Existence, Nothingness, Patterns, and Words (and the self)
There exist two opposing states: existence, in all of its unlimited possibility; and nothingness. All of existence comes from the nothingness.
In our struggle to come to terms with our own existence and that which exists in context, we can easily see our observations, emotions and the day to day occurrences themselves as having some greater meaning, fitting into some pre-existing patchwork explaining everything. Many people find this meaning in religious teachings, and many other people piece together a meaning of their own from an ever expanding and increasingly easy to access collection of human knowledge (the internet, books, etc).
What makes us Human and different from other animals is the written and spoken language, which allows us to communicate to each other, among other things, these far reaching and personally significant meanings in and of life. Part of that requires these meanings and statements of value, retellings of experience or emotions to take on greater significance and weight, thus having the effect of making the words themselves more real than the existence or experience itself. This is the point at which people’s words effect each other very easily, when language used triggers memories and seeming relevencies that allow the listener or reader to feel a shared sense of whatever is being described. What many people do not keep in mind is that the words used are not the experience, nor are they the existence.
When we observe the “outside world”, we look for what we can recognize or make sense of. By contrast, what we cannot recognize or make sense of can hardly be observed at all in that we do not possess he experiences that would allow for the recognition of significance to occur. Thus, when new things happen (as they do every day), it is decidedly easier to attribute them to an imagined pattern or see them as part of a series of events. This is not incorrect, it is a part of what makes us and allows us to be human. But the recognition of the pattern is an act of creation out of nothingness, just like the use of language to describe meaning.
This can be likened to the drawing of complex patterns or geometric structures on graph paper. What exists is the graph paper, and on it we impose patterns that we “see”. By “seeing” the pattern, and especially by drawing it, we are participating in the act of creation by pulling something out of the nothingness. Infinite possibilities of patterns or non-patterns can be imposed upon a sheet of graph paper, but ultimately what exists is the grid and the imagination that sees designs in the grid, connecting the dots and lines as a mirror like expression of itself.
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Your point about the word being neither the actual experience nor the existence is a good one and makes me thikn about the Bible and how God is portrayed in it. When Adam first starts using language it was to name things. God made animals out of the ground, and Adam’s word is just a reflection of what exists. However when “God said, ‘Let there be light’”, there was light. God’s word is one in the same thing as the meaning of the word. The better humans get at communicating the closer our words are to what they represent,but it’s far from perfect.
I like your other point about how new things are always seen in relation to surrounding events, since they cannot be communicated otherwise. We are greatly limited by our language since things that don’t already have a word attached to them are hard to define, but I think it’d be a good exercise to try and find intrinsic definitions in new things you encounter instead of getting sucked into relating it to things we already know about.
Comment by Stately, Plump — On 03-15-06 at 3:02 pm
language to describe emotions, feelings, or other abstract things is extremely ambiguous. however, many times people choose to simply overlook the relative scale of infinity. to explain, if i ask you ‘how much do you like dolphins?’ you could reply with any answer. supposing you said ‘a lot’, we may continue with the point. now, if you ask me the same question, ‘how much do you like dolphins’, and i replied ‘a lot’, how could we determine who like dolphins more? although, my point does not lie in who like dolphins more, but in where you place someone else on the scale of dolphin affection. personally, you may know exactly were to place yourself on the dolphin affection scale, but you may never know exactly were to place someone else, or even be able to compare someone else. the reason that two dolphin lovers are incomparable is because a persons love for dolphins, or any other emotion/feeling/etc., is something that is internal. by using language we are trying to make our internal feelings/emotions external. external mediums include words, pictures, sounds, or anything else to describe yourself. when someone takes something that is internal and tries to make it external they are trying to make another person ‘understand’ or ‘see the pattern’ of their words, such that we may have a ‘shared sense of whatever is being described’. my point from this is that i may never exactly know how another person feels, but society has developed a lexicon with definitions to try to and understand this ambiguity of infinity.
Statley, Plump had a piece relating to this topic. the one about taking about someone esle without taking about yourself.
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