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2.23.2004
THE QUEST FOR KNOWLEDGE
My quest for knowledge is unending. I feel that knowledge is the embodiment of life. But what is there to know? A knowledge of nothing is rather just as important as knowledge of something. What may be my knowledge of something is perhaps your knowledge of nothing, or vice versa. Perhaps if we all lived like sponges, absorbing and absorbing until once we are full. Then comes the task of wringing us out; how is this done? At what point in life can we be relieved of our current rentention, keeping only the bare minimum, and progress to re-absorbing?
Maybe this relief comes in teaching, but in a conversation with Sven today I find that statement perhaps disproved. Teaching is in itself an absorption of knowledge; knowledge of what you are teaching (and maybe who :) )................
I hope we can have an intelligent discussion about knowledge. Knowledge fascinates me hence my extensive knowledge on the subject. :)
Cheers,
--Dr. Henry Parsons
Certified in Everything, Knowing Nothing
--Posted by Kelly D. Norris on Monday, February 23, 2004.
I suppose good bloggers are supposed to let their thoughts and experiences flow intravenously onto the web.
I guess I'm just not that connected.
But then, it isn't as though I HAVE to do this. I mean, I could be making, oh, three thousand dollars a year just teaching or something.
It's just nice once in a while to have an opportunity to say something totally outrageous.
That's what this is for.
--Posted by s. on Monday, February 23, 2004.
2.17.2004
I must try my hand at it. . .
Today has brought an intriguing fact to mind: Nothing IS a fascinating topic, and a thorough discussion of it will follow.
Our tradition of thinking about nothing usually omits what is indubitably an important fraction of its foundation. By naming nothing, I bring it into quiddity - and now, it IS. If it IS, it is not nothing - it IS. It is substantial. It is stuff.
A paradox: how do I scan nothing if by scanning it I throw it into oblivion? But oblivion IS nothing, so by forcing it into oblivion I allow it to subsist. But if it subsists, it obviously isn't nothing.
--Posted by s. on Tuesday, February 17, 2004.
2.16.2004
Question: What did the alien say to Franz Schubert?
Answer: "Take me to your Lieder".
*groan.
--Posted by s. on Monday, February 16, 2004.
2.14.2004
Roses reflect a light frequency at one end of the visible
electromagnetic spectrum,
Violets reflect a light frequency at the other end of the visible
electromagnetic spectrum,
Sugar is C12H22O11,
And you release the endorphins in my brain.
Happy Valentines Day
--Posted by s. on Saturday, February 14, 2004.
2.12.2004
An interesting fact:
Georges Perec wrote several books (mostly in French).
Two notables are
La Disparition (which contains no e's)
and
Les Revenentes(Which contains no vowels other than e.)
Fascinating! It's interesting to consider that the two works do not share any words. That is, any word present in La Disparition can not be in Les Revenentes and vice versa.
A third book would be necessary to finish the set using words that contain e's but not exclusively e's.
Amazingly, the creative process is aided immensely by these iron-hard constraints. Being backed into a grammatical and syntactical corner by the standards Mr. Perec set for himself forced his mind into places that had he sat down and said simply "Heck yeah, I'm gunna write me a book" he would never have reached. There would have been no tightly connected marriage of medium and message, only a sprawling heap of word.
"Oh goody, here's a story. But the words I use don't matter. The story's good so the manner of telling doesn't need to be"
Vile authors! When you write the words are precious gems to be fit into a mosaic. The story is told is at least as important IF NOT MORE SO than the story itself.
Some authors have realized this. Some have luckily stumbled on it without realizing it. Some haven't. Most haven't.
I rarely read a story for the sake of the story itself. When I read a book, I listen to how people talk. Characters in the story if it happens to be fiction, how the author uses words always.
It would be like if Johann Sebastian Bach decided "Here's a happy little tune" and then threw it in a three-chord harmony. Quite blasphemous.
I'm done.
--Posted by s. on Thursday, February 12, 2004.
Who am I to say that what I do is better in quality than that which anyone else does? I have no foundation to judge another’s work?? The only true measuring rod is truth itself. Truth is God, God is truth, I, being human, do not know truth - I just know what I feel is true, and whether it actually is or not I don’t know. I feel that there has to be an absolute standard out there somewhere, but I also am pretty sure that I do not know it. Actually, I feel fairly confident that no human will ever exactly know it. I like to believe that what we do here really matters, but I’m not sure that it does.
The only standard that I can use to judge my own works is what I feel about them. Scores, statistics, compliments, suggestions, mean nothing (or do they mean everything?) Either everthing exists only in our minds or everything exists and how we interpret it has nothing to do with truth. What is in our brain - a series of chemical reactions, balanced and imbalanced - that makes it a veritable standard? With sophisticated enough equipment, could we reproduce the brain (not now, not at our present level), but eventually? Or is there more to it than that?
My perception of my life is subject very much to what kind of mood I'm in, what I ate for lunch, the price of eggs in China. . . But then, shouldn't it be? If life is merely what we perceive, where do we get out separating life and truth from perception?
--Posted by s. on Thursday, February 12, 2004.
2.10.2004
Go Johnny, go!
Elroy James got nothing on this fellow. . .
(ya got your twelve-bar blues)
--Posted by s. on Tuesday, February 10, 2004.
2.08.2004
I'll listen. . .
I'll listen to you talk about anything.
Religion, politics, mathematics, athletics.
Philosophy or physics or football.
Science and faith, music and art, computer programming, history, science fiction, geography, your grandparents, your grandchildren.
You can tell me jokes or anecdotes or stories. I'd love to discuss Broadway musicals or what your daughter's prom dress looks like or where you have gone/will go/are going to college. We can mull over mathematical concepts or alternative religious beliefs or political satire. I'll debate with you about what tv shows are worth watching and who should have won the super bowl and what the best books in the world are. Where the best Chinese food (outside of China) is, the pros and cons of each of the Democratic Presidential Candidates, the role of the U.N. in America, your recent trip to Iceland or Poland or Tripoli.
But I will not listen to you complain(!) NOTHING is more boring and annoying than listening to someone else whine. If you do it in my presence I may be forced to throw a pen at you. If you have problems, I'll listen, but to complain simply for the sake of complaining is inane. Talking about problems is good - not necessarily trying to solve them, just trying to understand them. An interesting thing is that you can't really complain to yourself. Complaints are merely cries for attention and pity. There are so many intriguing, fascinating, interesting things in the world to let them slip by because we have our heads buried in our own problems.
Life is good if we just let it be.
--Posted by s. on Sunday, February 08, 2004.
2.04.2004
This, considering recent events, is too good to pass up.
Funny.
--Posted by s. on Wednesday, February 04, 2004.
2.02.2004
Ah, America is beautiful.
In the news today:
Janet Jackson has breasts
Howard Dean isn't surprised
And amidst it all, Scientists create Superheavy Elements (as though we needed more.)
--Posted by s. on Monday, February 02, 2004.
What I've read (since last time)
Brave New World
Walden
Catcher in the Rye
--Posted by s. on Monday, February 02, 2004.
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