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Snow SNOW snow snow snow snow snow SNOW Snow Snow Snow Snow SNOW SNOW S NOW S NOW!!!!!
I can't remember the last time. It's ephemeral, you can't see it when you look out my window. Only, that is, unless you don't look for it. If you stop focusing you will see it everywhere. Your brain sees it, your eyes register it; only, you have to stop looking.
SNOW sNOW SNow Snow SN OW Sn ow S NOW SNO W!!!!
It won't reveal itself, won't avail itself to analysis. Not to the process of taking it apart, you won't understand. You'll see something, you will increase your knowledge if you do, if you analyze the absolute constitutuent parts. The unit cell we called it in chemistry. The unit of atoms combined in, say, a cube. And if you repeated that cube over the course of the entire solid, you would have that solid. Very uniform. That's the beauty and the downfall of all crystalline solids. If you want to call them solids. Snowflakes, they're kind of on the border, between solid and liquid. This problem of demarcation won't be solved by arbitrary dividing lines. The lines will help you solve equations, which you also made up, but the lines won't help to understand the thing-in-itself; not the Dasein, as it were.
SNOWSNWONSOWNSOWNSONWSONWOSNWOSNOWNSOWNSOSNOWSNNSOWNSOWNSONOSNWON!!!!
It's also an emotion, ya know? A feeling, a sensation. There's another direction besides analysis: synthesis. When we reach a suitable level of smallness, an apt level of lowest meaningfull complexity, then we can move in the other direction. A holistic direction. (Does it bother you that so many people seem to think that only one or the other of these two directions yields any answers, any truth? It bothers me? Dichotomies are generally arbitrary, and stupid, I've decided). We can understand the entire effect. And the subsequent affect. What does it mean to say that my feet are cold for the first time with that winter cold? What does that mean, that the atoms are no longer moving, on average, as much? Yes, that is exactly what it means. No, that's not what it means at all. That's true, undoubtedly. But, it isn't enough. There's another sense. What do I mean when I say "winter cold." Is it different from other sensations of cold? Absolutely. No, not at all.
ITSREALLYCOMINGDOWNNOW.
I first looked out, and saw but a single flake. No, I saw nothing really, I didn't expect to see anything. Subconsciously, the potential threat from the snow flakes was assessed and found to be nil, my conscious mind was therefore never alerted. (no, I don't beleive in the ghost in the machine, don't worry; it's a linguistic convention; the whole, not the parts, remember?). Now they're dancing. They arrive quickly from the sky, then when they finally arrive, as though they were fighting the crowds to get into a night club, they start dancing, enjoying themselves; ignoring the wind that one might expect on a day like this.
STREAMSOFCONSCIOUSNESSES
I've decided that this phrase should be plural, never singular. It would be nice to speak of one consciousness, but it would be wrong. I'll do it, of course, but my words will mean something other than they mean; because words are messy and that's how I love them.
This should stop before there's a blizzard on this page as there is outside.
Love to everyone in the world.
-David
I can't remember the last time. It's ephemeral, you can't see it when you look out my window. Only, that is, unless you don't look for it. If you stop focusing you will see it everywhere. Your brain sees it, your eyes register it; only, you have to stop looking.
SNOW sNOW SNow Snow SN OW Sn ow S NOW SNO W!!!!
It won't reveal itself, won't avail itself to analysis. Not to the process of taking it apart, you won't understand. You'll see something, you will increase your knowledge if you do, if you analyze the absolute constitutuent parts. The unit cell we called it in chemistry. The unit of atoms combined in, say, a cube. And if you repeated that cube over the course of the entire solid, you would have that solid. Very uniform. That's the beauty and the downfall of all crystalline solids. If you want to call them solids. Snowflakes, they're kind of on the border, between solid and liquid. This problem of demarcation won't be solved by arbitrary dividing lines. The lines will help you solve equations, which you also made up, but the lines won't help to understand the thing-in-itself; not the Dasein, as it were.
SNOWSNWONSOWNSOWNSONWSONWOSNWOSNOWNSOWNSOSNOWSNNSOWNSOWNSONOSNWON!!!!
It's also an emotion, ya know? A feeling, a sensation. There's another direction besides analysis: synthesis. When we reach a suitable level of smallness, an apt level of lowest meaningfull complexity, then we can move in the other direction. A holistic direction. (Does it bother you that so many people seem to think that only one or the other of these two directions yields any answers, any truth? It bothers me? Dichotomies are generally arbitrary, and stupid, I've decided). We can understand the entire effect. And the subsequent affect. What does it mean to say that my feet are cold for the first time with that winter cold? What does that mean, that the atoms are no longer moving, on average, as much? Yes, that is exactly what it means. No, that's not what it means at all. That's true, undoubtedly. But, it isn't enough. There's another sense. What do I mean when I say "winter cold." Is it different from other sensations of cold? Absolutely. No, not at all.
ITSREALLYCOMINGDOWNNOW.
I first looked out, and saw but a single flake. No, I saw nothing really, I didn't expect to see anything. Subconsciously, the potential threat from the snow flakes was assessed and found to be nil, my conscious mind was therefore never alerted. (no, I don't beleive in the ghost in the machine, don't worry; it's a linguistic convention; the whole, not the parts, remember?). Now they're dancing. They arrive quickly from the sky, then when they finally arrive, as though they were fighting the crowds to get into a night club, they start dancing, enjoying themselves; ignoring the wind that one might expect on a day like this.
STREAMSOFCONSCIOUSNESSES
I've decided that this phrase should be plural, never singular. It would be nice to speak of one consciousness, but it would be wrong. I'll do it, of course, but my words will mean something other than they mean; because words are messy and that's how I love them.
This should stop before there's a blizzard on this page as there is outside.
Love to everyone in the world.
-David