tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12837681524552014552024-02-08T12:04:30.427+00:00ask yourself a questiona place for questions - my attempt to raise awareness of awareness
follow me @jensenwilderFussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-53856723535963590212009-10-08T13:24:00.003+01:002009-10-08T13:29:56.390+01:00My Hour as Art: The Calculations of a Soft Machine.<p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">[You can watch it here: - </span><a href="http://www.blogger.com/www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Jensen"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">www.oneandother.co.uk/participants/Jensen</span></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">]</span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">One must always bare in mind the often overlooked power of a single thoughtful person. Though we are often unaware of the impact we can potentially make, we must attempt to prepare ourselves. This thought was brought to me from my recent experience as a plinther. That is, being a lucky participant in One and Other, Antony Gormley’s new art installation.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Being up on the Forth Plinth in Trafalgar Square was one of the most unprepared moments of my life. It was like approaching one of the seven wonders, or the peak of a mountain; there is simply no way of knowing how you will react.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">When confronted by such opportunities, a more refined soul might have gone up with a speech prepared. I might have preached, screamed, recited or otherwise constructed some form of sentiment that would have undoubtedly taken the moment away from me. I might well have run for an hour like a robot, speaking words that I’d pawed over for weeks in advance. Not so for the willful creature that I am.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Instead I listened a little too intently to a small voice from within that said ‘you need only ‘be’!’ I decided to go up, no props, no gimmicks - just a lone soft machine, held aloft for an hour.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I would say even now, that was/is enough.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Art itself (for the most part) cannot alter its form to better suit the audience before it. Once it is produced it is cast in that form. The painting cannot gain another few brushstrokes, to add more colour here or focus the eye there, just because the person seeing it would find it easier to understand. It can but assume a lasting posture and only stand by and weather the praise and criticism it receives with equal solemnity.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I went up there to ask the world questions more directly than most art does, to be a mirror that might allow people to see something of themselves whilst speaking a language they themselves spoke in. I went up there to do what art does, not interact with the audience around me, but to get the audience to engage with itself.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The truth is we make art to remind us of what will always remain important. We don’t make it as a target for our insults, or produce it so that it will locked away. We want it to be shown to an audience, to tell a story, to make a point, to request more of ourselves than is polite to ask in person. We use art to crack open the human spirit.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Of course I am referring to art as generalized art, that of the gallery displays (paintings primarily, or perhaps music also, certainly the photograph), rather than the more innovative methods that artists now engage in. I know full well that art does not stick to its definitions, by definition it is endlessly re-educating us of limitless features.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So, I got up on that stone pillar with the idea that I’d more clearly do what art does. So that I might connect more directly with people and get the message across. My mission was to Raise Awareness for Awareness. I wanted people simply to start asking themselves questions.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Back to the experience itself, once up there I lost my words and almost my balance.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">We cannot know our qualities until we have been tested to our limit. So all I could comfortably expect of myself was that I would continue to breathe and that my heart would beat (albeit madly).</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">When I got up there I had no idea that I would lose much of myself to nerves. There is a lot to be said for the written language (and much has been); however, I more admire anyone who can stand to speak and explain their message with clarity. I do not have the ability to speak easily in public, though I do now intend to improve.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">In any case I am happy that, with that small sight of my limits, I was inspired.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I’ve come off the plinth with a renewed acknowledgment of myself, but also of the influence and inspiration I have to offer. I met and spoke with many people and the reactions have been incredible.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">People do want to talk, people do want to learn why things are the way they are. Even those who initially became hostile in the face of art, grew later (after conversation/explanation) to understand. They too added their own voice and perspective to the endeavor.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I may have been alone, an example of a young man with a lot (perhaps too much) on his mind; but no-one was unworthy of a place there on that plinth and those who asked questions took their place alongside me.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Now uniquely aware of how much impact a single soft machine can make when placed in the right location. My plan is to go on putting myself in challenging places, to do what I think is good and right and just. To ignore the voices that want me down on their level and to use my own to lift others out of the flood of indifference.</span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I’ve shaken a dozen hands, hugged people who were strangers, dealt with the irrepressible masses and I have come out of the experience; not better, nor worse, but different.</span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-14621677053130935982009-10-01T10:39:00.003+01:002009-10-01T14:30:34.852+01:00The Post Before The Plinth<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What talent would you most like to be known for?</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m a writer. It is all I can do.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’m happy with that, I get a lot of joy from writing. I get rid of a lot of sadness through it too.