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Silver and Lead
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- Mar 12, 2013
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To link people to when i have type questions. I don't want a public one. Feel free to post your impressions, whenever.
1. What is beauty? What is love?
Beauty is a totally amorphous concept. It is whatever I feel like it is, and whatever you feel like it is.
I think I can pull some out of just about anything, and when it's difficult or something feels ugly, the perspective flipping necessary to find the angle of beauty is a game to me and an artistic exercise.
If your concept of beauty is more exclusive, that's okay because it's yours to define, but I admit I'll be disappointed that I haven't found a playmate in you. I'm always looking for such people. On the other hand, I can see how spreading beauty over everything may cheapen it and how one could be motivated to great action by the search for beauty in a world where it is hard to find. But in the end, I believe my way is more effective for my own work.
Love is the natural, cumulative result of good emotional health in all areas.
2. What are your most important values?
Improvement/progress, as in the things I value most tend to be both morally noble and the most difficult things for me to live up to.
The flexibility of beauty as detailed above.
There is a use for everything; if something looks purposeless or stupid, then its use is simply further from its intended one and takes more consideration to find. Amusement is a worthy use. Being quick to reject is a form of mental crassness, sloth.
3. Do you have any sort of spiritual/religious beliefs, and why do you hold (or don't) those beliefs in the first place?
Commitment issues with this. I'm very curious about spirituality and have dipped my toes experientially in many practices, learning from them but never becoming absorbed by them.
4. Opinion on war and militaries? What is power to you?
Force isn't something to use without a good reason. As sparingly as it should be employed, though, it is a part of all of us, and it is a pitiable person who isn't intimate with this part of themselves and knowledgeable of the right time and way to use it. I have never been naturally in touch with this part of our nature, so I think on it a lot (inferior Se).
Because we all will die someday, power isn't truly an attainable *thing*, but a striving, willful process that is not meant to have an end. It is a natural drive. This drive can motivate both constructive and destructive actions.
Interests
5. What have you had long conversations about? What are your interests? Why?
I don't have them often. My ties to other people are thin. The last one was about modern art...a lot of people are frustrated by modern art or don't want to give it the honor of being called art at all. I think that's the whole point, and that such people have been successfully trolled by the artist, lol. I see this sort of art as playful. I'm also off topic now.
6. Interested in health/medicine as a conversation topic? Are you focused on your body?
Yes, it is interesting, but there is a time and place to discuss it. I am either totally detached from my body or overly focused on it. Difficult to hit a middle point here.
7. What do you think of daily chores?
If you think of them that way, you'll never get them done.
To make them interesting, and because I just don't like to spend much time on them, I systematize activities like this to make them as efficient as possible. It's fun. Some processes may look unusual while they are in progress, but the mess is part of the plan!
8. Books or films you liked? Recently read/watched or otherwise. Examples welcome.
I don't read much fiction anymore. When I do, I'm picky because the emotional atmospheres and tensions can stick with me for days. A book has to be something special to be worth that. Often, I find books to read by reading articles about them that reveal the end. I like that, to know what I'm getting into, and I have enough of the opposite to deal with in real life.
My favorite books are made to be more artistic than emotional. I like older books because I can detach a little and experience it like a history lesson, although a few of those have hooked me anyway...and I respect them for that. I also like reading about nature, particularly hostile environments and forces - deep seas, moonscapes, underground. The earth is an antagonist I can believe in.
Another reason I am choosy is because I find a lot of fiction emotionally unrealistic in favor of entertaining and satisfying the reader. That's great for humor, but not to be taken seriously, ever. Manipulation turns me off. Characterization should mirror the real thing, not diminish it.
Not that I'm much of a realistic fiction person. The author should know how to write people, but as far as the setting and plot goes, go wild. Candyland in space! The best stories have genuine humans facing fantastical, weird shit.
9. What has made you cry? What has made you smile? Why?
If something makes me cry, that's actually a sign that it isn't so important, and I've just stoked it up in my head or am physically run down. Real feeling comes out more subtly and is more conducive to action.
I smile when I'm creating things. Also at animals.
10. Where do you feel: at one with the environment/a sense of belonging?
Anywhere I want to, and nowhere. At the same time. It's up to me to choose to feel this way because it won't just happen.
