11 Tuesday Jun 2024
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Father Raven
Intelligence is a scavenger
A hoarder of shiny ideas, or
A collector of things of every color
mixed and stirred into black
A foolish lover of roads
A Monster
that only mates
with members of the same social class.
Speaker for the dead
Eater of the dead
leaves, leaver of marks.
They can grow to love, to collect an inedible fruit.
An inedible
apple
Coveted by hungry black
eyes.
08 Saturday Jun 2024
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The Silver Mind Keeps Dying
Consciousness is the feeling of negation: in the perception of ‘the stone as grey,’ such feeling is in barest germ; in the perception of ‘the stone as not grey,’ such feeling is in full development. (Whitehead, 1929: 161)
“I,” who supports myself on the shoulders of rocks,
cannot be counted in the coffers of knowledge.
This feeling of negation is a desire for knowledge.
No, it is not a knowledge of these rocks.
My knowledge is something better than rocks, something I can’t see, like the arch of the sky.
I ignore rocks because of the treasures in my mind.
I bet you don’t even know what I am thinking. You just see rocks.
Rocks with emerald carpets of moss, with tiny iridescent mushrooms.
A rock in the shape of a heart, or with the same care-lines of your very face, my love.
Rocks are the new clouds.
Watch from one to the next, watch with the blessing of ages, how they change shape.
Their darkness that weighs.
Their fault is their honesty, and they don’t care.
Lift one from the paths of memory and find your true self.
Lift it, carry its body home and carefully wash away the moss and soil.
You will find a naked man inside, blinking at your face like the new sun.
No, I like my theory better, because it belongs to me:
sensitivity is an excess:
too much from a shapely line of text,
a sensuality of braille,
or the silent song.
02 Sunday Jun 2024
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I wrote in one of my poems about the chemical name of heroine. It actually happens that they create new chemicals similar to heroine but have no name yet in the US law. The US keeps adding new chemical names to the laws to ban heroine, but there is always a substance that is slightly different and has no name, then it can be sold in stores legally for a while until the US lawmakers catch up, and it goes back and forth like this, forever.
Our chemical names are too precise to capture heroine and make it illegal, but the US cannot accept vagueness in language, so it fails to keep its own laws.
yes a few vague words are better. so one great monk I was lucky enough to listen to in person is famous for the meditation practice of saying "it is like this" the words are so vague that you go looking for what it means in the here and now.
22 Wednesday May 2024
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Idea Consumer
Its all in the cut
Its all in the invisible
Mark it cut it rip it snatch it
A splash a wave
We touch it and it feels ))) what we feel.
The mind that loves
To read
Don’t let anyone see
How beautiful you are
19 Friday Apr 2024
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The mists have birthed a new toy soldier.
The mists twist as the heat and steam rises from Leon’s open wounds.
Just before his shadow in the mist disappears, a warrior emerges and plants her feet.
She enters a battle stance as her legs ripple with muscle, her right arm wrapped around her longspear, shield poised, she is naked. The male opponent’s weakling reaction to her visible body is against their own will. This clear vision of Her is rare, because she moves so fast you only see a blur, cloaking her nakedness and beautiful form.
In this vision you recognize one of her many blue tattoos clearly reading “Dierdre”. Her secrets are many, the spells of protection and strength woven in her tattoos.
The mists will not answer your futile strikes, but you will find Dierdre’s blade exactly where you are not looking.
12 Tuesday Mar 2024
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The roots make the branches grow, and the branched leaves nourish the roots for growing. The growing goes back and forth from branch to root, root to branch, until this growing passes beyond our limited visions.
We may say that the root is first, or the green spring, yet we cannot be sure how each seed will burst into life. And if, beyond our vision, the roots reach hell, only then can the high branches reach heaven. If our branches, reaching, touch heaven, the same reaching touches hell with our roots.
01 Friday Mar 2024
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Cheers to nothing
I take an empty cup of kindness. Expectantly.
ought I receive for my aesthetic sacrifice?
The poem bereft of words
A dry, soulless,
immaculate uncertainty,
gossamer tulip wings limping, prancing,
(no! no!)
(Not verbs, we want nouns! Decorative, ornamental nouns! And don't say that ugly "adjective!")
on the shore she waits,
ear to the Earth
A sensitivity to butterfly effects,
and beauty returns to her in a bottle from the sea,
but it was only a grocery list.
