Stop falling and start flying
June 28th 2007 11:57
There is no difference between falling and flying. Once you realise this you are free. More importantly if you think others are falling, the ground is actually rising towards them. Your reality is about to slam into them.
In the adolescence of this modern age we had felt as though the ground had been swept up from beneath us. We suddenly realised we aren't standing on solid ground. This is a rather simplistic way of looking at modernity, but let's just call it by it's synecdoche "the search for meaning after the collapse of tradition". Those great old enlightenment figures had approached the world, grabbed the rug and told us the people were ready to see the truth. Those in power said no, they are not ready. But the enlightenment thinkers had a louder voice than had been heard before. Well perhaps there were louder voices, but they reached people through persistence, a slow trickle over time, religion perhaps was one particularly slow and steady flowing idea, and it was thick and strong, and it had slowly swept the world in larger and larger sweeps. But this was a loud voice in that it spread to large ammounts of people and quite quickly. It was a fancy new voice, very particular to the strange mix of low grade rumbles which had been heard recently. But suddenly enough people heard the question wouldn't you like to know the truth? wouldn't you like to know the very ground you stand on? And feeling the weight of the earth pushing them upward beneath them. They pushed down a bit with their legs and the ground did not seem to give, and so they wished to know everything about this 'truth' they had heard of and would not let anyone stop in their way. They were hungry, brutal if necessary, but they were going to get their way, they were to have the chance to be rational. Until finally it was clear that the word had gone out, the truth was to be begun to be unravelled in earnest. Soon, one of the largest collective efforts was put towards pulling out the strands of the carpet around us.
I could go on forever. But eventually we found that we were not standing on anything. Let's just say that a few guys dug up a few threads which ended up tearing up huge chunks of truth. Incomplete was the understatement which made us realise we weren't standing on anything. Relative, fragmented, illusory, truth was not all it was cracked up to be. And suddenly the realisation that we are standing in thin air. The first reaction. Panic. Struggle. Fight. Oh my gosh we're falling. Oh my gosh! help! Oh god. oh my god. Shit! we're falling! Shit! Shit! Help! We're falling! Fucking Help! Hey! Help! Fuck fuck fuck! Help us you dickhead! Fuck you Fuck everything! Fuck Falling! Fuck you falling! Fuck yo.... Hang on. Falling? Yeah, Fuck you falling... yeah. I don't have to be falling. yeah. Alright! hey everyone you don't have to be falling. Just stop for one second and you'll see. There is no ground beneath us. But that does not mean we're falling. Because to be falling means to have a ground to fall to. But we just said that there is no ground beneath us. Therefore we are not falling, we are floating. Think about it, why fall when we can go into orbit.
If you think about it in a certain way, astronaughts in orbit are technically falling. That's what's actually happening. They are falling directly straight down toward the ground. The only thing is they happen to be moving at a constant rate sideways. Because they are in space, there is nothing pushing them sideways. So because they are already moving sideways, they keep moving sideways. But they are accelerating. They are accelerating down. They are falling straight down, but because of that sideways motion and because of the curvature of the earth, they keep missing the ground. So they keep falling forever in this fashion. That's why orbits aren't circular they're eliptical and Kepler is my homie.
But when we see the astronaughts it looks like they are floating. That's pretty much everything we think of when we think of floating. Have you seen those clips where they have a shpere of water and then they send waves through it? I mean that sphere and everyone else in that scene is floating.
So when will humanity look up and realise that we are not falling we are floating, moreso the two are one.
Modernity won't go on forever, in fact if you open your eyes you will feel that it is ending. When we imagine advanced societies in the future it should not be anything which looks like the modern world any more than a scence from the modern world looks like a scene of those proto humans who used the same damn design for an axehead out of a stone for 1 million years. I mean there might be similarities, but nothing on a grand scale of what our world looks like.
We thought that pre-modernity we stood on much more solid ground. We denedent on that ground, we stood on it with all our wieght. We built houses on it, we had built monuments on in. We had begun to build cities on it. And when we realised there was no ground we assumed we were falling. But imagine another scenario. The rug beneath us never supported our weight. We were unnable to move up or down, we were floating, we could try to push down on the ground, but if you are floating you have nothing to push against. and the ground beneath us was rigid and did not give while we felt as though we were placing all our wieght on it. But we were never standing on it. It was simply beneath our floating feet. Now that it has disappeared we can finally see ourselves as floating. All you have to do is realise you are already doing it. We'll I'll be flying up there, so i guess I'll see you when you are ready to join us.
