the.com/intention
the quiet vow you make before the universe checks if you meant it
means A purpose or aim — the thing you mean to do, the result you're consciously trying to bring about.
from From Latin intentio, 'a stretching out, a straining toward,' built on intendere — in- ('toward') plus tendere ('to stretch'). The same tendere stretches through tension, tendon, and tent: all of them taut. To intend something, the Romans imagined, was to stretch your mind toward it like a drawn bow. It reached English through Old French in the medieval period, already carrying that sense of the mind aimed and pulled tight at a target.
- legal weight
- separates murder from manslaughter, intent decides decades
- brain timing
- action signals fire before you feel the decision
- buddhist root
- karma is judged by intent, not outcome
- placebo power
- expecting healing can trigger real biological change
the manhattan project — us government's deliberate effort to build atomic weapons during wwii, employing 130,000 people across secret sites
operation paperclip — us intentional recruitment of 1,600+ nazi scientists after wwii to work on missile and space programs
the great leap forward — mao's 1958-1962 intentional economic campaign in china that caused a famine killing 15-55 million people