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There are very complex theories. A computer operating system is one of the most complex creations, with more moving parts than a commercial airplane. Airplanes fly, thats nice, but operating systems do something harder: they engage the human mind in every way. There are operating systems for household chores, entertainment, most kinds of work, and social existence. If there were a place for complexity, the internet and its administration would be this place, or non-place. Complexity is what protects our privacy… whats left of it.. in the form of encryption. In this case, and many others, complexity is there almost for its own sake. It is a gatekeeper. The complexity of encryption is not related to the privacy of our homemade pornography starring “me”. Encryption is dark for the sake of being dark. We need this darkness to make fools of ourselves in private. Computers are just embodied mathematics, after all, and mathematics has become the gatekeeper for most things. Science is one of few generalities that claim mathematics is not for its own sake as a gatekeeper. Most importantly, the complexity of mathematics in Science is both the gate and the reality. The reality in our minds: the conversion of ideas to things, and things to ideas. Mathematics is the night sky, the simple darkness in which the universe can play out its complexities. It is at once the mountain one must climb to reach the sky, and the sky itself. The arid peak, from which the world is a map, and new stars can be contemplated. The point of dependence of sky on land, and of land on sky. The recognition of complexity is a simple recognition.
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First they look where the earth is overturned
They look for artifacts in excavations and burials.
They look on the surface of the land and sea
The multitude of tiny many-colored lives.
The clouds ask each other, and clouds move obtusely
Changing their questions constantly.
The clouds turn and ask the unconquered stars
And, secretly, the stars listen.
10 Wednesday Jan 2024
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linguistics, logic, meaning, ontology, philosophy, semantics
Vagueness is not a matter of semantics. It is a problem that troubles the basic assertion that, as our old friend Berty Russell asserted as an axiom in the Principlia Mathematica, "Everything that is, is." The basics are a very interesting place to stay. We would like to say this is a basic and acceptable assertion, and it turns out to not be basic at all. In fact, no subject is elementary, and also every subject is elementary.
Channell and Rowland argue that vagueness has pragmatic usefulness: "For language to be fully useful, therefore, in the sense of being able to describe all of human beings' experience, it must incorporate built-in flexibility. This flexibility resides, in part, in its capacity for vagueness" (p201 Channell 1994) Dr. Channell outlines various views of where vagueness comes from, from the difference between the "same idea" in different minds (Fodor 1977 in Channell 1994), to language (Peirce 1902 in Channell 1994), to physical reality (Russell 1923). Vagueness is found discussed in logic (Lakoff 1972 in Channell 1994) where it is argued (along with Russell) that "true" and "false" are vague, and so classical logic could be modified..." (p66 Nightingale 2019)
"[i]t is perfectly obvious, since colours form a continuum, that there are shades of colour concerning which we shall be in doubt whether to call them red or not, not because we are ignorant of the meaning of the word "red," but because it is a word the extent of whose application is essentially doubtful." (1923 Russell as quoted in Nightingale 2019, p66).
"The word "red" is vague in this respect because there are borderline cases where it is not clear whether or not we should call the case "red". Russell says "essentially doubtful" because this uncertainty is essential, in the sense of being a part of the nature of red. One deception here is in asserting that the "continuum" is a perfectly precise reality that can be expressed numerically. This renders vagueness a kind of error; without a perfectly known continuum underneath our words, vagueness is not error but has a reality of its own. Does the continuum suffer from vagueness?...
Peirce claimed that another way to describe generality is where the Law of Excluded Middle ("A or ~A is always true") does not hold. This makes sense because normally, the LEM decides which of "A or ~A" is true (even if we don't know which is decided, it asserts that "out there" it is decided.) When the LEM does not apply "A or ~A" is left undecided, which allows for a generalization on "A or ~A", you can choose which. However the claim that something can be essentially uncertain is directly against the LEM." (p66-68 Nightingale 2019)
I mean to say that reifying vagueness proves the LEM is false, in general. (The ideas of general and of vague are intimately connected) Russell asserted "everything that is, is" in order to "prove" the LEM. And here I am arguing against the LEM, which would also be against "everything that is, is" What makes red red? In this question i mean to be vague between term red and the actual red. If everything that is depends on other things to be, there is a certain spaciousness to Being, an undefined vagueness between Being and Space.
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