March 6, 2008
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Hello again, confreres!
Judging from the last few posts, it seems I have been thinking in bullet point format recently. The nature of the mind is to have a constant inner monologue of thoughts, it seems, and that monologue is essentially who each person is. Who a person constantly is, then, is the total summation of their internal monologue of meaning all culminating in the next moment.
But it is nice every now and then to think in strafing run style. Besides, it seems like we think in dashes anyways—where one thought interrupts the one before. You see one thing and think about it—but then this thought says “look at me!”—and now someone’s talking to you—and now you’ve rememeberd you’re late! Thoughts arrive like missiles in our minds. To focus specifically on one thought for a long time, following it to see where it leads, is what I would call a meditation.
We think like slide projectors. There are many thoughts to get through, and we see the image of the one we are currently thinking about in the forefront of our mind. But then we flip to the next thought. That’s sort of like these last few posts; slide projectors of thoughts. And with that, let us begin today’s presentation. *turns out lights, turns on slide projector*
Want to learn adjectives? Go to a movie store. By perusing the aisles of movies you will see adjectives like ‘Thrilling!’ ‘Amazing!’ ‘Extraordinary!’ I am sure movie critics are avid fans of thesauruses.
Sometimes when I am out late with friends, near a forest or a park, or some ominous place like that, someone will say, “Guys, let’s get out of here! There could be an axe murderer around here!” But if places like those are where people assume axe murderers would go, wouldn’t that also stop the axe murderers from going there? If everyone has that rationale, I don’t see what would stop the axe murderer from thinking it as well. As far as I know, no one, not even an axe murderer, wants to be muderered.
It must be weird to be pregnant. I always want to ask mothers, isn’t it weird to grow a person inside of you? Or you could ask any parent, what’s it like to have spawned another creature? What’s it like to be able to actualize another autonomous being? Looking at a young child you can think, “That thing wasn’t here, but now it is here, and it thinks on it’s own.” Wow!
Retreating is just charging the long way.
I have discovered a grave injustice occurring up and down every city street. There are parking meters that you put money into to park your car on the street. But then the people take all the money out of the parking meters, and the parking meters don’t get any cut of the profits. They do all the work, and don’t get paid at all. It’s basically slave labor.
*lights come back on* Well, that’s our show. Have a lovely day!
Comments (5)
boy howdy i can relate to the slide show idea…
Hey, where’s the popcorn? We can’t watch slides without popcorn.
I can definitely agree with the slideshow projector mind process. While trying to shake off caffeine, I went through about 20 different thoughts in bed. Then I thought about myself and my lineage of thoughts. It’s truly bizarre.
With wikipedia, I think it is a good thing overall. I only use it to look up really small things. Like who originally wrote the song “these days” even though it’s been covered about 15 times. It helps me settle debates I usually lose.
Thanks for sending me that game by the way. I will miss at least one class due to it… nothing is better than killing a boyscout.
Speaking of parking meters who don’t get any cut from the system, there is works of actually releasing a robot that is a vigilante and keeps the streets clean. A real life robo cop.
http://www.ajc.com/multimedia/content/multimedia/video/index.html?clip=66347
indulge and laugh.
I did.
ryc- hey dude i enjoy the correspondence. when it comes to voting, you are right in every way. that’s all.
yeah, it is an outlandish claim i am making, i am aware. it has never worked before (it’s squelched diversity right? and that’s what we don’t want). but i think we can say humans are progressing, rapidly even. i mean hell, the dark ages weren’t that long ago and look at us. we still suck in many ways, but we are moving now. at least we are moving.
first utter pluralism and deconstructionism. but later, much much later, maybe 500 years later, essential unity, based on our nature, our instincts, and common ethical consciousness. i don’t blame you for not letting me say this (or fearing the road that this idea takes us down), i probably wouldn’t let someone make that claim either. but it’s just what i see. you know. thanks bro.
What’s your major in college?