Privacy Matters

Poe Thoughts:
Infinity is an effort at an idea, the thought of a thought.
~ “The mind admits the idea of limitless, through the greater
impossibility of entertaining that of limited, space.”
~~ Infinity offers no proof beyond itself.~~
No. Well yes I am able, if it were a furry cute a-bomb; I might ride it like slim
Pickens and perhaps die laughing. 
I am procrastinator, as well as incredibly busy, in a slow motion sort of way.
I got 5 directions and only 4 compass points. 
And up /down seem a bit stalled or in the planning, getting ready stages. 
Truth I rather write than read and for the shock age there is just past 9
month engagement with a near alien LIFE-form. 
Woman. It might appear as some indictment of rejection as my incipient
failure to launch into conclusion and drawing notable aftereffects. 
I will say this much, your slug is running second to sex. 
I will say this much as well, if AI becomes magically delicious it might be
better to be still born, ok I'll give some upkeep. This is my preferred
account, so I want as much humor as possible and deepness seems to be
included with that. Deep is good, means it can last. So, when you can find
some more humor that would be a good thing, as well as always do the
POE thing and cut anything that isn't needed. Pretend that there is a
massive shortage of digital ink and there is only so much and not any more.
You want to think cost effective, because we could do almost anything
except that it is just too expensive. 
But really if pro is something you seek, all I can say is good luck, me? I’m
too neither sure to compromise nor desperate enough to want to succeed
at the sacrifice that might be required. 
Alas I never thought free advice was worth the admission. 
Be gentle, it's my friat time.
In a long time, I don't know anyone who reacted well to harshness. 
And some idea of cruel to be kind sucks
Body & Soul

“All of the experience base phenomenon are available to other

lower (what ever that means) life forms. “ ~zofo
Lower life forms means next to nothing, unless you are
identifying hill folk from valley folk, otherwise there are older
life forms and younger life forms and middlemost life forms,
which may consist of older, younger, middlemost hill, valley folk
and of course plain folk and ocean folk. Like when Annie
Sullivan said, “Cleanliness is next to nothing.” in response when
Helen's parents said, “Cleanliness is next to godliness.” Then
Annie said to Helen, “I need to teach you one just one word,
'EVERYTHING!” Everything started with learning one word,
that…… word in Helen's case was water, which did help with
some cleanliness.

“At the beginning of time, two opposite polarity temporal

energy quantum were the whole universe because they
were the first finite things to exist “ ~baku
What about a neutral polarity temporal energy quantum?
What about a bipolarity temporal energy quantum and a
neutral polarity temporal energy quantum being the first two
finite things to exist?
And what might prevent there being four first things to exist?
Such as positive polarity, negative polarity, neutral polarity,
none of those besides polarity or some anti-polarity or some
strange unthoughtful nonpolluting non-polarity?

Representation involves imperfection or differentiation.

“As an illustration of the difficulty of relating the inside and
outside views, consider the following scenario. On the eve of
his death, Newton was approached by a genie who granted him
one last wish. After some contemplation, he made up his mind:
“Please tell me what the state-of-the-art equations of gravity
will be in 300 years.”
The genie scribbled down the Einstein field equations and the
geodesic equation on a sheet of paper, and being a kind genie,
it also gave the explicit expressions for the Christoffel symbols
and the Einstein tensor in terms of the metric and explained
to Newton how to translate the index and comma notation
into his own mathematical notation. Would it be obvious to
Newton how to interpret this as a generalization of his own
theory?”
A recent review poses the following pertinent question: is the
central problem of quantum gravity one of physics,
mathematics or philosophy? Suppose that on the eve of the
next large quantum gravity meeting, our friend the genie
broke into the lecture hall and scribbled the equations of the
ultimate theory on the blackboard. Would any of the
participants realize what was being erased the next morning?”
Tegmark

Representation involves imperfection and differentiation.

Why are atoms so small?
One look told she was curving space
Every bit as much as space was curving back,
They differ only in the labels.
At some point one is more curved of being curvy than being
curving, and space curves forward.
Curvature is everywhere constant.
“Where the possible cases form a continuous manifoldness,
every determination from experience remains always
inaccurate: be the probability ever so great that it is nearly
exact.” Bernhard Riemann ~
"The only thing that cannot be exaggerated is infinity."
William F. Buckley~
Therefore anything said about infinity is an understatement.
Then everything else that can be said is at most an
exaggeration of finite(s?) or an overstatement. ( and at least is
a fragment and incomplete thought or plan to act that is, for
some, easily distracted from and as a metaphor of string
theory, we are left with an exponential growth of loose ends,
stops and starts, interruptions and an ever change of
plans/planners, funding breakdowns and busted bluffs.

g at what point did our "soul" enter our body  ~zofo

Pointedly at that same moment when body entered soul.

A body is a picture of a soul.
Precisely when a somebody became visible,
Perhaps a soul is a photographer.
That's to say a lens and viewer,
A watcher that can also be watched.

Paragraphs mated in a jiffy making Giraffes.

All who can be tickled tend to giggle like gigglers.
Who serves the common man...?

Usually their selves or other commoners.

I believe Albert Einstein, who advised to not read

the whole of something, but rather some excerpts,
as to not be overly influenced and leave some
room for original thought and ideas, that may be
inspired, yet still coming from a fresh perspective
that might have been missed, overlooked, ignored,
dismissed, or otherwise not fully valued and
appreciated. It might in turn be confirmation, new
insight, or inspiring itself in other directions not
previously considered.

I first adopted this idea well before ever reading

Albert or his advice. It concerned the KJ Bible. You
might say I am culturally Christian and ancestrally
Heathen raised in the wild, so to speak, iows,
'country boy'. The word worship originally was
derived from the Old English worthscipe, meaning
worthiness or worth-ship — to give, at its simplest,
worth to something.
So in that sense I definitely believe that sky and
earth are worth something.

To smell, taste, touch, and hear sea and feel.

So I limited my Bible reading to:

Genesis: "It was good."
Job: "Why me?'
John: "Cherish one another."

It seems no matter what happens or what doesn't

happen, there may not be any particular
significance, connection, correlation, reason, or
cause that pre-op and post-op should impact or
persuade a past or future, leaving a substantial
presence NOW...

believe the sages when they give their wisdom

believe the fool when he makes you smile
believe the child when she laughs with you
believe the sun when it shines on you
believe the moon when it glows with love
believe the birds when they sing for you
believe the wind when it whispers fly free
believe the dreams when they come true
believe the rain when it cleanses you
believe the sea when it washes over you
believe the truth when you hear it
believe the love all around you
believe the visions when they appear to you
believe the beauty when you see it
believe the friendship when it comes your way
believe the heart when it speaks to you
believe in yourself
Can
www.analogartsensemble.net/blog....html

CAN - Paperhouse
www.youtube.com/watch

Can we understand that space, that is all space no

space excepted, is one continuous space, yet there
is in some spaces observable placements of
matter, which is also condensed or cooled energy?
And this matter is observable due to diffused and
warmed energy that happens in various ways, such
as reflection, refraction, absorption, and even
intention.
“Order is a lack of disorder; disorder is a lack of
order.” ~bk

That would be stating what order and disorder are

not, not what they are. Within order there is some
disorder, so while there is less disorder than order
there is not a lack of disorder. Disorder probably
has some order in it as well, maybe like embedded
seeds from previous formations of some order,
these ‘states’ or actions of energymatter and
spacetime appear to be inherent to the other, but
not like they could ever could be completely
separated, to say that singularity conditions breaks
down laws of physics, may be another way of
saying it’s an unknown event that defies
description, cause one, life cannot exist in it and
cannot have experience of it. What it may clearly
‘represent’ the most is that it is a gap. If the inner
reality of atoms has clouds and electrons
appearing and appearing without leaving a visible
trail, that too, could be best described as a gap…or
perhaps an opaque hole, a holeless hole that does
not exist, only because it’s not it or a lack of it,
notit is not there. Really, nothing is a lack of
something, why it even lacks lack, which might
make it lackless.
It also sometimes makes language suck black
holes from the sky and renders them as pebbles of
white gloaming sifting and shifting invisibly, but
once felt as a tremor of doubt, cascading in a
confluence of heated aloofness, shy to a point of
no point at all.
“When we examine very simple level intelligence
we find that explicit representations and models of
the world simply get in the way. It turns out to be
better to use the world as its own model.”

