Thought for the day - October 21, 2000

Subject: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 12:00 AM

"What is called the spirit of the void is where there is nothing. It is not included in man's knowledge. Of course the void is nothingness. By knowing things that exist, you can know that which does not exist. That is the void. People in this world look at things mistakenly, and think that what they do not understand must be the void. This is not the true void. It is bewilderment."

Miyamoto MusashiBook of Five Rings1645

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 12:17 PM

Too esoteric for ya, huh? Oh where, oh where is PeterT when ya need him?**BG** Oh, I guess he must be creating a void with his absence...wonder if he recommends it...

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Jim the Bart
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 12:44 PM

I like it Kat. Have a great day. I'm going to spend mine enjoying the void

Bart

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 12:54 PM

'Bewilderment' is right. I keep going over and over it!

I have a map from 1749 that shows the world as it was known at that time. The outlines of Europe and Asia and Africa were fairly well delineated and South America was surprisingly well known.

The North American continent was pretty chancy- it has California, for instance, cut through north and south by the 'Sea of Califoria'.

Alaska and points north is not there. It is marked 'Terra Incognita.' (See, I did come back to your theme, kat)

It occurs to me that the things that are unknown to us (the voids) may be extremely important, and that in time to come may be our very lifeblood.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 01:13 PM

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent. Ludwig Wittgenstein.

On the other hand...

and also

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Peter T.
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 01:22 PM

A positive void - Saturday morning
A simple void - Saturday afternoon television
A negative void - staying at home on Saturday night watching television
THE VOID - SUNDAY MORNING, 3 A.M.
A fluctuation in the void - Sunday morning television, especially political shows
voidance/avoidance - Sunday brunch
Emptiness - Sunday afternoon
Darkness - Sunday night
Return to the World of Suffering - Monday morning, 6:30 a.m.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: mousethief
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 01:23 PM

The Beatles said, "All you need is love."
And then they broke up.
--Larry Norman

Alex
O..O
=o=

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 02:25 PM

Maybe the spirit of the void is included in man's knowledge. We just forgot that we know about this nothingness.
So if something comes along that we do not understand, it is bewildering. Forgetting that we know all about the spirit of nothingness is pretty bewildering too.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 03:56 PM

I read your TFTD first thing this morning and said, "Hmmm." As you know, Kat dear, I'm not one to comment on every thread- sometimes I'm speechless and sometimes I'm busy. I'm with McGrath of Harlow on this one!

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 06:33 PM

Thanks to you all: LOL, enjoy, Bartholomew; great links, McGrath; Very deep, LilNeo; Kind as ever, Allison; Too right, Ebbie; So, were the Beatles right, MT?; PeterT, you knock my socks off!

Question: do we still want these TFTD threads on the w/ends? I miss Peter's on the weekdays and I DO enjoy posting the w/end ones, but I admit I am a little sensitive when there are no postings after a few hours. But, it's okay, you can tell me, I can take it, if'n ya don' wan' 'em, anymore sob, sob, just sayso and I'll pack my bags, turn in my keyboard, find a cottage in the woods with no electricity, no running water, dance with bears, lie in the sweetgrass, sing with the birds, HEY! this is sounding pretty good! Maybe I will see ya all later!!

luvyakat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: MMario
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 07:57 PM

Things seem to have been pretty quiet today all round, Kat. Combination of the getaway, "Llanstock flu" and who knows what. I read the post shortly after you posted; enjoyed it.

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Ebbie
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 08:33 PM

My guess, kat, is that we read your tftd and enjoy it, even if we don't comment on it, or contribute. It's true for me, anyway.

Ebbie

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Little Neophyte
Date: 21 Oct 00 - 10:30 PM

Kat, when no one responds to my postings, I take that as the greatest compliment. I figure they are thinking thats all.
If you stop creating the weekend Thought For the Day, I will be thoroughly depressed and have to spend too much money discussing it in my psychiatrist's office.

Little Neo

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: katlaughing
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 12:38 AM

You phoaks are just all too kind, but I love it, so keep it up!**BG**

I forgot to read this before I put up the one for Sunday, something from Ebbie sparked the Muse and there ya go, another TFTD.

Thanks, again, you all are so unconditional in your giving of care and love, it is really wonderful to experience.

kat

Subject: RE: Thought for the day - October 21, 2000
From: Little Hawk
Date: 22 Oct 00 - 01:58 AM

Alex - regarding the Beatles...it's easy to say it, but hard to do it. I imagine they tried, anyway.

Kat - good thought. As the void is nothingness, which we can only imagine as an opposite to all the somethings...so evil is another nothingness that we have created in imagination as the opposite to good. And scarcity is a concept that we have created as the opposite to abundance, when actually abundance is right there all around us...if we weren't so afraid of scarcity...which causes us to hoard and not share...which results in scarcity where there could and should be abundance.

So there ya go. See it all over Amerika. Poverty at the feet of unbelievable wealth and self-indulgence, all the result of fear and its many children.

Fear is the opposite to love, and is also comparable to nothingness. It is based upon that which is not real, which is the opposite to that which is real.

And so it goes.

Quite a creative little drama, isn't it? Makes great Hollywood movies about good and evil.