In the adolescence of this modern age we had felt as though the ground had been swept up from beneath us. We suddenly realised we aren't standing on solid ground. This is a rather simplistic way of looking at modernity, but let's just call it by it's synecdoche "the search for meaning after the collapse of tradition". Those great old enlightenment figures had approached the world, grabbed the rug and told us the people were ready to see the truth. Those in power said no, they are not ready. But the enlightenment thinkers had a louder voice than had been heard before. Well perhaps there were louder voices, but they reached people through persistence, a slow trickle over time, religion perhaps was one particularly slow and steady flowing idea, and it was thick and strong, and it had slowly swept the world in larger and larger sweeps. But this was a loud voice in that it spread to large ammounts of people and quite quickly. It was a fancy new voice, very particular to the strange mix of low grade rumbles which had been heard recently. But suddenly enough people heard the question wouldn't you like to know the truth? wouldn't you like to know the very ground you stand on? And feeling the weight of the earth pushing them upward beneath them. They pushed down a bit with their legs and the ground did not seem to give, and so they wished to know everything about this 'truth' they had heard of and would not let anyone stop in their way. They were hungry, brutal if necessary, but they were going to get their way, they were to have the chance to be rational. Until finally it was clear that the word had gone out, the truth was to be begun to be unravelled in earnest. Soon, one of the largest collective efforts was put towards pulling out the strands of the carpet around us.
I could go on forever. But eventually we found that we were not standing on anything. Let's just say that a few guys dug up a few threads which ended up tearing up huge chunks of truth. Incomplete was the understatement which made us realise we weren't standing on anything. Relative, fragmented, illusory, truth was not all it was cracked up to be. And suddenly the realisation that we are standing in thin air. The first reaction. Panic. Struggle. Fight. Oh my gosh we're falling. Oh my gosh! help! Oh god. oh my god. Shit! we're falling! Shit! Shit! Help! We're falling! Fucking Help! Hey! Help! Fuck fuck fuck! Help us you dickhead! Fuck you Fuck everything! Fuck Falling! Fuck you falling! Fuck yo.... Hang on. Falling? Yeah, Fuck you falling... yeah. I don't have to be falling. yeah. Alright! hey everyone you don't have to be falling. Just stop for one second and you'll see. There is no ground beneath us. But that does not mean we're falling. Because to be falling means to have a ground to fall to. But we just said that there is no ground beneath us. Therefore we are not falling, we are floating. Think about it, why fall when we can go into orbit.
If you think about it in a certain way, astronaughts in orbit are technically falling. That's what's actually happening. They are falling directly straight down toward the ground. The only thing is they happen to be moving at a constant rate sideways. Because they are in space, there is nothing pushing them sideways. So because they are already moving sideways, they keep moving sideways. But they are accelerating. They are accelerating down. They are falling straight down, but because of that sideways motion and because of the curvature of the earth, they keep missing the ground. So they keep falling forever in this fashion. That's why orbits aren't circular they're eliptical and Kepler is my homie.
But when we see the astronaughts it looks like they are floating. That's pretty much everything we think of when we think of floating. Have you seen those clips where they have a shpere of water and then they send waves through it? I mean that sphere and everyone else in that scene is floating.
So when will humanity look up and realise that we are not falling we are floating, moreso the two are one.
Modernity won't go on forever, in fact if you open your eyes you will feel that it is ending. When we imagine advanced societies in the future it should not be anything which looks like the modern world any more than a scence from the modern world looks like a scene of those proto humans who used the same damn design for an axehead out of a stone for 1 million years. I mean there might be similarities, but nothing on a grand scale of what our world looks like.
We thought that pre-modernity we stood on much more solid ground. We denedent on that ground, we stood on it with all our wieght. We built houses on it, we had built monuments on in. We had begun to build cities on it. And when we realised there was no ground we assumed we were falling. But imagine another scenario. The rug beneath us never supported our weight. We were unnable to move up or down, we were floating, we could try to push down on the ground, but if you are floating you have nothing to push against. and the ground beneath us was rigid and did not give while we felt as though we were placing all our wieght on it. But we were never standing on it. It was simply beneath our floating feet. Now that it has disappeared we can finally see ourselves as floating. All you have to do is realise you are already doing it. We'll I'll be flying up there, so i guess I'll see you when you are ready to join us.
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Comment by Miswanderlust
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This is a wonderful post. This post is reminescent of works by Vicktor Frankel and his work regarding perspective, truth, meaning, and reality. Mmmmm ode to a post modern world.... the new reformation perhaps?
Mis