“Representation is the wrong unit of abstraction in

building the bulkiest parts of intelligent systems.”
~Rodney Brooks
so, maybe representation is one of various right
units of abstractions in building the flimsiest or
tinniest parts of recognizing and cognizant systems
of intelligibility.

We have the ability to think about other places and

other times abstractly, and imagine them, but we
do not simultaneously exist in those other places
or other times.

As we have some ability to think some about some

parts of these places (here now) and some parts or
seconds of these times (now here) abstractly and
imagine them, while simultaneously existing in this
now and in near sedulousness*
* Etymology: Latin sedulus, from sedulo sincerely,
diligently, from sed-, sewithout + dolus guile
1 : involving or accomplished with careful
perseverance <sedulous craftsmanship>
2 : diligent in application or pursuit <a sedulous
student>
synonyms see BUSY
Not exactly a scientifically sound review, an
impression of impressions, made on or to me.
Well, I take it personally as a duty and a pleasure
to see your poem and raise a glass of exploding
tonic dujour.

Cheers~!~

"Learning eventually that the rest of the world is

not like what they have experienced" ~sz

not so easy when the rest of world not like what

they know is unavailable, or just somewhere else
where they are not.

Perceptions may not alter enough to recognize a

gift without looking, though hearing something the
mouth is saying and the rest is doing.

I have long thought that 'thou shall not judge'

could also include not misjudge, where some
discernment and common sense could serve well
enough to know something, without whole-cloth
confabulation and imagination dominating a
measure of reason.

I had a conversation today about Saint Laurence,

who when asked by the taxman to surrender his
treasure, proceeded to collect the sick, the poor
and the religious and said, "These are our riches." 
While slowly being roasted, he joked, "I am done
enough, eat me now!"
I also thought of monks who had not sinned but
repented sins that others had made but not yet
repented.
So, when the two went together and were asked if
they had repented their sins, the monk could
answer, "Yes we have."

What goes up?

Must come down

what goes up?
Voyager
what goes up?

Everything going up will eventually come down

Yes, you are may be right, Voyager has left the
building, yet still may return someday, if not here,
then somewhere, some when. In the first 'Star
Trek' movie, Voyager came back looking for its
creator.
For most fishes, it may not be a question of up and
down; they just go bob-bob-bobbin-along.
I went up and I ain't come down yet.
I was raised not to fall.
...well out of time
place and space

MindX's last post:

“:)” ~ knowledge

America is exceptional. We have, and must

continue, to change the world to save it. There are
a lot of dumb and evil ideas out there that kill and
oppress people. We do not have a moral obligation
to save any of them, but we are completely
morally justified to decide and save some or all of
them.

Why not lead and save by setting an example? I

see no reason why America should expend all her
blood and treasure "making the world safe for
democracy."

if there is justice...

Life may be mostly water and even so...so much more.

Two and one of elemental forms, so liquid, and solid,
and steamy and it will burn when raised to elevated
heights.
From mountain tops and ocean bottoms, some masks are
interfaces, to a world not quite our own, in these places we
are visitors and then return to home, always a comfort and
welcome sight.

Masks can protect, project, insulate, replicate, can possess,

negate, neutralize and positively illuminate. Many uses are
loose and many a tie-dyed shirt are simply pull-overs. A
moment of escape, a chance to play and back at the
workers table, where a building mask keeps flying sparks
bouncing and the medicinal one, mending. I love the
friendly ones...keep smiling.

Liberty, Justice's best friendship.

If there is injustice...stop it.

One may ask how.

Depends on where it's coming from.

What then I ask!!!!!???????

Try something interesting.
Or do. er
“Seriously though, human success is entirely because we
are the most adaptable species on the planet.”
One of the most, for all surviving and thriving are most
adaptable.

What would you do if you became

famous?

Do my best, not become infamous.

Of course those sorts of choices are made by others.

Jean Lewis
Well that depends Glen on whether money comes with it
or not. Just try me out is all I ask! I could do a great deal
of good with a few billion to spend. I would not enjoy being
famous! All those gawping people and my pet hate -
tabloid journalists! I'll become a recluse if ever I become
famous! Thank Heaven that is not likely to ever happen!

Sabresun
What would I do if I became famous? 
(aka Mr S Cowell) 
I daresay I might
brush my teeth more often,
maybe between meals
(celebrity ones)
get them re-whitened,
or in the back of a limousine
traveling between signings
check my perfect smile.

You might even hear

me uncritically gargle
twenty two carat mouthwash
before the car doors open,
but I'll never admit to it;
it's all "au naturale"
unless you buy my book,
my smile, my show.
My my, things do look good.

Sugarmuser
Me I prefer to be away from the lime light..... I think I
would become more secluded.
Sabresun
Sit down and wonder how my life went so badly wrong.
Heh.
gawell
Bowie, "Fame I reject you first."
To be renowned is less than being known
and it is not to be well known
but to be known well.

Jean Lewis
I could do with some sparkling white teeth (celebrity ones)
but then I guess I'd rather be a 'what you see is what you
get' type of person after all!
'to be known well' - I like that as long as it is for something
good and not something useless:)

Sugarmuser
I wouldn't tell a soul.

smzang
I'd wear high water pants and go barefoot.

Sugarmuser
I'd wear dark glasses and huge coats....

gawell
I'd be like Amelia, stage a disappearance and go live where
the wild Things grow.

Conspiracy theories serve to deflect attention from the quite

visible holders, and contenders for, political power.

The extremism of pluralism is anarchy. The closest analogy to a

functioning anarchy in everyday experience is the Internet, and
this analogy has been explored and not yet exhausted in recent
sf. Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash' (1992) has the US
government reduced to a gang among gangs, printing trillon-
dollar bills ('Reagans') as small change. It reflects vividly the
freewheeling ethos of the Internet's pioneering years, when
mutually hostile 'online communities' of researches, libertarians,
anarchists, labour and human-rights activists, Holocaust
revisionists and pornographers found common cause in evading
censorship. A cynical saying in the geek culture of programming
is 'If you document a bug, it's a feature' and Stephenson
gleefully takes this approach to some obvious objections to
anarchy: unstable individuals with personal nuclear weapons are
dealt with by...extreme politeness.
...the anarchy of cyberspace has been mapped on to the
dismembered body of the state. That a stateless society can, as
Thomas Hobbes warned, “become riven by mutual warfare is
not always seen as a decisive objection to it. The war of all
against all provides endless options yo love or leave. At worst
one can keep running” happiness, as Hobbes also said, is to go
forward.
 Standard Practices:

In the following three areas of personnel behavior and

performance:
(1) Service to others and fellow workers.
(2) Personal development.
(3) Specific duties.
Please answer briefly the below questions as they apply to your
work and, or other activities.
1. During the past 12 months, I have accomplished/done the
following:
2. My strengths are:
3. Things I might have done/might do differently:
 4. Things I might consider discontinuing/discarding (planned
abandonment):
5. Something others might do to help me do better?
6. Training I think would be helpful to me?
8. Committee/s I serve on:
9. Community Activities (Groups, Boards, Clubs, etc.) I
participate in that are work-related:
10. Goals for next year. The following are specific and
measurable goals I would like to set for my performance:

Oxford Tradition: from All Souls College

Entrance Exam

Do the innocent have nothing to fear?

