The spaces in our lives are seen in context,
framed against the background of the familiar
and noticed when they differ from it –
but not too much…
Tag: poetry
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Discernible differences
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Through The Trees
The closer you approach a source of light above,
the deeper you plunge into the dark. -
Life IS fair
In relationships you are paid in kind.
You invest emotionally – you get love or hate.
You invest time and effort – you get attention.
You invest formally – you get a proper spouse.
You invest financially – you get an expensive divorce. -
Ideas
Ideas permeate cultures like rings on the water;
the stone someone threw is gone, submerged,
but the ripples go on and on,
slowing down where the water is thick and marshy,
amplified by resonance and creating new patterns where they meet waves from other stones…
There is almost nothing more powerful;
while there is water the ripples will go on,
where there is water – the ripples will get there,
sooner or later… -
Reality
Our most amazing ability is the ability to ignore.
As we grow, we learn not by multiplying connections in the brain, but by losing them.
We combine our expectations and biases with our perceptions,
which are themselves fictions created by our brains
simplifying and organizing multiple chaotic inputs.
Thus we create a thin veneer of simplicity and predictability
over terrifyingly unmanageable chaos
and call it reality. -
Level of abstraction
Nothing generates as much philosophical drivel as incorrectly chosen level of abstraction.
“What are the origins of evil?” –
ask a stupid question – get a religion. -
Campfire Stories
Fear – the most atavistic of our instincts.
Fear of others robs us of our kindness by becoming aggression.
Fear of loss robs us of our freedom by becoming routine.
Fear of death robs us of our dignity by becoming religion.
Fear is why there is nothing more important
than the illusion that monsters do not exist
by the camp-fire in the night.
