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Just my thoughts #0171

Painting is media and power. The mural in the medieval cathedral was considered for the illiterate who could not read the Bible. Only priests had access to type information. This was power. The Reformation weakened this power. New media changes the power. It creates power or moves. Our daily lives exist in this power. Writing, photography, and graphics still influence power. If you need help understanding the power change or shift, you do half art and half business. - Joseph’s “just my thoughts”
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Just my thoughts #0014

Japanese actor and filmmaker Takeshi Kitano said this about Effort. "Effort is like a lottery ticket. If you buy it, you might win, but if you don't buy it, you'll never win." Effort is not about maximizing your probability of success; it's a behavior that ensures a minimum probability of success. There's certainly no guarantee that you'll succeed, but if you don't put in the effort, you'll miss out on the opportunities that come with that minimum probability. Probability always brings doubt about the outcome of our efforts and creates conflict in continuing our challenges and actions. However, the world of probability is the realm of God, where human effort cannot intervene, so we should not attach value to the outcome of our efforts, even if the outcome is success or failure. Therefore, nothing is meaningful disappointment or attachment for us, and we can only be slightly happy if our attitude toward the outcome is value-neutral. Even in the world of probability, where we don't know the future, there is cruelty to planting for an uncertain future, but we don't judge the seed itself as cruel. In probability, called the "uncertainty" part of God's domain, we have to make a deal with God even if we strive to do our best. This uncertainty is a double-edged sword that can lead us to arrogance or humility. So we must neither be proud of our efforts nor too disappointed or judgmental about our lack of effort. Ignorance is a great enough meaning of not knowing.


- Joseph’s “just my thoughts”




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