Eventually they have some fear of not losing some innocence, as
with many such realities turned into abstractions, too much leaves
some questions in doubt and others left unanswered.
Isn’t global warming preferable to global cooling?
One of least duration and severity may be preferred, or might it be
the one that with the smoothest transition from one to the next.
But it may not be so much a matter of cooling and warming that
would give serious cause to having a preference, but as for a
deep freeze or towering inferno, perhaps a freeze is more likely to
preserve, while a burnt to black crisp leaves little or few integers
which with to work with, but were it truly a matter of preference I
suspect one might want to consider any possibilities of
intervention or alternate forms of habitat to weather impending
 doom.
How many people should there be?
I would suggest going for 1 billion more than actually needed, strictly
as ready reserves, this group ought to be a collection of every
possible configuration and the only limitation to be strictly
enforced is a prohibition on the use of offensive force, unless this
can be achieved with strong neutralizing agents, I’d be hard
pressed to think it mattered one way or the other.
Does the moral character of an orgy change when the participants
wear Nazi uniforms?
Moral character that relies on wardrobe may be so changeable that
clothing is not a particular factor in determining character, a little
or a lot of moralnasity.
One-word-question essay: (looks like word association)
Style, (subterranean) conversion, (culpability) corruption,
(generational skips) miracles, (party favors) innocence, (memory)
harmony, (basis of laughter) water, (hydrogen and water reunion)
bias, (cleft chin) censorship, (Tolstoy’s nightfilly) charity, (starting
to lose it) reproduction, (second thoughts, how about a night
before pill?) novelty, (bring it on) chaos, (curfew) and mercy, (as
luck would have it, there really are some shortages that cannot be
attributed to greed, dislocation and diversions of prior dibs) with
an addition, participle. (dangling)

A lack of sympathy makes for impossible dreaming 

While hiding in a velvet storm
I’ve eluded capture and memories
Illusions clutch at strings left dangling
A finite pattern of digressions
Leave me immobile
A patient of mine is screaming for release
Sedated with her meds, I nod agreement
She tries to save face
By clouding my judgment

Mindful of the tears, I shed the skin

Of an unnamed reptile
Slithering through muck and mire
Knee-deep in Big Muddy
The Nam contagion has returned
Saddam’s trial confirms insanity

Losing thoughts of any coherency

I stumble easily
Trip the light Fantasy
Inside this fog 
The underground
Crimson and blue
As a Mad Hatter without laughter
Iraqi children sing newly minted realms
Curt, medicated, myopic, blissful, ignorant, 
passive, diabetic, claustrophobic, acerbic. 

Now in light of day, the plumes of smoke

Rise from the nostrils of a dying dragon
He counts on talons, each victim slain
Makes lists of probable innocents
The olden dreams
Possible, return
 "Did you hear truth is subjective?" - unknown
"In peace, the warlike man, attacks himself." – Nietzsche

[OVER]
GENERAL PAPER I
Candidates should answer THREE questions
[OVER]
GENERAL PAPER I

1. Are modern politicians merely managers?

no
2. Do we need a written constitution, European or other?
no
3. Can the ‘freeness’ and ‘fairness’ of elections be measured?
Yes, but not always a matter of ability or accuracy.
4. What are the virtues and vices of patriotism?
They can cancel each other out.
5. What is war good for?
Nothing
6. Is international migration a problem or an opportunity?
No and yes.
7. Can the developed countries be serious about relieving world
poverty?
Only when they become undeveloped and poor too.
8. From where does a sense of community come?
inside the community, from the outside you can only hear about, as if
it might just be a rumor or something too good to be true or just
not that interesting of an idea, stay out.
9. Are there too many accountants and auditors?
yes
10. Who should run universities?
students
11. Does fashion serve a useful purpose?
no
12. Is eugenics ever a good thing?
once, just to find out once and for all, subject to parole boards I
suppose if there is enough interest.
13. Is there anything to be said for astrology?
it gives astrologers something to do.
14. Should we preserve living creatures harmful to human interests,
such as the tick, the locust and the tapeworm?
If you think they need help, there's no one going to stop you.
15. How would you explain the present strength of religious
fundamentalism?
that it continues to be debilitated by its weakness.
16. What do we owe to the Enlightenment?
a second or as many chances that it wants.
17. Can the uses of euthanasia be secured against abuses of it?
yes
18. Is exile always a misfortune?
no
19. Is there any moral justification for the use of evidence gathered
by torture?
no
20. Why should I tolerate?
in case you become intolerable, you will not be summarily
dismissed.
21. ‘The dice of God are always loaded’ [EMERSON]. Discuss.
yahtzee.
22. Why does music matter?
There's no telling.
23. What moral benefits are gained from the contemplation of works
of visual art?
hard to kill someone while doing it.
24. Was the destruction of large quantities of contemporary art in the
Saatchi warehouse fire merely a financial loss?
no
25. Are technological changes producing a golden age of cinema?
no
26. Should the Orange Prize for Fiction be open to both men and
women?
no, just women and any men in drag or transgendered who can pull
it off
27. Have computers changed the way we think?
no
28. Have developments in electronic communications destroyed our
personal space?
no
29. If there are millions of other planets capable of supporting
advanced life-forms, why haven’t we seen or heard from them?
they are very far away, in case you haven't noticed, they could be on
the way, don't wait up for them, just leave the light on...please, if
it's not too much trouble
30. Should genetically modified crops be banned as a matter of
principle?
No, as a matter when they are unnecessary.
31. Does the non-participation of the United States make the Kyoto
accord worthless?
No, might make the U.S. a less worthy.
32. ‘The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is
comprehensible’ [EINSTEIN]. Discuss.
that's silly
1. Is the idea of a Dictionary of National Biography out of date?
of course, unless it been updated.
2. ‘In any age, one particular art form will dominate’. Discuss.
more like appeal than dominate
3. ‘Poetry is more philosophical than history’ [ARISTOTLE]. Discuss.
depends on the writer, some historians are poets too.
4. Do historical novels harm historical study?
it's a little late for that.
5. Was nationalism unknown in pre-industrial societies?
I wasn't there.
6. Can demographic studies of past societies ever be credible?
no
7. Did a concept of human rights exist in the ancient world?
all concepts have always existed, even before they were realized,
some even after.
8. Is history one discipline or many?
well if accuracy is a discipline then yes.
9. Which was the first world war?
The war of 1492 was at least the latest first w.w..
10. Has there ever been a period that was not an information age?
the one just before it.
11. What is power in international relations?
the power to stop and count to ten before ruining relations
irrevocably
12. Who should protect civil liberties?
all who are not civil liberty violators
13. In the context of political speech, ‘[e]ven material which causes a
significant degree of revulsion may be justified by the serious
purpose of the context in which the material is broadcast’: Lord
Walker in R. (ProLife Alliance) v. B.B.C. [2003] 2 WLR 1403. Do
 you agree?
mostly, depends on whether an audience agrees. nice to know
before hand and try to lessen the revulsion as much as possible,
perhaps in stages, a little at at time...time restraints willing.
14. Should parents be punished for the truancy of their children?
it's very unlikely that nothing can be learned no matter what label is
placed above the entrance.
15. Should the Office of Fair Trading be involved in the regulation of
the legal profession?
fine when the legal profession agrees to regulate the office of fair
trading...could be the start of a mutual admiration society.
16. Should twenty-first century lawyers study Roman law?
in cases involving romans...absolutely
17. Should prisoners have the vote?
only during elections
18. Is there progress in philosophy?
There’s not even a way to regress.
19. Why does truthfulness matter?
it might make lies obsolete or less interesting
20. Does appeal to intuition have a distinctive and defensible role in
the methodology of your subject?
I don't think you could call it intuition when it isn't.
21. Is logocentrism a useful concept for understanding Western
philosophy?
not so much in a written exam
22. ‘Translation changes the language translated into.’ Discuss.
certainly a bad translation would
23. ‘Relativism makes everything uncertain’ [CARDINAL
RATZINGER]. Discuss.
you might want to spread some of that blame around Ratzy
24. What difference should it make to feminism whether gender
 differences are natural or socially constructed?
Become a woman and find out
25. Does political legitimacy require justice?
everything requires justice, especially in a pinch
26. Is democracy a means or an end?
it's not even an end to a means
27. Are universal human rights a form of cultural imperialism?
no
28. Has democratisation in the former USSR been a success?
should be a great success, once it gets started
29. Should saving for old-age pensions be made compulsory?
for the compulsive, absolutely
30. How far is the survival of works of classical literature dependent on
their intrinsic quality?
to the last intrinsic page
31. What role has London played in English Literature?
setting
32. Should theatre be considered a branch of literature?
no, a stage
33. How appropriate is it to study English literature in isolation?
not very
34. ‘As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not
certain, as far as they are certain, they do not refer to reality’
[EINSTEIN]. Is this true of economics?
economics has laws?
some enhance, some retrieve, some reverse, some obsolesce
35. ‘If news media are for sale, seats in the legislature should be too.’
Do you agree?
Supply is demanding.
36. Is the ‘American Dream’ a reality? Should it be?
Should put a s on that and go for an ies too.
37. ‘…[U]nder the right circumstances, groups are remarkably
intelligent, and are often smarter than the smartest people in them’
[JAMES SUROWIECKI]. Are the many smarter than the few?
Let’s get a group-a-thon and find out.
GENERAL PAPER I
Candidates should answer THREE questions
1. Where should the boundaries lie between a person’s private and
public life?
2. In film studies, has auteur theory had its day?
3. Blogs are the new…?
4. What can we learn from a century of sound recording?
5. Should people agree to disagree?
6. ‘Love is strong as death.’ [Song of Solomon, 8.6] Discuss.
7. Are there limits to satire?
8. What do extremes in dress and personal adornment signify?
9. Is nothing sacred?
10. To what extent should government control university policies?
11. Should we worry about the fate of the British red squirrel?
12. Is China overrated?
13. What has happened to epic poetry?
14. Does sport help overcome racism?
15. Is there such a thing as plagiarism in the Arts?
16. Is Islam more dangerous than any other religion?
17. What are the arguments for nuclear proliferation?
18. When can animal testing be justified?
19. Do the risks to others justify restrictions on smokers?
20. Do anthropic arguments have a place in science?
21. What are the deprivations of affluence?
22. Is corruption inevitable?
23. What will the UK job market be like in twenty years’ time?
24. What are museums for?
25. Is Dark Energy more interesting than Dark Matter?
26. Is ideology unfairly maligned?
27. Why are Christian churches in turmoil over sex and gender?
28. ‘Even the bravest of us rarely has the courage for what he really
knows’ [NIETZSCHE]. Discuss.
29. What can we learn from Las Vegas?
30. Why are some societies more stratified than others?
31. Should we regret the establishment of the green belt?
32. What is the present status of concepts of the soul?
33. Why are great artists more famous for their paintings than for their
drawings?
34. Is luck integral to all good sport?
[OVER]
A shortage of demand

