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14: Motion Perception (cont'd)
MIT 9.35 Perception, Spring 2024 Instructor: Josh McDermott View the complete course: https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/9-35-perception-spring-2024 YouTube Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP62-9RweyYBIpkqfo5dfcuS8 Continues discussion of how the brain uses input from cones to draw conclusions about the world. License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA More information at https://ocw.mit.edu/terms More courses at https://ocw.mit.edu Support OCW at http://ow.ly/a1If50zVRl We encourage constructive comments and discussion on OCW’s YouTube and other social media channels. Personal attacks, hate speech, trolling, and inappropriate comments are not allowed and may be removed. More details at https://ocw.mit.edu/comments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 1 hr 21 min
ReligionForBreakfast
Mandaeism: The Last Gnostic Religion?
All footage of Mandaeans used under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license and is attributed to the University of Exeter "Worlds of Mandaean Priests" project: http://mandaeanpriests.exeter.ac.uk/the-mandaeans Uploaded 25-11-20 Join our Patreon community!: https://patreon.com/religionforbreakfast One-time donations here!: https://www.paypal.me/religionforbreakfast Join my 15-person online seminars here: https://www.speakeasy.com/speaker/andrew-henry Check out my favorite religious studies books: https://www.amazon.com/shop/religionforbreakfast Bibliography: Charles G. Haberl, "Mandaeism in Antiquity and the Antiquity of Mandaeism," Religion Compass 6/5 (2012), 262-276. Charles G. Haberl, “The Aramaic Incantation Texts as Witnesses to the Mandaic Scriptures,” in Scribal Practices and the Social Construction of Knowledge in Antiquity, Late Antiquity, and Medieval Islam, (Peeters: Leuven, Paris, Bristol, 2017). E. S. Drower, The Mandaeans of Iraq and Iran (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2002 reprint, 1937). E. S. Drower, The Secret Adam: A Study of Nasoraean Gnosis (Oxford: Clarendon, 1960). Edwin M. Yamauchi, Mandaic Incantation Texts (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2005 reprint, 1967). Edwin M. Yamauchi, Gnostic Ethics and Mandaean Origins (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2004 reprint, 1970). Kurt Rudolph, Gnosis: The Nature and History of Gnosticism (San Francisco: Harper, 1987) pages 343-366. Edmondo Lupieri, The Mandaeans: The Last Gnostics (Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 2002). Jorunn Jacobesn Buckley, The Mandaeans: Ancient Texts and Modern People (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley, The Great Stem of Souls: Reconstruction Mandaean History (Piscataway: Gorgias Press, 2005). Sabah Aldihisi, “The Story of Creation in the Mandaean Holy Book the Ginza Rba,” PhD Dissertation, University College London, https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1444088/1/U591390.pdf Mandaic Language, Encyclopedia Iranica: https://iranicaonline.org/articles/mandaeans-5-language Mandaean Book of John: https://hcommons.org/deposits/item/hc:28595/ Images Credits: John the Baptist Icon: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Meister_von_Gracanica_(I)_001.jpg Palmyrene: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmyrene_alphabet#/media/File:Palmyrenisch.jpg Holy Spirit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Spirit#/media/File:Rom,_Vatikan,_Basilika_St._Peter,_Die_Taube_des_Heiligen_Geistes_(Cathedra_Petri,_Bernini).jpg Gospel of Truth: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%C2%B7_Papiro_17_del_Codex_I_o_Code_Jung,_conteniendo_una_parte_del_Evangelio_de_la_Verdad_(NHC_I,3_)_%C2%B7.png Incantation Bowl w/ figure: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incantation_bowl_demon_Met_L1999.83.3.jpg Incantation Bowl 2: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incantation_bowl_from_Southern_Iraq._4th-7th_century_CE._Sulaymaniyah_Museum.jpg Incantation Bowl 3: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Incantation_bowl,_Nippur,_terracotta_-_Oriental_Institute_Museum,_University_of_Chicago_-_DSC07064.JPG Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 21 min
Jim Rohn Motivation Daily
10 Things You Own That Actually Own You | Jim Rohn Motivation
There was a day you brought it home. The house, the car, the thing you had wanted for so long. And for a little while it served you, exactly as you imagined it would. Uploaded 23-09-26 But somewhere along the way, the relationship reversed, and you didn't notice. The thing you bought to serve you started demanding to be served. The possession that was supposed to give you freedom started taking it away. And you kept calling it yours, kept saying you owned it, while it quietly ran your days. Here is the truth: ownership is not a one-way street. When you acquire a thing, that thing acquires a piece of you in return. It takes your time. Your attention. Your money to maintain, your space to store, your worry to protect. And most people never sit down and count the cost of what their possessions are extracting from them. This seminar walks through ten things you must understand about the possessions that own you — and how to hand that control back before they take any more of the one life you have. CHAPTERS 0:00 Intro — The relationship reversed and you didn't notice 2:44 The scale: is this serving me, or am I serving it? 3:25 The real cost is everything that comes after the purchase 5:19 #1 — The house bigger than your life 7:47 #2 — The vehicle you can't quite afford 10:11 #3 — The wardrobe you never wear 13:16 #4 — The gadget that demanded a subscription 15:28 #5 — The collection you can't stop adding to 18:10 #6 — The second home you visit twice a year 20:33 #7 — The device you check before you're awake 22:07 #8 — The storage unit you keep renting 23:33 #9 — The reputation you keep defending WHO IS THE LANDLORD WHO FORGOT TO CHARGE Most people believe that the more they gather, the freer they become. So they keep adding, certain that each new acquisition is one more piece of a good life. They never notice the moment the adding started subtracting. A thing that requires your constant care, your constant money, your constant attention is not adding freedom to your life. It is renting a room in it — and you never sent the bill. THE ACCOUNTING ALMOST NOBODY RUNS The purchase price is the smallest number in the whole transaction. The real figure is the maintenance, the storage, the insurance, the worry, the upgrade, the mental corner a thing occupies for years. A man pays a thousand and believes that was the cost. Over a decade the true price is ten times that in money, a hundred hours of his life, and a permanent claim on his focus. Run the accounting honestly on each thing you own, and some of what looked like wealth turns out to be a stack of obligations wearing the costume of success. RELEASE RUNS THE MECHANISM BACKWARD Here is the mercy in it: the same machinery reverses. The moment you let go of a possession that was owning you, the money and the time and the attention and the space come flooding back. You will not be free by tomorrow morning. But the person who has looked at every object and asked who owns whom lives a lighter, freer life — with room in it for what actually matters. WHAT TO DO THIS WEEK - Pick one possession and total its real cost: purchase, upkeep, worry, hours. - Add up every recurring fee you pay and cancel each one not genuinely serving you. - Open the storage unit, keep the handful that matters, release the rest. - Leave the small device in another room while you sleep for three nights. - Ask of each thing you own: is this serving me, or am I serving it? — Inspired by the teachings of Jim Rohn. #jimrohn #motivation #selfdevelopment #discipline #minimalism Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 35 min
Daniel Bonevac
PHL 354 424-13
Lecture 35, Martin Luther, of PHL 354/CTI 335, History of Christian Philosophy, The University of Texas at Austin, Spring 2013 Uploaded 25-04-13 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Today · 55 min