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, I don’t think I’d like to be ‘known’ as the modern world likes to know its people. I don’t want celebrity.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Simple answer that one. I want people to say “There goes Jensen, he’s a writer.” That is how I want to be defined.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Although I’ve been advised that ‘talent’ is a bit limiting and that I might as well also ask what ‘action’ you might most like to be known for.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">—-</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Thoughts.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Right. I’ve been thinking a lot about my goals while I’m up on the plinth. I watched Kate last night at 12am and I was deeply inspired by her. I hope she is around on the day when I make it along. I want to shake her hand and thank her for calming me down a lot.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I have decided what I’m going to go up there and do. Aside from my mission to Raise Awareness for Awareness, my mother’s charity ‘Save the Family’ have given me a t-shirt and so I’m going up in that and will talk a little about them and their cause www.savethefamily.uk.com. They really are a wonderful charity. I was loath to get up there without doing some sort of good that was tangible and potent. The last thing I wanted to do was be selfish and get up there just to do it for myself. I do want it to be fully aware of the experience but I want there to be a measurable benefit to the world as well, not just the potential for a little introspection.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">OK.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">These are the set of questions I want you to answer for yourselves, if you can. Take it as seriously as you like. Answer as many as you like. If you want some anonymity you can email me the answers rather than put them below in a comment. I will reply/comment to all responses that I receive. - jensenwilder@gmail.com</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is no rush to answer them. In fact, there is no need to answer them - just have a little think. Take some time out and consider things. Print them off and just put them in your purse/wallet. Take them out on the train, on a mountain, in a forest, or in the pub and just have a think. [They also work really well as conversation points with new people you meet]</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who are you?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Can you introduce yourself in a sentence, does it reveal who you are?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is our origin?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do you believe in god?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do we have free will in our lives?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is there a balance of good and evil, or does one outweigh the other?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">To what extent do you feel that you can change the world?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is there such a thing as Truth?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What would be the model you would choose to live to? (i.e… Do unto others…? Look after yourself?)</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Do people have souls?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is beauty?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is consciousness?</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 1.0px 0.0px; line-height: 19.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is freedom?</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And Lastly.... Are you the same person now as you were when you began reading this/before you saw me on the plinth? Have you considered who you are?</span></span></b></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b></b><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dx3LW0fB8uNM-pkZpUe-hW0KfTfRK9NbhCZUUoRVmeiR_ah-RsNT2xl7Ekh3DStTTZNZWicMyTBK2Mxap_vJA' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small; "><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p>.Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-37973839302508744282009-09-29T15:12:00.004+01:002009-09-29T15:35:44.325+01:00you and me tube<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Well, another day.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ve been thinking more and more and more and to a frenzying pace.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I’ve done a little youtube video to help stamp things down into the real-world a bit more. This is all very interesting and entertaining. Big up to the tweeters. Follow me @jensenwilder.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><iframe allowfullscreen='allowfullscreen' webkitallowfullscreen='webkitallowfullscreen' mozallowfullscreen='mozallowfullscreen' width='320' height='266' src='https://www.blogger.com/video.g?token=AD6v5dyU0wMTDMDqJP1M-40mU-eWbr8IFLD3kwTF0o6j2l65hIHcYcD-bu0TNomFUoA8INfsZxysfEboQsuP9YLdVQ' class='b-hbp-video b-uploaded' frameborder='0'></iframe></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Question for the day.</span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What talent would you most like to be known for?</span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b>Sub Questions:</b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><b><br /></b></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Why do old people still not have a hang of how to use a phone after it being around for as long as they have been alive????</i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i><br /></i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><i>Also why do I like Shakira's She Wolf synth singing randomness!?!?!?</i></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></b></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">And remember... grab whatever you it is you like to drink and have a right good think!</span></span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-28076870814135877012009-09-28T09:58:00.003+01:002009-09-28T10:01:37.109+01:00erm, honest then<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is your favorite animal?</span></span></b></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My favorite animal would have to be the whale. We still know so little about them but what we do know is fascinating. It is such a romantic creature. Pulled along by the need to graze on little ocean critters. Knowing where it is thanks to its use of the earth’s magnetic field which it uses to navigate into all the open water on earth. During whaling attacks they will band together and will not dive (sadly) unless all in the pod do. In this way, we have lost a huge number of these leviathans. There are so many reasons why these creatures are my favorites. At least this answers the question.