By we, do you mean more are demanding less of goods,

while demanding more good, or at least less bad goods?

What is truly lacking that there is not enough of?

And of what is there too much of?

It some knee of curve

building less yielding
as pace of change transitions
from a high and a low
as water seeks equilibrium
and nature abhors a vacuum
water does not seek, it flows
as gravity and diversions grapple
nor nature is an entity capable of
creating pressure to empty itself
it cools heels and needs not meeting wants
a better way
comes this way but once.
RAH

“A lot of you have probably never even heard of Jean

Baptiste Lamarck, “ ~~

How many yous in a lot?

“How do thinking men manage without servants?” ~~

In house or out? Mainly by being self-sufficient, as well as

self-serving.

When do ‘true believers' diverge, divulge, divert, or

otherwise disconnect, disintegrate, well it’s usually dis or
that. And that might be the heart of the matter. Eso and
exo,
terracotta and Terra firma, one must still survive and thrive
to make ends meet, where meeting ends is not an option.
(another goal is to bar against the possibility).
Re....rah

"there's no such thing as water. it is merely melted ice."

~ furby via raw

yes it's a hard place.

and slushy, often mushy
when one gets lucky
sorry O
it's wet and wild
tamed and losing divines
to closely flying storms
of hail, or ten sheets of sleet to the Wind
weather
or not it changes
soft to hard
and now it's a dry martini
with olives and grins.
les is more if verbiage were gold
a rainbow pot and a stolen glance
steam rises amid heat and cold
drips from faucets
and yes it's hard
and Far.....
so.....what gives mass to matter?

Zitterbewegung

higgs boson or field?

trembling motion of a free relativistic particle has

never been observed, but the behavior of such a
particle has been simulated. (oh maybe now it has:
http://www.kurzweilai.net/caltech-chemists-
develop-simple-technique-to-visualize-atomic-
scale-structures

I have personally 'simulated' many unobservable

actions, except to say, 'I did see' them with my
mind's eye, you know those mental images that
some create or allow to exist, rather immaterially,
waking dreams, some just thought forms, well yeah
imagination, but you do know that naming
something does not describe behavior.

Yes, it's a field, or a park, a pockmarked space with

arrangements of situating movements and actions
where and how this or that is done. Changes take
shapes and are foreseeable and feasible, are
interactive and sometimes irreversible. Well, maybe
that's just some seeming notion, some virtual
concoction, a simulating and stimulating
speculation, there's some weight to gain with
motion's moves.
HB? Okay.

okay...what gives matter mass?

well, so it's been named...Higgs Boson.
so, then what takes mass away from energy?
then and now it's been suggested to separate
church from state.
and others may have or will incline to part state
from science.
perhaps to leave state in its wake.
a marriage of heaven and earth might ascend,
with religion (aka philosophy) and science (nature
studies).
super-sleuth Nick Charles (William Powell) in The
Thin Man (1934), who instructed a bartender, "A
dry Martini you always shake to waltz time." The
ingredients are mixed then strained and served
"straight up" (without ice) in a chilled cocktail glass,
and garnished with either a green olive or a twist of
lemon (a strip of the peel, usually squeezed or
twisted to express volatile oils onto the surface of
the drink).
The dry martini is also sometimes called a "silver
bullet" because it "is clear, potent and never
misses its mark."

Along with feathers, flu shots, penicillin, niacin,

golden rod, ionic detergents; I am allergic to Gin.
But not Rummy or Rumi:

"This drunkenness began in some other tavern.

