When Antonym made the world, he forgot to… he forgot to. He didn’t include a foundation, substance. He built the universe on dynamic water, he used dynamic air for mortar. If you look at things quickly, things will appear to be solid, but if you stare at them, gaze into them, you will see that everything is actually nothing, a big nothing. Oh yes, there is flash, pizazz, pomp and circumstance, but style and nothing more. The question of value presupposes things exist, if they don’t, how can they have value, or at least, enduring value. Everything is a shade, a spook, a phantom apparition. Ambition is the enemy, ambition kills. Ambition thinks it can create something enduring out of nothing, but how could you use emptiness for building blocks? Nothing, accomplish absolutely nothing, and you will be free. Effortless doing… our salvation lies there. Western civilization… 3000 years of fail, fail, fail.
…and now, I leave you people with a song.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jCfgH5auSDo&feature=related[/youtube]
…blasted thing.
There ya go my silly little buddy. Quote me to figure out how it was done.
That wasnt very good at all, it sounded like somone playing the sax with a full spitvalve while being strangled.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nt8b3TY8ixc[/youtube]
Thats better.
What do you mean by fail, fail ,fail?
The interesting thing with fluidity is that if you remove all the elements comprising the flow then you have nothing, complete emptiness. One thing we can say is that there is more than that.
I am glad that it is also not the case that there are absolute objects.
Its rather fun that reality is neither something nor nothing.
Have you ever raised a child? You’ll be surprised at just how nonsensical the above can seem in the face of that responsibility.
Have you ever had the burden of burying your child? You’d be surprised at just how sensical the above can seem, in the face of that misfortune.
What is this… more?
I’d rather there be something that never changes, something about ourselves, something about others, perhaps that is what essence is. Philosophers and Scientists have sought essence in many places, for example; the atom. Once the atom was smahed, so was their God. Some other examples; Paramenides’ one, Empedocles’ 4 elements, Plato’s forms. The only thing that seems to remain, is the laws governing change, because the laws governing change are seemingly, seemingly consistent, uniform and predictable (don’t let the really big and the really small drag you down), the way, the way things change, not the things in and of themselves, so that although things pass away, the same things keep reappearing out of the aether. If anything remains, in our universe, it’s the process, the cycle of change. From Stars to atoms, everything that is born, dies, and is reborn. In addition to the pattern, the cycle of change, It is the kind, the type that remains, not the thing. From whence the theory of forms was spawned.
Westerners believe that not only can we increase the lifespan and number of certain things, things we believe have value (human life being the exemplar), but that we can someday, achieve immortality, through science or religion. The ancients and the easterners don’t believe this, nothing new under the sun, they say. For them, the universe doesn’t infinitely progress, nor infinitely regress, but finitely progresses, and then finitely regresses. For them, there is no good and evil. Good and evil implies the miraculous, a ironically hubristic transgression of the deterministic, fatalistic way of things. It was enough for them to merely carry on and continue the cycle, the dance (Hinduism), or follow the path of the Buddha (emptiness). For them, there is either both life and death, or there is neither life nor death. For us, it’s life (good), or death (evil). The Hindu and Buddhist salvation is not our salvation. They didn’t believe in the continued existence of the atman (particular soul), only in the continued existence of the brahman (universal soul).
So what did I mean by fail, fail, fail? Well, fuck, look around you? Geneticengineering, Geoengineering, the atom bomb, nuclear meltdowns, oil spills, alcohol and drug abuse, antidepressants (1 out of every 4 humans), atrophy, obesity, aids, cancer, diabetes, car accidents, pollution, overpopulation, deforestation, fascism, communism, depressions, recessions… what does all this mean, what does it all amount to? As you increaseth one, you increaseth it’s other, the bigger they are… what goes up… for every peak, a valley, for every plus, a minus. The ancients knew this, they knew what we forgot. I’m affraid we’ve been here before, this isn’t the first time. Civilization is older than we think, it carries with it the seeds of it’s own destruction and recreation.
On a side note, maybe there’s laws governing the change of the laws of change, maybe there’s laws governing the laws governing the change of the laws of change. You see, what if gravity is dynamic, what if even it was gradually and incrementally changing, could we tell? Are natural laws birthed, deathed, and rebirthed?
I wonder… can there be synthesis between ancient and modern, eastern and western, I think there needs to be, or a return to ancient and eastern.
Do you want highs and lows, or do you want apathy? I choose apathy, for the now.
…and now I leave you with another song, that I think encapsulates and eptimoizes what we’re discussing.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVmZjEJ03Rc[/youtube]
No, and if you have, my apologies for coming off so glib.
But it is also reasonable to suggest misfortunes such as this – especially a series of them – might lead one to project onto the fates a cynical and perssimistic philosophy of life.
But there are other frames of mind rooted in very differing existential smorgasbords as well. We are all but dasein in the end.
and being can only be/be known insofar as it’s opposite being has been/will be.
If true, then, nothing ever changes.
Nothing but the appearance of nothing.
Well the universe is more than emptiness as are your minds thoughts.
Consider this; Change occurs in something, no? …even if that something is an emptiness or otherwise essentiality.
Depends on how adaptive it is, but we have seen this recently with capitalism.
I don’t think laws exist, and that in and of itself denotes a certain fluidity.
Apathy is the condition of the biological condition, of earthly human nature, though I often feel like that I like to believe there is more to humanity than that.
Is apathy, the condition or a condition of “earthly human nature”? If it is, the condition, why, for the reasons I gave, or for other reasons? If there is earthly human nature, that implies, there is… heavenly human nature? By contrast, is heavenly human nature passionate, because heaven and heavenly human nature is static? Do you advocate the extrication of heavenly human nature from earthly human nature?
Well, what about gravity? If gravity is not a natural law, then what is it? A rule, a guideline? How 'bout a local natural law?
Does it merely exist in our idealistic heads, or does it also exist in the empirical world?
The western world is fucked… maybe there’s hope for… naw.
No, there is no things, there is only change.
There is no things, there is only change.