Will there be fire insidewill it be worn like a capwouldn't we want us toburn if we hide?
In this world of increasing complexity, we have to either simplify or become smarter. Random Factor Y chooses both options. So his blog will shock you with the obvious and bore you with the outlandish, swing with language and stutter like a mystic on mushrooms. Enjoy! Please share. And be welcome to react.
Thursday, 25 March 2010
Mystery nerdsery rhyme
Monday, 22 March 2010
How to portray the absence / DULCE ET DECORUM
Really moved by those pictures of soldiers' bedrooms
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/21/magazine/20100321-soliders-bedrooms-slideshow.html
Tears to my eyes.
The emptiness, the physicality of it, the many similarities
(those flags, those quilts)...
The neat order, never to be disturbed again by the living presence of those who belonged there.
The waste of it all...
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/03/21/magazine/20100321-soliders-bedrooms-slideshow.html
Tears to my eyes.
The emptiness, the physicality of it, the many similarities
(those flags, those quilts)...
The neat order, never to be disturbed again by the living presence of those who belonged there.
The waste of it all...
Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori
http://www.warpoetry.co.uk/owen1.html
Saturday, 20 March 2010
Elements of knowing?
1. I am.
2. You are.
------------
3. You show yourself to me.
4. I show myself to you.
5. We communicate through a medium.
------
6. We are, each and every one of us uniquely.
7. The world is.
8. We see the world, but only through the veils
of mediation.
----
The very least we need to assume is three:
I-am, The world is, the medium is.
But a medium (like language)
presupposes a you, a we, a history.
The medium stands in the way
of the im-mediate.
If there is such a suchness.
As soon as there is a medium,
there are many more entities.
As Lao Tse says:
Ten Thousand Things.
So now: silence.
0 = 0 = 0 = 0 = 0
...
2. You are.
------------
3. You show yourself to me.
4. I show myself to you.
5. We communicate through a medium.
------
6. We are, each and every one of us uniquely.
7. The world is.
8. We see the world, but only through the veils
of mediation.
----
The very least we need to assume is three:
I-am, The world is, the medium is.
But a medium (like language)
presupposes a you, a we, a history.
The medium stands in the way
of the im-mediate.
If there is such a suchness.
As soon as there is a medium,
there are many more entities.
As Lao Tse says:
Ten Thousand Things.
So now: silence.
0 = 0 = 0 = 0 = 0
...
Tuesday, 16 March 2010
Sad boredom and rare rubies: DISSOCIATED PROSE
Dissociated prose - purloined letters of Meaning
= with a capital Mnmmmmmmmmmm
or just an escapist's
EX LIBRIS.
= with a capital Mnmmmmmmmmmm
or just an escapist's
EX LIBRIS.
Exocet ®
Heidegging Mengelmud
SynchtopfrequeNZ.
Suchtfinding Behemoth
Downward TendendZ.
See what I mean,
Standard Dev?
Entia Lumina
Posse
ESSE \
essentia
potest
potest
vel
volo?
Tuesday, 9 March 2010
Saturday, 6 March 2010
On Time: Tapestry of Mystery (PRose experiment)
,
...
Do download my story
dissolving into the
NIGHT
&/or
back
;;; ...
http://www.xs4all.nl/~pjvm/TAPESTRY%20OF%20MYSTERY-the%20Book.pdf
Thursday, 4 March 2010
Sunday, 28 February 2010
Awakening from consensus trance
To me, one of the clearest writers on waking up out of consensus trance and living in this moment is Eckhart Tolle. For instance:
More:
http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/06/20-spiritual-quotes-from-eckhart-tolle/
To end the misery that has afflicted the human condition for thousands of years, you have to start with yourself and take responsibility for you inner state at any given moment. That means now.
More:
http://www.ineedmotivation.com/blog/2008/06/20-spiritual-quotes-from-eckhart-tolle/
Saturday, 27 February 2010
Consensus Trance and CT
Poetry should not need explanations.
