tangible
anyone can write a book.
ideas are spread by word of mouth, by influence, coercion, persuasion, implication.
and people are simply suceptable to these thoughts and the inheritence of these thoughts into our trains of thought.
almost as if the mechanism designed to transform memory into doing is applied widely and any and all information gets stuck in our brains...a building block to our lives our societies our histories. and we have no say. there are no mind erasers, no memory disenhancers, no natural filtration system to weed out the unimportant or unnecessary information. so we are all vulnerable to the capacity of eachothers brain.
like the only restraints might simply be in our make up. in the actual science of our minds, unless you prefer another classification other than science. But thats another conversation.
So what i mean is simply this:
if our brains have the capactiy of something like one cup of water, and we can only think in terms of water, we are self contained as a species to think within certain confines of what we've all been given.
And further, if we are all in this together...even playing field if you will, then I wonder what the restraints are when applied to the actual thinking "in terms of water", since, of course, this is our only guideline. What does that mean? Will different people think in terms of water differently? WIll all people be able to decipher another "thinking" in terms of water? Can your thinking of water affect my thinking of water? If I were to take a large portion of my water and chemically duplicate it, then drain the same amount from your cup of water and replace it with my chemically duplicated water, would I essentially be "brain washing" you (funny...washing...water...) by replacing your thoughts with mine? How many thoughts can fill up the one cup of water? Are we born with a predetermined "thought" of the water already in our heads? Or are each of our waters chemically different though we are all somehow able to share "ideas" of water because we speak the same language?
Have you ever thought about what other people see? I often imagine complete darkness and all of us running around seeing different things...imagining different masses then physically being aware of them...maybe when the brain creates a physical image it correlates the imaginary physical image and its "visual" reproduction (which is really just a tought of a visual image) to a "touching" sensation on all "touching" receivers (fingers, body, short hairs on the back of your neck). So really its all just one big mind fuck with all senses plugged in to the game console...
Remember in the 80's when they thought virtual realtiy would become a new world in which we already exist. Like we can set up a computer program to create a "car" in the virtual reality game, but there's no car there...its just a binary representation.
But what if we already exist in this virtual reality world...and we have forever... and we're just living out the game.
Is that what they think god is? The super IT man...the computer programmer that created this version of SIM CITY...and the universe is actually some clubhouse with a bunch of tech geeks with their own worlds...
Did you ever wonder what kind of societites ants have? And how they view humans? Are we similar to the "giants' we protray in our childrens books like "Jack and the beanstalk" or Lord of the Rings?
I guess if you remove the time/space continuum that we seem to have created as an explaination for our existance, or at least a user interface for it...what remains? Maybe its really like the Matrix. Or maybe this is all happening as some strange dream that is in actuality only a fraction of the "life" of whatever being is creating this dream...in whatever "world" it exists...
I'm thinking of starting a new religion as a way to make money...but also and probably more importantly as a way to examine the ease of interpretation and the power of marketing.
And in effect, as a way to exclaim to the "world"...look at how fucking silly we're all being.
ideas are spread by word of mouth, by influence, coercion, persuasion, implication.
and people are simply suceptable to these thoughts and the inheritence of these thoughts into our trains of thought.
almost as if the mechanism designed to transform memory into doing is applied widely and any and all information gets stuck in our brains...a building block to our lives our societies our histories. and we have no say. there are no mind erasers, no memory disenhancers, no natural filtration system to weed out the unimportant or unnecessary information. so we are all vulnerable to the capacity of eachothers brain.
like the only restraints might simply be in our make up. in the actual science of our minds, unless you prefer another classification other than science. But thats another conversation.
So what i mean is simply this:
if our brains have the capactiy of something like one cup of water, and we can only think in terms of water, we are self contained as a species to think within certain confines of what we've all been given.