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who was your first love?</span></span></b></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wow, first you need to define ‘love’. Nevermind. Ignoring that epic fail of a desire to pin down a feeling, I have to say it was the first girl I went nuts for Katie. I was head over heels and didn’t call it love at all. There was the dolphin necklace I gave her, the play we did together. I was 11. I think she was my first ‘love’, because to me - at this moment - love means that you recognize there is someone that you would choose above yourself.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who would you thank most for who you are?</span></span></b></span></i></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Wow, I think I asked this one without even considering what the answer might be, but it came to me.</span></span></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Interesting question and I can come at it from many angles but I’m going to be honest. I think my ex, Much, has largely made me who I am. I’ve spent a lot of time reflecting over the last 8 months and can come to that conclusion because a lot of my new understanding of myself and why I was so unhappy (chiefly jealous because I was unable to be creative). You can’t spend two and half years with someone you adore and not be changed. All I am now, I owe to her. So thank you Much. She picked me up at a time when I was down and out and needed help and lifted my spirits until we parted. That’s the thing. It isn’t always those people that you get on well with that have the most impact. I learnt more about myself from her, but she didn’t teach me herself. Nor is that a slight, I think we all learn more if we learn for ourselves. You live with someone who has that creative passion and the opportunity to achieve her aims and you either join in, or you start getting jealous. I think if I were honest there is a lot I have learnt too slowly in my life. That being said, it is a close thing. So I might just do a little list of people below here that I want to thank also.</span></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; line-height: 20.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Dom</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nathan</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Nightingale</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Shonette</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Emma</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Alicia</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Cami</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jennifer</span></span></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; line-height: 20px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Bluebird</span></span></span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-5235149427243500802009-09-28T00:29:00.000+01:002009-09-28T00:30:29.372+01:00other questions?<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I wont add too many mind-melting questions, how about some interesting ones.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What is your favorite animal?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who was your first love?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Who would you thank most for who you are?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That’s the thing. Thinking is enough without making things intense.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What other questions would you like to ask?</span></span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-73711565867882643652009-09-26T20:58:00.002+01:002009-09-26T21:01:55.762+01:00Where did we get to?<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap; "><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p><span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Where did we get to?</span></span></span></b></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Georgia, serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><i><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why do I sway toward the conclusion of a divine creation/will? Is it childhood teaching; or a force-infomed conclusion, like gravity?</span></span></span></span></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think it is more down to being conditioned to think in that way. Plato gave the idea of the guardians trapped in a cave and held like veal. Heads held stationary through their formative years, they garner their understanding of the world from the shadow of objects, the echo of voices, the flame that lights the walls. Then they are set loose from the cave and able to see the sun and things as they are. They are at first afraid and want to run back into the cave (great metaphor) but slowly they adjust. I think that idea prompted me to understand that we are at the mercy of our own histories, unless we condition ourselves not to be. Life is a process. That is what growth is, searching out that truth you are most comfortable with. Like shoots, we can crack concrete to reach what we need.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I don't think, after a great deal of reflection, that I can gather much inspiration for an immortal 'creator' in the Islamic/J</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">udaic/Christianic-sense</span></span></span></span><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">. (That I/J/C-sense I have been coherced into considering as the very definition of 'Deity'.) I tend to believe that if I can feel and understand the inherent issues of its existence, then I called out the flaw in that idea. In saying that, what I mean is that if I can deem the world out of balance (war, famine, suffering) then it is not the effort of a balanced, perfect, deity. If there is a god, it must be above good and evil (for me at least) and that comes in the form of balance to me. I need to think more about balance, but have a feeling someone will tell me. If anything I'm more attached to the idea of the absent creator that Olaf Stapledon called the 'Star Maker' (in the novel of the same name). In it his understanding is that the universe, from its smallest elements to the amoeba-like galaxies themselves, is working toward the enlightenment of becoming aware of their origin. Existence is given its rules and structure and then left to itself to progress to the point where it can come face to face with the creator. Not something involved, but something abstract - removed entirely from any kind of influence.</span></span></span></span></p><p style=" margin-right: 0px; margin-left: 0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p></div><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What does a creator mean? Does it require worship? Does it (the creative force) define goodness, or is goodness just goodness before it is defined? In short, is morality prescribed or inherent?