i think what hurts the most now are my toes cause of all the spinning.
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and my mind a bit
i had a dream where @ash really liked a movie and i watched it and the plot was a bunch of guys went on a bus trip to an australian reef and hung out. one guy put on a lot of experimental sunscreen and was worried it would kill him, and eventually his dad showed up and drove them all back in a really cool house van thing, and the movie ends with a dreamline sequence where the dad is various things like a dying television or a bird who broke some sort of rule and was eaten.
i thought the movie sucked and had no plot in my dream and was surprised why so many people including ash would like it
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Daily affirmations:
February is only a feeling inside of me
The phone is not a thing
I will have one cellphone for the sacred and one for the profane
The space is not discrete
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âŚFebruary?
i donât really understand this, it feels purposefully arbitrary and leading about the thought process of non-existent emotions. could you please explain it in excruciating detail?
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Daily affirmation: Atlas is not real it canât hurt me
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Sure Atlas Iâd love to!
spoilers for my post (in not-really-excruciating-yet--but-still-a-lot detail)
I mean so right off the bat some development insights:
All four of these are (relatively verbatim) quotes from various media that have been sticking as my head as being pertinent and true. The label of them as affirmations kinda just appeared. In some way they are ways of affirming a way reality works, but itâs also a subversion on the platonic âdaily affirmationâ. At some point it was meant to be daily manifestations but that felt wrong, these are statements that are not that will be, save the third one. Specifically the development order was the 4th/2nd statement (hence why they got arranged in this order, as well as the length, i like the long/short/long/short pattern) but two examples is not really enough, so I wanted to add the third one but then it kind of needed something to round out the shape. I did also keep them intentionally unexplained because I like it. I donât fully understand them and I think theyâre good prompting exercises while also circling around a central idea.
The rest of this is more impromptu analysis. I also donât know what âleading about the thought process of non-existent emotionsâ means so youâre not getting a direct answer about that.
This oneâs ripped from a song lyric and the worse for it in this context yet i think itâs also the closest to actually being a daily affirmation. In theory i think you can argue that it being about february implies seasonal depression but itâs also just the all of it. Itâs from the breakup EP thatâs very melancholy and yet this is the resolution to it all. Itâs a way of taking the vast-feeling emotions and condensing them down into this small little orb that you carry with you in your heart
I do think itâs kind of important to consider the complement of the couplet âForgetting, remembering, the reasons for everythingâ. This functions both as a descriptor of what the particular malaise being referenced in the song is but also a contrast itâs a big line and also resonates with me, when taken as a couplet itâs a way of orienting your way about your life. In this sort of sense I do think that it being February is necessary too because itâs an attatchment to the time period as well.
I donât really know what this means. Itâs a like Foucault idea or something i heard secondhand and the idea is that like. most Things you can interact with have static content. You read a book and itâs the same book every time, you can change it but it is still the same book. the Phone is too dynamic itâs sort of like a portal? in a sense. It makes more sense to me than Iâm probably explaining it here.
Itâs a pretty good way of grounding my relationship with devices (I thiiink the argument could be that the computer is more of a thing, the keyboard is a thing, computer-activities tend to be more slow in nature but theyâre still kind of not there in a way. It kind of came about when I was thinking about this post because it was going to be a Tumblr post and then I was contemplating why I didnât want to just write it down in a document while I was more partial to the idea of writing it down in a physical space. the phone is not a thing.
Since excruciating detail was requested and not delivered I will say it also helps in like trying to be more physically present. I think the road ahead here is crumbling but the trees, itâs the âLook at the sky Iâm still hereâ when the phone is bad it is insidious and you do not notice it. As the tired argument goes the technology can also be used for good such as connecting with people and in not being real you can ignore real problems.
This oneâs out of place but itâs been nestling in my mind and i need to get it out (lovingly). Itâs so long itâs awkwardly phrased because the original was âi haveâ but thatâs not an affirmation. Itâs from a video I donât remember as a rather throwaway line. It somewhat counteracts the previous one, though the âcellphoneâ in this is more strictly relegated to a form of communication. The idea of having two phones here is simultaneously extravagant but also represents the need to compartamentalize and the sacred/profane distinction is a pretty good boundary here. To many who care itâs been weakened in recent times and so it is a way of nurturing it back to health. But itâs also seperating up your identity is a foolish project in many ways and yet it is one i am generally committed to.
Donât ask what the broader context is. Iâm getting out of thing-explaining juice but not even excruciatedly. I was thinking about âthe space is not discreteâ yesterday in the dining hall I donât remember why. You think the space is discrete, which I suppose can represent both a literal way of navigating through space as a way with certain rules and regulations to it only gaining certain perspectives but also the more metaphorical abstraction of this onto life itself. Itâs a very fun phrase to me more than anything. The space is not discrete.
Ok i forgot i quoted the whole passage in this right itâs also the like itâs a rather insightful thought but itâs so easily brought back into the stupid. itâs the sacred/profane thereâs no line itâs both at the same time. or something.
Pplease ask me if you have any follow-up questions
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yeah i donât really wanna read all that can you give us a tdlr
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Theyâre quotes that mean a good bit to me as they have been stuck with me as of late and are interesting ways of orienting my life in the domains of respectively (though with a good bit of interconnection): navigating emotions and large-scale life-leading, the ways to engage with the internet and specifically the devices through which you do so, seperation and ritualization, and conducting analysis in contrast to lived experience
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yeah this is too easy to read and doesnât have a lot of info can we get a medium length version
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nod nod!
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Of course!
Taken holisticaly I think the purpose of the affirmations is to live/thrive in reality by gaining an awareness of various aspects that your awareness is typically not drawn to, and theyâre in some ways different shades of this idea and theyâre all different facets of that sort of philosophy for the modern age.
âFebruary is only a feeling inside of meâ - This one falls most in line with typical affirmation lines in that itâs a relatively straightforward message about overcoming internal apathies, but in a somewhat exaggarated way and phrased in a way that doesnât make me repelled by it. You can overcome yourself, to put it another way.
âThe phone is not a thingâ - This orients the way in which you interact with the internet, itâs important to remember the ways in which it lacks a lot of the presence that physical objects and interactions do, and despite its benefits the vacousness of it all, should you choose to percieve it as that, can be quite dangerous, particularly in certain ways of interacting with it. It is a stream flowing by you that you do not percieve or interact with if you let it be.
âI will have one cellphone for the sacred and one for the profaneâ - Ritualize your life find love in the obfuscation the deliberate filtering of it you are making your life meaningful by paying attention to it. These are all the same idea. Also do not discard the profanity it is just as valuable but the seperating it makes it more notable. Least sure about this one.
âThe space is not discreteâ - We categorize things in funny ways and you donât really realize it. You walk into a building and it feels different but it isnât. You can gain another perspective by seeing it as one collective space. But also you are walking through a door it is another building. Remember both of these.
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oh cool. can you fit all these ideas into 4 metaphors thatâll cause someone to ask for long medium and short verisons of your ideas?
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Iâll try my best atlas but it might take some time
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Individually picked peas out of a vegetable medley
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working on song names?
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