Phosphor Alert Badges Reinforce the Eye of Last-Touch Gladness
The gnat in the eye sensation and the intense aversion to bright sunlight that drove me crazy for two weeks after the eye operation, Jeff jinxes, seems gone. The peripheral vision already lost is gone but what's left of sight sharper, and my depth perception is much improved, especially in the woods and on the disc golf course. Has not improved my putting, though throwing the Alpaca with more spin and a tiny bit more hyzer helped yesterday (in brilliant bright sunlight without my left eye wincing) at Rockburn (Hoco Parks bush-hogged out the dense nettles that ate discs and flayed legs on 13, 14, and 15!), I still missed almost all but at least was dead center high or dead center low like normal. Speaking of normal have a song then the grid of despair before the links go stale then another song and then a J.H. Prynne poem, two rest in peaces for him in the grid
"I feel like there might be some minuscule irony in the leader of a religion that dogmatically asserts that a wafer literally turns into a god fretting over "our very relationship with truth" and worrying about people in "self-referential circuits" losing "exposure to reality""
Today in I will be Catholic again before I'm ever a Democrat again
I am slowly becoming more convinced that shitlords are using Epstein as the distraction from the climate collapse that is imminent as in tomorrow not imminent as in decades from now
This is my double alma mater and workplace the last 37 years. We have a new head librarian, in my one and only interaction with her, in a bullshit meeting on *optimal teamwork,* when she was pushing AI and it was my turn to talk (I couldn't opt out) I said, so you want me to learn AI so you can eliminate my job? and in the three months since she has not talked to me once and will not make eye contact
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Onwards to the Final War for the Annihilation of Western and Eastern Civilizations!
with respect to setting dogs on detainees, i am reminded of something someone in my neighborhood recently wrote:
Way back in the 20th century, which I entered while Churchill and Stalin were still alive, I thought that calls for the destruction of the Israeli state were motivated by hatred. I am a liberal with the cancelled checks to prove it, as Lenny Bruce said – and in the 21st century a leftist and progressive with the Bernie donations to prove it. But now it seems to me that to that to call for the end of the Zionist entity is analogous to insisting on the dissolution of the Confederate States of America. I doubt I will live to see it – as I said, I’m a time traveler from the first half of the twentieth century, and entropy’s got a hold on me in certain specific ways. Likewise, the U.S. of A. is clearly rotten to the core – a major reorganization is clearly required – maybe dismemberment might be advantageous – time will tell, and I won’t be around to hear it. So it goes.
RE: your turn to talk (you should never opt out: this the special treat) !
Last time it was my turn to talk, i shouted at a bus-load of Useful Idiots (2021). then I side-mouthed to Beloved Wife: we should probably get out of here before the cops come. turns out it's illegal to call someone an asshole here!
Re: Ai: Dumbfuchs are still to be seen commenting, hither and yon, that "Ai will bring more jobs!" too often to admit, i now think "yes, who cares, let it all crash mercilessly down upon your cloth-filled heads, you eejits! you deserve it! you never deserved freedom, respect, self-determination, you hairless hamsters! die like a centrifugal decoration in the zombie spin-cycle of your hamster wheels! i entreat it all to come down heavy, even as it means my haplessly clued-in ass will be crashed-down-upon too!" then i think: no. buy more tinned sardines for the bunker.