When I get back around to that place,
I'll be completely sober." ~Rumi

I watched a show about the oldest surviving

Redwoods.
There was a question about water and rainfall and
how the Redwoods drank in the 'dry' season of the
Northern California coastal region where the
Redwoods thrive.
Turns out when is it wasn't raining buckets, the
ocean fog billowed in and left its drops of dew in
abundance, thirsty those Redwoods who keep
drinking and growing all the way to their end.

the clouds

The Clouds can best be understood in relation to

Plato's works, as evidence of an historic rivalry
between poetic and philosophical modes of
thought.
pretty
1 a : ARTFUL, CLEVER b : PAT, APT
2 a : pleasing by delicacy or grace b : having conventionally accepted
elements of beauty c : appearing or sounding pleasant or nice but
lacking strength, force, manliness, purpose, or intensity <pretty words
that make no sense — Elizabeth B. Browning>
3 a : MISERABLE, TERRIBLE <a pretty mess you've gotten us
into> b chiefly Scottish : STOUT
4 : moderately large : CONSIDERABLE <a very pretty profit> <cost a
pretty penny>
5 : easy to enjoy : PLEASANT —usually used in negative
constructions <reality is not so pretty — Caleb Solomon>
synonyms see BEAUTIFUL

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BY BETSY MASON

USING IMAGES OF A STAR CLUSTER TAKEN 10 YEARS APART,

ASTRONOMERS DETECTED YOUNG STARS MOVING IN SOMEWHAT
SURPRISING WAYS.

THE HUBBLE SPACE TELESCOPE IMAGED THE CORE CLUSTER OF THE

EXTREMELY DENSE STAR-FORMING REGION NGC 3603 IN 1997 AND
AGAIN IN 2007 (ABOVE), REVEALING TINY MOTIONS OF HUNDREDS OF
RELATIVELY NEW STARS.

THE CLUSTER, LOCATED 20,000 LIGHT-YEARS FROM OUR SUN,

FORMED AROUND 1.4 MILLION YEARS AGO, AND ASTRONOMERS
EXPECTED THE STARS TO HAVE SETTLED DOWN. BUT AFTER TWO
YEARS OF ANALYSIS OF VERY SMALL DIFFERENCES IN THE LOCATIONS
OF MORE THAN 800 STARS IN HUBBLE’S EXTREMELY SHARP IMAGES
(BELOW), A TEAM LED BY WOLFGANG BRANDER OF THE MAX-
PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR ASTRONOMY FOUND THE STARS ARE STILL
MOVING AT RATES THAT ARE INDEPENDENT OF THEIR MASS. THIS
SITUATION IS TYPICAL OF CLUSTERS AT THE EARLIEST STAGES OF
FORMATION.

THE DISCOVERY, REPORTED IN JUNE 2 IN ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL

LETTERS, MAY CAUSE ASTRONOMERS TO RETHINK HOW CLUSTERS
FORM AND EVOLVE. THE NEW MEASUREMENTS WILL HELP
ASTRONOMERS TO DEVELOP BENCHMARKS OF CLUSTER EVOLUTION
AND BETTER ESTIMATE THE MASSES OF OTHER STAR CLUSTERS.
MANY SUCH MEASUREMENTS ARE BASED ON THE STARS HAVING
REACHED A MORE SETTLED STATE KNOWN AS VIRIAL EQUILIBRIUM.
IF THE STARS HAVEN’T REACHED THIS STATE, THE MASS OF THE
CLUSTER WILL BE OVERESTIMATED.

TRENDS IN IMPROVING OR MODIFYING DETECTORS AND MEASURING

DEVICES MAY TEND TO CAUSE REASSESSMENT AND REFINEMENT OF
POSSIBLE CONDITIONS IN FAR AND NEAR AWAY PLACES.

WHICH BRINGS AN IDEA THAT THE MICRO AND MACRO

INCOMPATIBILITY IS MORE A MATTER OF OCCUPYING ENTIRELY (OR
DEFINITELY SOME KEY) DIFFERENT KINDS OF SPACE, AND THEREFORE
LAWS GOVERNING THEIR BEHAVIOR WHILE SEEMINGLY SERVING
SIMILAR FUNCTIONS, DO SO IN FORMS THAT ARE FUNDAMENTALLY
NOT TRANSLATABLE OR TRANSFERABLE TO THE OTHER.
THESE TWO DIFFERENT WORLDS MAY OVERLAP, WHICH OPENS SOME
VIEWS THAT ARE SOMEWHAT COMPREHENSIBLE, PROVIDED THAT
WERE OBEYING THE SAME LAWS, WHICH THEY MAY NOT ACTUALLY
BE DOING. GIVEN THE LIMITS OF PERCEPTION THAT IS AVAILABLE
TO AND FROM EACH (MACRO AND MICRO).
FRAGMENTS OF FRAGMENTS MAY GIVE A PICTURE, BUT IS THERE A
SEEING OF WHAT IS NOT BEING SHOWN?
MANY WORLDS DESCRIBES PARALLELED WORLDS THAT HAVE NO
DIRECT INFLUENCES, EXCEPT BY WAY OF IMAGING, SO LONG AS
THERE IS NO EMOTIONAL/FEELING/COMMUNICATING FEEDBACK
FROM INSIDE THE INTERIOR EVENTS TAKING PLACE WITHIN THE
BOUNDARY WALLS OF ATOMS.

AT THIS POINT IT IS STARTING TO LOOK LIKE TURTLES AGAIN...BUT IF

THAT IS THE ANSWER, MUST IT BE A DISAPPOINTMENT?

AND...

Friendship. It is more important than

anything else up front. I am not so sure I
want a long term commitment with one
person. I can accept more out of a
friend, than I can someone who has decided
that I am the only one in their life.
So, because of a recent hurt, I am making
sure up front, that I am free to do as I wish
and from this moment on, I will state very
clearly upfront, my intentions and make no
promises, that I find I cannot keep due to
how I am being treated. This way, no one
gets hurt and I am not forced to upset
someone elses balance, when they do not
treat me well due to issues in their life. If
they cant help how they are, then I will
simply not get that close. This will insure
that I can maintain a friendship with them
and still be there for them unconditionally
without feeling the need to back away.

ATTENTION SUFFICIENT ACTIVITY ORDER

one's mind would not be limited.

1
"Modern times are indeed happy as few others have been, for we
can think as we please, and speak as we think." - Tacitus
(Histories)

In a passage from De Oratore Tacitus explains, "Oratorical skill

has declined, that's really okay, because it's only needed in
societies where the people run their own affairs, and now that all
decisions are made for us by the Emperor we have nothing to
argue about, and oratory is obsolete."

as well as malice.

2
being opposite and being in opposition:
not the same, perhaps not even close.

why is true opposite of false?

they are not even always in opposition.
occasionally some neutrality breaks a hold on what?
...conflict?, lack of agreement? some hold truths to be self-
evident. perhaps not quite, not yet.
why not? Waiting for just the right moment, perhaps receiving a
prize as the billionth satisfied customer.
...as some oaths go, 'the whole truth and nothing but the truth'
and what you sometimes get, 'a partial true, some false or
misleading, and something but not all and nothing may be all
that is needed from some refutation that does not stand up to
some scrutiny.

any need or whim for absolute true may reveal some curiously
entertaining lie. Investing in a magical notion of language, an
approximation or simulation if your musts hold together, thinly
and fragile, when it works, justice is served with a side order of
true enough, and sometimes elusive enough for it to still be a
surprise, a welcome relief and further wondermint. Tasty too.

may depend on where you look, who you look with and why are
you looking.
Near

“There's a reason that people say the moment they truly felt
alive is after a near death experience.”

I have truly felt alive before a near love experience.

And after. And in. Around.

Sober and awake. Some shock.

I've done some acting in plays.

That was a real live experience too.

Routines are an experience.

Life. Learning.

In. Near. And Around.

And I've been 'out of it' too.

