What People Say

When you’re not in the room, how do people behave differently? Rotate people in and out in your mind, as if there were a parallel universe for each combination of personalities. Given the same conversation, the same set of circumstances, the same topic of discussion, what is said or not said, how do people act, depending on who’s there?

Meta Sports

Sports are “meta” because in and of themselves they are nothing. The winner of the big game is the winner of the big game. There is no other accomplishment. Whatever sports mean, it has nothing to do whatsoever with who scores.

Meta-Meta

According to a heavily-flagged article in Wikipedia, Meta-epistemology is a metaphilosophical study of the subject, matter, methods and aims of epistemology and of approaches to understanding and structuring our knowledge of knowledge itself.

Put more simply, meta-epistemology might be meta-meta, right? That would make metaphilosophical (sic) meta-meta-meta, or what we think about what we think about what we think about things. Again right?

By the way, all these “meta” words should be hyphenated. One exception appears to be metacognition, which may be hyphenated or not, I’m guessing for no good meta-reason.

Metacognition

Metacognition is the awareness of one’s mental processes, knowledge about one’s own thinking, of the factors that influence one’s own thought.

Networking

Networking is the act of creating connections among computers or people so they can share information.

Networking is very meta.

Body Rebuilding

Exercise is remedial.

The Meta of Self

Wise preachers say God loves you as if you were the only person on earth, the jewel in the crown of his creation, the superlative of your best notions of yourself.

You are magnificent. Behave as if God exists.

For No One's Eyes Only

When persons who know each other intimately die--all those friends and lovers from past eras--what happens to their private moments together, their shared secrets?

Why Bother?

If the thing itself is more true than the art which represents it, why art?

Working for a Living

Your job should be like your home.

There You Are

Right now, this is all there is.