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Puffy

Puffy

"Wtf even was that" From Wanking (look Mum, no hands!)
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  • Auburn
    This reminds me of the movie Sherlock Holmes, and that one scene where Holmes meets Watson's fiance and she gets upset at holmes for deducing from her more info than she would have liked.

    I think though, that if CT is saying something real, then it's about as ethical as it'd be to tell someone they're actually adopted. Or tell a kid santa's not real. Or tell a patient they only have 6 months to live. Or tell a christian that Christ was a human-generated illusion.

    I wouldn't go out of my way to tear down a person's miscopcention (i.e. i wouldn't signal ppl out like podlair did to 'typology town'), but if asked i'll give my honest reply, such as Ink asked me. It does kinda hurt me a bit tho, because my Fe totally dislikes causing upset of that sort but fundamentally I count it more unethical to hide the truth when you know it and are asked it. Then that's lying.
    Auburn
    =D she does, doesn't she.
    or maybe they're tattoos, and the little fringes on the leg to the right may just be the artist signature. but anyways.. >>
    Absurdity
    Oh I intend to take advantage of it fully. I'm very grateful for the opportunity, just trying to keep my expectations reasonable. And some of my favorites are Apocalypse Now, No Country for Old Men, The American, Michael Clayton, The Prestige ... on and on haha.

    I'd say it's pretty high-brow vandalism :D I had an interest at one point in putting up signs or flyers with vague or accusatory questions directed at the viewer. Or perhaps just unsettling statements like "Everyone has secrets." I know most people would ignore them though, and I'd probably be disappointed.

    And I might take you up on the feedback offer when I'm further along. Thanks!
    Absurdity
    I look forward to you experiment. I imagine it being very Situationist-y.

    Long prose is definitely a challenge. I've written short stories and satire with some degree of success, but never anything like what I'm trying now.

    I like your freewrites a lot :) For me writing long prose wasn't really a conscious decision. The idea for the plot struck me, and hasn't lost its luster, so I'm running with it.
    Absurdity
    I'm in a similar situation: trying to put the minimal amount of effort into my schoolwork while preventing my creative projects from becoming stale. I like writing fiction, and am currently working on something long-ish.
    Absurdity
    The "Eyes Without a Face" thread, especially the most recent post about Christianity teaching self-loathing. I've had similar thoughts but never been able to put it into words like you did.
    I wrote a whole bunch of depressing and contradictory stuff....yikes.

    Polaris and her ever-changing perspectives.:confused:

    I guess we could view life as one great experiment....

    Our lives, that is....that just sounded a little psychopathic/masochistic... :phear:
    Lyra
    If you send me a video I can tell you. Private if you want. Fastest way to settle the issue.

    Work was (is) going ok, thanks. Although, as usual, I got pulled into various creations on the side hard enough that it's a very tight balance. Currently trying to figure out some of the stuff on the diagram I posted in the Dark Materials thread.
    Lyra
    One hunts, the other gathers. One adapts, the other directs. One is in the moment, the other chases itself across years. Try comparing Ni to Si, and Ne to Se, to get a sense of the way the reationship works. Ni is actually part of a structural compound with Si, as Ne is with Se. Ni is like an interpretive kind of energy fulfilling the same worldview/hunting function that Si does, and Se is like a literal/visceral kind of energy fulfilling the same kind of gathering/possibility-connecting/in-the-moment-perception function that Ne does.

    Observation of yourself and others is the foundation. They're just entirely different energies that do entirely different things-- although for any Ni user, Ne is vital and prominent in their unconscious and personal relationships, and vice versa.
    loveofreason
    Am I spiritual? Am I earthly? Am I discordian? Am I taoist? Am I skeptical?

    All of the above.

    I hope I find my limitations of understanding, and respect that even with the conviction of feeling that may come with some things, there is no necessary certainty.

    I find the contradictions stimulating. Perhaps most accurately I might consider myself non-dualist. That is... I seek to find that place and perspective where the contradictions give rise to a higher unified truth.

    You come across as inherently 'spiritual', if such a thing is a sense of reverence and awe for the universe.
    loveofreason
    I think being happy that you're doing such a Masters is an affirmation of certainty in Alexander's work. I began a Masters intending to focus on the very obvious solutions that Alexander offers to the design and planning of our urban environment... but half-way through, the obvious deaf-ears and political bondage of established planning systems completely stymied me. I could press ahead, but I guess I was looking for immediate leverage to change the system. "Damnit, here's a solution - use it!"

