the_unchecked_expansion_of_the_universe warmthofrelease - eye: SHE SAYS THEY SAY THE UNIVERSE IS EXPANDING who am I to disagree? the shape of every thing is defined by its boundaries this includes growth this includes evolution this includes relationship this includes the neverending desire to hold on, to preserve artifacts, to discover secrets, to recreate moments to protect what was all in manipulation and reconciliation of boundaries this universe's limits are far beyond my reach, so it makes sense that you should tell me I would never expand at the same rate as the universe that I might gain some measure of life only for the universe to then gain at least as much usually more I couldn't sustain that pace, as I am so sure why not - too: SHE SAYS THE SKEPTIC WARNED US as if we could encapsulate limits the attempt to understand all things to confine the boundaries of the universe in language we could understand, such as science such as belief such as logic such as intuition that we might understand and define a scale which we cannot comprehend with the tools given to us in this mere earthly realm as a fractal pattern as if this one shard of existence could yield the same pattern as the bigger picture that all things may be known by understanding our own little lives was this a warning of an attempt or a warning of inevitability - me me me: SHE SAYS THIS IS WHAT WE CAME FOR a lecture or an indoctrination a set of coordinates or an advertisement if you were really left so drained then how is it you ever knew what you were looking for or what it means to be what you are when you're always just checking to see your neighbor's reaction and how they dress and when they applaud and when they stand up to leave - fore sight, sore fight: SHE SAYS WE ARE NOT SHEEP there is value in spectacle there is value in witness but where do you go when part of a group, all those juicy little beautiful idiosyncrasies which make the individual they just funnel down into a sinkhole of collectivism like groupthink like pack mentality like tribalism like xenophobia and all that personality melds into one impressionable manipulable marketable herdable vacant thing to be alone in a crowd is to simply enter the crowd if you are an individual, and you are not alone, well then where the hell are you the letter double-you is written as double-vee: SHE SAID MAYBE THEY WERE PURELY FUNCTIONAL I don't believe that which decides itself as in to survive as a flower bulb stretches itself upward towards the light of the sun none of it does so to be pretty to be appealing to be liked and accepted by peers these are things we do beyond survival when it's not enough to just be but the only thing that has to do with our being and our evolution and our survival is to be loved the rest is window dressing to be reluctant in this conclusion is to really know yourself, you poor soul that you will never ever be satisfied sticks and stones: SHE SAYS SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS waste not, want not? but... if you never wanted it then are you wasting it? whether money or food or love or life or the universe, who are you to say that one path to entropy might be better or larger or more dubious or more intentional or more lonely or more understood or even any -functionally- different than any other path or, you know what they say, we can agree to disagree (thank you Chelsea. I didn't really steal your words I'm just expanding them. You would know that. I miss you.) 240216 what's it to you? who go blather from