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It's one of those things

Fridgemagnetman

I only have one
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There was a day,maybe a Tuesday,when nobody knew what anything was.

We didn't even know it was a Tuesday .

If I said to you "What's that?"

You wouldn't know. I was just making sounds as far as you could tell.

It didn't mean anything.

It wasn't until years later,if I asked again "What's that?"
You could answer.
"It's one of those things"

In the early days of making a sound and attaching it to a thing, a lot of things did not have a sound.
There wasn't a committee and no chance of camel design.

Difficult to get through your day when nobody knew what anything was.

But,years later, we've got it sorted. I ask you again "what's that?"

"It's a freaking tree"

Now we're operating at an advanced level. "Things" are getting done.
Sounds become things become words become thoughts become insults become satisfying.

What day is it?

"Tuesday"

Everything is going so well, we're building houses,inventing computers and all kinds of stupid stuff.

But what kind of tree is it?

Who cares? It's Tuesday.

There are so many words for even just one thing, and there are so many tones of voice.
When the sounds are made, it can mean the opposite of what the sound should mean.

Those olden days when you didn't know which way was up or even what was up, seem pretty good after all.

I think I realise what has gone wrong.

Sound after sound after sound for no reason.

But what to do about it?

Earplugs.

I can now sit in my house, that I gained from the utilisation of knowledge of things, in complete silence.

What's that?

The voices in my head.

That's another story.
 
Yeah, what are those voices in our head?

Funny how the centre of "Self" seems to be seated in
the head.

Next to learn what "Self" truly is.
 
Yeah, what are those voices in our head?

Funny how the centre of "Self" seems to be seated in
the head.

Next to learn what "Self" truly is.

It's like a shelf.

Only you put things ''in' instead of 'on'

Although,if you clear a shelf, it is still obviously a shelf.

If you empty out your self..

Where is the screaming 'me' ?

Does it need to contain anything to be anything?

Is it like an empty mirror?

The body is like a bodhi tree
The mind is like a bright mirror standing
Fundamentally not one thing exists
So where is the dust to cling?
Hui neng.
 
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Yeah, what are those voices in our head?

Funny how the centre of "Self" seems to be seated in
the head.

Next to learn what "Self" truly is.
according to psychiatry !it is your voice !( thoughts )but because you are disordered !you are hearing! it at the wrong! time.
if !it doesn't sound like your voice !or a song !you've heard that's when !its schizophrenia!
 
according to psychiatry !it is your voice !( thoughts )but because you are disordered !you are hearing! it at the wrong! time.
if !it doesn't sound like your voice !or a song !you've heard that's when !its schizophrenia!

So if it wasn't me - it was him.
And if it was him - at least it wasn't me.
 
Earplugs are a bit too all or nothing for me. Just a quiet backroom and sometimes I play some music.

I bet there were a lot of smells before language and sounds etc got going. I'd of still needed a private cave with a view.

There's a programme on Neanderthals on BBC 2 at 8pm btw
 
Would it have been all gestures, rituals, body language, facial expressions before sounds?

How did folk talk to themselves before language?
Would there have been a picture instead of a voice in our heads?
 
Would it have been all gestures, rituals, body language, facial expressions before sounds?

How did folk talk to themselves before language?
Would there have been a picture instead of a voice in our heads?

The moving finger writes and having writ moves on
Nor all your piety nor wit
Shall lure it back to cancel half a line,
Nor all your tears wash out a word of it.

The start of 2001 a space Odyssey,a man picks up a bone,to represent the first tool. I take the above passage to represent the first time a line in the Sand perhaps, represents writing.

Perhaps the word is the beginning of humanity.
Many animals have sounds that represent danger etc
A kind of language.

What is it that separates us?
 
The alphabet has always fascinating me. Been 26 letters as long as I can remember, how come there isn't a 27th?
 
The alphabet has always fascinating me. Been 26 letters as long as I can remember, how come there isn't a 27th?

Ampersand was the 27th - ”&”

From learning by rote. When the class would say "and per se And"
(From memory) which became ampersand


Also "eth"
Yoph...
A few others taken out.
 

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