tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post1278476331899690399..comments2023-11-07T23:58:28.619-09:00Comments on Pray to the Moon: Poly-All-In. Installment 1: Folly.Moma Faunahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-56361287035659442322016-06-03T20:58:40.499-08:002016-06-03T20:58:40.499-08:00Ah, you. You are so obviously at fault for some of...Ah, you. You are so obviously at fault for some of this...<br /><br />"Affirming the Many and the One isn't reductive to my mind, especially when the One is probably without circumference." *Without circumference* Love! But that's the SOUP, no?<br /><br />"...but our symbiosis doesn't negate the possibility of affirming me as a single being too rather than a symbiotic complex." Get out of my head. Really, you're my freaky other half or something. This is on my hit list for Poly-All-In writing. I have been thinking alot lately about some articles by Stephen J. Gould on colonies and organisms and where we draw the line... <br /><br />"...affirming the One side of the One-Many gets co-opted to Big Beardy's game... *snort* I'm going to bite my tongue.<br /><br />You guys and your caudecus. Here I am looking adoringly at the ouroboros. It's round and has a gaping hole in the centre. It cycles and recycles. You have this eye to the active, linear serpents scaling a pole... Any wonder that like attracts like? :P<br /><br />I like your dancing analogy. Go figure. And your sense of time which, if I understand you correctly, is not unlike my own. Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-77124301487808628022016-06-03T20:57:58.297-08:002016-06-03T20:57:58.297-08:00Ah, you. You are so obviously at fault for some of...Ah, you. You are so obviously at fault for some of this...<br /><br />"Affirming the Many and the One isn't reductive to my mind, especially when the One is probably without circumference." *Without circumference* Love! But that's the SOUP, no?<br /><br />"...but our symbiosis doesn't negate the possibility of affirming me as a single being too rather than a symbiotic complex." Get out of my head. Really, you're my freaky other half or something. This is on my hit list for Poly-All-In writing. I have been thinking alot lately about some articles by Stephen J. Gould on colonies and organisms and where we draw the line... <br /><br />"...affirming the One side of the One-Many gets co-opted to Big Beardy's game... *snort* I'm going to bite my tongue.<br /><br />You guys and your caudecus. Here I am looking adoringly at the ouroboros. It's round and has a gaping hole in the centre. It cycles and recycles. You have this eye to the active, linear serpents scaling a pole... Any wonder that like attracts like? :P<br /><br />I like your dancing analogy. Go figure. And your sense of time which, if I understand you correctly, is not unlike my own. Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-6109033191411329322016-06-03T20:42:19.568-08:002016-06-03T20:42:19.568-08:00Guilty as charged -- it's totally me. I admit ...Guilty as charged -- it's totally me. I admit it. But I do like to give credit where it's due. Since I can't, I usually just run with it, as with scissors. ;)<br />Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-88206802636819751172016-06-03T20:42:09.961-08:002016-06-03T20:42:09.961-08:00Guilty as charged -- it's totally me. I admit ...Guilty as charged -- it's totally me. I admit it. But I do like to give credit where it's due. Since I can't, I usually just run with it, as with scissors. ;)<br />Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-51781704497995374702016-06-03T12:36:13.958-08:002016-06-03T12:36:13.958-08:00Amen ;-)
If there's anything Sagan's hym...Amen ;-) <br /><br />If there's anything Sagan's hymn says to me more than anything it's a need to acknowledge the limits of my ability to intuit let alone know. But where fools venture... my take is very much one that we can look at everything from different scales and groupings. Affirming the Many and the One isn't reductive to my mind, especially when the One is probably without circumference. Closer to home - take away the bacteria from my gut and maybe I'd cease to exist, but our symbiosis doesn't negate the possibility of affirming me as a single being too rather than a symbiotic complex. But of course I write from increasingly ungodded Western Europe, whereas you have a whole other context to deal with where affirming the One side of the One-Many gets co-opted to Big Beardy's game.<br /><br />And the One side for me isn't like when you mix up different paints and just get all brown paint. It's more like a party where everyone is dancing and spinning in different directions and groups and styles but still there is a sense of all being part of a single Being-together. Every dancer's pivot being in a way the same pivot ... (The up the middle of the caduceus?)<br /><br />On the 'escape' thing, for what it's worth, the Dharma I've been transmitted sees time as cosynchronous, and those who 'go out' as simultaneously 'returning' to aid others, and the distinction between 'this shore and the other' as more a line created by the eye than of ultimate fact.theopengyrehttp://theopengyre.tumblr.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-55888762453076250502016-06-03T08:25:35.845-08:002016-06-03T08:25:35.845-08:00Thanks Moma! <> So you didn't invent &qu...Thanks Moma! <> So you didn't invent "Big Beardy?" Well, it's so YOU! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-11022568453437400072016-06-03T07:13:23.131-08:002016-06-03T07:13:23.131-08:00You *know* I thought of you as I wrote this. ;)You *know* I thought of you as I wrote this. ;)Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-57950883740858590472016-06-03T07:13:10.501-08:002016-06-03T07:13:10.501-08:00You *know* I thought of you as I wrote this. ;)You *know* I thought of you as I wrote this. ;)Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-8886652338536579842016-06-03T07:12:00.788-08:002016-06-03T07:12:00.788-08:00Mmm... I didn't know that about Sagan, but it ...Mmm... I didn't know that about Sagan, but it certainly explains how easily he could wax 'cosmic' with such colour & eloquence. ;) <br /><br />Oh that Big Beardy... I wish I could give credit where it is due to the person who said it in passing years ago, but I can't recall the source. However, I have firmly claimed it for my own use. <br /><br />It's funny, many people share your thoughts on 'escape' or moving on, but I suppose I must be too comfortable or something because I don't mind the idea of being recycled ad infinitum. However, I do like your thoughts on moving into another or other circles as opposed to just reaching an endpoint as many other people imagine.<br /><br />Your take on the caudecus is fabulous. You know how kids will just skip over something they sense will be 'too hard'? This is what the caudecus has always done to me. I look at it, admire and want to ruminate & then I get that feeling. Thank you for handing me something accessible. <br /><br />I always love your thoughts on everything -- you have a down to earth unconventionality I can really grasp and embrace. :)Moma Faunahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13656419605056782629noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-67721865206126779942016-06-02T18:08:56.333-08:002016-06-02T18:08:56.333-08:00I feel it too!I feel it too!Bryan Perrinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00975900489027500138noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5807299091001611550.post-31827035185775856302016-06-02T12:31:10.841-08:002016-06-02T12:31:10.841-08:00Carl Sagan smoked so much weed it was *ridiculous....Carl Sagan smoked so much weed it was *ridiculous.* But even without the help of plant allies, anyone -- with just a little time and practice -- can see the universe as we do. If only they would let go a little, step to the edge, and breathe. It is so sad that so many people cling to the railing instead of stepping to the edge and peering into the vastness! (And by the way, "Big Beardy" -- HAHAHAHA!) <br /><br />But I'd go one step further.<br /><br />The ouroboros is endless repetition, continuous cycles. Seems to me, we should admit the possibility of escape. Maybe we should aspire to someday move into an even greater and more expansive circle. <br /><br />I think that's what the caduceus is -- the snake sliced in half and wrapped around the escape route that runs up the middle. At least I'd like to think so! <br /><br />Your posts always make me think Moma! Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com