From 43e2b69dfb0d37cce157ea78a35b47e54c85c7d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Case Duckworth Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2015 12:13:08 -0700 Subject: Fix bad commit / other issues --- movingsideways.txt | 63 ------------------------------------------------------ 1 file changed, 63 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 movingsideways.txt (limited to 'movingsideways.txt') diff --git a/movingsideways.txt b/movingsideways.txt deleted file mode 100644 index bc373e2..0000000 --- a/movingsideways.txt +++ /dev/null @@ -1,63 +0,0 @@ ---- -title: Moving Sideways -genre: prose - -project: - title: Book of Hezekiah - css: hezekiah - order: 5 - next: - title: Problems - link: problems - prev: - title: Proverbs - link: proverbs -... - -A dog moving sideways is sick; a man moving sideways is drunk. Thus if -you want to be mindful of the movings of the universe sideways, become -either drunk or sick. By doing this you remove yourself from the -equation, and are able to observe, without being observed, the universe -as it dances sideways drunkenly. - -Shit wait. The problem is not that by observing you are observed -(although quantum mechanics may disagree[^1]), because obviously dogs -don't know we're observing them when we watch them through cameras in -their little yard while they play and eat and poop---who poops knowingly -on camera? The problem is *the actual act of observing that distorts the -world into what we want it to be*. - -What I want to know is this: Why is this necessarily a problem? The dog -is made, by mankind, to frolic and poop and sniff and growl and dig. Why -cannot the man be made to observe the world incorrectly around him, and -worry about it? Men have always wandered about the earth; does it not -make sense that also they should wonder in their minds what makes it all -work?[^2] In fact this is the very center of the creative being: the -ability to move sideways, to dance with reality and judge it as it -judges you, much like teenagers at the junior prom. - -Of course, reality doesn't judge us back. But that doesn't mean that it -doesn't! If you think it's judging you, then *observe in your -surroundings your own insecurities*. It is obvious that this way of -doing things is far from vogue; usually projecting [inner pain][] onto the -outer world is classified as pathology. However, this is because it is -assumed that the outer world is *on its own terms*, which it obviously -isn't, as far as we know. It follows that as [there is no backdrop][backdrop] -against which to judge our quirks, the quirks must not exist. Thus all -is right with the world. - -[inner pain]: telemarketer.html -[backdrop]: philosophy.html - -[^1]: Quantum mechanics, as is well known, are the most hornery and - least agreeable of all mechanics. The cost to get one quantum - serviced is usually at least eight times more expensive than the - cost of an average automobile tune-up, for reasons not clearly - known. The quantum mechanics themselves claim it's the smallness of - their work that justifies the price, but it doesn't really look like - they're doing anything, and besides, my quantum always seems to - break again within six months---maybe I'm just driving it too hard. - -[^2]: I attempted to strike this terrible pun from the account, but - Hezekiah demanded I keep it if he were to continue the relation of - his prophecy-slash-advice column -- cgit 1.4.1-21-gabe81