
LUXT - [Suck it Down]--- It's been an interesting day. Saw Patrick, had a little lunch and discussion, with him, which was good. Got all of my reading done, for tomorrow, which was also good. Haven't been keeping up with my sociology readings, which is bad. But i had a little bit of revelation, again, today, after doing the philosophy readings:
Everything as Everything, unit whole, and Particulate, flowing, overlapping, certain things are part of certain other things, but they are not the Whole of that. Everything is infinite, like particles and patterns and threads, in a glass of horrible wonderful water, and the thing that matters is how they catch the observations of A) the individual viewing the glass (our "God" figure, for this discussion), B) the particles/waves/patterns/threads themselves, and C) The contained whole, including the glass, and the water. How they overlap, interchange, and interconnect. The observations pick out certain phenomena, and cause things to happen, on larger and smaller scales. (Oingo Boingo - [Capitalism]). We cannot trust our observations. We must trust our observations.
When things appear a certain way, and we are convinced of them, and believe them, they will work a certain way, in accordance, but that's applicable, in reverse. We can observe something working a certain way, and infer an overall rule, for it. It doesn't make either mode more correct, or more likely to produce True Facts About the World™. In the end, we're still slapping our labels on things, in an effort to understand the world, as we experience it. We are not actually describing anything more than that. We see, feel, hear, taste, &c., some thing as something. We take our prior contexts and experiences, and we act upon them, to make "rules" for the world, and we act on those rules, when what we should do is realise the whole thing.
Venetian Snares& Hecate - [Intense Demonic Attacks (Initiate Devil's Answer Remix)]--- These rules are not the full story, as our perceptions are not the full story, and they are the only story we can know. We can only perceive what we can perceive, to put it tautologically. Even if our range and scope of perceptions were to broaden and deepen sharply, we would still be acting on them. The only perfection is that drive toward it, therefore the only infallible perception is an ever-shifting, all-integrating/encompassing/-ed one.
Now i'm going to go write a paper that says that, but focuses on the knowledge aspect of it, more than the power and percptual aspects.
I'll see you kids later, i'm guessing. Ta