8 seconds of heaven

"Rosie." Lea and Nicole answered again and smiled slyly. "The sea
witch of this school?" The musician cringed in fear once more. "She's
not that bad and she's helped many." Lea piped up. "We can take you to
her now if you'd like." Nicole continued. Selena thought about the
offer and nodded. Without a second thought she walked in between the 2
girls, who linked arms with her. Demi glanced over at Selena and
frowned. "Selena, what are you doing!?" She stamped in her place.
Ignoring Demi, the pianist walked on as she was guided by the girls
with her. The composer followed the threesome to their destination.

-- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1APDsJ45cg

"unknown^K"

«There are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also
know there are known unknowns; that is to say, we know there are some
things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns – the ones
we don't know we don't know.» -- Rumsfeld

«It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what
you think you know that just ain't so.» -- Billings

What about higher order unknowns? These are certainly hard to grok,
but even unknown^3 is probably quite useful.

Here's how it appears to work:

unknown^1: we don't know = indeterminacy
unknown^2: we don't know we don't know = obliviousness
unknown^3: we don't know we don't know we don't know = we're not even
aware of our obliviousness

unknown^3 seems like "the normal state of affairs". In other words,
it describes the basic sort of epistemic violence that is required to
function in society.

We do not live as if we were bounded finite beings. We do not live in
a continual state of crisis.

Rather, we live as if we were unbounded totalities, worlds (and laws)
unto ourselves.

It is only by a bizarre twist that humility and a corresponding crisis
is the beginning of strategic thinking.

guide to living in the zen times

"The second thesis, which arises out of the first, is that this life
of theory entails the renunciation of everyday life, with all its
various passions, sensibilities and ambitions so that the ideal state
for a philosopher is that of a "living dead". The concerns of everyday
living and the feelings thereby engendered are entanglements that
hinder the seeker of enlightenment from attaining the insights that
(s)he aspires to. It is this ideal condition, zombie-like as it must
appear, that has held sway in Western thought from the time of
Socrates self-orchestrated death, through the chastity of medieval
scholasticism up to 19th Century phenomenology." -- Amazon review of
The Art of Philosophy

one calm morning

From the calm morning, the end will come
When of the dancing horse
the number of circles will be 9

um what?

«The command of language thus becomes the command itself. The
deterritorialization at the hands of language flows not from trainer
to pokémon, but from pokémon to trainer. As the trainer invokes the
deterritorialized subject, he or she, too, participates in the
linguistic community of the pokémon. The trainer does not so much have
to speak the language of the pokémon, for, "It is certainly not by
using a minor language as a dialect, by regionalizing or ghettoizing,
that one becomes revolutionary; rather by using a number of minority
elements, by connecting, conjugating them, one invents a specific,
unforeseen, autonomous becoming" (D+G 106). The trainer only has to
employ the deterritorialized/deterritorializing refrain of the
pokémon's name to become something new. The invocation of the pokémon
brings about a combination of parts—the trainer's autonomy is
compromised through both the assemblage and the use of the alien
tongue. The logic of this deterritorialization is paralleled in the
way that the trainer uses the pokémon to achieve specific ends. The
trainer invokes one of several pokémon based on its particular
functions. A water pokémon is good against a fire pokémon, an insect
pokémon is good against a plant pokémon, a plant pokémon is good
against electric pokémon, etc.» --
http://www.rhizomes.net/issue5/poke/pikachu.html

proof of the doctrine

«He who says, "I know Him," and does not keep His commandments, is a
liar, and the truth is not in him. But whoever keeps His word, truly
the love of God is perfected in him. By this we know that we are in
Him. He who says he abides in Him ought himself also to walk just as
He walked.» -- John 2:4-6

paul kemp & co.

«I found out then that writing is a kind of therapy. One of the few
ways I can almost be certain I'll understand something is by sitting
down and writing about it. Because by forcing yourself to write about
it and putting it down in words, you can't avoid having to come to
grips with it. You might be wrong, but you have to think about it very
intensely to write about it. So I use writing as a learning tool.» -
Hunter Thompson