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The Whale

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Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete?
#14389436 - 05/02/11 03:52 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm putting this in S&M because I think it's a mystical implication to consider that language imposes limitations on the imagination and the spirit (despite the obvious irony that we are using language to discuss this).
I ask this question in the title because I'm starting to discern a nauseating redundancy in all forms of literature (and my life in general, but I digress). The same questions are being asked, the same theories are being revised, the same type of humor and allegory keeps popping up, the same knowledge gaps are being filled by new social ideologies or technological replacements, the same spiritual truths are being re-worded and re-smithed to look anew, and the same tragicomedy dramas are unfolded in books as if it is new. None of this shit is new: paradoxically, not even my own complaint which has been mirrored by other philosophers.
The libraries are obnoxiously too big. The internet forums are obnoxiously too full.
We have circle-jerked ad infinitum to a gazillion hypothetical questions and scenarios, just to re-imprint the same memes and archetypes in a deceptively "new" way.
Written language spontaneously popped up and served its role. Now it's time to fade away like a big wooly mammoth.
When's the next fucking paradigm shift? Fucking blast me to Bermuda!
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OneU
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: The Whale]
#14391002 - 05/02/11 08:22 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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The next paradigm shift is when the collective community approaches the need for one which is an aged starvation. It is a simple task yet very challenging. It requires us as a collective social complex to redirect all of our resources to a birthing of a new world which has a very little chance of success with the current catalyst. Governments rule their people and the people rue every moment they don't arise against what they don't believe in but the fear is overwhelming.
It's a tipping point. The balance is nearing an extremely inharmonious state which cannot be. It simply cannot. There will soon be a catalyst. One that will bring great detachment to all for it is the only way. It is up to us where we go from there. We are but mirrors, reflecting the Light of source. From here, Rumi says it best for me: "If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?
If you wish to shine like day,
burn up the night of self-existence.
Dissolve in the Being who is everything. "
This is why shamans and medicine people around this planet are having a stronger challenge than ever before, because the collective planetary vibration has steadied at a very low, self-serving one. It brings pain to my heart to see this Earth be destroyed when it is the one thing in this world sustaining us. There is no analogy as foolish as this, because not only are we hurting ourselves but the grandchildren of our grandchildren as well.
This all sounds a bit grim, but it's not. It is such a beautiful harmony at play. We get to experience this. This silent concept. Even if we do not gather in a group, individually we can begin from all corners of this vast home bless this Earth. I heard from someone once, who said (paraphrase) "It is like we are getting closer to the sun. Some have a tolerance to heat more than others. To some, the closer they get the more comfortable and deeper their state of bliss becomes. Others, will flee from the discomfort or turn back because it is simply out of their comfort zone. To hold the light in this world, we must be prepared to endure some heat."
I think I remember it closely but yeah.
Edited by OneU (05/02/11 08:26 PM)
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: The Whale]
#14391324 - 05/02/11 09:11 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: Kickle]
#14392027 - 05/02/11 11:05 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I'm waiting until we can abolish language in favor of direct experience via nanotechnological modification of neuronal structures.
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The Whale

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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: deCypher]
#14392322 - 05/03/11 12:04 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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deCypher said: I'm waiting until we can abolish language in favor of direct experience via nanotechnological modification of neuronal structures. 
Now we're talking.
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Luman
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: The Whale]
#14392425 - 05/03/11 12:28 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Or by purposefully manipulating the link between two given electromagnetic fields which render matter conscious, conveying your own, honestly given interpretations of a culmination of a certain sum of what we now transport in verbal language. Ideally, your "telepathically" dispatched message would inherently contain all of your personal connotations with the words used, the sum of their parts, you could say, and thus would naturally contain why you hold this certain viewpoint. Basically, a deeper level of understanding other's viewpoints and imparting your own, perhaps an eventual step in communication, as written and spoken language often fails to properly convey what we mean, as we truly mean it.
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: Luman]
#14392625 - 05/03/11 01:38 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Luman said: Or by purposefully manipulating the link between two given electromagnetic fields which render matter conscious, conveying your own, honestly given interpretations of a culmination of a certain sum of what we now transport in verbal language. Ideally, your "telepathically" dispatched message would inherently contain all of your personal connotations with the words used, the sum of their parts, you could say, and thus would naturally contain why you hold this certain viewpoint. Basically, a deeper level of understanding other's viewpoints and imparting your own, perhaps an eventual step in communication, as written and spoken language often fails to properly convey what we mean, as we truly mean it. 
I totally get you. 
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Re: Will books, articles, reports, and dissertations ever become obsolete? [Re: OneU]
#14395652 - 05/03/11 05:59 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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OneU said: "If you are irritated by every rub,
how will your mirror be polished?
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