    As it stands, I'd be an academic curiosity - on the fringe and sidelined by the corporatisation of learning. There have to be other ways...

    *starts a revolution on Puffy's visitor wall*
    loveofreason
    Well, any words I might use seem kind of vapid to me, because I can't relate the sense I get of feeling so right that someone (you) are researching something like this, and that you sense the connections. It's that 'yes' and composed sense of elation feeling. I guess I see everything as a jigsaw - as though bits of information are predestined to fit together, and everytime someone connects something, I feel this surge of life - of everything in its proper place.

    Maybe that's what it means to be Ni-dom :phear:
    And congrats....:)

    My father was a merchant shipping electrician. He travelled from he was 17 until his 50's.

    I think the surrealist games are very important for the development of the imagination. I can see maybe where you would have got some influence from ;)

    Oh...Hong Kong...I have to save that for a PM. It is quite personal/emotional. A lot of it has to do with my dear Pappa.

    Polyamory...there's another thing I have thought about quite a lot.

    Are you considering doing it as an experiment?

    Because I have experimented......:phear:

    And I have some thoughts.

    I will get to that PM.....
    Transparency of everyday life...what does that mean? I think I can guess, but what are your thoughts?

    I would love to travel with you, I think you'd be a very amusing and perceptive travel-partner, seeing things with your quirky eye. We could do a travel doco (oh, not another one of those :mad:), with your quirky narrative and interpretations underpinning my photographic "flair" :rolleyes:

    As for staying with your parents.....why not? :phear: Could be part of the experiment....:storks:

    And the Henge is a must. After all that, how can we not go to the Henge?! We'd have to purge our tormented souls and sacrifice a few household items to appease the wrath of the natural gods....does your mum have a blender? :phear:
    Yes....I am thinking less about myself, and how to decorate my own walls these days. I'm more interested in the connections I make with various people. I think we are quite conditioned to decorate...so much so we forget to look around. don't get me wrong; I think introspection is very important for the discovery of the Self....whatever that may be.

    I think the self is somewhat part of a greater self these days. My reconnection with nature has kinda reinforced that in me. What I lost on my way of becoming "someone".

    The dissociation from the natural world...something that we as humans haven't yet realised the impacts of. But you are listening to an ecologist....I may be a little...err....biased.

    Although, of course, ultimately I'm right :D
    loveofreason
    :) (<- this means I've read and really appreciate your messages, but my processing and communicative capacity is temporarily fried, and I want to answer properly when my brain is back online.)
    loveofreason
    Thanks so much for letting me know you liked his essay, and asking after more :)

    *feels like she might have done something good for the world*

    Let me know how you go, and how it fits into your work.

    (I'm not really aware of what you're doing. Comics? You might have mentioned it on forum and I missed it. )
    loveofreason
    But to start at the basics of his approach, find his first book: Notes On The Synthesis Of Form.

    It's a slim volume; most universal in application, and fundamental in mathematical rigour. Great way to see where his thoughts and theories began. I think I mentioned it before, but he started rigidly in rationalist anaylses, and over time became more and more convinced of a 'spiritual' aspect to form. His works became more and more abstract over time, and infused with a sense of mission to change the way we understand and build the world.

    Synthesis used to be required reading for aspiring computer programmers. Sadly not for architects and planners....

    But anyway... I ramble. I'd suggest starting with Synthesis then picking up Urban Design, unless you want to cut straight to the Urban Design theory.

    If you're still on fire after that, try Pattern Language and the Nature of Order. TBH... I haven't read the NoO series yet... I just fawn over them on amazon and sigh. One day.
    loveofreason
    But to progress... He has written so much, and the two major series of works; A Pattern Language (plus all experimental architecture design titles) and The Nature of Order (4 titles) are substantially large. Probably not good places to begin.

    For reference to urbanism see a volume called A New Theory of Urban Design. It's accessable and engages all his previous theories on architecture, in the formulation of an approach to planning human habitat that responds to the laws of nature (ie. mathematical patterns of life and form.)
    loveofreason
    oh! Glad you find some inspiration in it *has happies*.

