Archive for July, 2006

Man & Nature

Monday, July 31st, 2006

by Devin Castles

Just as there are universal truths regarding the laws of nature and not to be redundant, but the universe, there are also universal truths about the human condition.

Our brains our wired to benefit from interaction with other people.

Our bodies heal faster around human contact.

Man is not a solitary creature. Solitude can help reflection, but is not a necessary ingredient all the time.

Nothing matters, but truth exists.

Nothing’s really something because nothing ever changes
It just takes a little while to realize what same is
But it’s all the same to me

Nothing Motivates Me

Sunday, July 30th, 2006

Sunday, July 30, 2006

Category: The Meaning Of Life

This gets back to the underlying concept of nothing.

Rather than talking or thinking or writing or speaking in circles by attempting to define “nothing” simply think of nothing as “something”. Like a dream. A shadow of something real. (The Last Wave.)

So nothing motivates me. That can mean I am unmotivated by anything or that can mean that I am motivated by nothing.

So by now you can see that I am motivated by nothing or this site wouldn’t exist.

What is the meaning of all this?

Nothing Has Meaning.

Doing Nothing Means Being Off Every Day

Friday, July 28th, 2006

Friday, July 28, 2006

Category: Whatever

So the point was and is that “doing” is defined as “producing” and “nothing” is defined as “not producing” so the goal of doing nothing ever is to not have a job, to not work at a job, to not buy in to the daily grind of a job, to not participate in the job mentality.

Work of course is ok. So is breathing and etc. Holistic minimization of negative impact on ecology is not considered.

Like Frank Zappa said, “Free is when you don’t have to do nothing or pay for nothing, We want to be free.”

Be free.

Doing Nothing Ever

Tuesday, July 25th, 2006

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

Category: Whatever

Goals. Really can’t move toward anything without anything to move toward.

Can’t get anywhere intentionally without anywhere to go.

Unintentional communalities are rife with idiots pretending to give in to the perpetual discourse on sustainable living in a non-sustainable environment.

So what I am saying is saying what I am and meaning what I say while saying nothing.

So my goal is to do nothing ever. Not realistic eh Hazel? Not possible eh Insanity?

Yeah, we can’t do nothing unless you define “do” as participating in this relentless illusion of an economy, aka production of product of use to consumers.

Exhaling doesn’t count.

Meeting Of The Mind

Thursday, July 20th, 2006

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Category: Whatever

Well anyway I decided I would have to have a meeting with myself before I could have an opinion about that.

Hazel reminded me that this would be a meeting of the mind.

Hazel is actually Nived of Fit To Print fame and infamy. He will be contributing scintillating mind provoking articles here in a short lengthy while.

Changing the Way We Think

Sunday, July 16th, 2006

Sunday, July 16, 2006

Category: Whatever

Interestingly enough, small steps make big changes. Sort of like the concept of time. Lots of it can affect huge change, relatively speaking.

As we sit here within our context we create patterns, within which we become comfortable or habitually inhabit. Habit and inhabit. I like that.

So, the rut we are in results in our lives being like the tire of a car forced to follow that rut.

Changing the way we think is a start at changing those patterns.

Time to change.

Back to Context

Saturday, July 15th, 2006

Saturday, July 15, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

So next we move to the subjective. First, we accept that we exist, or not, irrespective of any intent or perception on our part. (If you cannot accept that, hit the home button on your browser.)

Next we can, or will, look at the context in which we find ourselves.

Context is a tricky word.

Context Defined

Much used by Adam Clark of Freedom Philosophy and sk8evangelist fame, the meaning (pun intended, permanently, consider the use of the word meaning here a permanent pun as the lack thereof is the premise of the site) of the word in its simplest form is, of course, meaning.

The meaning other than meaning is setting. The setting in which something occurs.

Do you remember Alice in Wonderland by Charles Dodgeson aka Lewis Carroll? The part about meaning what you say versus saying what you mean brought up by the Mad Hatter? (I hope. Been a long time since I read that passage.) Very cool mind workout there.

Context is relevant in that passage because obviously you can say what you mean and not be meaning what you say or vice versa. So context can mean, meaning, or intended point of view.

Values. The foundation of meaning.

Totally subjective, totally arbitrary, totally cultural.

Nothing Has Meaning

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

I am getting the impression that many do not quite get that the title of this web diary, and the meaning (haha) of the concept of the web diary is that nothing has meaning intrinsically, inherently, automatically, in and of itself, built in, supposedly, without point of view.

So that is to say, that truth and the is exist whether or not observed, in a definable state, but that in defining we now have placed upon that is a subjective perspective that filters, possibly, the actual existence.

Values are a result of this perspective.

Got any?

Under the Kitchen Sink

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Category: Whatever

Speaking of perspective I find myself speaking of perspective.

So I’m doing a dishwasher install and find myself under the kitchen sink doing a spot of plumbing. One is lying there, essentially on one’s back, half the body under the sink, relatively comfortable, with a whole different worldview. Not at all bad.

You ever hang upside down from your knees when climbing trees?

Same thing, only different.

So there I am and I’m thinking how sweet under the sink is. A whole world by itself. Peaceful. A certain kind of smell and feel.

We should all spend more time under the kitchen sink.

Truth

Monday, July 10th, 2006

Monday, July 10, 2006

Category: The Meaning of Life

Been using the truth a lot lately, in describing these simple lessons on the nature of things, so I thought . . . . . .

Seeing the truth, hearing the truth, being the truth, all for naught.

Is truth subjective? No.

Is truth conceptual? No.

Is truth something? Yes.

Is truth nothing? Yes.

So which is it? Both.

Think of truth as something physical and you will begin to get my drift.

If a monolithic wall of granite, say, is standing there, there it stands.

What I call it, or what you call it, or how we see, hear, feel, taste or sense doesn’t change the granite.

There it stands.

Just like the truth.