inspired by the hyperlink…..

What does it mean for something to be?

Just a simple little question?

What parameters really make something into an existing thing?

What do we say about what lets anything be a thing at all?

The answer is that those aren’t separate questions.

To be means to be a this-thing or that-thing. Except we moderns want to object. We assume that first the world exists and then we divide it into categories.

If you’re going to exist, you have to exist as something — a table, a human, a piping hot bowl of gravy.

Thinking that the meaning of things (the table as a table) as separable from their existence (the table as a thing) is a path that leads to the triviliazation of meaning.

Say you want to know what makes a person [for instance] real, you have to see how this being is human…which means understanding them within a category (animals) with differentiated sub- categories (the animals that are rational).

Thus, taxonomy and existence are fused: To be is to be in a taxonomy of meaning.

We think there’s a real world that our taxonomies lie on top of but we must understand the modern distinction we draw; that a world apart from the categories of understanding would be by definition unknowable.

so………

Knowledge is the way the world shows itself to us in all its beauty and order.

may i just say damn…..

the landlord of my house [petty renter bastardo] just sent me a $50 gift card for only renewing my lease……

how sweet she is….

*act surprised again*

“Any sincere thought is irresistible.”

“In the country of the blind the one-eyed man is king.”

one has to love the updated version of the bill of rights……

Full map of the Protest Pen and “Soft Zone”:
http://www.blackteasociety.org/propaganda/DetailMap.pdf

[notice = i am only providing a link to the map. i am in no way affiliated with the BTS]

curious what audiomind might look like?

can you believe it? 14 was the last age at which my hair was so short…..
strange it feels to be unable to put zee curlz in a ponytail…..