Alan, FWIW: I enjoyed reading this, it meant something to me... I enjoy reading that which places us within the cosmos, it's easy to forget there is something beyond the blue skies, that the sun is not just a graphic pasted onto the sky. But reading this, I thought does it matter that we're living on a planet within the universe? Why should it bear any relevance. Who care etc? The idea of living free of the drive to find meaning, appeals. Do away with it :-)
But regardless of anything I say: guilty as charged. James. On 28/8/2009, "Alan Sondheim" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > >all less what we can do > > >we're so incredibly small in relation to the universe, our lives are as >nothing, our minds work for a limited period, there's nothing outside of >the planet we can breathe, enormous energies just to get to the local >satellite, too many trillions of words, exhaustion setting in every day >around the same time, we comprehend nothing, we're stuck with vision in >three-dimensions, we're small primates with overly-wrought group dynamics >and violent urges, we won't last as long as the robin, as stromatolites, >our minds are sick, poisoned, devastating, distraught, we're lost in the >cosmos, there isn't any cosmos, we're decentered from ourselves, we're >self-inscribed, autonomic, we haven't bootstrapped, our energy mapping's >muddled, we're working desperately at the command of dna-inert, we're >spewing everywhere in reach, nothing's in reach, we're the harbingers of >the apocalypse, we've bootstrapped the apocalypse, bootstrapped death of >the other, we can't tell other from others, our screams are silent, we >destroy everything around us, we scorch the earth, we invent fictions >about how we're so important in the universe, we promulgate random tiny >laws, we enforce penalties, we've got the cosmos locked up in daydreams, >we've got no idea what's out there, we can't read the simplest truths, we >abjure relativisms of all sorts, we postulate absolutes, we call ourselves >fierce iron, we think whatever's written is inerrant, we can't imagine >emptiness, we populate ourselves with gods, we bootstrap gods, we haven't >got a clue, we think A = A, we think we've got identity pinned down, we >think we know the rules, we move furiously until death, we think we've got >a chance to survive death, we're running before senility, we're running >around disease, we're running as if disease isn't running as well, we're >bootstrapping disease, we postulate the finitude of infinitesimals, we >play around with number systems, we think we're hammering number systems >into the universe, we're using nails of flesh, body-hammers, pliers of >tooth and bone, we bite and think we're biting fiercely, we're pulling our >nails with levers of skin, we're crawling around, we can't face what's out >there, we can't face our face, we've got theories before us, we've got >theories of inscription, axiomatic theories, abject theories, we think >we've got a hold on the truth, we think there's truth, that truth matters, >that something matters, that there's meaning beyond us, we're bootstrap- >ping truth, we're bootstrapping meaning, we're furious without it, we've >got meaning our drug, we're addicted to meaning, we turn out reams of it, >we're meaning-factories, we're inscribing everywhere, we think we're >inscribing everywhere, we think we're languaging, we think we understand >language, that we're the ones with language, that we're spewing sense, >we're blind to our bodies, we're blind to the world, we're blind to >inscription, we're blind to bootstrapping, we're blind to existence, we're >blind to non-existence, we're blind to dimension, we're blind to space and >blind to time, we're around the aeons of death, we're around the agora of >ignorance, we're abyss/mal, we don't see any of this, we mouth this, we >think we're understanding something, we think we're accomplishing some- >thing, we're ground to dust, we're bootstrapped to dust, we're always >already gone, we're always already dead, there's no coming back, there's >no other places, chains of beings, compensations for lives led one way or >another, our lives lead us, we're bootstrapped to our lives, nothing >bootstraps us, nothing cares one way or another, we don't care one way or >another, we're lying to ourselves, we're always lying to ourselves (what >we can do) > >_______________________________________________ >NetBehaviour mailing list >[email protected] >http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour > _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
