Ewa wrote earlier:
> I've tried to imagine many people inside my
mind, each of them having a different
> opinion as to change my
perspective of thinking in "I" category which
> is a "normal" state of
mind and if you want to figure something out
> you have to try diverse
ways and be creative and so on, so that's
> where that idea came from...
now don't suspect me of the
> split-personality syndrome here..
hehe..
Jim wrote:
<<I'll go with the more scientific
here.>>
always going with the scientific, huh? ;-)
<<It is the compulsion of organisms to fight to survive. it seems
that you might have seperate, but areas of the brain that can communicate with
each other. but have thier own
characteristics and independent storage. sort
of multiprocessors that
make or break connections at will. Though, sometimes
they have thier
independent contact with the "conscious" controller.
>>
oh, really? that's interesting. But I do it
consciously, i.e. I deliberately and intentionally create those different
"camps" of standpoints in my head. That way I can observe "their" argument from
a more objective perspective. It's like saying: What would I think of my
personal convictions if someone else delivered them? By doing this you get to
see new aspects to things you'd thought you've known all the way through. You
discover the depth of things all over again. And by this means you can
rebuild/reconstruct your outlook on things. I like being surprised by the
unknown of the familiar, I guess. And this is one way of acheiving this goal.
Looking at this from a psychological point of view, you can draw parallels
between this method and the way a little child thinks and perceives the world. I
mean, a child considers everything around it a great miracle - but only until it
learns to get used to it and this is where the comparison ends. A lot of
grown-ups don't see anything miraculous about the world - and I think that's a
pity and a great loss for them. So seeing a balance (in this context) as a
conservative force prompts me to say that I prefer the imbalance. I guess that's
what you meant, too, right?
Experiencing the world in million
different ways, opening our mind to its multiple aspects, to its inconceivable
variety, letting go of prejudices and fixed ideas, trying to make our
senses more sensitive to the world's heartbeat - is what I think is very
important especially in the contemporary world contaminated with the idea of
consumption and passivity.
Ewa wrote
earlier:
> hehe.. <admiring your sense of humour>.. and
"naturally" is indeed
> (like Jim said) not the same for everybody
<looking at the precipice
> between my "naturally" and the Jackson's
"naturally">
Jim wrote:
<<Naturally (! or ?) - but not to argue over definitions. I'll take
meaning number "one million three">>
What do you mean by this meaning
number?
see ya! can't stress enough how much I enjoy talking to
you!
Ewa
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"Blackout of fixed ideas
restrains the powers of universe
hidden in every move I make"
-Ewa-
(that's an excerpt from
one of my poems, btw)