Howdy people Some week ago I presented an experiment with a portrait of yourself and a mirror. The experiment was to put them beside each other and to try to find out something about the different pictures.
I have got an advantage over most of the members here and that is that English is not my native language. This means that I have to decode the letters and words two levels down, until it reaches my thinking level, deep inside my brain. I have to put some kind of filter or decoder between me and the message. Usually I have to read the message a couple of times. In that process I am very clear that the original order of the letters and words in the message will be kept and preserved for a very long period. That is how static, a message, a literary picture, a pattern, can be. But every time I reread it, the encoded text I get into my mind will be put together with my former reading and mixed together into a deeper understanding. In that way the message will continue to change, in my search for the True meaning of the message. People are different and so are bathrooms. Most bathrooms are equipped with at least one mirror. Some bathroom mirrors are covered by a huge smiley or a photo of a film star to disquise the real picture of the spectator. But you all know how hard it will be to comb your face in front of that. Some bathrooms have no mirror, the user is left to use the weak shadow in the window glass or lift the lid and look down into the small round surface to get a picture of him self. Sad for him if he live in an area without water closets. So in this moment of 'shootgun-philosophy', isn't it just correct to ask any person coming out from the bathroom: "Are you experienced?" (I never understood the title of that album but I like the music) (Space left here for a internet link to Jimi Hendrix) Dmb talks about the mirror itself, Ant describes the whole bathroom and some other are still looking deep into the hole, while others have jumped out through the open window.... Marsha seem to admit that there is change (and time), but she still doesn't accept the picture. There is something interesting in mirrors however, so here is another sport you can try at home: Because it is possible to use a mirror in angles from 0° close to 180°, you aren't obliged to look straight into it. It is possible to look into it from an angle. By that, the mirror will show you something else than your own face. You make your choice and get the picture. In World War One the periscope was used as an information apparatus that could tell something about the world up there without risk for the user. My point is that text, messages and literature are like mind mirrors or philosophical periscopes. The message's components is as usual arranged and kept in strict static order and it is up to the reader to decode the picture he gets. It is very useful to have some kind of distance to the matter and not only look at the frame of the mirror. The actual content of the book is the same but the picture and the understanding of the book is all in change, in motion, time is running. So where are we going? Who is to decide what steps to take? We are using mirrors when we back our cars but we need no mirror to drive forward, we need a map, a reason and a plan, where to go. LILA is kind of a mind mirror that shows anyone of us a picture over the conditions behind the evolution, but we decide by our SELF what steps to take from that. By these decisions we are defining our self. Just as static quality emanates from dynamic quality. And as I told you in MALC, there are a lot of warning lamps on the way to excellence. :-) JanAnders Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