1/recently an old acquaintance remarked to me by email "who knows where the time goes?" and i thought of the song by that title, which i first heard as recorded by judy collins, although written by sandy denny, whose sad story I learned about after it was over
2/that question suggests another - "who knows where the time comes from?" - and perhaps a shift of focus from what is lost to what still may be found - robert louis stevenson's former fame has faded, but there may yet be persons who are fated to encounter, in their future, his words "to travel hopefully is better than to arrive"
3/speaking of traveling, and arriving, the still-young man whose last self-chosen journey for the foreseeable future was across country by train, from california to chicago to union station in dc, whose alleged act [it says 'alleged' in the papers - they grabbed him and stripped him there and then] is, i conclude, perfectly sincere and very confused - i hope he gets as much help as he can use and that the time that remains to him is as comfortable, easy, and okay as possible - i am glad that, as the story has reached me [and I affirm my belief that what the corporate media has told me and shown me is correct if not complete] no one was killed in this particular incident - no innocent fisherman, no iranian schoolgirl, no grandmother in Gaza
3.2 there are similarities between the alleged shooter and myself - our attendance at similar undergrad universities, our later academic work at a public institution of higher education, our train travel across the breadth of this country, our dismay at the actions of those at the pinnacle of power - in other ways, we differ, and circumstances granted to us, and choices made by us, have their consequences - may peace be with us all, to the extent it can be arranged
it has been said the 'pagan' outcry in this poem is a rhetorical device - especially in his later years, wordsworth, turning from panentheism toward Anglicanism, tried to reconcile two "books" of revelation - the holy scriptures and the book of nature
an instructive contrast with his contemporary coleridge in terms of their attitudes toward faith is seen by some
these british poets are viewed as influential on new england transcendentalism
Khrisat, Abdulhafeth Ali (1990) The Impact on Emersonism of Transcendentalism and Romanticism in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
Emerson, the New England Transcendentalist made his European pilgrimage in 1832 during which he met his idols, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle. This trio's thoughts were eventually reflected in his writings. This is not to say that Emerson was a mere imitator. In fact, he was highly original in the sense that his writings reflect his own creative mode of expression and style, reworking and refashioning many ideas already found in the older and more complex culture all this resulted in the formulation of Emersonism. Emersonism refers to the philosophical and romantic components, especially the former, of Emerson's own particular brand of Transcendentalism. The essential characteristics of New England Transcendentalism only partly explain Emersonism. Emerson's achievement was to make a union of German Transcendentalism with traditional Christianity of a Unitarian cast, of Orientalism and Platonism, including some ideas probably of his own and to express it in terms purely Emersonian. Therefore, to trace various sources of Emersonism would be a hard task. Of special concern for the present study is the British influence on Emersonism as exemplified in the works of the two English men, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the Scotsman Carlyle. The roots of Emersonism are of no small importance. It is one thing to acknowledge the English influence and quite another to demonstrate it in detail. The latter is the purpose of this study.
“What another person is thinking, believing or feeling is inaccessible to us, such that we may be unsure what their thoughts, beliefs and feelings are; indeed, we may be unsure that they have thoughts, beliefs and feelings at all.” Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey (Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy)
what if we were in doubt as to whether we are reading the writings of, or engaging in real-time conversation with, a human being at all - or perhaps - fortunately or unfortunately - a complicated plagiarism machine?
and there's a line from a neil young song - "i was thinking about what a friend had said - i was hoping it was a lie"
with respect to setting dogs on detainees, i am reminded of something someone in my neighborhood recently wrote:
ReplyDeleteWay back in the 20th century, which I entered while Churchill and Stalin were still alive, I thought that calls for the destruction of the Israeli state were motivated by hatred. I am a liberal with the cancelled checks to prove it, as Lenny Bruce said – and in the 21st century a leftist and progressive with the Bernie donations to prove it. But now it seems to me that to that to call for the end of the Zionist entity is analogous to insisting on the dissolution of the Confederate States of America. I doubt I will live to see it – as I said, I’m a time traveler from the first half of the twentieth century, and entropy’s got a hold on me in certain specific ways. Likewise, the U.S. of A. is clearly rotten to the core – a major reorganization is clearly required – maybe dismemberment might be advantageous – time will tell, and I won’t be around to hear it. So it goes.
RE: your turn to talk (you should never opt out: this the special treat) !
ReplyDeleteLast time it was my turn to talk, i shouted at a bus-load of Useful Idiots (2021). then I side-mouthed to Beloved Wife: we should probably get out of here before the cops come. turns out it's illegal to call someone an asshole here!
