Thoughts&Ideas

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If you think we can know the objectivity of anything, fine. If you think we cannot, fine. Whether aspects of something define and compose those things or whether they are just aspects of that something is entirely up to you. It is beautiful, though, how that choice is still up to each and every one of us - there is only freedom.

10.4.12

[tand-i]

389

We cannot disregard our daily details (timely factors that are thus not timelessly relevant) as those who focus completely on the timeless have no place in a timely world. So if humanity is set as the subject rather than an individual, we can say that humanity cannot disregard the relevant, as those who do will be killed and those who regard it will survive. It's as if there's one collective individual (humanity) who attempts to disregard timely matters only to fail (by way of an entire human life) but survives as a collective whole (those who regard it, move with change, adapt and so forth shall survive).

10.3.12

[tand-i]

388

Remaining indoors does not escape the change of Dao but it does keep us in an environment that we feel we know thus keeping us from truly discovering it; our ideas of what we have created are projected onto it. In fact, they are, themselves, simply manifestations of our habits of thought so when we see them, we see only what we had in mind or some other form of filtered reality.

10.3.12

[tand-i]

387

The fractal ecology of life is affecting everything. Every part is a manifestation each with its own "duties," so to speak. This is simply their nature & they can enjoy it. By this, we are in some way, functions of life as much as life is a function of us.

10.3.12

[tand-i]

386

I know who someone is only when they are around me. If I experience them around others, I still only know them around others and myself. I cannot escape my own bias.

10.2.12

[tand-i]

385

If I perceive something to be a certain way & it makes me happy, does it matter whether I perceived it "correctly," so to speak, because I would already be happy? From a  logical or scientific standpoint, this idea crumbles-- initial observations supporting a claim must be true in order for the claim to be. This is how feelings & knowledge differ in relation to reality.

10.1.12

[tand-i]

384

"Forever in the moment" is an example of the same concept that also produces instantaneous velocity because the tangent is infinitely long from a single point in time.

9.30.12

[tand-i]

383

A number should only be used to hold the place of a life, not the value, so as to appreciate complexity & mystery from a higher scale without stealing the value & intimacy of smaller scales.

9.27.12

[tand-i]

382

With the ability to understand comes the ability to misunderstand. That is why we must tune in with out nature rather than being born this way. If it were automatic, would it be beautiful, and/or appreciated?

9.26.12

[tand-i]

381

Perhaps when we identify a self-fulfilling prophecy we also hide others. If I listen to a negative comment & eventually believe it thus making it true, I fulfill this myself. However, if I reject the comment & by doing so become a separate being, I also fulfill this myself.

9.26.12

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380

Yin & Yang have an inherent, immediate relations. We do not have to deduce anything from it, so it just is. Our feelings about something are also immediate, so they just are. Thee is nothing to doubt in them, as there is no leap whatsoever.

9.25.12

[tand-i]

379

It's interesting how certain atoms are as they are alone, but can change when mixed with another-- the dangerous may become harmless; the harmless may become dangerous & so forth. In some way, we act exactly like this by virtue of our influence from others. Can we really be any other way? We are, after all, compendiums of atoms mixing with other compendiums.

9.25.12

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378

Originality is unavoidable. EVEN in duplication & imitation, there is originality. There is only similarity as everyone will do a thing in a different way, or at least be a different part completing the same process, which also models our fractal ecology.

9.23.12

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377

Reason is a factor of perception. So how exactly does it change the way we perceive?

9.22.12

[tand-i]

376

Because of imperfect understanding, I will be forever learning. Thus, I am free and limitless by virtue of my limitations.

9.21.12

[tand-i]

375

We are all artists. In the way a painter has a style, we all have our perspectives -- our base style which is then to be taken thereafter. We are artists of the mind creating art with our very being. And like a painter whose paintings are influenced by what's around, our characters do the same.

9.21.12

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374

We've followed our nature & it has led us to be in relationships with others around us which models the universe-- though we are independent, we need each other. We all affect each other.

9.21.12