And yet, sometimes it may be nice to know what I mean.
In my last post I wrote about 'consensus trance'.
This term was coined (in my perception) by Charles Tart:
http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
"...see how normal waking consciousness is the product of a true hypnotic procedure that is practiced by parents, teachers, and peers, reinforced by every social interaction, and maintained by powerful taboos."
Happy Awakening, or sweet dreams, whichever applies!
And yet, sometimes it may be nice to know what I mean.
In my last post I wrote about 'consensus trance'.
This term was coined (in my perception) by Charles Tart:
http://www.cantrip.org/charles_tart.html
"...see how normal waking consciousness is the product of a true hypnotic procedure that is practiced by parents, teachers, and peers, reinforced by every social interaction, and maintained by powerful taboos."
Happy Awakening, or sweet dreams, whichever applies!
Friday, 26 February 2010
Light and water
Break through the sound barrier
of sticky consensual reality
enter the most private experience
of unity with everything.
The light
and the candleare one and the same.
The wave
and the water
cannot be separated.
Weep over the loss of information in the Information Age...

Let the diverse overcome monotony,
monoculture, most forms of monotheism,
Ohmygodism, Ohmyatheisthardonism
and Ohmyspaghettimonsterism.
The reduction of cultural diversity and biodiversity
is the biggest crime of the so-called information age.
Destroying genomes forever is bad information management.
Deleting languages from collective memory,
destroying oral traditions and initation
with smallpox or chainsaws or Zyklon B,
the Age of Reason,
the Information Age
has demolished more information
than ten Internets could carry.
Weep over the loss of information
in so-called information age!!
Memetise the minimally memetic
Thursday, 25 February 2010
WelcomeDisclaimerCopyrightnotice
Hi,
So glad you read this. Really really glad. It means there IS intelligent life out there on Planet Earth. So be welcome and please invite others. As I learn to deal with this toolkit, the Random Factor Y files will grow and become smarter. Maybe I even learn how to receive feedback and react. But this first message is like the famous piece of silver on board the Pioneer spacecraft, a signal towards anyone out there willing to decode my signals. Welcome.
Communication is repetition. Invitation is repetition. PLease repeat me as often as you like. But please mention your sources, if you are aware of them, especially when it matters. In other words: let's share in creative fun, but respect each other's copyright whenever there's money or power involved.
And then, I am aware of the fact that words and pictures may trigger various reactions. Since I cannot predict your individual reaction to the things I publish here, I'd vehemently deny any legal responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and/or physical sensations.
You are here as the Germans call it
'auf eigene Gefahr',
on your own danger.
However, it is my intention to contribute to beauty.
So, whenever I do feel ethically or aestheticaly response-able, I might respond.
Bear with me
and salmon too,
butter the fruit flies
and queen jelly ho!
So glad you read this. Really really glad. It means there IS intelligent life out there on Planet Earth. So be welcome and please invite others. As I learn to deal with this toolkit, the Random Factor Y files will grow and become smarter. Maybe I even learn how to receive feedback and react. But this first message is like the famous piece of silver on board the Pioneer spacecraft, a signal towards anyone out there willing to decode my signals. Welcome.
Communication is repetition. Invitation is repetition. PLease repeat me as often as you like. But please mention your sources, if you are aware of them, especially when it matters. In other words: let's share in creative fun, but respect each other's copyright whenever there's money or power involved.
And then, I am aware of the fact that words and pictures may trigger various reactions. Since I cannot predict your individual reaction to the things I publish here, I'd vehemently deny any legal responsibility for your thoughts, feelings and/or physical sensations.
You are here as the Germans call it
'auf eigene Gefahr',
on your own danger.
However, it is my intention to contribute to beauty.
So, whenever I do feel ethically or aestheticaly response-able, I might respond.
Bear with me
and salmon too,
butter the fruit flies
and queen jelly ho!
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