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I fell asleep and then woke up with a start when I remembered that I hadn't responded to pete and I have some things to say/rant about.
What I have to SayDo you have anything to say that actually has some substance to it? Well I do. Kids my age need to stop watching MTV and movies that are shit; They need to stop paying large amounts of money for ( Read more... )
What I have to SayDo you have anything to say that actually has some substance to it? Well I do. Kids my age need to stop watching MTV and movies that are shit; They need to stop paying large amounts of money for ( Read more... )
All communication is fundamentally flawed. No one thing can be perceived the "same" way by any two people. To quote Alduous Huxley:
"By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes. Most island universes are sufficiently like one another to Permit of inferential understanding or even of mutual empathy or "feeling into." Thus, remembering our
own bereavements and humiliations, we can condole with others in analogous circumstances, can put ourselves (always, of course, in a slightly Pickwickian sense) in their places. But in certain cases
communication between universes is incomplete or even nonexistent. The mind is its own place, and the Places inhabited by the insane and the exceptionally gifted are so different from the places where ordinary men and women live, that there is little or no common ground of memory to serve as a basis for understanding or fellow feeling. Words are uttered, but fail to enlighten. The things and events to which the symbols refer belong to mutually exclusive realms of experience."
Semantics and Context are two of the most important "words" in the english language that very few people understand, especially the first one. Adjectives are almost incredibly amazingly fantastically spectacularly humongously worthless... (that's a joke, heh)
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