On Wed, 06 Mar 2024 10:03:46 -0000, He Who Sees All
<theBeach@cairo.ankh.io> wrote:

> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 15:32:45 -0000, slider <slider@anashram.com>
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 29 Feb 2024 07:25:14 -0000, He Who Sees All
>> <theBeach@cairo.ankh.io> wrote:
>>
>>>> now try to keep up there's a good chap; you're always sooo slow haha
>>
>>> Brian, you despise this guy, or at least that's what you would have
>>> the limited audience here believe. Time and again you rail against
>>> him. Utter derision.
>>
>> ### - smile, we've had our clashes over the years but you're wrong if
>> you
>> think i despise anyone, and have, from an outsider's pov, actually
>> enjoyed
>> our encounters in various ways coz he's fairly smart albeit somewhat
>> erratic, and even if we don't always agree which was fairly often...
>>
>> plus you've asked/puzzled-over exactly this same question re lowrider
>> too,
>> about how i could possibly talk to him considering his shitty behaviour,
>> and i told you then that am able to speak to him in exactly the same way
>> am still able to speak to 'you', whose behaviour has been as equally
>> shitty if not worse!
>>
>> so go figure :)
>
> I'm just a serious person which comes with the territory for some, as
> they age. No point in retaining any semblance of youth when youth has
> entirely disappeared. It's just being realistic, icy cold eyeballs on
> the world (or in my case, faded blue rheumy eyeballs peering through
> the cataracts :)

### - henry miller (the writer) had similar cold (blue) eyes and i enjoyed
'all' his work, he thus cuts through the crap and gets to the point of
life & living and the experience of 'being' alive - 2 of his works
standing out for being a bit different: 'The Air-Conditioned Nightmare' &
'Time of The Assassins' (both well worth getting stoned and
reading/contemplating for the cathartic vistas they repeatedly produce)

>>> What you are now showing is the insincerity of your worldview. Which
>>> says a lot about your character, or lack thereof.
>>> You'll bluster and babble about this thinking that enough verbiage
>>> thrown at it will somehow disguise the reality of your changing, ever
>>> changing, position. A real person with a serious grievance does not
>>> just change views like that.
>>
>> ### - lol, and yet only the other day you lectured me re keeping this
>> place going, saying: don't i think it's possible for people (meaning
>> you)
>> to change their minds occasionally??
>>
>> lol riiiiight... :)
>
> No that was a a long time ago, several years ago. We made a deal,
> after Jeremy (Dave) spat out the dummy and fucked off, never to
> return. You and I would keep the pulse here just above permadeath.
> Well, we did actually, quite an achievement :)

### - no no, that was only several 'weeks' ago lol, what's happened to
your memory? :)

>>> The only possible conclusion is that
>>> your views and reactions to life, to reality, are frivilous. Immature.
>>> And it's far too late for you to grow up. A shame to waste a life like
>>> that.
>>
>> ### - (really laffing) well that's hardly the only 'possible' conclusion
>> is it heh...
>
> Nope, I was wrong. In this universe, it may have been, but in the
> multiverse, every variation, infinitely repeated, with all infinite
> variations of each repeat, will play out over eternity.
>
> So, yep, I was wrong and a little premature.

### - haha :)))

>> no, that's just your overly hasty + sloppy conclusion clearly based on
>> faulty reasoning and a very nasty disposition haha, something of a
>> repeating pattern of yours, one that's become rather predictable to say
>> the least...
>
> Well I didn't say I was reasoning. It was a pretty quick knee jerk
> reaction to what you posted. Not much, if any, reason involved,
> whicih is a rarity for me, being Mr Reason itself, personified lol.
>
> However, you cannot say that a person who does not exercise reason is
> also predictable. Quite the opposite. Think about it.

### - there clearly wasn't any 'thought' put into it, a knee-jerk reaction
on your part as you say, your default mode, no thought involved :)))

>> iow: predictably slow: tap him on the shoulder on tuesday and on
>> wednesday
>> afternoon he turns round and says: huh? wot??
>
> Being personal now. How unbecoming.

### - a graphic example and never personal, if the cap fits however ;)

>> and because 'intelligence' is rather difficult to define, there being
>> all
>> kinds of tests to measure it and stuff but defining it remains
>> controversial...
>>
>> imho though, intelligence is just how rapidly or not one's brain
>> communicates with other parts of itself, how fast it sparks across from
>> one side to the other & back... a measure of electrical resistance
>> perhaps
>> heh: the less resistance the faster the flow of current through the
>> entire
>> system + the faster it coordinates & correlates information overall....
>>
>> a moron, in that sense, being ponderous and slow witted; slow to realise
>> the implications of any given argument if in fact he gets them at all....
>> on the other end of that scale: people who're so fast they can almost
>> take
>> the words out of your mouth before you even speak them they're operating
>> at such a rapid pace of information processing, consequently they're
>> always several steps ahead all the time...
>>
>> intelligence not being 'how much' a person knows, so much as 'how fast'
>> they operate at ;)
>
>
> You can be very garrulous sometimes mate. Take it easy. Relax. Get
> a dog. They are great. I can attest to that, we have a new puppy for
> the first time in over 10 years (have had many dogs in life, and many
> cats too). He is an American Staffy, only 3 months old. Makes me
> young again :)

### - am just sayin' that intelligence isn't about how much a person
knows, so much as how fast they operate at :)

i mean, i know you're not unintelligent, you're definitely not dumb... but
you 'are' slow on the uptake sometimes... and the only way i can explain
this contradiction is to say/suggest that you have 'blind-spots' in
certain areas that most people don't have any problems with; similes,
analogies & metaphors in particular making it difficult to say/suggest
anything of a 'poetic' nature to you...

the problem being, that imho (and experience) life itself is something
that can't 'be' accurately expressed/described in cold, hard, factual
terms without leaving-out/omitting 96% of the equation, the
universe/cosmos clearly being more than just a bucket of nuts & bolts job!

that in that sense, the cold, hard eye can be very useful indeed in
cutting-through the nuts & bolts part of it all (the purely material side
of things) that seems to blind everyone to anything else

'poetry' being an attempt to cross that bridge into the other 96% unknown,
the very first step into it immediately rendering language into something
far more fluid and open, 'allusions' becoming the norm when it becomes
impossible to pin/nail things down definitively, the poet not being
limited to fancy rhyming phrases alone (there was a young man from
nantucket et al) but something wherein it actually becomes a whole new
pov...

the poet, being thus among the most advanced humans on the planet, stands
at the very cutting edge of knowledge & understanding and tries to pass
some of that information back to the rest of us via the novel 'use' of
language, and because a nuts & bolts version of everything doesn't in any
way explain very much beyond its own 4% use and application...

that 'this' is precisely why i think WILDs could be important, in that it
opens us to lots of 'other' possibilities; none of which are nuts &
bolts-like in character! WILDs are thus a first practical step into that
unknown 96%!

(Ps. if you'd ever read cc's work, you'd immediately understand that WILDs
are in fact journeys through cc's 'dark sea of awareness', something
completely different to dreams & dreaming and even lucid dreams, something
that hints at incredible inner possibilities heretofore unknown except in
garbled, often religious, terms & forms)

e.g., your cold rheumy eyes would likely render you completely indifferent
to the many initial temptations of WILDs and thus you'd prolly advance
very rapidly indeed to the place (in awareness) where 'knowledge per se'
becomes the norm: The Midway Point!

what people 'do' with that increased knowledge being entirely up to them....

'The Midway Point' --by slider...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMLd1fEyj_0

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