What Is Real Reality?

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I have nothing of any consequence or value to offer today. In fact, that might just be the 'order of the day' each day for the foreseeable future. I feel that my ability to concentrate, to focus on a specific subject, has become so weakened that it may never return, if indeed it ever truly existed beyond my personal mental rationalization.

Somewhere, I can't at the moment remember where, not that it matters, I read, "In philosophy, reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined."

Which makes me wonder:


Do I exist at all except within my own inner mind's incomprehensible workings?


Does anything?


 Hmmmmm?

See what I mean?

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WORD FOR TODAY

psycholinguistics
noun
The study of the influence of psychological factors on the development, use, and interpretation of language.

According to Wikipedia, Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is the study of the psychological and neurobiological factors that enable humans to acquire, use, comprehend and produce language.

More . . .

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BORN ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY

   
Peter Sellers


Born Sep.t 8, 1925
Died July 24, 1980

Richard Henry Sellers, known as Peter Sellers, was a British film actor, comedian and singer. He appeared in the BBC Radio comedy series The Goon Show, featured on a number of hit comic songs and became known to a world-wide audience through his many film characterisations, among them Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther series of films.

Sellers began as a film actor in the 1950s. Although the bulk of his work was comedic-based, often parodying characters of authority such as military officers or policemen, he also performed in other film genres and roles. Notable films demonstrating his artistic range include I'm All Right Jack (1959); Stanley Kubrick's Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove (1964); What's New, Pussycat? (1965); Casino Royale (1967); The Party (1968); Being There (1979) and the five films of the Pink Panther series (1963–1978).

Jonathan Taylor Thomas


Born Sept 8, 1981
Age: 30 years old.

Jonathan Taylor Thomas (born Jonathan Taylor Weiss) is an American actor, voice actor, former child star, and teen idol. He is best known for his role as the middle child Randy Taylor on the sitcom Home Improvement, as Pinocchio in New Line Cinema's The Adventures of Pinocchio, and as the voice of the young Simba in Disney's The Lion King.

Patsy Cline


Born Sept 8, 1932
Died Mar. 5, 1963

Patsy Cline, born Virginia Patterson Hensley, was an American country music singer as part of the early 1960s Nashville sound. Cline successfully "crossed over" to pop music. At age 30, she died at the height of her career in a private plane crash. She was one of the most influential, successful and acclaimed female vocalists of the 20th century. Her hits began in 1957 with Donn Hecht's "Walkin' After Midnight", Harlan Howard's "I Fall to Pieces", Hank Cochran's "She's Got You", Willie Nelson's "Crazy" and ended in 1963 with Don Gibson's "Sweet Dreams".

Sid Caesar

Born Sept 8, 1922
Age: 89 years old

Isaac Sidney "Sid" Caesar is an Emmy award winning American comic actor and writer best known for the 1950s television series Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour, and for his role as Coach Calhoun in Grease and Grease 2.

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Political language . . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
--George Orwell

Just A Quick Thought

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Nude Woman with a Necklace

It is reported that Pablo Picasso said,
“Everything you can imagine is real.”

I have mused upon that statement and just can't seem to understand what he meant by saying it. Perhaps he meant to reinforce the overused proverb: reality is perception, which I have heard spouted many times. Many times. I've never been sure what that means, either.

I have read that Picasso took up writing as an alternative outlet and that between 1935 and 1959 he wrote over 300 poems. I have never read even one of those poems. I am now going to do some research and if possible read some of his poems.


For nearly half an hour I have been reading the poems of Pablo Picasso -- and as I suspected, I can make no more sense of them as poems than I could for his seemingly self-indulgent paintings and sculptures.

Why should it be that I can never seem able to grasp the meanings from the material outpourings of any proclaimed genius? Are their mental processes so vastly different from mine? It is always so, or so it seems to me. Perhaps all artistic geniuses are genuinely insane. And I am not.

Or is it that I do not appreciate fine art because I have not been properly educated -- have not sufficiently committed the myriad of details to memory, have not retained all the details not imparted to me by those who have dutifully retained them from those who earlier shared the most arcane of mysteries with classes of open-mouthed, open-minded students.

Perhaps . . .

And I wonder if Pablo Picasso could have ever understood my thoughts had I worked hard enough to give him the opportunity to encounter any of them.

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WORD FOR TODAY

grok
Verb
1. Understand (something) intuitively or by empathy.
2. Empathize or communicate sympathetically; establish a rapport.

Used in a sentence: "I do not grok works of art."

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BORN THIS DAY IN HISTORY

Harry Morgan

(Colonel Potter)

Born April 10, 1915
Died Dec. 7, 2011

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“It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.”
--André Gide

Summer Is Over . . .

Today is the first day of Fall

The autumnal equinox, where the sun is directly above the equator and the length of day and night are nearly equal. The autumnal equinox occurred early this morning at 3:09 UTC, Coordinated Universal Time. But here in America, the equinox occurred last night, at 11:09 on the East Coast.

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HAPPY BIRTHDAY Bruce Springsteen!

More Information Regarding Bruce Springsteen

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Michael Faraday had almost no formal schooling, but he taught himself by reading books about chemistry and physics while he worked as a bookbinder's errand boy. Way to go Michael!

Michael Faraday

(Inventor of the electric motor, etc.)

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There are some disturbing thoughts rattling around in my mind. Although I have come to no conclusion as to whether or not these thoughts have any validity, the fact remains that they (at least seemingly) do exist and (seemingly) should be addressed. Below is a vague hint regarding those thoughts.

There are two ancient questions that have never been satisfactorily answered. They are: Why am I here? and Why is there something rather than nothing?

There is no way (that I know of) to prove that you are here. There is no way (that I know of) to prove that there is something rather than nothing.

One may believe that previously observed specific actions prove those two hypotheses -- but believing something does not make it so.

Divided Minds, Specious Souls is a short article written by David Weisman in SEEDmagazine in which he writes:

An 18th-century scientist believed a substance called caloric made hot materials hot and flowed into colder materials to make them warmer. It seemed to be true, but subsequent investigation showed mechanical vibration equates to heat. Science is littered with similarly discredited theories; the soul is one of them.

...the way things seem isn’t always how they are.

It seems (at times) to me that: There is no such thing as reality. Our biological brains create an illusion which we, due to our monumental vanity, assume to be reality.

Good Grief! One could go mad dwelling on such ideas.

Right?

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