Registered: Aug 2000
Location:
Posts: 632

The fundamental interconnectedness of all things. - click here to read it

Last edited by Dingle on 12-11-2001 at 12:58 AM

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Location Location
Posts: 26541

Well said.

And a way of thinking about things I have never thought about before, a perspective I have never taken until now.

Thanks for that.

And good to see you back in action.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Myrtle Beach, SC
Posts: 15181

Wonderful to have you posting again.

Nobody here at the Asylum has had more impact on my thoughts and ideas than you. This column is no exception.

Thank you.

------------------------
I could never take any computer seriously that doesnt give me blue screens and illegal ops now and again. --Urbanjunkie
Graphic Cheeseworks.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Beyond Mason-Dixon Line
Posts: 17262

Yes, I've pondered these things, too, Redguard. Is our universe merely a subatomic particle in an incomprehensible gnat on the vast ass of an even more incomprehensible elephant?

So to speak.

Having you back is good. Very good. Amen.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
Posts: 9478

Ahh, Redguard. Truly a comrade-in-arms.

Yes, I too have oft pondered the interconnectedness of reality. But I feel that there may even be something beyond gravity's constant particular influence and Einstein's little point about all matter being Energy. I think Hinduism's formulation of Universe contrues all that is as coalescions of Void, which is best described as all that is, was, and will be = energy.

Consciousness. Yes, the beautiful, astounding, mind-boggling characteristic of mind itself. Why is it that we seem to embrace a perspective that can recognize physical connectedness yet fails to ascribe this power to the mental energies? What we believe shapes the world we inhabit; the world we inhabit shapes what we believe. To truly comprehend the power of this interaction conveys an immediate sense of responsibility to me. We must learn that what we think, how we think, why we think matters.

We are what we are, so let's be something good.

------------------------
Boomer Bible: Find it, Read it, Learn it, Live it, Love it. I mean this!

http://www.boomerbible.com/BBFAC.html

All hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: 54.60°N 5.70°W
Posts: 1950

Yes.

Big whorls have litte whorls,
Which feed on their velocity,
And little whorls have lesser whorls,
And so on, to viscosity.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: Ivory Tower, USA
Posts: 1515

Beautiful piece of writing, Redguard. Thanks for sharing!

------------------------
"Wisdom comes with winters."--Oscar Wilde

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Gehenna
Posts: 1018

My brother Redguard, you stimulate my iconoclastic mind. As always, your words paint compelling images...but what of the individual?

What of the man who looks upon the interconnectedness and says "I REFUSE!" What of he who would choose solitude and silence for his companions, eschewing the teeming throngs as unnerving and uncomfortable? Not everyone finds desirable the constant background noise created by the masses surrounding.

One wonders...where has this creature a place? Is there any?

------------------------
What you would kill to see brings out the GOD in me.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Aug 2000
Location: Nanaimo, BC
Posts: 1122

tathata. *nods

------------------------
Rebel from the waist down.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Feb 2001
Location: Baba Kueria
Posts: 3149

Rogue, You mean the individual who denies his species, right?
What of the species, or the culture within it, who denies all things natural?
A beautiful piece of writing indeed Redguard, yet it doesn't stop me from feeling like an evil little cell, within a nasty tumour, leeching the life from a beautiful planet.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Jul 2000
Location: A New England
Posts: 9187

I feel just awful interrupting your circle jerk here guys.

I mean, I really like your stuff, Redguard. Favorite author and all that (I'll stop before the helmet hits my tonsil and I choke).

But lets face it. Banal or perhaps, trite spring to mind.

Not a great piece I think. Too done already.

Or mayhap I just feel a tad cynical this even and the iconism that surrounds you sours my opinion.

Muchos respect to slight if this was what pissed you off on SPF.

A tad too saccharine for my taste.

(BTW it is nice to see you back around here, Red)

------------------------
A closed mouth gathers no feet.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Sep 2000
Location: The Bottom of the Toyem Pole
Posts: 9478

quote:

---

Originally posted by RogueWarrior:
...but what of the individual?

What of the man who looks upon the interconnectedness and says "I REFUSE!" What of he who would choose solitude and silence for his companions, eschewing the teeming throngs as unnerving and uncomfortable? Not everyone finds desirable the constant background noise created by the masses surrounding.

One wonders...where has this creature a place? Is there any?

---

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged

Registered: Nov 2000
Location: Gehenna
Posts: 1018

I live in the woods, Nutrimentia. We still don't trust that newfangled invention FIRE yet...I'm not ready to try out that "gravity" stuff. Looks like witchcraft to me. I REBUKE YOUR GRAVITY!! NYAAAAH!

------------------------
What you would kill to see brings out the GOD in me.

Report this post to a moderator | IP: Logged