Right last words then I’m off to enjoy the sunlight, has wonderful benefits for the skin you know. Before I go though I should like to leave you with this: reason, ultimate truth, the singularity you adore is a redundent desire as dead as the God it replaced and I shall illustrate this in a single sentence, a short one mind, taken from S/Z (Roland Barthes):
‘There are said to be certain Buddhists whose ascetic practices allow them to see a whole landscape in a bean’ That’s you by the way, the Buddhist monks, and the ascetic practices well you guessed it the perfect rationality, the formula for truth. As for the landscape I think it reasonable to extend it out into the known universe, the whole possible universe(s) for that matter. Well then what have we left? The bean of course, for what is the inevitable end of such a perfect system but to reduce the entire universe, the entirety of existence into a small brown (could be green) bean. Kind of like Jack and the Beanstalk in reverse. Right, now start enjoying the multiplicity of life or go back to your cave, the choice is most definitely not yours.
This seems like one of the most irrational posts I’ve seen here. It starts off wrong (sunlight is actually bad for your skin) and goes downhill from there.
It doesn’t even tell us what sort of bean we’re looking at. Java or Cocoa? Perhaps if it is a mescal bean it really would allow us to see (or at least hallucinate) the whole landscape.
If, in some cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generation of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? I believe it is the atomic hypothesis that
All things are made ofatoms—little particles that that move around in perpetual motion, attracting each other when they are a little distance apart, but repelling upon being squeezed into one another.
Given the opportunity to throw out all the baggage why oh why would you keep a name that means ‘uncuttable’? Find a greek word that means ‘hard to cut but boy if you do cut it you open up a huge can of worms’.
Was this successful in averting the lowering of testosterone levels associated with experiencing social defeat or shame? Just how well did you fool yourself?
Right last words then I’m off to enjoy the sunlight, has wonderful benefits for the skin you know. Before I go though I should like to leave you with this: reason, ultimate truth, the singularity you adore is a redundent desire as dead as the God it replaced and I shall illustrate this in a single sentence, a short one mind, taken from S/Z (Roland Barthes): ‘There are said to be certain Buddhists whose ascetic practices allow them to see a whole landscape in a bean’ That’s you by the way, the Buddhist monks, and the ascetic practices well you guessed it the perfect rationality, the formula for truth. As for the landscape I think it reasonable to extend it out into the known universe, the whole possible universe(s) for that matter. Well then what have we left? The bean of course, for what is the inevitable end of such a perfect system but to reduce the entire universe, the entirety of existence into a small brown (could be green) bean. Kind of like Jack and the Beanstalk in reverse. Right, now start enjoying the multiplicity of life or go back to your cave, the choice is most definitely not yours.
This seems like one of the most irrational posts I’ve seen here. It starts off wrong (sunlight is actually bad for your skin) and goes downhill from there.
It doesn’t even tell us what sort of bean we’re looking at. Java or Cocoa? Perhaps if it is a mescal bean it really would allow us to see (or at least hallucinate) the whole landscape.
Maybe it’s just that those monks didn’t have much wine on hand.
From the top of the page you link to:
Given the opportunity to throw out all the baggage why oh why would you keep a name that means ‘uncuttable’? Find a greek word that means ‘hard to cut but boy if you do cut it you open up a huge can of worms’.
Was this successful in averting the lowering of testosterone levels associated with experiencing social defeat or shame? Just how well did you fool yourself?