“I don't have a very good grasp of the simulation argument”

Grasping at straws is but one method to remedy that situation.

What did the German Police Officer say to his chest?

“You're under a vest.”

MAC1

[quote] neurons represent sensory input by

indirect [/quote] (delayed rather than
immediate?) [quote] representation.  [/quote]

What if any significance is that?

Is that in any way analogous to a time delay? (for example radio

communication from earth to mars )

[quote]  signals through the nervous system and to

the brain, that change the brain in specific ways
[/quote]

What about non-specific ways?

What reality is not: reality is not a wish, though a wish can

become reality.
Is reality besides being itself, also not potential?
I've read that a lie can only be made while knowing a truth.
Yet the same telling can be made without knowing a truth, and
this has become known as bullshit. (which may be considered
equivalent to a mistake.). And from that one may gather or learn
something.
One may fear reality will be abused by a minority. It's not
pessimistic to wish it otherwise, one decides to be the strongest
one around, and one decides to outnumber those with more fear
than hope, more quality than nope, more quantity than dope.
(that's something of an euphemism, a metaphor.)

McLuhan: Dead and Alive

“Man is born broken; he lives by mending; the grace of

God is glue.” Eugene O’Neill~

If it shames a man to fall to his knees, as opposed to

forcing another, he will rise and may even extend a hand
to take what cannot be held, lest it spoil in spite.
For gold and its kin, value lies in the work of not one, but
many…and for debt? Is that a promise of work to be
done? So may frivolous activity cease, for a belly filled
will both work and play at its leisure, and have it none
the worse for wear, so his talents swell and else the
waist grows heavy and there may yet be a place to ask.
Have you had enough?

Hai!

Emptiness is brief, only

it's noticed being
a constant, other clouds pass.

As witness, the rain is still

downy smooth as joy,
glee is left exposed delight.

Tonight, loneliness remains,

the brave are leaping
upwards, catching horizon.

Time filled blue designs, secure

the trembling ends,
to fear no reaper tonight.

“Limited sphere” — A sphere is necessarily limited. I

prefer tautology to a chance of misconception.” Poe~

McLuhan said, ‘four questions can be asked of any

medium and its impact. What does it enhance or amplify
in the culture? What does it obsolesce or push out of
prominence? What does it retrieve from the past, from
the realm of the previously obsolesced? What does the
medium reverse or flip into when it reaches the limits of
its potential?’

As Oscar Wilde said, staring up at Niagara Falls, “It would

be more impressive if it ran the other way.”
Isomorphic

The or, a true mathematical structure isomorphic to our world, if

it exists, has not yet been found.

I ask where a Mathematician would look.

“Those with power should hold onto it. Lying,

cheating, brutality, cruelty, pitilessness, inspiring
fear and terror, breaking solemn oaths, hypocrisy,
greed, bribery and corruption, extermination of
rivals, making pacts with your enemies only to
break them when it suits you, are all advocated as
necessary tools. “

'Those' with power simply pass it along to the next

generation/heirs and 'them' who actually garner enough notice to
be included in building and sustaining a future.

There was power of the gun, power of the mind, power of the
heart and power that surpasses understanding.
As has been noted... “Who can produce/acquire and use the most
toys might just live forever.

Guess What All Words are Words

1) What is consciousness? 
2) A Who.
2) What causes consciousness? 
3) A who.
3) What causes self-awareness?
4) A selfsame who. 
4) What causes us to think from the first person
direct perspective? 
5) A self thinker.
5) What is meaning? 
6) A noun or adjective
6) How does the brain represent meaning? 
7) What causes our pattern recognition abilities? 
8) How do we recognize things even in the face of
missing, incomplete, and noisy data? 
9) How is the neural binding problem solved? 
10) What causes the cortical architecture and
neural connectivity we find in the brain? 
11) What role do the various parts of neurons play
in knowledge representation? 
12) Why do neurons have the geometric topology
they do? 
13) What causes us to think associatively? 
14) What causes us to think abstractly? 
15) What causes us to think conceptually? 
16) What causes us to think in terms of analogies? 
17) What causes us to think in terms of similarities
and differences? 
18) What causes us to think in context? 
19) What causes categorization? 
20) What causes the coherence of perceptual
events?

Is technology the result of some unconscious drive, or is it a

perfectly controllable phenomenon of the conscious?

Defining terms:
unconscious/unknown/unaware/involuntary/innate/
Dropping terms: known
Technology is a result of a drive and is a perfectly controllable
phenomenon of a driver.
Other terms: natural and cultural
Messages are generated from within and received from cultural
environments.
Dignity
“The basic problem currently is over-consumption
and/or over-population, and stagnant (reality-
disconnected) virtues.” ~EOC

A basic problem currently is over&under-

consumption of under-nutrition (over-nutrition
does not exist) and/or over&under-population, and
stagnant (reality-disconnected) virtues.

We are all equal when it comes to dignity.

Which is more important to you?

Going there.
Or not staying.
Being welcomed is cause enough to see if the
welcome is sincere and real.
And when not, better to run as fast as you can.

...and eventually that space left with pace, may

change, disappear and be reoccupied in a real and
sincere welcoming fashion.

It's a becoming thing...and more.

Dig.

All rise: somebodies, nobodies, and the politics of dignity

by Robert Works Fuller
http://tinyurl.com/2d3533v

Anything worth reading once, probably deserves a second

look

“People with a distaste for thinking..”

Is that like people without taste while thinking?

Is there a gene for that?

Some things don't require a whole lot of thinking, some

playing, some doing, some knowing, those things done by
heart, like sports, sometimes thinking gets in the way.
Practice helps.
Shockies and Jockeys

“The jobless tend to sit around”

Or get restless and go run around, playing games,
dancing, singing, joking, and having fun.

Beautiful dreamer with a dream that can't die 

the dream never changes 
passed down and around 
a dream for love 
with love 
in love 

it's interesting and I suppose perceptive that you

mention being troubled, perhaps it's because of a
personal nature that I find it to be without
recourse, not a pleasant contemplation, so much
the better to see what positive change it might
inspire. 
I think coping is rightly a good place to start, with
plenty of all available resources to carry on. I
believe there are some aspects of conscience that
must be voluntary, merely beyond its mindless
habit, which may be a complete misunderstanding,
if conscience can only be learned, I might find very
troubling indeed. Usually I feel that I manage and
accept that I can maintain at least a slight
advantage of sense over nonsense.
It may be probable that there is a no god and a yes
god, as well as a maybe god, a please god, a thank
you god, a get bent god, a silly god, a stupid
god....these pantheons of god probably stretch
infinitely until or unless they began to contract and
then there probably will be one dense, hot god who
will be under tremendous pressure to perform
some sort of near miracle that suddenly starts to
seem terribly redundant no matter how much time
is used to cover various tracks that might lead to
nothingness, but probably becomes
somethingness, in spite of there probably is no
nothingness. 

Welcome to a new religion. 

Intentionally Blank 

we got dogpa, but no dogma. 

We got cat's meow, but no cat. 
Bring kitty litter 
because it is full of it 
and doggy bags in spite of there being 
no left-overs. 
Alady.
Gently Stilled

What makes man a beast? Nothing more than

treating her likes one. Some say it’s in his nature.
Not true. It is only one teaching another that it
becomes so. It begs a question though, maybe
once man was a beast, living by violence that was
as natural as her teeth. Was it for protection that
all beasts treated each other this way? And why did
a change occur. How is it that a beast becomes a
man? Perhaps nature is neutral in these affairs.
Then suddenly…something happened. 
Two beasts separated one day from their herd.
Alone together and frightened, but not by the night
noises that were no longer there. The silence
chilled their hearts, yet sparked their minds.
Perhaps some continental drift had set them astray
to an island without enemies. They grew in
kindness to each other. Set apart this way, they
multiplied and prospered and lived out their days.
These two left their legacy upon a distant shore -
that once again sets out to learn the world.