</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></i></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I think i've answered half of this already. </span></span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">What does the creator mean?</span></span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> Well, that's the thing. I'm not sure it means very much to me. I prefer Olaf's idea that we are not able to fathom it in a singular way - we are not connected enough as a universe to understand or perceive it. So that leads to the idea of whether it requires worship. If I am honest, we should be thankful, but I doubt prayer does much. So that leads on to the goodness idea, which I have certainly touched in the last answer. Finally we have the idea of morality, which I am still considering. Truth be told.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Why do I want there to be a god?? Is it to relinquish responsibility for my existence? Or to have an explaination for it, so that I have free reign to move forward with the question settled??</span></span></span></i></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The answer to this wonderful and woeful question is... if I'm honest... I want to relinqish my responsibilities, it is an eaiser thing to live knowing that you can lay your inadiquacies on the shoulder of some external force. Blame is a great relief.</span></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">However, I'm going to choose not to do that. I'm going to push myself toward the more honorable end of instead blaming myself for my own failings. See where that gets me. I might prefer the outcome, I might just go back to laying it at the feet of some creature beyond me. Who knows?<br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"></span></span></span></span><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span></span><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Does my wish for there to be a rule (or order) to things come from a spirit of self-interest? Do I wish for rules so I can learn/utilise them for my own benefit?</span></span></span></i></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: 'courier new', serif; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Yes. I'm not wrong in determining and admitting that, given the chance, I'd taylor my life to better suit the rules of the game. I'm aware that, so far, I have learnt very few of these rules. I don't think I know any really. Lets see...</span></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">So that is my reasoning, so far.</span></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">New questions are coming.</span></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Add your own. </span></span></span></span></p><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Grab a cup of tea and have a nice sit and think. Better yet, a whiskey.</span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span><p style=" MARGIN-RIGHT:0px; MARGIN-LEFT:0px"><span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span></p><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> </span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:100%;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" white-space: pre-wrap;font-size:12px;"><br /></span></span></div>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-66845790053153154082009-09-24T08:54:00.001+01:002009-09-24T09:03:23.601+01:00One and Other: All Just Soft Machines<p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; "><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">One and Other: All Just Soft Machines.</span></span></i></p> <p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; text-indent: 28px; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Optima; min-height: 12px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">www.jensenwilder.wordpress.com</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">There is a certain weight applied to the spirit when one engages deeply with the process of consideration and analytics. There are questions that will send you mad with wondering. Questions you will waste away trying to answer, so I’ve made a loop-hole for myself. A safety rope of sorts.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">‘The answer never matters as much as that you asked the question.’ (I hope I’m quoted for saying that, though I’m sure it is an unoriginal sentiment.)</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That is my attempt to save my sanity. That is the line that will console me, through the darkest moments of my journey.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">That is what this whole </span></span><b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Raising Awareness for Awareness</span></span></b><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"> idea is all about. It is about getting people merely to consider the question, if only for a moment, of who and what they are. It is what Gormley is asking us 2,400 to do. It is the question that many will have asked and many will have simply bypassed and said ‘what can I get up there and do!’ I’m not convinced it is a point of ‘</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">doing</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’, but of ‘</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">being</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’. I am still more intent that the aim of this whole thing is to ‘</span></span><i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">ask</span></span></i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">’.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I hope people will say - ‘What am I?’ Who am I?‘ ‘Hey, what is my politics?’ ‘How do I feel about justice/death/religion/charity/piety/immorality/sexuality?’</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">In some it will prompt the asking of more questions, in others it will awaken the certainty that they do not wish to ask anything further of themselves.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The safety rope will hold me back from being lost in questioning for its own, energy-draining, sake. I will keep my focus on the idea that I am struggling forward, but forever secured by my belief in my chief aim. To tone my mind, like any other muscle. One step toward being fit in mind, body and human spirit.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">My ‘loop-hole’, as I put it, isn’t to wriggle free from the responsibility that comes from my starting this quest. I will not shirk away from the fact that there will be people who will reach out for an answer and gather up some objectionable theories. There will always be people who think their truth must be imposed and world should suffer its implementation. However, I feel knowledge of ourselves will lead to knowledge of a great many things. I believe that with knowledge and consideration comes empathy; and with that, unity. We are One and we are Other.