Features

Good-natured frivolity may crown great accomplishments, hidden or in the open.

By many rustic, yet tall enough features or counter-demagoguery we may enter and combat the current wave-lengths of cold Midas propaganda. The way takes off from such as: (1) Ask for good evidence; (2) Find finer answers to "How?" How? Use heuristics, for example. Proficient study should help too.

Playing man, Homo ludens

That homo sapiens is subservient to homo ludens, playing man, is a conviction that is found in the education camp. It is much true in the light of how la dolce vita (life, sweet life) is had: By hard work first, getting rid of such as bad neighbours and false friends, making over-all conditions serve life and play, maybe for your own, good children. There is a progression into valued play.

What is odious

It is good to stick to natural delights and keep some good enough assets and ample tact intact. Mind what is banned and what is permitted, and consider what is apparently wrong too.

Saturday Rest

The Lord said to Moses about an old man who had been picking up wood on a Saturday: "The man must die. The whole assembly must stone him outside the camp." So the assembly took him outside the camp and stoned him to death, as the Lord commanded Moses. [Numbers 15:32-6]

In other places you read it is a thing called "mercy" he wants. And then Sunday became a day of rest instead, leaving Christians to work on Saturday . . .

Better see what you are up to and try to make hay while the sun shines.

Sayings

Talk much, and err much. (British proverb)

Much of value can be robbed by slogans and tenets.

Fools may invent foul mind fashions (-isms) too.

Gullible ones sometimes believe as they have been told, and seldom learn to ask pertinent questions that back up themselves.

Have plenty of that self-control that does not maim yourself and lovable natures.

Gullible and half-hypnotised young ones believe much, and often to their loss.

Invisible beings at home

"When invited by invisible beings one should be neither flattered nor satisfied, for there is yet a possibility of ignorance . . . [cf. Yoga sutras 3.50-51]

"By self-control on the form of a body, by suspending perceptibility and separating effulgence therefrom, there arises invisibility and inaudibility." - [Yoga sutras 3.21]