A man who didn't dream often

Which is to say may have had s few recurring dreams and

having seen them so many times that he no longer
watched and tuned them in.

Frog out and about by day, bird in flight with the night

I see MWT as a theory that does well in

understanding quantum mechanics, as it is all
inclusive and doesn't leave anything out and is
totally deterministic, pretty much by default and
may yet have far reaching effect as it may relate
to quantum effects within the brain and other
related response activities associated with life, but
it remains a long shot, as there could still be
simpler forces in play. I don't really see any reason
to take it literally as to extrapolating beyond
quantum size events, as it seems to confine itself
to the nature of quanta splitting into all
possibilities that do not include impossibilities. 

So long as MWT cannot reconcile with GRT both

are essentially incomplete. 
And while I like this idea, (that uniqueness is
conceived and by some lack of ability to copy
exactly could be achieved.) 
There is no reason to see a uniqueness of life as
anything but a local phenomenon, at this time.
Within the brain/mind/body politic every possible
thought may occur, although by thought I don't
mean thought, it would necessarily be mostly a
non-verbal, non-language type of signaling, maybe
mathematical, but one that hasn't reached
conscious awareness and subjectivity, but
manages to communicate "cliff notes', so to speak;
analogies are the poorest of examples and
metaphors may not qualify as law, merely
guidelines, which certainly have some
entertainment value, if not informational worth. 
If there is to be a God, or was, then yes dice are
thrown and yes, they might be loaded sometimes
to provide error that cannot be predicted, if for no
other reason that it might provide a failsafe. The
problem then becomes, why bother, without a risk
of failure.

PM
by RE
Dquist

  I don’t want to get into an argument with

Godel, but most of what we want to do in
this Universe falls outside the purview of
this theorem. That there is some baffling
residual is of little practical concern. We
just need to use a little clever engineering
to work around the conundrum. But 4 is a
real thing without approximation or
imperfection, as is 2+2=4 -- and a whole
lot else built up beyond that. Some
transcendental truths are bigger than
other transcendental truths.

“Maybe that's why the 2nd

commandment?” 

Good point for MindX SAI enthusiasts to

 ponder. 

Re: Only One You

posted on
  10/27/2009 3:33
PM by  doojie

  RED, you have described the crux of

the problem. Most of what we do falls
completely outside the purview of
Godel's theorem, since we’re talking
about infinity in general, or problems
that become paradoxical when dealing
with infinity. 

That's why the symbolism is not

transcendent. We can live our entire
lifetimes and never once have to deal
with Godel. But when we begin to
question ourselves, the limits of our
minds, and how to create those
models that are reflections of
ourselves, we're into self referencing
systems, and there stands Godel
 smirking at us. 

For that matter, it is perfectly

permissible to believe n a
transcendent God who stands far and
above all that we are, as long as we
don’t develop technologies that force
us to define ourselves in ways that
somehow challenge that God. 

But if we re-define ourselves, we must

of necessity begin re-defining God, or
simply assuming there isn't one, and
since God is infinite and we're not,
what difference does it make? Nothing
is visibly altered. I can be rich if I
believe in God, or I can be rich if i
don't believe. It's when we believe our
symbols actually reflect some greater
transcendence that we are in danger. 

Never too Late, Never too Better

Re: Moral
Relatavism
posted on
 01/19/2010 12:18
PM by  doojie

Yes, I deserted, and the FBI recovered me

for further prosecution. After which, the
marines were so affected by my defense
based on the highest ideals of the founders
  of the US, that they promoted me
meritoriously, thereby forcing me to accept
the damn promotion with honors that I
refused under normal circumstance.
Gawell, how about a quote from "Catch-22”

There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which
specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of
dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a
rational mind. Orr was crazy and could be grounded. All he had
to do was ask; and as soon as he did, he would no longer be
crazy and would have to fly more missions. Orr would be crazy
to fly more missions and sane if he didn't, but if he was sane he
had to fly them. If he flew them he was crazy and didn't have
to; but if he didn't want to he was sane and had to. Yossarian
was moved very deeply by the absolute simplicity of this
clause of Catch-22 and let out a respectful whistle.
"That's some catch, that catch-22," he observed.
"It's the best there is," Doc Daneeka agreed.
Catch-22
Doc Daneeka explains why he cannot ground
Yossarian or Orr due to insanity, Chapter 5: Chief
White Halfoat.
"Catch-22...says you've always got to do what your
commanding officer tells you to."
"But Twenty-seventh Air Force says I can go home with forty
missions."
"But they don't say you have to go home. And regulations do
say you have to obey every order. That's the catch. Even if the
colonel were disobeying a Twenty-seventh Air Force order by
making you fly more missions, you'd still have to fly them, or
you'd be guilty of disobeying an order of his. And then the
Twenty-seventh Air Force Headquarters would really jump on
you."
Catch-22
Doc Daneeka reveals another clause of Catch-22
to Yossarian, Chapter 6: Hungry Joe.
History did not demand Yossarian's premature demise, justice
could be satisfied without it, progress did not hinge upon it,
and victory did not depend on it. That men would die was a
matter of necessity; which men would die, though, was a
matter of circumstance, and Yossarian was willing to be the
victim of anything but circumstance. But that was war.
Catch-22
Chapter 8: Lieutenant Scheisskopf.
     The generation of mass proceeds through a process known as
spontaneous symmetry breaking, an object has symmetry if
rotating it does not change its appearance. For example, if a rod
is rotated as indicated in Figure A, its appearance is unchanged.
A sphere has even more symmetry than a rod because a sphere
can be rotated in many ways without changing its shape.

Figure A
     Spontaneous symmetry breaking occurs when a system or
object naturally loses its rotational invariance. Suppose pressure
is exerted on the rod; say by pushing on it with a finger. Then, if
sufficient force is applied, the rod will buckle. See Figure B.
When a buckled rod is rotated, one can tell that it has been
rotated; thus, the symmetry has been broken.
 Figure B
     By the way, if the force is exerted exactly along the axis of
the rod from the top, one might think that it is impossible for the
rod to buckle in a particular direction. However, the buckling
WILL occur but the direction is unpredictable. This is a feature
of spontaneous symmetry breaking. The breaking takes place
but one does not know in which direction.
     The Higgs field thus acts as the finger in Figure B, applying
pressure to the system to cause it to buckle and loose its
symmetry. It is a deep result of quantum field theory that when
this happens that the W and Z, which are messengers of the
symmetries broken by the Higgs, acquire masses. In other
words, without spontaneous symmetry breaking the W and Z
would be mass less.
Sound minus transmitter or receiver is quiet.
But not without movement, some of which echoes and fades.
A receiver will seek transmissions across time or it may find
transmitting(s) arrive as a surprise, blown by leaf of seed or spore.
The rest of history transpires and renews with further quests and
cultivation, not of just spite, or idle curiousness, a plan or call to action.

“The economy can grow indefinitely without immediate environmental

impact, as long as the growth takes place in sectors that don't demand energy
or raw materials, such as intellectual property and personal services.”

Charlie Stross
http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2010/05/unpleasant-medicine.html#more

What is consciousness?
It may not have occurred to a singular consciousness to answer what is being
asked, without assuming identities that mediate.
Consciousness has no single or precise definition, what it has is multiple and
imprecise definitions, the isness has periodic memory, awareness, emotions,
thoughts and identity that are actions to responses, as well as responses to
actions.

infinite infinities, if necessary. 