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">The answers may differ, but the soft machine that calculates is always of the same construction; mind, body and human spirit (or whatever you call it).</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">@jensenwilder</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Jensenwilder@gmail.com</span></span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-68839981039650610972009-09-23T22:02:00.000+01:002009-09-23T22:11:03.823+01:00what is the point of change?<span class="Apple-style-span" style=" color: rgb(51, 51, 51); line-height: 16px; font-family:arial, verdana, sans-serif;font-size:12px;"><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">What is the point of change? Is it for yourself? Or for others?</span></span></span></span></span></h2><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 3px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 3px; line-height: 1.2em; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">At what point do we change? When we learn our lessons? Or when we act on them?</span></span></span></span></span></h2><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" ;font-family:'Courier New', verdana, sans-serif;font-size:small;"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">So... questions i’m wrestling with are… </span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span></div><p style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.6em; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Why do I sway toward the conclusion of a divine creation/will? Is it childhood teaching; or a force-infomed conclusion, like gravity?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">What does a creator mean? Does it require worship? Does it (the creative force) define goodness, or is goodness just goodness before it is defined? In short, is morality prescribed or inherent?</span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Why do I want there to be a god?? Is it to relinquish responsibility for my existence? Or to have an explaination for it, so that I have free reign to move forward with the question settled??</span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Does my wish for there to be a rule (or order) to things come from a spirit of self-interest? Do I wish for rules so I can learn/utilise them for my own benefit?</span></span></span></span></span></p></span></div></span>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-52193984297050250552009-09-23T21:56:00.001+01:002009-09-23T22:01:44.052+01:00hapless and neglecting<p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Here’s a question.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Whereas it might not always be true, philosophers tend to be pretty hapless by all accounts. In their exploration of the world do they sacrifice some ability to function in other ways?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">Is it similar to one person’s ability when it comes to maths, over say someone’s natural sporting ability?</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I hope not. My idea right now is to hone my body and mind. So I want it instead to be true that those that think don’t merely ‘lose’ an ability, so much as they neglect it.</span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima; min-height: 12.0px"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;"><br /></span></span></p> <p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-indent: 28.0px; font: 10.0px Optima"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: small;">I intend not to neglect any part of myself.</span></span></p>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1283768152455201455.post-53298271069913436272009-09-22T15:52:00.000+01:002009-09-22T16:20:47.502+01:00introduction<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I am not a philosopher. I am new to the idea of formal ideas in philosophy.</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I have started to learn what people have asked themselves, I'm going to work toward structuring the chaos of ideas.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I'm am not new to questions!</span></span></span><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I'm using this little part of the internet as a place to record the questions that matter to me. As a place to recount the ideas that I encounter.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">This is prompted by my inclusion in the One and Other project (www.oneandother.co.uk) created by Antony Gormley. The idea is thus...</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 20px; "><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">This summer, sculptor Antony Gormley invites you to help create an astonishing living monument. He is asking the people of the UK to occupy the empty Fourth Plinth in Trafalgar Square in London, a space normally reserved for statues of Kings and Generals. They will become an image of themselves, and a representation of the whole of humanity.</span></span></span></blockquote><blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new';"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></blockquote><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A car crash of thoughts happened when I was picked. Then a bright and shining example of simplicity came through.</span></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Raise awareness for awareness itself.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">Not in any sucking eggs fashion, but out of interest in walking the talk that I talk. I want to be forced to continue my quest. If I get up on the plinth with that objective then I'm going to force my life in the direction of questioning. I'm going to produce a purpose for myself.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">A spectacle to push myself forward. Like getting sponsored to run a race gives you that extra pressure to succeed.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">The reason for my existence has always been veiled from me, will forever remain so, and much pain it causes. However, at this moment I have a chance to create a direction for myself.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">I'm going to ask questions.</span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;"><br /></span></span></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family:'courier new', serif;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style=" line-height: 20px;font-size:small;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color:#FFFFFF;">follow me on twitter @jensenwilder</span></span></span></div></div>Fussy Lemonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07584321451158410188noreply@blogger.com0