To be continued because of the damn character limit.
1. What is beauty? What is love?
Beauty is a totally amorphous concept. It is whatever I feel like it is, and whatever you feel like it is.
I think I can pull some out of just about anything, and when it's difficult or something feels ugly, the perspective flipping necessary to find the angle of beauty is a game to me and an artistic exercise.
If your concept of beauty is more exclusive, that's okay because it's yours to define, but I admit I'll be disappointed that I haven't found a playmate in you. I'm always looking for such people. On the other hand, I can see how spreading beauty over everything may cheapen it and how one could be motivated to great action by the search for beauty in a world where it is hard to find. But in the end, I believe my way is more effective for my own work.
Love is the natural, cumulative result of good emotional health in all areas.
2. What are your most important values?
Improvement/progress, as in the things I value most tend to be both morally noble and the most difficult things for me to live up to.
The flexibility of beauty as detailed above.
There is a use for everything; if something looks purposeless or stupid, then its use is simply further from its intended one and takes more consideration to find. Amusement is a worthy use. Being quick to reject is a form of mental crassness, sloth.
3. Do you have any sort of spiritual/religious beliefs, and why do you hold (or don't) those beliefs in the first place?
Commitment issues with this. I'm very curious about spirituality and have dipped my toes experientially in many practices, learning from them but never becoming absorbed by them.
4. Opinion on war and militaries? What is power to you?
Force isn't something to use without a good reason. As sparingly as it should be employed, though, it is a part of all of us, and it is a pitiable person who isn't intimate with this part of themselves and knowledgeable of the right time and way to use it. I have never been naturally in touch with this part of our nature, so I think on it a lot (inferior Se).
Because we all will die someday, power isn't truly an attainable *thing*, but a striving, willful process that is not meant to have an end. It is a natural drive. This drive can motivate both constructive and destructive actions.
Interests
5. What have you had long conversations about? What are your interests? Why?
I don't have them often. My ties to other people are thin. The last one was about modern art...a lot of people are frustrated by modern art or don't want to give it the honor of being called art at all. I think that's the whole point, and that such people have been successfully trolled by the artist, lol. I see this sort of art as playful. I'm also off topic now.
6. Interested in health/medicine as a conversation topic? Are you focused on your body?
Yes, it is interesting, but there is a time and place to discuss it. I am either totally detached from my body or overly focused on it. Difficult to hit a middle point here.
7. What do you think of daily chores?
If you think of them that way, you'll never get them done.
To make them interesting, and because I just don't like to spend much time on them, I systematize activities like this to make them as efficient as possible. It's fun. Some processes may look unusual while they are in progress, but the mess is part of the plan!
8. Books or films you liked? Recently read/watched or otherwise. Examples welcome.
I don't read much fiction anymore. When I do, I'm picky because the emotional atmospheres and tensions can stick with me for days. A book has to be something special to be worth that. Often, I find books to read by reading articles about them that reveal the end. I like that, to know what I'm getting into, and I have enough of the opposite to deal with in real life.
My favorite books are made to be more artistic than emotional. I like older books because I can detach a little and experience it like a history lesson, although a few of those have hooked me anyway...and I respect them for that. I also like reading about nature, particularly hostile environments and forces - deep seas, moonscapes, underground. The earth is an antagonist I can believe in.
Another reason I am choosy is because I find a lot of fiction emotionally unrealistic in favor of entertaining and satisfying the reader. That's great for humor, but not to be taken seriously, ever. Manipulation turns me off. Characterization should mirror the real thing, not diminish it.
Not that I'm much of a realistic fiction person. The author should know how to write people, but as far as the setting and plot goes, go wild. Candyland in space! The best stories have genuine humans facing fantastical, weird shit.
9. What has made you cry? What has made you smile? Why?
If something makes me cry, that's actually a sign that it isn't so important, and I've just stoked it up in my head or am physically run down. Real feeling comes out more subtly and is more conducive to action.
I smile when I'm creating things. Also at animals.
10. Where do you feel: at one with the environment/a sense of belonging?
Anywhere I want to, and nowhere. At the same time. It's up to me to choose to feel this way because it won't just happen.
To be continued because of the damn character limit.
