.diminished discords (xiv)
this week, on Laeth's mind
plant agency and communication. this lemon branch has answered the call of the tradescantia next to it to grow in this swaying manner, to provide shade. all the other branches grow straight up. clearly these plants are alive. and they talk.
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apoptosis seems metaphysically relevant given i already believe, like the ancient chinese, that life (that is, movement, growth) is life and death, whereas death (stasis, arrest) is just death, or just life.
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i'm waiting for the alienation disclosure
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Jesus died to give us modernity. why do his worshipers hate his work. no prophet accepted by his own people kind of deal.
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by virtue of its longevity, the albio-lusitanian alliance is now metaphysical. it passed the blood soul barrier.
(it turns out i scribbled this on the exact day of its anniversary. the syncs have been crazy this month of may)
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no guts no glory, kid.
~ Jesus of Nazareth
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Jesus was disruptive. therefore, we as his followers should disapprove of disruption on principle, and do our best to stay put until Jesus has to come and disrupt things again.
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Jesus is jazz, not classical. he played it by ear, and never wore a wig.
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default to the rule, let exceptions be exceptional
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the term speculative fiction is even more meaningless than literary fiction. you can have oral or pictoral fiction, but not unspeculative fiction.
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ancient people lived for a future that was an eternal present.
we moderns can envision worlds without end.
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the meaning of life is probably hidden in a simple idiom. here are a few candidates:
. stop looking for the moon during the day
. never cut hair if you intend to bake a pie later.
. remember to give thanks for healthy teeth.
. avoid overpaying for shirts with alligators sown into the front pockets.
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saying life is meaningless is a performative contradiction. because language is a system of meaning, if you use it, even to deny meaning, you are affirming some meaning, otherwise your denial would be unintelligible. but it's not. and thereby, denies itself. if life is meaningless, we will never be able to know it. because knowing too is a system of meaning (a means, a bridge between two things).
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Olisipo has always been a surreal city existing almost totally in the imagination.
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the thing people don't get about Paul is that he's basically Woody Allen. he's neurotic, romantic and hilarious.
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it's such an amazing feeling when i find someone larger than life. it's really inspiring.
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taking chances gifts fates
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God gives us nuts, but we have to do the cracking.
~ northern lusitanian proverb
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all around the world, and up until the eighteen century in the west, it was a custom for men to tie their left nut before knowing their wives biblically because it was believed the left one was where girls came from.
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of what profit is commerce with the gods when we are estranged from ourselves.
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maybe this is bad and i'm doing things wrong, but all this time i've been a sort of christian i never once was afraid of Jesus.
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in love with her
in cahoots with her
insane with her
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though i do like to think of creation as the product of love making (and even believe it), at least from my experience, you gotta go talk to the girl first. even between gods, you don't jump straight to worldmaking lovemaking.
so, uh, in the beginning was the word.
(thanks to Loup des Abeilles for sparking this one).
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speaking of country epics, the Book of Mormon JUST IS the great american epic. and just now did i get that The Lusiads are not the youngest country epic because of it (historicity aside). yet, it is no dishonor to be beaten by the best.
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i'm an honorary mormon. the honor was bestowed on me by Joseph himself. he also said it was ok for me to smoke. Just don't overdo it kid, he said.
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the painter tests his vision with paint, the scientist does it under the microscope, the writer has words on the page. everything starts with intuition, but the value and confirmation is only in the flesh.
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my biggest first world problem is being unfit for any kind of collectivism
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ironically exile makes you more from the place you left
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last spring, the ants farmed aphids intensively, and together they killed more than a handful of plants. this year the garden is filled with these small black beetles. every plant, but especially every flower. it seems like an infestation at times. but you know what. almost zero aphids.
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today’s musical portion is Ravel’s Piano Trio.
i said Jesus is jazz, not classical music, but he could definitely be this type of classical. of course, some are of the opinion that, if there are no wigs involved, it’s probably not classical music at all.
but whatever it is, one thing is certain: it’s beautiful.
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