that she will be fascinated by me, and maybe even develop a romantic interest for me. I guess that most people understand me as someone who most certainly is not afraid to walk outside the path most people walk. Maybe they would evaluate whether it is wise to stand out from the crowd, and maybe they would come to the conlusion that, they at least, will not try to stand out. I can undrestand why people would prefer to be part of the crowds "innocent" anonymity: it is more safe and it is easier to have things in common with people. The one who stands out, risk to end up as a lonely person. The one who choose the crowds anonymity, risk to not be his real true self; to be a fake person.
I have a hypothesis why there are so many divorces in the world: When two people who think they are romantically interested in eachother meet, they radiate themselves as ideal characters, and after a X amount of time they reveal their true self, example: The man prefers to watch footall instead of taking account of the guest that the woman has invited.
I see the wisdom in beeing ones true self. Geirs true self is dominated a little by complex philosophical thinking. Almost every position and opinon Geir has, is according to me, based on the most solid of argumentation. Be aware that many of Geirs logical reasonings are deductive, which means that a conclusion stays because all premises are proven to be true.But I am still willing to let myself be influenced by others if they can argue for that their suggestions leads to something that is good and beneficial. If a person were trained like the Greek philosophers were trained by the sophists to lead a discussion or a dialogue, then it is a small chance that person may influence Geir's opininons.
This became a rather messy blog post. Romance is a non-topic for Geirs blog 2010 because speculations regarding such a topic, can according to wisdom book, most likely not lead to anything good. Don't take any advice from Geir regarding romance. One can appreciate a person for a reason as simple as: he/she is cozy and fun to be around.
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