Random musings, thoughts, stuff.

[Kajira Callista]

Something i figured out. Instead of trying to force my life into a picture frame i created I have begun to let my life make its own frame... and it is ending up to be a very nice one.

 

[EmpressFi]

How often does "no news" really mean "good news"? And will I jinx it if I talk about it?

I'm trying not to ask why... why it seems that since meeting Master and devoting myself to my two men, to becoming fully poly and submissive... have things started going right for me. I keep waiting for things to go back to "normal"...

 

[lilly85]

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[00Syd]

But what I hate not knowing is: how this world is going to end.
I don't care about doing. It is just that I don't want to miss the end of the show.

Oh, totally. I'm not so much afraid of death as I'm sad about not being able to see how everything will turn out. I hate stopping in the middle of a good movie.

 

[rida]

Oh, totally. I'm not so much afraid of death as I'm sad about not being able to see how everything will turn out. I hate stopping in the middle of a good movie.

TOTALLY.

I even hate to stop in the middle of a bad movie ... that why I couldn't walk out of Micheal Jackson's movie when in college!!! (we were bored ... was free movie day ... it was the only theater where you didn't have to wait 2 hours to get in ... I never admitted seeing that movie before ... )


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Realizing as a kid that the reason why a glass shatters when it hits the ground is because the bottom of the glass didn't have time to tell to the rest of the glass to stop moving down ...

I was a clumsy kid (still am), got to see it happen a lot ... LOL

 

[Homburg]

What if someone else sees colors differently? And I don't just mean people who are color blind, but what if 'you' see red differently than how I see red? What if the color red to 'you' is slightly more orange than how I see it.

I hate not knowing

Same.
Exact.
Thought.

It always bothered me. The whole idea that we have a consensually defined reality but absolutely no clue if my experience of it is even remotely analogous to yours or anyone else's.

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But what I hate not knowing is: how this world is going to end.
I don't care about doing. It is just that I don't want to miss the end of the show.

Heat death. It's pretty boring in concept and all humanity will be gone before it occurs.

 

[00Syd]

Same.
Exact.
Thought.

It always bothered me. The whole idea that we have a consensually defined reality but absolutely no clue if my experience of it is even remotely analogous to yours or anyone else's.

EXACTLY.

In my Intro to Visual Arts class my proff was talking about language and how it works because we all agree on meanings, etc. He used the example of a dog, that everyone understands that the word "dog" represents the small mammal with four legs and a tail that barks. I raised my hand and I brought up the color question, what if we all understand what is "red" but still all see that color differently. He had to think about it for a moment, and then ultimately dismissed it as being besides the point.

 

[Betticus]

EXACTLY.

In my Intro to Visual Arts class my proff was talking about language and how it works because we all agree on meanings, etc. He used the example of a dog, that everyone understands that the word "dog" represents the small mammal with four legs and a tail that barks. I raised my hand and I brought up the color question, what if we all understand what is "red" but still all see that color differently. He had to think about it for a moment, and then ultimately dismissed it as being besides the point.

A lot of those professors are surprisingly ignorant and unable to think.

 

[Homburg]

EXACTLY.

In my Intro to Visual Arts class my proff was talking about language and how it works because we all agree on meanings, etc. He used the example of a dog, that everyone understands that the word "dog" represents the small mammal with four legs and a tail that barks. I raised my hand and I brought up the color question, what if we all understand what is "red" but still all see that color differently. He had to think about it for a moment, and then ultimately dismissed it as being besides the point.

A lot of those professors are surprisingly ignorant and unable to think.

As Betts says, intellectual laziness is just as rife in the Ivory Tower as anywhere else.

 

[EmpressFi]

EXACTLY.

In my Intro to Visual Arts class my proff was talking about language and how it works because we all agree on meanings, etc. He used the example of a dog, that everyone understands that the word "dog" represents the small mammal with four legs and a tail that barks. I raised my hand and I brought up the color question, what if we all understand what is "red" but still all see that color differently. He had to think about it for a moment, and then ultimately dismissed it as being besides the point.

How DARE you try and think outside the box

 

[graceanne]

You are not stupid.. I promise you this!!!

Well, I FEEL stupid today. I lost my food stamp card for the THIRD TIME this month. Where the hell does that thing go? So I gotta go get another one. I'm gonna go ALL THE WAY out of my way to get it, cause I'm too embarrassed to go to the AFS near me.

What if the only reason "CAT" means cat and "DOG" means dog is because someone won the best two out of three of rock, paper scissors?

Sometimes I lie awake at night and try to think of what it'll be like to cease to exist yet that the world go on and realize that for billions and billions of people and beings, it wont mean a thing. One day, this mind, this.. being.. will no longer interact with the world.

Huh. Now we know why you have insomnia.

