Let’s go to another world
We have tarried long enough by lingering. I’ve established a pathway that hopefully
will stay in place for about fifteen years.
Strange to say I don’t see my attitude towards the indigenous master
species here as undergoing any significant
change. I’m, prima facia at least, a little calmer and am less inclined to run around shout
“Life Stinks!” I mean, it does stink,
but it’s hardly cricket of me, who have had so many advantages in life, to
remind the average person with their automobiles, their television and their
nasty, brutal and short lifespans, how miserable they are.
So
wherever possible I tried to encourage people to persist in their delusions. It’s big rock candy mountain time, eh
folks?
There’s some
unfinished business as well that dovetails with todays development. I didn’t number the lessons but If I recall
correctly sometime before the secondary
syllogism (chop wood, don’t chop wood, chop word) we did the forms of voidness lesson. That is to say “Nothing” Is No- thing and is
hence perceived as the absence of
“thingness”. As in “No-thung”
the sword of the Germanic hero Siegfried,
is comprised of potentially all the mass in the universe. In
physics it is associated with nuclear power.
That which is not
nothing then is not something.
Something is the presence of a thing. ( As an aside, in prehistoric times the collective body politic when
drawn together to decide a matter was
called a “thing” and as we know, in order to remain as anonymous
as possible crime gangs in Italy are sometimes known as our “thing”. “Cosa”
as in “La Cosa nostra” or “Che Cosa amore?” is also translated as “Cause” – thus this thing of ours is equivalent to our
common cause.
I make this distinction to
illustrate that , like in Chaos theory, what we are concerned with is the event
and not so much the physical aspect that accompany it. What Chaos theory does is it describe the
circumstances upon which the formerly thought of as uncaused
causality will occur. Classically we can never determine where and when the
first bubble will occur in a teapot, but we can make some good guesses.
For our purposes the antihypothesis to nothing is the void. Like LaoTsu’s “Truth which can de described,”
if the void can be described then it is not the void. Another word for it is mystery. Miyasaki in
his five rings book says the the void is the fifth and most
elusive skill a swordsman must master.
We say in America, the joy of baseball is that every once in a while
the 190 hitter will get a hit off the
superior pitcher. This is because while
other skills can be set on autopilot, attention to the void must be ever present. It is for this reason
that masters will occasional set up artificial barriers to their own success.
It is not that they wish to humiliate
the novice, but rather because there are genuinely concerned they will cease
paying attention.
Thus us the void the cause of
many a superior mans defeat – for they expect the opponent to behave in ways
the novice is incapable of. Nevertheless the void represent a higher order of fighting skills.
Theoretically he who can adjust to every attack can never be defeated whereas the lower form of fighting is
contingent on cause and effect, strategy and logistics and so on.
The Jesuits of Europe, known for
both fighting and academic acumen often made acolytes learn the story known as “The beginning of eternity”
It goes on over all the grains of sand far more , but the point is made
that the student must not let the mind wander.
Obviously the void, definition
less, would encourage that. I will
refrain from saying more here.
The void is associated with
quantum effects. Here’s why. Imagine a blackboard. The object
of the game is to throw a ball at a
target drawn on the blackboard. In ordinary time/space your skill, the weight of the ball, the
distance between thrower and target all will
effect outcome. In the other
method we may conjecture that there is
something within the blackboard that “yearns” to come in contact with the
ball. While this second notion, to us,
in our time/space , seems silly there is
statistical evidence that this story of
thing does happen.
The famous Einstein quote about God playing dice is a little
disingenuous. In, for instance the
occurrence of electrons both he and quantum theory are disturbed by the randomness
– it is the causality though that they can’t agree on - and let me make it
clear – this is out beyond the range of my abilities and I make no pretense to
understand other then potentially metaphorically.
One thing we can be thankful for in recent years is we are no
longer subjected to the constant cliches’
about “paradigm shifts.” Alright
some were almost amusing but they all seemed to come down to a game of musical chairs where the music
stops and some people find themselves out of the game.
Likewise I used to torture my bass
player by forever reminding him that one and one is equal to two – which is a fact, but as well is a
koan. This is to say that even since
childhood I have never been comfortable with the idea of truth as something to
be hammered out of reality. As a putative business man as well I have not
always believed in the virtues of the competitive marketplace. This idea of
“may the better product win” ventures
too close to the zone of a game, with set rules and limitations, for my liking.
And I can restate that more
concisely. He who establishes the rules
of a game is quite often he who determines the outcome and that is done before
the game begins. The game hence, and
life itself, is reduced to a meaningless ritual performance.
So you can count your lucky stars I’m
not going to pretend to expound on quantum effects in daily life. Quantum
effects sometimes seem to border on mystical, but perhaps in a century or
two school children will understand
them. The point I am trying to make is
that you don’t have to do or be anything special to be welcome here. You don’t
have to fit into any group or pay
any price. You don’t have to prove anything either. I won’t pretend that I love you but hopefully this won’t disappoint you
too much.
Believe it or not although I’ve
repeated myself many times, I’ve always tried to move the statement a little
further along and will continue to do so.
In the future you’re see a different
me, I feel obligated to do this. ALF has
been very patient and truth be told I’m
still not sure if he is me or I am him and who is who.
P{S I met a girl so he’s gotta do more work. I
know much of how he communicates is
foreign to you but he made some progress
to in pattern formation which should help you in translation.
Tamlin
hello world, I am the ALF and this is Norma and we'd like to say something
"Long Live the Revolution!"
merci
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