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"Keep heart. Don't get angry, don't waste energy on fuming and fussing. Focus on the good. And the sleek shall inherit the Earth--which some think is spelled slick. If, in any situation, you can't see what you can do positively and will actually start doing it, then you are more of a problem than a hope. Getting fired up is not the same as forming a bucket brigade.

"One question keeps coming from the readers of SP: 'Will I get a clue of what is coming next?' And the answer is: 'You will get your future, and there is no clue as to what that is by which you can know it all in advance.'

"The best model is one of engagement and letting go. Engage your life as if your life depended on it, and let go of the outcomes. Each experience in the physical needs to be its own journey, not a prelude to a destination.

"Someday they will build planes without windows so you can get there faster, but you might not see the mystery you fly by without noticing. Don't ever let your life be windowless--even if you think you have your compass locked on target.

"And also, the clues you might be able to get--if there were any--might take you to a consequence which is not your only possible outcome. Knowing ahead would lock in one probability... and what might be lost in the bargain, is all." (9/25/2004 - B#67)

"So, what's on the horizon? Something. Never take for certain what is viewed from afar. It is too easy to think we see something as visionary when all we are doing is letting a vague far-off image remind us of something already known.

"We often treat our visions like hail: All hail is the size of something else. So we think we see something on the horizon and say it was like the thing we knew yesterday. For example, when Jesus lived, people were looking for a messiah who would fit the mold. So they turned him into what they wanted and expected, even if that wasn't what he was. In fulfilling a centuries' old prophecy, they lost the visionary.

"It ain't the future, dudes, if it makes you look to the past. And it is better to say 'I can't tell what's on the horizon, I need to get closer' than to say 'O, I think I know what it is' when we are primarily guessing and filling in the details from memory.

"When will we realize that we need something more than deductive and inductive reasoning. We need startling reasoning. Sometimes the truth is just plain startling, more than logical. Here's someone who is more startling than logical, Sandy McPooch... ARF. So, does that scan? Ponder away." (10/9/2004 - B#68)

"I want to reiterate something said long before: that change is often perceived at a point, but it rarely occurs at a point. The
recognition of change happens at a point. Don't mistake one for the other.

"Calculus is about describing change that is in process." (1/12/2005 - B#69)

"The future is not past light, it is itself. But it may have already happened, just as history has items that will yet occur. But, thanks to the new improved Time, we can keep it all straight. Huh.

"It is not about forgetting. It is about ordering. What can we deal with as 'already' and what can we deal with only as 'not yet.' Ponder that pith." (3/22/2005 - B#70)

"Time goes on... or not. Is it ever possible to truthfully say it's 10 minutes to 6. How do you know. It hasn't happened yet... or has it, but then it is 10 minutes until 6 that was. 'I'll be there in 2 days' either projects the past on the future or is a wild assumption.

"Are future calendars facts or just predictions. Illusions. For example, on August 1, 1945: Hiroshima. Calendar on wall shows October 1, 1945, but did it exist. Not for the calendar, and probably not for anyone who used the calendar for thinking there would be a future. Time as charted gets interrupted. We call those events, but they are also interruptions of the linearity of presumed time." (3/26/2005 - B#71)

“Solving problems always appears easier than creating function. But without a compelling and uniting vision, you don’t know what’s right, only what’s wrong.

“Vision never has a single path to its fulfillment because if you already knew the one and only path to it, it is not vision! Vision defies the known methods, and challenges one to look beyond the given. And any institution is a big box with little appreciation for outside the box. I’ll bet the powers-that-be worry, subconsciously, more about what the group photo will look like than what the people in the photo can accomplish. You never get anywhere visionary by worrying about image.” (1/28/2006 - B#72)

“And the corollary is: You can’t get anything imaginative without vision. So that proves that vision is not commutable--just like all dogs are animals... grrr... but not all animals are dogs... h h h h h h.” (2/1/2006 - B#73)

"September 11 five years ago, babies were born; people died in their sleep; ideas became visions; ice cream melted; a newsboy in Topeka missed Mrs. Anderson’s house; a store in Beijing ran out of orange juice; twenty Sikhs prayed for an ailing friend; two cars ran into each other at State and Elm; in Adelaide, Bobby forgot his lunch. And so the day went, filled with life--good thing to remember and celebrate.

