ambiguity is simple
today as i was driving to work (after being called in) i was thinking about
the "right way"
which i would loosely define as taking the appropriate actions in my current life to enable me to live my life, and be as happy as possible in my final moment(the moment immediately before my death)
looking into my definition further, i realise there are two conditions that must be met in order to be happy. extend my life and be happy in my final moment
nature vs nurture
i think these two sides represent a learned or egotistical side and an inherant natural urge to be happy
death is necesary and natural to all life on earth so why try to manipulate it? to extend life? i think is also a natural instinct just
as deer run from hunters we take medication? is this the same? i think humans go the extra mile. we fight the death that comes from age. what other animal runs from old age like we?
is death a predator?
is it too much of a strain on nature for humans to extend their life? how could it be? anything we could concieve
of doing is natural, because were natural a bird builds a nest a human builds a house.
cant nature adjust? maybe it does, it must. whos to say what is because of what? butterflies causing tornados? maybe we have created cancer or aids or one of the many epidemics thy have come, or maybe we have created them all just by existing we use and push an manipulate and all these things are done to us in retaliation.
you cant stop nature, dont get caught on these words
remember what the feeling of it not the word you would use represent it.
the more simple of a life you have, the happier you will be.
i think meditation is vacationing in a more pure mindest, just feeling and seeking. like crawling through the darkness of a cave, experience and emotion, contemplation and complexity, the fuel feeds and motion is set.
analogy is my rosetta stone
Friday, September 25, 2009
Saturday, September 12, 2009
southerners sound strange
This job has become a vice and I don't enjoy waiting for my boss Eric to call down here with some cockameme idea to occupy my time in this wilting Wilton storefront.
I love alliteration
I've been thinking a lot lately about language words sounds noises and grammar, mostly how language is specific to area and how and environment can shape a dialect, like accents
Southerners sound strange to me but to a Brit both me and my southernly cousin sound the same. It's hard to understand the differences when thinking about your own accent. Like hearing your voice on a recording, it never sounds the same as what you hear when you listen to yourself speak
An even more thought provoking are other languages. I guess a different language is really just a different set of sounds to represent everything. cat in English shares the same meaning as gato in Spanish
Evolution isn't linear so does that mean that other species have formed other useful ways to communicate amongst themselves or posibly even to communicate effectively with other species as well?
Maybe they already do I guess.
do we?
My dog knows what the sound means when I say "outside" in that special tone and pitch with the right accent on the right part of the sound. So
am I communicating with her?
Does she know some English
or is it just the sounds she knows
If so isn't that what language is anyways?
Can she be taught other sounds?
I'm thinking now that the sounds she knows now she is interested in them and learns them because they have to do with something she wants intensely so she.... cares? About that sound or about the sound I make as I pronounce "treat" "bye-bye" or "shake" she doesn't care about money so she doesn't know what "broke" means or even "ten" for that matter
Do humans have language because we've convinced ourselves to care about everything we have a word for? Does this explain why we don't have equivalent words in every language for every other word in all other languages? Because we don't care? Don't.. need.. To have it?
or possibly instead of having one word for everything we partially use our language system to make equations to achieve new meanings out of groupings of words?
Similar to our number system and the 0 - 9 characters. We don't need to have a separate symbol for each number up to infinity, we simply combine whatever characters represent the right amounts together and that combination is the symbol for the sought amount
Is there an infinity in the language system?
could you combine words (sounds) together until you run out of new sounds(words)? And then reuse the appropriate words in specific combinations to achieve other representations? I think so.
I am pretty sure that what I just described is what happens when someone who has a knowledge of and uses language(sounds) says something. Sometimes it's many words or sometimes it's just very large words,
Can verbal language be manipulated with grammar like the number system is manipulated with equation? Isn't it already?
Can an 'equation' be made to take language in a different direction? To simplify the meaning with one noise or communication?
Is this the spark of life?
Is this the obelisk again?
Is this a sound?
Does this exist in a different species or even already in our own?
keeping in mind I could be way off
I love alliteration
I've been thinking a lot lately about language words sounds noises and grammar, mostly how language is specific to area and how and environment can shape a dialect, like accents
Southerners sound strange to me but to a Brit both me and my southernly cousin sound the same. It's hard to understand the differences when thinking about your own accent. Like hearing your voice on a recording, it never sounds the same as what you hear when you listen to yourself speak
An even more thought provoking are other languages. I guess a different language is really just a different set of sounds to represent everything. cat in English shares the same meaning as gato in Spanish
Evolution isn't linear so does that mean that other species have formed other useful ways to communicate amongst themselves or posibly even to communicate effectively with other species as well?
Maybe they already do I guess.
do we?
My dog knows what the sound means when I say "outside" in that special tone and pitch with the right accent on the right part of the sound. So
am I communicating with her?
Does she know some English
or is it just the sounds she knows
If so isn't that what language is anyways?
Can she be taught other sounds?
I'm thinking now that the sounds she knows now she is interested in them and learns them because they have to do with something she wants intensely so she.... cares? About that sound or about the sound I make as I pronounce "treat" "bye-bye" or "shake" she doesn't care about money so she doesn't know what "broke" means or even "ten" for that matter
Do humans have language because we've convinced ourselves to care about everything we have a word for? Does this explain why we don't have equivalent words in every language for every other word in all other languages? Because we don't care? Don't.. need.. To have it?
or possibly instead of having one word for everything we partially use our language system to make equations to achieve new meanings out of groupings of words?
Similar to our number system and the 0 - 9 characters. We don't need to have a separate symbol for each number up to infinity, we simply combine whatever characters represent the right amounts together and that combination is the symbol for the sought amount
Is there an infinity in the language system?
could you combine words (sounds) together until you run out of new sounds(words)? And then reuse the appropriate words in specific combinations to achieve other representations? I think so.
I am pretty sure that what I just described is what happens when someone who has a knowledge of and uses language(sounds) says something. Sometimes it's many words or sometimes it's just very large words,
Can verbal language be manipulated with grammar like the number system is manipulated with equation? Isn't it already?
Can an 'equation' be made to take language in a different direction? To simplify the meaning with one noise or communication?
Is this the spark of life?
Is this the obelisk again?
Is this a sound?
Does this exist in a different species or even already in our own?
keeping in mind I could be way off
Friday, September 11, 2009
waiting
Lately I find myself waititng for passion to strike, and I get nervous in this very frustrating way. Am I dragging my feet and under utilizing my time here or anywhere?
Well right now I'm waiting for ball to get out of work, who knows what well do tonight. Most likely sit at his house and chill a bit. I always feel unwanted when his girlfriend is peering at me
Well I guess I don't know that she does that, but I swear sometimes I can feel the tension and concentrated stare on my skin like almost as to poke me on the shoulder.
The things I know now
What are these sounds and images
These thoughts and instincts
With a stirring curiosity, revolving psychology circular and eccentric philosophy
Well right now I'm waiting for ball to get out of work, who knows what well do tonight. Most likely sit at his house and chill a bit. I always feel unwanted when his girlfriend is peering at me
Well I guess I don't know that she does that, but I swear sometimes I can feel the tension and concentrated stare on my skin like almost as to poke me on the shoulder.
The things I know now
What are these sounds and images
These thoughts and instincts
With a stirring curiosity, revolving psychology circular and eccentric philosophy
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