Wednesday, November 12, 2008

week ten

my e-prime day: 

in this moment my fingers tap keys on this plastic, electrified thing called a computer. little black symbols appear in the white space on the vertical screen in front of me. sometimes littler red dots appear under the symbols showing me that either my typing or my spelling needs to change if i want these symbols to appear logical and understandable to other humans who might look at them in an attempt to receive communication.

while i type, my friend keeps sending me listings for houses he might want to rent on this same computer. i look at them and feel the both the excitement and ridiculousness of searching for something. the constant external seeking.  feeling a personal opinion, that we humans often choose to seek rather than actually fully live, truly find. 

thinking about some native languages. how what we call nouns don't exist. every "thing" has verbal expression not as a being, but as a doing. what we would express as nouns get described through what we would call verbs in some native languages. so the word or words for each "thing" carry the lifeforce of the "thing" and embody it's expression more fully, as a more holistic representation of the "thing" our language would influence us to objectify. seems like it could make e prime a little less necessary.


synthesizing east and west:

i don't exactly get the question here. but, really, i'm feeling that east and west are already synthesized. the oneness exists and it's just our awkward, western human minds which have chosen to look at things from very limited viewpoints. now we're experiencing the playful joy of reuniting them in our own consciousness.

1 comment:

J Aaron Sellers said...

Your discussion about language uncovers the pinnacle point to the trouble with TCM...we all bring something different to the table, even the language we use. I say diversify don't synthesize.