Honest truth is by necessity humble and limited.
As beautiful and terrifying life is, death is still more terrifying -- and maybe more beautiful:
both are mysteries...
False truth is absolute, omniscient and certain.
Don't think about your life, or about your dissipation:
shop -- and march!
Mr. Kingfisher
Wednesday, January 6, 2010
Tuesday, January 5, 2010
Muse
Muse
the father energy
and the mother noticing
the power insurgency
the enveloping regression
the singularity pressure
the infinity evacuating
the skinny fingers dance
but the hallelujah escapes the ego's grasp
the father energy
and the mother noticing
the power insurgency
the enveloping regression
the singularity pressure
the infinity evacuating
the skinny fingers dance
but the hallelujah escapes the ego's grasp
The Kingfisher Dictionary
Adult: An agent of the moment whose actions precipitate from the collection of years and the forecasts of opportunity.
Clarity: The ability to let go of what you think.
History: A kind of lie that omits so much.
Living: The moment you do not own but which owns you.
Magic: The enveloping of talent into the most finite of spaces to effect the greatest of objects in transition.
Remembering: A kind of selective forgetting.
The Spiral: The energy it takes for one moment to become another - time itself.
Waiting: The moment you realise you are not living.
Mr. Kingfisher
Clarity: The ability to let go of what you think.
History: A kind of lie that omits so much.
Living: The moment you do not own but which owns you.
Magic: The enveloping of talent into the most finite of spaces to effect the greatest of objects in transition.
Remembering: A kind of selective forgetting.
The Spiral: The energy it takes for one moment to become another - time itself.
Waiting: The moment you realise you are not living.
Mr. Kingfisher
No Cheaters Here
Cheaters will continue to cheat so long as they feel it will benefit them to do so.
Non-cheaters will also continue to not cheat so long as they feel it will benefit them to do so.
Are there rules being broken? I think not. The system is the de-facto law. If a system allows something to be done then it will be. Setting up rules afterword to ameliorate the poor design is like mediaeval geocentric astronomers adding extra Ptolemaic epicycles to explain planetary retrogrades. Fiddley bits.
Systems that contain lots of fiddley bits, the subsequent rules, may also be set up on purpose for those in the know to use and those who don't in which to flounder. While making a rule that says "I always get to win," is deemed blatantly unfair, creating a system in which those who can utilise the system to advantage while in the letter of the law, is merely irksomely unfair. For the cheater, to live by rules means you are a chump. And they are right. Both because you are not smart enough to not follow the self-serving rules of others, and also because you are not wise enough to leave that game entirely for a mutualistic one.
The so called cheater lives by the application of the meta-rules of the game. The possibilities of the system, and not what is it 'supposed' to be. In nature, every niche is filled.
a) if I won't get caught
b) if the gain is great enough and the punishment unlikely
c) if any punishment is less than the potential gain
d) if I can weasel out legally or with plausible denial
e) if there is a time advantage before giving it back
The real truth about cheaters and non-cheaters is that they are playing inside different systems. In the Crocodile and Chicken systems, self-serving means at the cost of others. In the Monkey and Buddha systems, you can't 'cheat' and self-serving means mutualistic benefit to others.
There are no cheaters, only systems which allow exploitation.
Mr. Kingfisher
Non-cheaters will also continue to not cheat so long as they feel it will benefit them to do so.
Are there rules being broken? I think not. The system is the de-facto law. If a system allows something to be done then it will be. Setting up rules afterword to ameliorate the poor design is like mediaeval geocentric astronomers adding extra Ptolemaic epicycles to explain planetary retrogrades. Fiddley bits.
Systems that contain lots of fiddley bits, the subsequent rules, may also be set up on purpose for those in the know to use and those who don't in which to flounder. While making a rule that says "I always get to win," is deemed blatantly unfair, creating a system in which those who can utilise the system to advantage while in the letter of the law, is merely irksomely unfair. For the cheater, to live by rules means you are a chump. And they are right. Both because you are not smart enough to not follow the self-serving rules of others, and also because you are not wise enough to leave that game entirely for a mutualistic one.
The so called cheater lives by the application of the meta-rules of the game. The possibilities of the system, and not what is it 'supposed' to be. In nature, every niche is filled.
a) if I won't get caught
b) if the gain is great enough and the punishment unlikely
c) if any punishment is less than the potential gain
d) if I can weasel out legally or with plausible denial
e) if there is a time advantage before giving it back
The real truth about cheaters and non-cheaters is that they are playing inside different systems. In the Crocodile and Chicken systems, self-serving means at the cost of others. In the Monkey and Buddha systems, you can't 'cheat' and self-serving means mutualistic benefit to others.
There are no cheaters, only systems which allow exploitation.
Mr. Kingfisher
Must Not
Must means that despite what is, it has to be. It must be that I get what I want. My wants must exist. A must is a desire for this want to supersede all other wants. I want this want. The wanting of the wanted.
By definition, a want is something you don't have. A must is a desire bent in on itself. Not just wanting to dance, but wanting to want to dance. So why not wanting to want to want to dance? It is an entanglement of preconditions before the action. Expectations of existence made with insistence lead to resistance.
Wanting distances you from your way. To be in want is to be in disassociation. From this state we tell the universe what it must do and be.
In having, we see that it is always to an extent. Just as there is no want, there is no have-not. We have everything, even if only infinitesimally, even if only in our minds.
As everything is one, and it is our conventions that make distinctions, do not forget that disassociation is when you believe that two interconnected 'things' are actually two things. Differentiation is a convenience.
Mr. Kingfisher
By definition, a want is something you don't have. A must is a desire bent in on itself. Not just wanting to dance, but wanting to want to dance. So why not wanting to want to want to dance? It is an entanglement of preconditions before the action. Expectations of existence made with insistence lead to resistance.
Wanting distances you from your way. To be in want is to be in disassociation. From this state we tell the universe what it must do and be.
In having, we see that it is always to an extent. Just as there is no want, there is no have-not. We have everything, even if only infinitesimally, even if only in our minds.
As everything is one, and it is our conventions that make distinctions, do not forget that disassociation is when you believe that two interconnected 'things' are actually two things. Differentiation is a convenience.
Mr. Kingfisher
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