    To be honest, in my naive way, I think Alexander is one of the true heros of last century and this. His work opened doors that have shaped the virtual world we inhabit here, and in the built world... so much more yet to be done. The application of his theories could overturn 'order' as we know it now (ie. the destructive use of order over the complexity of chaos... chaos is its own life-giving order, we suppress it terribly, but the potential to work with it and thrive is almost unimaginably fantastic.)

    I see that he has an unpublished manuscript that sounds absolutely tantalising:

    The Battle for the Life and Beauty of the Earth: A Struggle between Two World-Systems

    Superlative overload!
    Cavallier
    Oh I like!

    Also, the girl in the white dress...Her shadow is so wrong. Do you think everyone's shadow looks the same as the guy up front or am I crazy?
    Why didn't I just write a PM......:confused:

    I think it's that whole commitment-noia....PM means commitment to something....long.

    I think my P'ness is just happy to see you.

    :cat:
    Btw...I was seriously considering stopping over in London on my way back. I had to reorganise my return ticket because of the funeral, and so was playing with the idea of paying you a visit. In the end, it got too complicated...and I was dragging out the process of getting back to Australia.

    I'm thinking of going home again within the next 12-18 months to settle stuff with my father's property. I will definitely stop over in Old Blighty, so be prepared to have those fine Dionysian legs mauled. :P
    :storks:

    Uh, yeah....

    I'm very excited for you. It will be very interesting to see where you are taking this.

    I think your phd proposal sounds immensely exciting :) (Enthusiasm-warning...)

    And I would be less inclined to listen to those who are negative to that idea. My view is that one will do well if one has genuine passion and drive, no matter what pasture one chooses to graze....you just have to specialise (think evolution/speciation....that whole ecological concept of diversity and how a system works so much better and evolves faster while there is competition between the different niches)

    This is becoming long....ops.
    II) I seem to remember you saying something about having some sort of affinity with Dionysus...well as you are probably aware, there is some confusion with respect to the parentage of Pan, but the common consensus is that Dionysus fathered Pan. So there you go; synchronicity popping up in our acquaintance again....these gods seem to link us somewhat.

    Yes, I booted the bird for something more ethereal.

    I'm in that mode. I think revisiting the Norwegian landscape has shifted something in me, it has reignited that connection with nature that I've probably to some extent have been repressing.
    Hello gorgeous :p

    I am here..although mostly lurking. As per usual.

    Hehe...the goat man.
    fullerene
    I am :). I wasn't gonna let myself completely miss another response to you, haha.

    niice... good luck on the PhD stuff. I gained a tremendous amount of respect for the humanities, over the last four years or so. Before I was kind of a math/science nerdlette with a soft spot for philosophy... but there's something about the form & structure of stories which just can't be matched anywhere else.

    The job's excellent. I'vegotten more support & encouragement there than anywhere else in life ever... and I'm flourishing with it. I'm also working on a probably-nonprofit website that I think the INTPs will love, so I was hoping they'd help test it out a bit once I get it up and running. That's still some months away, though.

    I need to travel, at some point... frankly it's a little embarrassing that I've never been out of Western cultures. I do at least plan on doing some multi-day backpacking this summer, though... so hopefully I'll get some of that quiet then.
    Da Blob
    Thanks for the link, one rarely hears of Japanese philosophers here in the West, but them one rarely hears of any modern philosopher, unless there is political hay to be made...
    Matt3737
    Oh, it's quite alright. I'm often easily distracted myself, and not because of anything of any priority either.

    I was hoping not to derail the thread away from the broader subject and towards the more specific subject, but I was very interested in the movie after you introduced me to it.

    Thanks for mentioning it. It's now one of my favorite films. I enjoy watching any and all films, but it's a rare occurence for one to break into my personal favorites.
    fullerene
    also... I skimmed through your pictures of Nepal/Tanzania... they look gorgeous :)

    I can't even imagine standing above the cloud lines... that looks like it'd feel so surreal.
    fullerene
    puffy! hiya. It's been way too long.

    I keep peeking in on the forum to see if anyone replied in thread... but only just today thought "oh shoot... maybe I should log in, because someone might've just sent a PM or something."

