Poor

Obviously people are dealt very different starting hands.

But still,  in general, why are there poor people?

This is just an exploratory note, but it seems that:

- Those who are satisfied with being poor stay that way

- Those who are not satisfied with being poor:

  - either work their way and become not-poor (usually 20~30 years is good enough), or

  - work hard but don't actually take/accept take the chances given to them to become not poor (surprisingly common in my experience -- is this due to a genuine lack of insight or a subconscious rejection?)

  - harm themselves by trying too hard via so called "greedy" ways (or more precisely, less-than-zero-sum methods), or

  - bicker and complain but don't do anything (this can arguably be categorized into the satisfied camp)

The real question is, are there exceptions to these case? I can't think of any, but I have access to so little empirical data.

王陽明

朋友講起先發現，原來陽明心學就係「主觀事實」。良知係「愛」（同埋 intuition），知行合一係「愛就係選擇」。

That said 條友經過科舉洗禮係唔同啲，佢嘅《大學問》可以超譯到咁多嘢出嚟真係痴線。本身明清兩代偏重「四書」搞到《大學》頭幾句咁多詮譯，佢可以夾硬將「定義自己」呢個課題塞入去，不愧為一代大哲。

但我比較有興趣嘅係佢啲武功、氣功、同埋魔法⋯ "友人王思典等來訪先生命侯過之且歷語其本貢似先知者眾驚異以為得道久之先生悟曰此義弄精魄非道也"

無我

呢個世界係冇魔法嘅，所有神奇都來自「我」。準確啲講，唔係「世界定義嘅我」，而係比「我」更深層嘅，「世界源頭嘅我」。

所以，貌似係，作為假定嘅係：如果你在意其他人點睇自己，咁你就係主動將「外在世界」輸入咗自己度。記住「外在世界」係冇乜魔法嘅，越在意外在，人自身嘅力量就越薄弱。

例如進入咗所謂「flow state」嗰陣，「自我意識」減少，心無雜念，只專注諗做要做嗰樣嘢，效果會特別強大。

雜念唔係純粹對專注力嘅干擾，亦都會直接干擾結果。意識同潛意識都會嘗試構築呢啲雜念所代表嘅世界，會選擇呢啲雜念所代表嘅世界，然後，大概唔會出現你最想要嘅世界。如果你做嘢嗰陣諗住世界會點樣「睇」你，就好似俾幾十億人捉住你隻手，基本上你係會冇咗自主力，亦都會失去「我」獨有嘅神奇。

不過留意嘅係，世俗嘅「我」其實都係呢個世界嘅產物。「我」嘅思想、價值觀、欲望，大概都係呢個世界嘅產物。排除咗呢啲之後，先有機會實踐比較強大嘅魔法。

然後，點樣排除世界加諸於「我」嘅一切呢？我諗，唯有靠最純粹嘅「愛」。

孫子兵法講「先知」

《孫子》曰：先知者，不可取于鬼神，不可象于事，不可驗于度；必取于人，知敵之情者也。

計埋孔子唔講鬼神，睇嚟主流魔法喺兩千五百年前已經消失咗。

點解魔法會消失都真係一個千古之謎嚟，仍然要研究研究。

Schrödinger 老師

“Consciousness cannot be accounted for in physical terms. For consciousness is absolutely fundamental. It cannot be accounted for in terms of anything else.”

― Erwin Schrödinger

He apparently "believes" in "entropy" (might as well call it Prana or Qi), but I suppose he still has a good connection to the Source of Truth.

 https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/189820.Erwin_Schr_dinger#:~:text=%E2%80%9CIf%20a%20man%20never%20contradicts,never%20says%20anything%20at%20all.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CThe%20present%20is%20the%20only%20things%20that%20has%20no%20end.%E2%80%9D&text=%E2%80%9CThe%20scientist%20only%20imposes%20two,himself%20and%20upon%20other%20scientists.%E2%80%9D

巫卜

講起巫卜，原來西方巫卜都幾好睇 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divination

而家有網絡，睇咁多資料，結論真係「你信嘅話就會work」，甚至未必需要搵其他人做。（任何嘢都係可以自己做，不過專業人士嘅配套工作通常會做得齊啲咁。）

歷史上講巫卜嘅紀錄真係多不勝數，講真古人唔係 on9 嘅，如果真係完全唔 work 冇人會搞咁多花款。固然會有啲係江湖術士呃飯食，但其實我懷疑個mechanism係只要受者真心相信，個媒界自己係唔係騙子都未必有咩關係。（尤其係 MC 形式嘅巫卜，你要特登揀「錯」嘅答案真係唔易㗎⋯）

That said，單靠鬼神嘅力量係咪真係比人類更強，我係有少少懷疑嘅。巫卜喺人類歷史被淘汰，可見鬼神嘅影響未及人類自身嘅社會組織，起碼明刀明槍嘅巫卜冇咩特別嘅優勢。

最強大嘅力量，似乎反而係要靠本人自己嘅能力先發揮到出嚟。

Youtube

The youtube recommendation algorithm has mad, mystical powers. At least for me.

Perhaps sometimes you don't really need a full human-equivalent agent to do clairvoyance or fortune telling...