Something i figured out. Instead of trying to force my life into a picture frame i created I have begun to let my life make its own frame... and it is ending up to be a very nice one.

What a great analogy.

 

[lilly85]

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[EmpressFi]

Why are most humans so into commitment? What makes someone decide to spend so much time searching for just one person to spend their life with? Is it pressure from society, or is it something that is more ingrained into ourselves? Perhaps there is some chemical within all of us, or some DNA strand, that causes us to embark on such a task.

What about those who are afraid of such commitment? Those who run away when things get too serious and lasting...are they somehow deficient? Are they lacking something everyone else has? Is their fear based on environmental causes or genetic?

What is so enticing, yet also so terrifying, about monogamy?

Not sure.. that's why I'm poly

 

[YourCaptor]

I dissected a cat in Bio today. I have butchered a few animals before for food, but this was different. It felt like I was destroying something, like I was kicking down some little kids sand castle. Was their really so much I could not have learned from diagrams and models, that this cat had to be destroyed.

The only thing this cat could do that other things could not would be texture, and yes, texture is important, but in science?

 

[lilly85]

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[faeriefire]

Wondering if others see the same color I see, yeah, definately lol.

I love feeling small and insignificant in the midst of the woods. The feel of natures gradeur and might, the knowledge that she's unpredictable and violent at times, serene and gentle at others. Humans as tiny cogs in the wheel...makes me think of the ant colony in the locker at the end of MIB. Are we just tiny ants scurrying around while big intelligent life forms look down on us from somewhere out in space? And wouldn't it be ironic if that were the case?

How does time work? Are there parallel cycles or a straight line? Can it be played with, moved backwards and forwards? Does it recur, again and again? Can we change what happens or are some things meant to occur exactly as they do to make us us? And if that's the case why do bad things happen to good people? Is it human fault or is someone out there playing with lives?

Why?

Cat's rule. Dog's drool. I still love dogs, but they definately do drool Can't wait to cuddle with my kitties again and to play catch with the puppy *hugs self* and ride the horse and shear the sheep and pet the llama and collect the eggs lol. When I'm in the city I miss the critters. When I'm home I spend too much time with non-humanoids...ah well, best of both worlds

 

[Betticus]

Something i figured out. Instead of trying to force my life into a picture frame i created I have begun to let my life make its own frame... and it is ending up to be a very nice one.

Nicely said.

 

[Betticus]

I dissected a cat in Bio today. I have butchered a few animals before for food, but this was different. It felt like I was destroying something, like I was kicking down some little kids sand castle. Was their really so much I could not have learned from diagrams and models, that this cat had to be destroyed.

The only thing this cat could do that other things could not would be texture, and yes, texture is important, but in science?

I think that deep inside we all know that we are here to create and to grow. So when we kill or hurt something or someone we know that we have crossed a line that should never be crossed.

 

[kiten69]

Just when you think you've done all you can do. . .hey things are finally starting to look up. . .something happens to knock you back down. Time to find another way to "fix" it.

It's been storming here all day. . .matches my mood.

 

[TerragonSix]

Post it here. Share a random moment of your life with us.

I was walking through the kitchen today and I wondered if I am doing enough with my life. I felt old today, perhaps for the first time. I was sad.

Sorry guy.

You know, sometimes I wonder if I'm doing enough in my life as well. I have a good profession, but sometimes I wonder, "Is this all I want to do? Is it enough?" Ah.. I don't know..

Anyway..

Today I woke up with a sore knee, and I thought, "If I wasn't born with knees, my knee wouldn't hurt. Walking might be a problem though."

 

[LittleJade]

Today on my way home from that interview, the dizziness, fever, and nausea hit me again, and I wondered if I should be volunteering tonight. Thankfully, the people at the home asked me not to come if I'm not well, because 3 of their residents also have the flu.

Thank gawd, I get to be in pjs right now.

 

[caela]

EXACTLY.

In my Intro to Visual Arts class my proff was talking about language and how it works because we all agree on meanings, etc. He used the example of a dog, that everyone understands that the word "dog" represents the small mammal with four legs and a tail that barks. I raised my hand and I brought up the color question, what if we all understand what is "red" but still all see that color differently. He had to think about it for a moment, and then ultimately dismissed it as being besides the point.

Just my own random thought on this post lol...Perhaps as far as language, and our agreement on meaning within it, whether someone really does see a color differently than you do is irrelevant because you still both agree that the color you are seeing is "red". For language purposes the fact that you see it differently (perhaps you see it with more of a orange or even a bluish undertone etc.) wouldn't really matter because it would still be labeled as "red" for both of you.

It does make an interesting conversation in and of itself but in the end you'll never really know if people see colors the same way you do (except for the color blind who obviously do see things differently) and thus it really has no meaning at all except as an interesting question to ponder.