And further, if we are all in this together...even playing field if you will, then I wonder what the restraints are when applied to the actual thinking "in terms of water", since, of course, this is our only guideline. What does that mean? Will different people think in terms of water differently? WIll all people be able to decipher another "thinking" in terms of water? Can your thinking of water affect my thinking of water? If I were to take a large portion of my water and chemically duplicate it, then drain the same amount from your cup of water and replace it with my chemically duplicated water, would I essentially be "brain washing" you (funny...washing...water...) by replacing your thoughts with mine? How many thoughts can fill up the one cup of water? Are we born with a predetermined "thought" of the water already in our heads? Or are each of our waters chemically different though we are all somehow able to share "ideas" of water because we speak the same language?
Have you ever thought about what other people see? I often imagine complete darkness and all of us running around seeing different things...imagining different masses then physically being aware of them...maybe when the brain creates a physical image it correlates the imaginary physical image and its "visual" reproduction (which is really just a tought of a visual image) to a "touching" sensation on all "touching" receivers (fingers, body, short hairs on the back of your neck). So really its all just one big mind fuck with all senses plugged in to the game console...
Remember in the 80's when they thought virtual realtiy would become a new world in which we already exist. Like we can set up a computer program to create a "car" in the virtual reality game, but there's no car there...its just a binary representation.
But what if we already exist in this virtual reality world...and we have forever... and we're just living out the game.
Is that what they think god is? The super IT man...the computer programmer that created this version of SIM CITY...and the universe is actually some clubhouse with a bunch of tech geeks with their own worlds...
Did you ever wonder what kind of societites ants have? And how they view humans? Are we similar to the "giants' we protray in our childrens books like "Jack and the beanstalk" or Lord of the Rings?
I guess if you remove the time/space continuum that we seem to have created as an explaination for our existance, or at least a user interface for it...what remains? Maybe its really like the Matrix. Or maybe this is all happening as some strange dream that is in actuality only a fraction of the "life" of whatever being is creating this dream...in whatever "world" it exists...
I'm thinking of starting a new religion as a way to make money...but also and probably more importantly as a way to examine the ease of interpretation and the power of marketing.
And in effect, as a way to exclaim to the "world"...look at how fucking silly we're all being.
1 Comments:
Yo.. great posting. Thank you for directing me to it. I'm so glad that I know you Sha. I'm so happy to know someone else who asks these sorts of questions of themself even when they don't really have to. And I love who you are because you do it in a way that is completely different from me and so completely your way of doing it. To know you is to learn about how beautiful everyone is... you ask these questions of yourself that I've ben struggling with too, but then you put the perfect twist on it to make it your own. After asking all the tough questions you say "... I'm thinking of starting a new religion as a way to make money, but also because..." you know religion is like whatevs.
You're brilliant. I agree with you about the whole marketing thing. The content of your ideas really does matter for very little in terms of how other people will understand it. They will not absorb what you think, they will sort of absorb some of what you say and then make it their own. So if everyone's brain is a cup of water, the ideas you submit for scrutiny to other people won't be the water in your head, but rather koolaid (or powdered iced tea, if that's what you prefer).
Talking to people about your ideas is like handing them a packet of koolaid. They will mix it with their cup of water in whatever proportions they choose. They might even mix it with other flavors of koolaid to make a new flavor. You can't control it, they do what they want with the koolaid you make... that's cuter than it probably should be.
What I'm saying is that you can put your ideas out there, and your ideas should be sensative to how other people are... but what you have to strive to do is offer the clearest and healthiest articulation of your ideas as you see them for yourself, then convert them from water to koolaid and then market the shit out of it so that people will accept your packet and want to dump the whole thing in their head.
And one last thing: the "we're all in this together" thesis is not about a level playing field. Everyone has different talents and abilities. If we are in this together, then individuals have to employ their talents for collective gain. Level playing field means we compete against each other on equal footing.. so that when people finally enter into the economy, they should do so with equal endowments. I think that's never going to be true. I know lots of people who went to really good public or private schools and got a much better education than I did, but who will never be as smart as me. So, despite all the advantages they might have received, they will never level the playing field as long as I'm on it. The only way to level the playing field is to kill all the smart people. Look for that to enter into the Republican platform before the 2012 election.
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