One huge paragraph filled with questions...prepare yourself...
Why did Hitler? Who is Spain? When is right? Who? What? Where? When? Why? How does the mind work? How many numbers are there? Why do people do what they do? Why are some people motivated? Why aren't others? What can go wrong in a life? Where is space coldest? Warmest? How large is it? What is it? Why? Why does nature work they way it does? How does nature work? What is the answer to life, the universe and everything? Why didn't I do the other entry before this? When am I going to do it? Did I forget about it? Who would I elect to office? How would I run an organization? A Government? Why do wars start? How is life formed? Why? Do ghosts exist? Demons? Is there extraterrestrial life? What would it be like? Why? Will I get into college? If I do, Can I afford it? What will I do there? What will I do after? Will I do well? Why do economies exist? Who decided how they should work? Why is money valuable? What inherent worth does it have? Why not trade? When did monarchy develop for the first time? Where? Why? Will people go see the play I am in? Will I remember my lines? Will the other actors remember theirs? Will it be a hit? How did language develop? How do these words form in my mind? Why? If it is utterly impossible to communicate with any kind of accuracy to the true emotion being communicated, why do people try? How did modesty form? Why are some people that eat more than me and exercise much less than me, skinnier than me? Why does the human form work the way it does? How is it formed? What is music? What makes it good, or bad? What constitutes art? Why do people have specific talents? What determines good or evil in a person? What are good and evil? When was religion born? Who writes all those religious texts? Is there a god? Gods? Why? How did he/she/they/it come into being? Did they create life? Did life just happen? Why does life exist? What is the meaning of life ? Why? Why do living things need food? What is food? Do plants and animals think? What do they think about? What do I think about when I am asleep? Why? Why do I need sleep? When is "sleepytime"? What time is it now? Why should I go buy a watch? How does the universe determine time/What time is it by non-human measure? Why do we measure time? Do time and space intertwine? Do they run parallel? Why? What is string theory? If atoms are made of subatomic particles, and those are made of quarks, what are quarks made of? Why? Why? Why is that? Why?Wh-....
Sunday, November 15, 2009
Sunday, November 8, 2009
A Wildly Late Post
The word wild has many connotations, several definitions, and even more personal interpretations. Its synonyms include raucous, chaotic, whimsical, and even irksome. But the mechanics of the word itself belie something deeper. ‘Wild’ itself is not particularly profound as a word. It is four letters long, three consonants, one vowel. It is the range of different meanings it can have that makes it intriguing, gives it depth, and makes it worth thinking about. Take a look at the following sentences:
“Don’t go near that son! It is a wild animal!”
“Dude, that was a wild party on Saturday!”
“A man could become lost, and lose himself, in that vast expanse we call the wild…”
From these examples we can infer that at different times wild can be used as a word denoting an atmosphere, can itself suggest a setting, and can be used to describe an animal we certainly wouldn’t want to be chummy with. To me though, considering the word wild in a classic sense, it takes on a meaning both in agreement with, and at odds with the dictionary. Though it has many definitions, wild is most often used as an adjective to describe something done in a manner that goes against the grain (No, that wasn’t a dictionary definition). That presents all of those wild animals and place with a problem. Quite simply, they don’t exist. Confused?
To go against the grain, or perform any other willful act separating oneself from society, you need to be capable of thinking freely, and more importantly you need a society where thinking freely and existing aren’t mutually exclusive. Unless animals and plants have been laboring in secret for the last thousand, thousand years to create complex societies that they could break away from, their society is nature. In nature anything that doesn’t follow nature’s rules…dies. So if animals and plants cannot be wild in that sense, what can? Well, we are in luck, for one species has created a complex society where being wild, and existing can coexist in only slight disharmony. And they are the wildest of all… (ok that is just a restatement of the glaringly obvious, but for dramatic effect it had to be done.)
I refer of course to the crab people buried deep under the earth’s crust, waiting to rise up and destroy me, but since I couldn’t find any living specimens of them to prove the reality of our never ending battle, I’ll just have to settle for humanity. Setting the quip aside to be returned to at a later date, Humanity is the only actual species on the planet that can be wild. And wild they are. Take any internalized concept/definition of what wild is, and you’ll find a prime suspect among humanity. Unless your concept of wild involves animals and trees…but I won’t begrudge you your fictionalized concepts.
“Don’t go near that son! It is a wild animal!”
“Dude, that was a wild party on Saturday!”
“A man could become lost, and lose himself, in that vast expanse we call the wild…”
From these examples we can infer that at different times wild can be used as a word denoting an atmosphere, can itself suggest a setting, and can be used to describe an animal we certainly wouldn’t want to be chummy with. To me though, considering the word wild in a classic sense, it takes on a meaning both in agreement with, and at odds with the dictionary. Though it has many definitions, wild is most often used as an adjective to describe something done in a manner that goes against the grain (No, that wasn’t a dictionary definition). That presents all of those wild animals and place with a problem. Quite simply, they don’t exist. Confused?
To go against the grain, or perform any other willful act separating oneself from society, you need to be capable of thinking freely, and more importantly you need a society where thinking freely and existing aren’t mutually exclusive. Unless animals and plants have been laboring in secret for the last thousand, thousand years to create complex societies that they could break away from, their society is nature. In nature anything that doesn’t follow nature’s rules…dies. So if animals and plants cannot be wild in that sense, what can? Well, we are in luck, for one species has created a complex society where being wild, and existing can coexist in only slight disharmony. And they are the wildest of all… (ok that is just a restatement of the glaringly obvious, but for dramatic effect it had to be done.)
I refer of course to the crab people buried deep under the earth’s crust, waiting to rise up and destroy me, but since I couldn’t find any living specimens of them to prove the reality of our never ending battle, I’ll just have to settle for humanity. Setting the quip aside to be returned to at a later date, Humanity is the only actual species on the planet that can be wild. And wild they are. Take any internalized concept/definition of what wild is, and you’ll find a prime suspect among humanity. Unless your concept of wild involves animals and trees…but I won’t begrudge you your fictionalized concepts.
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