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a had a thought recently...based on a quote that i wrote down a while ago (i can't remember if i read this somewhere - or if i made it up)

'all you see in the world is the outcome of your idea about it'

do you think this is true?

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Derek Martin
January 5, 2002 | 2:27 PM

the world
I think the world reflects the person for sure. Everyone sees a different world. Religions try to focus how people of their religion view the world, and sometimes they try to change how others (outsiders) see the world to be more 'aligned'... On the one hand, we believe that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, including the beauty of the world... the thing is that religion would like to be the one to define beauty... Organized religion wants to be the beholder that everyone asks 'what is beauty?'... This is why religions have things like commandments... they tell you how to act, and how to 'see', or interpret... according to their rules of beauty and 'what is right'. Some belief systems (as opposed to organized religions) though simply encourage seeing things as they truly are, without comparing them to rules (judging them), and I find this very interesting... Approach 1: John forgot to call his girlfriend back. Interpretation: Some would say that John has no respect for his girlfriend, or does not love her, or must have had something else on his mind. All this interpretation & judgement that won't change anything. Approach 2: John forgot to call his girlfriend back. Interpretation: John forgot to call his girlfriend back.

As for 'where do ideas come from'? -- some would say that they are *inside* the things that surround us, and it is our job to find them... Simple Example: The handle of a cup, combined with the way your fingers work gives you the idea of trying to pick up the cup by the handle. This is why good design is so important, and bad design so horrible... bad design gives people fewer ideas.

Karis
January 5, 2002 | 2:50 PM

sush's idea of an idea
where's the original from? children are very impressionable..
I think the past is filled with the building blocks someone used to build
their view of the world.

Then again, if that doesn't matter to you, you can go with the simplistic
"nothing matters"-"it is the way it is"-"who cares why" approach.

(of course, whatever I typed is very influenced by the song I'm presently listening
to: How to Disappear Completely - Radiohead.....>>>but I believe it ;))

Nikisha Reyes-Grange
February 19, 2002 | 2:23 PM

elenor roosevelt quote
we never see things as they are; we see them as we are.

j
March 1, 2002 | 11:51 PM

Of the Matrix
... and of gurus past - it truly is all about the perception... WIthout even putting relationships into the picture......From what paradigm do I/do you start?.... how reliable those nerve synapses? how well routed the connections? how appropriate/accurate the genetically determined disposition? how skewed the socially constructed filter for new information? not to mention how easy to access and how reliable the source? and what of the indiscriminate forces of nature, both internal and external, that play with our perceptions with such gay abandon??

Hmmm..... "What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and in moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god: the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals; and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust?......" Hamlet Act II.ii

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