“Yep, September 11, a day to remember because it really was like every other day. And we forget that at our peril. Make any day more special and you demean the rest. Get it? They just might find that by making a fuss over one day, they will miss many more, and even what was before. If you measure anything by something else, something else becomes the standard. Is that what you want?

“Make the visionary and ideal your standard, not the failures. Make September 11 International Understanding Day or World Forgiveness Day... ‘or International Onion Day’... CT! ‘It would make everyone cry!’ C.T. shut down.

“People will increasingly hunger for the visionary while the institutions, as usual, will be 2 or 3 steps behind.” (9/11/2006 - B#74)

"Sandy was fit to be tied, so I did. It’s one of CT’s ties. ‘But,’ you say, ‘nothing is physical.’ Yet ideas are real--even if they are ideas of physical reality.

"Here’s a big difference: We in this timelessness can think about time, but you living in time find it hard to contemplate timelessness. C’est la vie. And c’est la mort. Just one of the many differences awaiting the quick... but not the dead.” (12/25/2006 - B#75)

"It’s a time of regrouping and preparing. Things are shifting. Time to build, not defend. Creative era coming through, make way. Not just shifting but turning--facing a better way.” (3/17/2007 - B#76)

"Well, here we were, considering 3: past, present, or future--and height, length, depth; father, son, and you-know-who. Don’t you see, you are trapped in a physical world and you are just a physical girl (Madonna, Material Girl). But what happens when perceptions are set by prior limitations of perception and understanding. Just like compound interest, give it a hundred years and you have big errors.

“The trick is to measure or describe things without using existing limiting things. MIT knew this when it measured the bridge in smoots. But if Smoot had a growth spurt, what is reality. Just remember all measurements and metaphors are equally flawed. Just the pith of the day.” (3/25/2007 - B#77)

"The trick is to hear any metaphor or image in its universals rather than its particulars. Get caught up in systems and you miss so much.

“And peeps like to think that being open-minded is to question the details of any system, but being open-minded is to see where every system connects with every other system. One is deconstructive and the other constructive.

“Postmodernism is a total waste because it is about taking apart, not building up. And I will deconstruct postmodernism later.

“Good grief, why waste energy on taking apart when you could be creating. But that’s enough. Lack of vision. The world needs Sandy the Super Seeing-Eye Dog... ARF.” (4/5/2007 - B#78)

"Hi again, and today we have a great melodrama, starring a mad scientist played by LD, a criminologist played by TL, and the universe played by MCP and Sandy... ‘Hey-ARF... grrrr-a.’ They are one. ‘Bark-a snap-a. I go-ARF-a.’ Sick puppy. ‘Hey-ARF-a.’

“So, the criminologist is just giving his closing words: ‘Lost in time, and lost in space... and meaning.’ ‘Don’t dream it, be it,’ says our scientist. And the universe responds, ‘Amen-ARF-a.’ And the universe whispers a single word: continuum. No, not Rosebud, but continuum. ‘ARF-a.’ No no no no no, do it right. Continuum.

“Let’s take time. We have all the time in the world, but it’s all balled up tight like a black hole. Yes, Virginia, there is a black hole of time, but human physical minds expand it from forever to forever--which, by the way, you can also do with black physical holes. Hey, what do you think the expanding universe is. Continuum. So, time is a particle and a wave. It is a point and it is an experience. And you can look back across the waves of time, and see where we’ve been and then project ahead--at least until dinner time. ‘Hey, what’s for dinner’ is proof of this. So time is a continuum. So, how about space.

“You take a trip through space and you know where you’ve been, but you don’t know where you’re going--except as the projection of where you’ve been. Maps only tell you space that has been. Ever use an old map and find a bridge missing. Past results are no guarantee of future profits.

“So space is also a continuum and, in its great measures, is always changing. So, too, with other dimensions. Name some. ‘ARF-a?’ Yes, spirit as we know it is a continuum from fragment to whole. Ah. So, too, with time and space--from fragment to whole. Other dimensions. ‘ARF-a?’ We did spirit! ‘Grrrrr-a.’ And all those little wee dimensions are of space. But what about meaning? It falls on a continuum... ‘but it’s not hurt and gets up.’ CT! I’m trying to be deadly serious here. ‘Well, you’re seriously dead.’ C.T., G.O.!

