iv_ephemeral_arcs_perspectives frAnk it's with this contemplation and guessing that we've learned to approach the unknown. first, perhaps questioning, then fighting fear, and then through cumulative years of calloused experience we gain the hard fought release to simply trust, simply give in and accept what we are about to receive. and that's what becomes the most fun about life. the surprise! we arrive expecting to receive and do so in the process of opening our heart to allow something of ourselves to escape willingly. we are clouds floating solitary, merging to become receipient of the setting sun. we can swallow fire? we are streams taking in, giving out, flowing in unity to one big sea. we can make rough places smooth? we are noise making sense. we are laughter dissolving sadness. we are tears of friendship. we sing originality. we dream inside other worlds and return to this one. we live. we die. together. i was so impressed with your response to the initial questions in your innerview. you are a writer of amazing depth who can crawl inside your life and mine it for the obvious treasure it contains. i read it over and over, reveling in astonishment at the understanding, self- actualization, and reverence you possess for the human condition. thank you for your compliments and your generous, beautiful effort. if you don't mind, i'd like to take it piece by piece, observe it like one in an art gallery is drawn to a singular painting. for this is what i beheld: a complete work of original clarity that demands to be examined by degrees, for inside each element, like the pomegranite, are a multitude of seeds to bring forth new life, many worlds for all of us to dwell in. you said, "every facet of life can change, and does millions of times and more. sometimes they paint themselves before you so briefly, they seem to you only a chimera that couldn't hold itself against the will of the world, its fabrication lacking enough truth to cover the truth." you go on from here to expertly explain adaptation, but i'm very interested in your thoughts on how the world presents itself to us. do you think there is more than one perspective we need to consider? we look at a certain facet of life as it is painted before us and we perceive it and somehow decide what we will do with it. whether it becomes a ghost we can't grasp or a truth hidden, or so black and white we can't help but accept it for what it is. do we use more than one process to determine its application? 020408 ... -{::ephemeral_arcs::}- Facets of broken glass, broken mirror, and the harsh sunlight that glitters among their fragments. Human consciousness is a multifarious reality in which a decision is often nothing more than the emergent victor of a conflict. Introspection and quiet the within as taught in Daoism helps us submerge the conflict to become more single unity, but at the same time our human nature is grasped at the foundation of our chaos within. Life needs chaos just as much as order. At the same time a person loves their mother, they might resent her, be jealous of her, fear her, feel loyality to her, feel a necessity to protect her, hate her, and any combination of these and more emotions. Just as there isn't one instance of reality in any given moment in the world and its presentation to us, there is not one perception or desire within us. Adaptation gives us the ability to migrate freely between these different instances of us, of the world, and merge and mold them. "Do we use more than one process to determine its application?"-::yes::we do::. it encompasses our existance. We are not just one single simple thing, but the multitude of them combined into one presentation, and set out to interact with the other presentations out there. And just as we cannot judge a book by its cover, its come to a point where we can't judge it by its content either. We in fact, have to also judge it by the worlds content, including ourselves. The human mind after all, does work solely on the system of dualism. We can't hold two opposites in our mind at the same time, but we can switch between them very quickly... as it's in comparitive reality that we gain all our abilities. Contrast can both delude or make it "so black and white we can't help but accept it for what it is." The closest prediction we have on Chaos is expierance. The application of a presentation, which is taken from a being whose composed of many things, and applying something of many things to a world of many things... there's no way to really predict an outcome. As Chaos Theory states; the flapping of a butterflys wings in China could lead to a hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico. Because chaoses inherent ability is that of lack of order, and with that goes prediction and science, and the only things you have to rely on are your intuition, wisdom, and adaptability. The quicker you can change directions and the longer you can keep doing so, the Great Life will unfold for you. ::afternotes:: sorry for the belated reply, college is coming to a close soon, and with that comes many manifestations of homework you never knew you had. Fair Journies, 020412 what's it to you? who go blather from