Activity – Rheba – The Giza Forum (Legacy)

Rheba posted an update 5 years, 1 month ago

Things are upside down. We have walked from reality to something else.
- blakecosmos replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  Perhaps Rheba, the Reality, is that this “now” in which we find ourselves can not as a way of being in the world, persist. Reality is still just over our shoulder, teaching us about what tends towards life, and that which tends toward death”.
  - Scarmoge replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    “The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.”
    ― Walker Percy
    … in its own beneficent (the word “beneficent” here is a carefully chosen word) way The Cosmos has given us, en masse, if we will but take it, and not raise our shields against it, an opportunity. We might choose to reply to the opportunity in the manner of Antonio Salieri in Amadeus with a snide “Grazie Signore” or we might instead respond as Jack “Binx” Bolling in Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer”. An aside … Walker Percy (about 50 years or so ahead of the time of “his” irruption) was onto something in his novels particularly in “Love in the Ruins”. And for something related to an idea occasionally bought up during Giza Cawfee Tawlks see Giorgio Agamben – The Highest Poverty: Monastic Rules and Form-of-Life, Stanford University Press, 2013. … and if one is so inclined … Ludwig Wittgenstein’s Philosophical Investigations and On Certainty. All of this to say Rheba is that possibly what has been removed (hence the feeling of what is happening being that of suddenly encountering something not real), and again I would argue it a benevolent act of the Cosmos although it may not seem so at present, is the veneer (or veil if you like) of everydayness. I would bet that almost all of us share your observation. And I can hear it now … so stop your tut-tutting BlakeC … I am keenly aware that within 24 hours I have contradicted my self of yesterday, but such is the predicament of, at least, this fallible man.
    - Wu Wu replied 5 years, 1 month ago
      
      Nice!
      Although I am feeling ONcertain about this( or is it that?)
      
      Rheba replied 5 years, 1 month ago
      
      Not sure if your meaning of “The Cosmos” is the same as mine, but someone is in control, Thankfully!
- DanaThomas replied 5 years, 1 month ago
  There have always been different “timelines”, Planck flickerings of the matrix, perhaps now the perception of this is getting more specific and speeding up.
  - blakecosmos replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    Every “flicker” in “the matrix” thus being a timelime? Perhaps regardless of its “clock speed” this illustrates the nature of this “feature,” as being not “a feature” but “a bug”.
    - Scarmoge replied 5 years, 1 month ago
      
      … yet again, Yyyyeesssssss
    - Rheba replied 5 years, 1 month ago
      
      Yes Scarmoge: more and more “this” is like how the Matrix appeared after Nemo took the red pill. A different world that was there all the time, but upside-down.
    - Rheba replied 5 years, 1 month ago
      
      Remember the movie Tron with Jeff Bridges where he becomes binary and goes into the computer to find the v*r*s? There others are trying to defeat the ??? (can’t remember its name).
  - Rheba replied 5 years, 1 month ago
    Hey Blake, your response caused me to rethink about : Reality”. It is a subjective word and may actually be a misnomer because that word implies there’s a baseline from which one can move to right or the left. In fact, I ran across a quote and explanation re: “the Revelation of the Method”, I first heard about in a post and discussion months ago. I will explore above in connection with your post and resulting discussion about 4 hours ago. Thanks