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Some Philo-poetic writing

2 years, 7 months ago

Here is some late night writing I’ve done. It is a quick reinterpretation of parts of my “thoughts.txt” desktop file. Also, it’s a counter to the sorts of things Hayden has been writing in his blog lately. I’m sorry about the format, but I wrote it with this font, and I feel without it the writing is unjustifiably flowery. :P

Please feel more than welcome to comment, as I need it. Of course I really need to write more and get through all the chaff that goes through my mind and onto paper (read: computer screen).

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The programmer, acting as a Platonic God, instantiates instances of an ideal mould as an expression of Devine Perfection. There exists a joyful beauty to the recursion of a programming environment written in the language it creates. Lifting itself up by its bootstraps – “Bootstrapping”- parallels God’s central position as the Prime Mover, the Initial Cause. Essential being and time, declaring itself to be its own progenitor, ignites the fires of reason and meaning.

Examining the minutest abstraction of our syntactical structures, man comprehends a binary discreteness to existence. Through our cause-and-effect rendition of the cosmos, our logic-engendered minds build structures from the foundations of ones and zer0s…

We are given a playground in which to explore. Our minds can stretch from the profundities of our Mother’s molten heart, to the soft ethers of the sky, yet all we see is that this rock is here and not there. We search for a Unity when it is at the cost of separation from an Other. We claim triumphantly the primacy of One, and set it confidently against the infinitude of nothingness. How arrogantly we feel we can pull our significance from such a thing, as Midas wills to remove the touch of gold from silk or stone or flesh!

3 Responses to “Some Philo-poetic writing”

  1. bless Says:
    November 26th, 2005 at 7:50 pm

    Hmm, makes sense. Is rather flowery though, perhaps get your head out of your arse for a bit? :P

  2. h Says:
    November 27th, 2005 at 12:22 am

    In a sense all he could see was the nothing that surrounded him. it was the absence of discrimination. of course there was a sense of one all consuming thing, but thing was the incorrect expression. it was of course he that was the thing afterall. that which surrounded him was of course not a thing; it was the absence of all things. except him, he was all that remained. yet how could he be sure. how was it that he could be something. what was it that allowed him to think this way. if he was all there was then how could he be a thing. not alone, not uncompromised, within a world, amongst things. yet there it was; he was apart, separate and different from the nothing, so in opposition to nothing he existed. and so it was the beginning.

  3. Josh Says:
    November 27th, 2005 at 6:38 am

    Perfect.

    Mr. H has succinctly captured the paradox of Unity I encounter in the last paragraph of the above, using the initial imaginary state of Hegelian dialectic.

    Now, I didn’t want to explicitly touch on the Hegelian dialectic in the text at this moment, but it is a good point-of-departure for finding similar threads of thought, and also some critical responses to it.

    Perhaps Mr. H’s more recent study of Hegel can bless us with examples of both that we can study?

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