I can't get away from it; most of what I've been reading/listening to over the past number of months is cosmology. And the earth is an unbelievable wreck - maybe I'm too close to ecology organizations/reports, but I get them daily, and am horrified. Like watching Auschwitz without Auschwitz. The stuff of nightmares.
- Alan On Sat, 29 Aug 2009, james morris wrote: > > 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 > > | current internet text file: http://www.alansondheim.org/qf.txt | Alan Sondheim Mail archive: http://sondheim.rupamsunyata.org/ | Webpage (directory) at http://www.alansondheim.org | [email protected], [email protected], tel US 718-813-3285 ! http://www.facebook.com/alan.sondheim _______________________________________________ NetBehaviour mailing list [email protected] http://www.netbehaviour.org/mailman/listinfo/netbehaviour
