change
Current mood: contemplative

if what were in today were also in yesterday what would the difference be?  me?  

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REPRESENT
Current mood: uncomfortable
Category: Music

GO BRO!

Currently watching : Miracle on 34th Street Release date: 05 October, 1999

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Phil Dick
Current mood: contemplative

So, I've been reading more Philip K. Dick lately and last night it only took him 5-10 pages to convince me that I'm schizophrenic..he also made me feel like that's okay..which is a good thing.

He mentioned how once "the future is gone, the possibility of free, effective action of any kind is abolished."

That was part of an essay where he was talking about the I Ching. How seeing the future would make people conform their actions to either make sure that future occurs, or doesn't occur. So, for the rest of one's time, they would simply be working on affecting that.

So, yeah, I found that interesting and wanted to share. Perhaps someone will read this and the topic will spark a conversation. Maybe you would have to read the essay to understand why I would bring it up now. I definitely recommend the essay..it's called "Schizophrenia & The Book of Changes".

Good thing this is my blog because I kind of feel like I'm all over the place right now. Back to Phil Dick (that's what I like to call him..mad respect!). Another essay of his called "Drugs, Hallucinations, and the Quest for Reality" discusses the inabitlity for the brain to encompass what it has been given during a hallucination of any kind whether it's from a fever, drugs or poisoning.

Therefore, a hallucinating person cannot communicate what they are seeing/experiencing in a way that a person who isn't hallucinating (hasn't hallucinated?) could empathize or understand what that person is going through. Which, is what makes the hallucination exactly that , a "hallucination" instead of reality. If we could empathize or see as "realistic" what the person was going through, would it still be a hallucination? Please follow.

You know, I could go on and on talking about that essay and others that Phil Dick wrote because they're really good and they all make me think about things I never thought of but I kind of wanted to have a little more focus in this post.

So, anyway I really enjoyed a quote from that essay too. It says "One doesn't have to depend on hallucinations; one can unhinge oneself by many other roads."

At first, after reading this I thought to myself, Wow! That's really neat...unhinge yourself other ways..see things as new..think..you know..outside the box. Then after a few moments, my thought turned to, Is unhinging a goal one should work to achieve, is it a goal one would want to achieve? I guess it all depends on the person being asked. If someone were to ask me that question they would surely receive an answer.

The essays obviously go into more detail than I did on these subjects, but I would like to know where your thoughts turn when mine and Philip K. Dick's emerge in a place you may have been unfamiliar with.

Currently reading : The Shifting Realities of Philip K. Dick: Selected Literary and Philosophical Writings By Philip K. Dick Release date: 30 January, 1996

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MAPS
Current mood: contemplative

The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.
Daniel Bell

I'm from Earth. I play the whole map.
Ice T

I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it.
Steven Wright

All you need is the plan, the road map, and the courage to press on to your destination.
Earl Nightingale

It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Herman Melville

And I've saved the best for last!

A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.
Thor Heyerdahl

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IT'S ONLY AN EXERCISE IN PATIENCE

I've never been able to do anything abstract other than be

Do you see the lines the...

It's only an exercise in patience

Do you see the shapes the lines make

Is it still abstract if no one sees it as that?

I broke the pattern

Can you name them

Don't be lazy now

Tooth abstraction

Now I've lost the shapes

If you write an abstract poem, but everyone relates to it through their own interpretations is it still abstract?  (i asked someone in RL, he said that is what makes it abstract)

Do you see the octopus?  Of course I do.  It's the only thing in the picture worth looking at.

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I DON'T KNOW HOW TO BLOG
Current mood: calm
Category: Blogging

Do I just type whatever I feel like saying and that's a blog?

Currently reading : Half Asleep in Frog Pajamas By Tom Robbins Release date: 01 August, 1994

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