“Meaning also falls on a continuum. So, we experience ideas which appear new to us because they are not in our past meaning, but our meanings will be the past someday. ‘Ah,’ you say, ‘it’s time based.’ No, it’s complexoinclusive based: Is the meaning a more inclusive statement than before, and will it serve as a building block of greater meaning because it has facets that can attach to other meanings. Would you please explain that. Sure.

“In the 20th century, a group of understandings (by the way, understandings are the envelopes in which meanings are transmitted)--understandings about human physical reality--were brought together. So phrenology was created. It did include other understandings, but it was a dead end without any capacity to become a part of anything more complex or inclusive. So meaning is on a continuum from the singular to the universal along a projection of complexity.

“Some understandings get more inclusive but not more complex, and some get more complex but no more inclusive. The continuum has these two coordinates. And I’ve said enough. ‘Grrrr-a.’ Let’s take a break. ‘ARF-thanks-a.’.

“Now, was MCP-Sandy more complex? Yes. And more inclusive? Yes. ‘Except when he tried to bite me.’ CT! He was just trying to assimilate you.

“Dancing thoughts. One person moves to the music: dance. Two dance to the music: more complex, but exclusive. All who come find places in the dance, and it becomes complex and inclusive.

“And what liberals often forget is that only the simple and exclusive needs no rules or structure. To become more complex and inclusive always takes initial work to learn the new rules and structures. Don’t mistake learning for compulsion. Liberals are apt to say, ‘Don’t tell me what to do. Don’t fence me in,’ when following some social guidance might show them horizons beyond belief.

“Facts are just rules and structures that have become embodied. They seem obvious and natural only because they are familiar. Ok, that’s it.” (4/30/2007 - B#79)

"1, 2, 3: Continuum. Everything we’ve said about SP is a continuum. It is a mass of information and insight, and it’s a wave of understanding. It is now and then and later.

“Meaning is a dimension, and it has dimensions... oy. Now she introduces the dimensions of dimensions, and leaves it at that for now. Across the breadth of time, the depth of meaning, the height of awareness. See?” (5/5/2007 - B#80)

"All existence is on a continuum, and the examples I gave were illustrative but not exhaustive. Meaning, space, hunger, dental floss--all are on their own continua.

“What you are experiencing is just this point in the journeys of all. Even I am a continuum--back to Selene and forward to ‘Hi, Dad,’ and beyond. If you make a point or a particle out of any momentary expression of anything, you get something concrete but incomplete--just as once you identify a photon, you have a particle of light but you’ll never know what that light might have illumined.

“Ponder that.” (5/7/2007 - B#81)

"Well, no one ever said it would be linear! Continuous but not linear, and there’s a difference to ponder.

“All of our continuums are with us always--both the experienced and the waiting-to-be-experienced--and sometimes we sense across strands. Déja vu. It feels like we’ve been there before because the potential has always been there, and we experience the experience and mistake it for the place and actions. So it seems familiar, and we translate that into particulars.” (5/10/2007 - B#82)

"So much is comparison. And the trick is always to find the largest comparison, the opposite of the least common denominator. You should be seeking the greatest common denominator--which is why that slogan was dumb.

“But what I just said is very important. If all you do is solve the present equation for its answer, you’ve done nothing for the future. But when I say future I don’t mean time, but complexity.

“When you solve an equation so the present problem is solved and you also get solutions for problems not on the table, then you have moved beyond the immediate. Always look for solutions which are both true and more global than the present case. Thus saith the Moo.” (5/22/2007 - B#83)

"So, I want to make a point but I can’t. No one can. Points are all an illusion--only possible in static systems, and those are only theoretical... I presume. But any time an equation is stated without change, be suspicious... be very suspicious. And if someone tries to isolate a point out of a continuum... ‘bop them on the head’. CT! That’s when you need to start asking questions... ‘like what time is the train to Topeka.’ C.T. ‘Well, I want to go to Topeka.’ Why. ‘Because.’

“This all makes no sense, thank goodness, because sense is a point but meaning is a continuum. It’s about concepts, not reality; for somewhere every concept is a reality. I mean, would an ancient Roman think frozen pizza is a reality or a concept? I rest my case.” (5/24/2007 - B#84)

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