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better picture

better picture, originally uploaded by steve_tingle.

The Norns by C. Ehrenberg

The Norns by C. Ehrenberg, originally uploaded by Thorskegga.

norns and witches

act through time and space and the noumenal to guide bloodlines towards their nefarious and mysterious goals....is this mere paranoia, or a statement of fact? The human genome project mapped out a lot of stuff, but said that there was a whole bunch of DNA leftover that just looked like junk.....useless information, or maybe not information at all, just mere static. Well, that sounds silly to me....I bet that so-called useless mass of potential is really related to things we just don't understand yet, but might understand in the future. We have all had experiences we put down to intuition.....how did I know that? We've had deja vu, right? We have dreams that seem important, or at least more important than usual. We've come to some physical locale in our wanderings, and stopped dead in our tracks with a chill going down the spine, looking around in wonder, trying to figure out what was happening. There are still plenty of interesting things to figure out. Not all that long ago, we only knew of the visible spectrum, now we deal with much broader bandwidth......

metagenetics

"The hypothesis that there are spiritual or metaphysical implications to physical relatedness among humans which correlate with, but go beyond, the known limits of genetics."^[3]

Perfect World

Perfect World, originally uploaded by hthr0822.

western individualism

Let's refer back to our notes from our previous session....it was mentioned that perhaps ontological considerations indicate that a particular individual actually has more reality than the group the singular entity belongs to, or springs from. This is an extrapolation from the notion that the general is more primitive than the instance.....this is indeed the best of all possible worlds simply because it is the one that in fact exists! Possibilities existed in the past, as they exist in the future....but only what is, is here and now. Historical fiction, and science fiction are all well and good, but your daily life has all that trumped; in that it is damned well real. At least it seems real, doesn't it? Aye, but there's the rub, for in this dream of life what death may come....what a minute....got lost there....but there is the rub, for the individual can kick the bucket at any minute, and the group persist regardless of this accident, so doesn't this indicate ontological precedence of the general over the particular? Your assignment is a 100 word essay on this question. Begin now.

Tide Pool

Tide Pool, originally uploaded by litebox.

making no sense

It seems intuitive to think that our minds take the random happenings of life and organize them into something understandable....this being what makes us somehow more than mere animals. But I remember reading Sartre back in college days, and he seemed to be saying that our minds in fact take the unleavened sludge of that which is given and spark it with the randomness of our wit and imagination to create the lives we live. Order first, variation second, not the other way around. Thus existence before essence does not mean that the particular comes before the general in time, but that individual beings have more reality than does the wider category they spring from. Plato had things backwards. Our present day cosmologists tell us that everything has become more various over time, if we view time as linear. But time isn't really linear. And space doesn't really have just three dimensions; it's all more complicated than that. To reconcile quantum theory with general relativity, they have come up with the ten or twelve dimensions of multiverse theory, under which model time sort of just sloshes around in a sort of trans-cosmic tidepool, instead of flowing like a river. There is no start or finish to the whole thing.....it doesn't all start in darkness and lead to light, and it doesn't start in light and lead to darkness either....there is no progress really, and no destruction.....the whole mess is just a twisted and muddled purgatory.....from what I've seen of life, that actually makes the most sense to me.

house framing

Our Framed House, originally uploaded by saroy.

cycles

I was reading that the recession before the recession when the Soviet empire fell was the 1980-81 recession. I don't seem to remember that recession.... maybe it was just a small one, or something. I do remember driving to work one morning in the early 80's, and a dude with a framer's belt on was hitch-hiking towards the freeway. I picked him up, and since I was in my Post Office uniform, he asked me what that kind of work was like....how much did we make? I told him and he laughed...he said he was making twice that framing in the new tracts out around Perris and Moreno Valley. But the bottom fell out of that, didn't it? Because I can remember wondering about what happened to that framing dude, sometime back in those days....if he was still making out OK? And then things boomed pretty good again until around 1990, when houses went upside-down, and that was when they had the savings-and-loan crisis? Framers were hurting again then, I suppose. The guy that wired the house for me up in the mountains couldn't make a go of it up there by '91....went down to the valley to look for work. And all the dot.com stuff started, and that bubble burst. Etc...etc....

When we started climbing out of the Big Recession, which I do remember, is when health care was mandated, and everyone was obliged to do What the Doctor Ordered, whether you liked it or not. And the gene-splicing wizards sussed out how to stop aging.....for the more wealthy anyway.....and there was a lot of turmoil there for a couple decades.....class warfare to the death, until we ended up with the way things are now, with the Life Lottery....just buy your tickets, and maybe you too will get rejuved.....which is what happened to me....still living, but too damned old to really remember it all.....