    Sorry about that...

    how've you been?
    Yes, I liked Dogville:) It's a very dystopian treatment of human beings. It seems to be saying that whenever we have the choice of taking advantage over someone to our own benefit, assuming there will be no consequences, we will do so. The cruelty depicted is heart wrenching at times, but, for me, it was also a refreshing look into aspects of what I'd agree to be parts of human nature. I can't remember any other film that has depicted this aspect with such potency. The ending was, for me, satisfying, but also troubling, if not for anything else than for it being satisfying. I think it was really cleverly done and it can't help but to provoke thought. Anyway, what did you think of it?
    Oh, and I hope you had a satisfying christmas and a happy new year! :)
    I must have overlooked your previous message, so I'll respond to that as well. I still study musicology. In Norway at least, when taking a degree in pretty much anything, you have a couple of subjects you can take as a part of that degree that are mostly up to you to choose. In my case, a bachelor in music is made up of 180 "study points". Out of these 120 points are devoted to mandatory classes/subjects (one class for one semester is usually worth around 10 points) as part of that degree while 80 are up for my choosing (mostly limited to humanitarian subjects however). I chose 3 subjects of philosophy as part of those 80 points. As it stands now, I got my BA in musicology this semester. I'll be continuing with philosophy until this coming spring to decide whether I want to continue with philosophy, take a master in musicology, or something else.
    Lyra
    ^ That, up there. I could write a book about why and all the connections it awakens in me, but... perhaps 'beautiful' is enough.
    SinChroniCity
    In and of itself, I don't attach any meaning to shooting stars, but just the fact that it kept coming up that day encourages me in a way. I'm sure it can be argued that synchronicity is a form of confirmation bias, but that's all the more reason I find it intriguing; when you look for it, it never appears. And if you are looking for it, it defeats the purpose. I look at it sort of like a zen koan, in that it points not to logic, but the absurdity/lack of logic. In its essence, it's something undefinable (or illogical), that we can't wrap our minds around.
    SinChroniCity
    I also have a lot of examples that might not be as significant, but are much more frequent, and they just kind of make me think.

    Last Thursday night I drove up into the mountains to catch some of the Geminid meteor shower. As I was driving I threw in an old mix CD and on came 311's 'First Straw' with the lyrics, "vanished like shooting stars that fall". After I got back home, I put on the movie 'Ted', and there was an animated shooting star as one of the production companies logos in the opening credits.
    SinChroniCity
    I really can't help but feel that something was going on there. I really don't know what it was, but it was just surreal that we happened to be having that conversation, at that time, and at just the right place for this guy to overhear the problem and have the solution on hand.

    The meaning I attach to that experience is almost one of faith. I've read (something to the effect) that when you commit yourself to doing something, the universe conspires to help you along. It's like things just start lining up the way you need them to. It kind of reminds me of the book 'Flow', which is a pretty good read.
    SinChroniCity
    I think that one of the best examples of synchronicity that I've experienced happened about three years ago down in Florida. I was walking out of the gym after a yoga class and I was talking with the instructor, who is also an author and radio talk-show host. I had already done some photography work for her and she was asking if I had gotten a white backdrop yet to replace the one that had previously been damaged. Before I could even make an excuse as to why I hadn't (I was procrastinating), this guy pops out of nowhere as we were walking through the parking lot and with a little bit of a crazy look on his face. He was like "You need a white backdrop? I've got one in my car over here, you can have it." Turns out he had perfectly good white muslin backdrop which he gave me, refused to take money as well as an offer to buy him lunch or to grab a coffee. And then just like that, he left us and went in the gym. It was bizarre.
    SinChroniCity
    Wow! that's really funny and very synchronicitous (pretty sure that's a real word) that you should ask. After your comment on my intro thread I've been thinking of posting a reply, sharing one of my examples, and asking if, you specifically, had any you would care to share. For the past, however-many-days, I've been thinking a lot about all the times that it has come up in my life and what it means. That's pretty crazy that you would decide to ask me, I'll definitely get back to you this afternoon.:)
    :)
    You can go by what you're already into(such as jazz), or your mood.

    I remember you saying you were into IDM; instrumental trip hop and downtempo are probably the best places to enter:

    Blockhead / any-all of the first four albums
    Flying Lotus / Los Angeles
    DJ Shadow / Endtroducing...
    Nujabes / Modal Soul


    There're also intellectual / socially conscious artists out there, and some abstract / avant-garde, and nonserious stuff.
    NoID10ts
    The beginning was especially rough and I actually changed it after I sent it to you. The changes made it read more like sci-fi than fantasy and it ratcheted up the intensity. I'm considering changing the viewpoint character and perhaps even writing it in first person now, but I haven't decided for sure.
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