So, imagine a possibility of an unnecessary infinity, if that

infinity had an imaginative ability, that alone could make it
necessary, if only to itself, but there could be a problem of
deciding between necessary and unnecessary, if the possibility
of being unnecessary ever was imagined. 
Which leads to the possibility of imagining an unnecessary
infinity that could not have an imaginative ability and by that
'only' existed by the imaginative qualities of a necessary infinity.  

In order to avoid unnecessary mistakes, imagining 

an infinity as unnecessary could follow some of Marshal
McLuhan's simplest of rules or what he called Laws of
Communication. 
Necessary is what does these things: 
1. enhance 
2. retrieve 
3. reverse 
4. obsolesce 

With these needs in mind, unnecessary could be of a temporary,

intermittent, periodic, or transitory nature or way. By being
episodic, so to speak, there becomes one less infinity, since it’s
occasional or often absence would exclude it from being infinite,
thus there is one less infinity, which might leave some space or
imaginative thought to have a new, shiny and wholly necessary
infinity.

Who Says Words With My Mouth? 

by Rumi

All day I think about it, 

then at night I say it. 
Where did I come from, 
and what am I supposed to be doing? 
I have no idea. 
My soul is from elsewhere, 
I'm sure of that, 
and I intend to end up there. 
This drunkenness 
began in some other tavern. 
When I get back around 
to that place, 
I'll be completely sober. 
Meanwhile, I'm like a bird 
from another continent, 
sitting in this aviary. 
The day is coming when I fly off, 
but who is it now in my ear 
who hears my voice? 
Who says words with my mouth? 
Who looks out with my eyes? 
What is the soul? 
I cannot stop asking. 
If I could taste 
one sip of an answer, 
I could break out 
of this prison for drunks. 
I didn't come here of my own accord, 
and I can't leave that way. 
Whoever brought me here 
will have to take me home. 
This poetry, 
I never know 
what I'm going to say. 
I don't plan it. 
When I'm outside the saying of it, 
I get very quiet 
and rarely speak at all. 

From ‘Americana’ by Don DeLillo

…the babbling infant simply bathes in “the river which is language

without thought.”

As rendered by Thomas Pynchon, these lines from the twenty-ninth of

Rilke’s ‘Sonnets to Orpheus represent a subjectivity realized in
language:

And though Earthliness forget you,

To the stilled Earth say: I flow.

To the rushing water speak: I am.

A man walks into a bar. The bartender asks him what he wants. "Nothing," he
says. "So why did you come in here?"

"Because nothing is better than a cold drink." 

Hypostatization

(Attributes intention to abstraction)

~Someday is Now~

Atomic numbers adding 

^to clandestine myopic strategies 
Incorporated into finial decadence 
^delivered from past lives 
To future lies from present mistakes 
^littered on the highways 
A field study done undercover 
^of stars that fairly faint in color 
Foisting ideograms past their prime 
^noticing the collective mimetic thrashing 
Wildly in the night iguana sunspots 
^delivered to master cannibalistic earthworms 
Believed to foster subversive verses 
^the kind that ferrets its wisdom insidiously 
Beneath the thunder 
^silence rains
Mostly 20th century amerokoan, with smatterings of
15th century and beyond translations in various accents
~Someday is Now~
Pretty sure it wasn’t yesterday,
Perhaps an after-thought I may have missed.
Someday the Quest for fire is finding an old book of
matches in a drawer that you haven’t looked in for a long
while.

 In a super cooled state, a false vacuum is produced. This

false vacuum is a vacuum in the sense that it is a state of
the lowest possible density of energy; it is false in the
sense that it is not a permanent state of being. False
vacuums decay, and decay of a false vacuum at the
beginning of the universe would produce amazing
results, namely the exponential expansion of space.
Inflation Theory of Alan Guth
The Universe is pointless, in some relations that can
mean dull. In others it is without point, often known as
superfluous. What this also can mean is that the Universe
or verses was without preconceived conditions. Initial
conditions were not particularly pointy, but rather
roundy in its early spread, of course you want to know
how or even why it could possibly matter. It might not
and can easily not have to. Points and their spread
can reliably be known to be after-effects of nearly
unrelated pre-effects, that have distanced it-selves from
any practical association,  so, yes, life is a result of what
has gone on before, may not be so much as to what
could go on after, these may appear to involve factors of
time and space, where time exists in either super speedy
or super slow, neither of which presents itself to organic
life in a seeable fashion…also in some various
combinations of very thin and extremely thick spatial
arrangements, as noted earlier, a little furniture. Of
course funiture fills space, and without major, minor and
accessory pieces, space is utterly or almost empty. Void
of differences and complexity.
“How can we know the dancer from the dance?” ~ Yeats

Where goes the archer and the arrow?

Some painstaking reminder there’s no one without the other.

Or rather there might be a bow and strings of violin.

Dasher and Prancer on summer holiday traipsing cross the shores of

Newfoundland.

Rumbles heard from a thunder stretching through some hallows of

Matterhorn.

What comes inside with a direction of time in memories of yon.

Meanwhile yesterday’s lunch sits untouched and forgot.

How it is steel and lace reveals their beauty,

yet alone leaves one cold in a sterile cloud of white and silver.

We know the soaring song at first dawn.

We listen for the muted melody of sunset’s adieu.

…and then the silent coda of dusk,

slowly undimming into bright spectacles

and a darklit Luna rises to illuminate the fairy dust side of Dancing.
Watching Sews and Sides

the blood has dried

he cried
the feelings welled
she sighed
it's not a question of which came first
the chicken or the egg
fried or broken
broiled or boiled
they both end up as salad
spread thin and eaten
life picks its survivors with and without regard to beginnings

It may very well be that it takes more strength to pull back than to
press forward too far.
And that strength I think lies more with faith than any kind of desire to
know.

For questions of faith…see loyalty.

It’s been said that faith and trust are gifts, not necessarily abilities.
“On ‘freewill’: Also merely a set of shapes.
The word "Free" should really be removed, as unnecessary and misleading.
However, since it is the parlance of our times, I'll not do this.” ~Eye o.c.

Of all the things to mess with, ‘free’ is not one of them.

“2 shapes cannot occupy the same space, without becoming a new single shape.”
~Eye o.c.

Actually I think they might, I think it would be referred to as a denser shape.

Or a less dense, perhaps this massively changing shape, growing or shrinking likes
a black hole, although the term evaporating is used. Is it that shapes are lost
inside the hole and the hole has no shape?

Maybe its 2 distinct or even unique shapes and you just don’t want to destroy
them just to get a new one.

What you want Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle for Albert Pujols?

Or maybe, Mickey Mouse and Daffy Duck for Cartman.

Okay 2 shapely hydrogens and 1 shipshape oxygen becomes an all new chaperon.
H2o.

2 hydrogen atoms must occupy the same space with 1 oxygen atom to become a
water molecule.

It’s when there is ‘only’ 1 hydro and 1 oxy that there is nothing new to get excited
about.
Yes I suppose I could be way off on this, thinking that water has a shape, other
than what bounds it and how very familiar water drops and atmosphere have
been so shaped. Do you see the Atmosphere as being like ‘swiss cheese’ and the
rain drops are holes? Oh yeah back to the raisin loaf.

That whole litany of physical laws, nothing can be created and destroyed (‘then
why do I feel like I’m coming apart’), two things cannot occupy the same space.
Very dense in fact, then there’s nothing at all, where did the yellow go?

Drifting off, so slowly, as Hawking’s rad educated guess.