Re: Ai: Dumbfuchs are still to be seen commenting, hither and yon, that "Ai will bring more jobs!" too often to admit, i now think "yes, who cares, let it all crash mercilessly down upon your cloth-filled heads, you eejits! you deserve it! you never deserved freedom, respect, self-determination, you hairless hamsters! die like a centrifugal decoration in the zombie spin-cycle of your hamster wheels! i entreat it all to come down heavy, even as it means my haplessly clued-in ass will be crashed-down-upon too!" then i think: no. buy more tinned sardines for the bunker.
1/recently an old acquaintance remarked to me by email "who knows where the time goes?" and i thought of the song by that title, which i first heard as recorded by judy collins, although written by sandy denny, whose sad story I learned about after it was over
ReplyDelete2/that question suggests another - "who knows where the time comes from?" - and perhaps a shift of focus from what is lost to what still may be found - robert louis stevenson's former fame has faded, but there may yet be persons who are fated to encounter, in their future, his words "to travel hopefully is better than to arrive"
3/speaking of traveling, and arriving, the still-young man whose last self-chosen journey for the foreseeable future was across country by train, from california to chicago to union station in dc, whose alleged act [it says 'alleged' in the papers - they grabbed him and stripped him there and then] is, i conclude, perfectly sincere and very confused - i hope he gets as much help as he can use and that the time that remains to him is as comfortable, easy, and okay as possible - i am glad that, as the story has reached me [and I affirm my belief that what the corporate media has told me and shown me is correct if not complete] no one was killed in this particular incident - no innocent fisherman, no iranian schoolgirl, no grandmother in Gaza
3.2 there are similarities between the alleged shooter and myself - our attendance at similar undergrad universities, our later academic work at a public institution of higher education, our train travel across the breadth of this country, our dismay at the actions of those at the pinnacle of power - in other ways, we differ, and circumstances granted to us, and choices made by us, have their consequences - may peace be with us all, to the extent it can be arranged
4/https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45564/the-world-is-too-much-with-us
it has been said the 'pagan' outcry in this poem is a rhetorical device - especially in his later years, wordsworth, turning from panentheism toward Anglicanism, tried to reconcile two "books" of revelation - the holy scriptures and the book of nature
an instructive contrast with his contemporary coleridge in terms of their attitudes toward faith is seen by some
these british poets are viewed as influential on new england transcendentalism
DeleteKhrisat, Abdulhafeth Ali (1990) The Impact on Emersonism of Transcendentalism and Romanticism in Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.
Emerson, the New England Transcendentalist made his European pilgrimage in 1832 during which he met his idols, Wordsworth, Coleridge, and Carlyle. This trio's thoughts were eventually reflected in his writings. This is not to say that Emerson was a mere imitator. In fact, he was highly original in the sense that his writings reflect his own creative mode of expression and style, reworking and refashioning many ideas already found in the older and more complex culture all this resulted in the formulation of Emersonism. Emersonism refers to the philosophical and romantic components, especially the former, of Emerson's own particular brand of Transcendentalism. The essential characteristics of New England Transcendentalism only partly explain Emersonism. Emerson's achievement was to make a union of German Transcendentalism with traditional Christianity of a Unitarian cast, of Orientalism and Platonism, including some ideas probably of his own and to express it in terms purely Emersonian. Therefore, to trace various sources of Emersonism would be a hard task. Of special concern for the present study is the British influence on Emersonism as exemplified in the works of the two English men, Wordsworth and Coleridge, and the Scotsman Carlyle. The roots of Emersonism are of no small importance. It is one thing to acknowledge the English influence and quite another to demonstrate it in detail. The latter is the purpose of this study.
john steppling quotes:
Delete“What another person is thinking, believing or feeling is inaccessible to us, such that we may be unsure what their thoughts, beliefs and feelings are; indeed, we may be unsure that they have thoughts, beliefs and feelings at all.”
Richard Allen and Malcolm Turvey (Wittgenstein’s Later Philosophy)
what if we were in doubt as to whether we are reading the writings of, or engaging in real-time conversation with, a human being at all - or perhaps - fortunately or unfortunately - a complicated plagiarism machine?
and there's a line from a neil young song - "i was thinking about what a friend had said - i was hoping it was a lie"