Joined: Aug 15, 2008 Posts: 8373 Location: australia
Posted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 11:25 am Post subject:
i am maudlin and macabre i guess.
this is people from 1900 who are all dead now. i just can not fit into my brain that people so alive and current have all been put to rest by time.
i am alive and current and i will not get to see a video from when i was alive once i am dead.
death baffles me. i can not understand how people that are fully healthy and smiling can be snuffed out by time.
why were they ever born and why did they fight their way through their lives struggling to exist, when it is so inevitable that they would pass into dormant history unmarked just as i am doing now.
i watched this clip more than 20 times to try to understand, but i still do not understand why time eats people up and extinguishes them no matter who they are.
Joined: Jan 17, 2012 Age: 34 Posts: 477 Location: The Georgian Quarter of The Pool of Life, The Centre of The Creative Universe
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2012 4:49 pm Post subject:
The 100 year birthday party light show for the Royal Liver Building.
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this is people from 1900 who are all dead now. i just can not fit into my brain that people so alive and current have all been put to rest by time.
i am alive and current and i will not get to see a video from when i was alive once i am dead.
death baffles me. i can not understand how people that are fully healthy and smiling can be snuffed out by time.
why were they ever born and why did they fight their way through their lives struggling to exist, when it is so inevitable that they would pass into dormant history unmarked just as i am doing now.
i watched this clip more than 20 times to try to understand, but i still do not understand why time eats people up and extinguishes them no matter who they are.
Interesting thoughts you have b9 and thank you for sharing. I think about stuff in a similar way. It'd be nice if others here would open up their thought processess and share their brain, as I'd like to take a peek at their grey matter in how they think.
I find it interesting on a few counts: Another is that you are not Aspergers, as you say; you have a deeper cut of Autism, but yet you are opening up and sharing a perspective without being prompted to so do.
Will Robinson might be rubbing off here _________________
Joined: Aug 15, 2008 Posts: 8373 Location: australia
Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2012 11:13 am Post subject:
Mdyar wrote:
b9 wrote:
i am maudlin and macabre i guess.
this is people from 1900 who are all dead now. i just can not fit into my brain that people so alive and current have all been put to rest by time.
i am alive and current and i will not get to see a video from when i was alive once i am dead.
death baffles me. i can not understand how people that are fully healthy and smiling can be snuffed out by time.
why were they ever born and why did they fight their way through their lives struggling to exist, when it is so inevitable that they would pass into dormant history unmarked just as i am doing now.
i watched this clip more than 20 times to try to understand, but i still do not understand why time eats people up and extinguishes them no matter who they are.
Interesting thoughts you have b9 and thank you for sharing. I think about stuff in a similar way. It'd be nice if others here would open up their thought processess and share their brain, as I'd like to take a peek at their grey matter in how they think.
indeed.
Mdyar wrote:
I find it interesting on a few counts: Another is that you are not Aspergers, as you say; you have a deeper cut of Autism
i was diagnosed with asperger syndrome but you seem to think that that diagnosis was incorrect. i know that many people feel that doctors are no more qualified than lay people to ascribe a diagnosis, and i guess that you have decided to overrule my doctors diagnoses and proclaim that i am sub asperger syndrome based upon your interpretation of my posting style.
i have sufficient intelligence to place me in the realm of asperger syndrome as far as my doctors are concerned, but it is true that without respect to my intelligence i am quite deeply affected by autism. if i had average intelligence, i would not be able to find my way out of my own world.
my intelligence is above average, and i have found a way to express to the world my mental experiences in a round about way. you may patronizingly congratulate me for achieving the status of making a sensible comment, but i always think in a valid way. i need no congratulations because i do not consider that i need to be boosted in self esteem.
you proclaim that i do not have asperger syndrome and i proclaim that you are incorrect. you may roll your eyes back and lament about my "inability to see" that i am not of a "cut" that is tailored to the quality of a true asperger syndrome person, and you may therefore feel sorry for me and donate your consolation that at least i make sense to you.
i do not like condescension because people who condescend to me deign to stoop to their idea of what level i am on. even though i do not say philosophically ground breaking things, i am not in the realm of substandard cognition.
Mdyar wrote:
but yet you are opening up and sharing a perspective without being prompted to so do.
i never do anything that is caused by prompting from others. i have ODD, and "prompting" is an anti-cathartic influence to me. i am less likely to respond if i am cajoled or prompted to say what i think. i always say what i say because no one asked.
Mdyar wrote:
Will Robinson might be rubbing off here
huh? that is a filthy thing to say. (that was a joke)
seriously, i am not the robot obviously. i am a human being. it is not because i am operating with the influence of someone more human that me that i say things that i think in a human way.
i am human and i can think for myself. i only use the robot as an avatar because i am more like the b9 robot than i am like anyone else. but that does not mean i have no connection with human reality.
anyway i am glad that you also see many of the same things in that old video as i do.
there is an even older film from 1896 which i will now post.
this is not as interesting as the others in a situational sense, but it is still 116 years ago. i feel like i want to pet the horses noses, but god knows how widely their bones are strewn now.
