Ru_vash

Mountain Springs

חדש! משופר! עכשיו בעברית!* (חלקים נבחרים בהתאם לתקנון...)
From an ancient mountain flows a small spring of clear rich waters from a time forgotten, yet the waters are fresher and tastier than any one can imagine.
This is not the fountain of youth but rather the fountain of life and he who drinks of these waters will feel the chill burning through his body and then will feel his body and finally will feel his life.
He will not live forever but he will live...

I have often been asked why I don't write in the forums more (or really at all)
Well the answer is a combination of jadedness and laziness I suppose.
I have been participating in some lists and forums in English for quite a few years and have written and responded to many issues there; somehow I never really wanted to do that again with mostly the same old issues and had even less interest in doing it in Hebrew this time
But I did indicate that someday I might try to dig up some of my older
posts that might be of interest
And today.......
I am not doing that.

Fractured Unity

לפני 11 שנים. 13 ביולי 2013 בשעה 7:02

If one is on a long journey on foot at a fairly constant pace, one will make a day’s progress every day, and hour’s progress every hour, even if one does not know the distance of the destination. Obviously one will feel a variety of things during the journey, based on temperature, time of day, scenery, smells and thousands of other factors. And patently these changing feelings have nothing to do with the progress of the journey.

Odd then, to be surprised by the thousand fleeting feelings one undergoes on a different kind of journey and spend so much time and energy trying to figure out what they mean. The ones that are significant will make themselves understood in due time.

meta4

לפני 11 שנים. 12 ביולי 2013 בשעה 6:07

Swimming the English Channel at night untrained after a shipwreck. Find and follow your star and keep swimming. Keep swimming.

Render unto Caesar..., come but not gone

לפני 11 שנים. 11 ביולי 2013 בשעה 21:59

From Wikipedia:

According to Plutarch,^[15] a seer had warned that harm would come to Caesar no later than the Ides of March. On his way to the Theatre of Pompey, where he would be assassinated, Caesar passed the seer and joked, "The ides of March have come," meaning to say that the prophecy had not been fulfilled, to which the seer replied "Aye, Caesar; but not gone."[15

Certainty

לפני 11 שנים. 10 ביולי 2013 בשעה 7:17

Certainty is often contagious though it shouldn't be. I am relatively immune to the certainty of others, being one who generally sees the myriad possibilities inherent in any situation. Yet occasionally I myself feel an almost overwhelming feeling of certainty. Not from ignoring a complex reality but from the depths of my intuitive side. At times like these I almost fall into the trap of wanting my certainty to be contagious. Almost. But I am not nor wish to be a salesman. I want others to use their own minds, both sides, and get where they need to go on their own.

E pur si muove

לפני 11 שנים. 7 ביולי 2013 בשעה 4:31

According to legend, after being forced to recant his heliocentrist contention, Galileo muttered this phrase," and still it moves" under his breath.

Historically this has been adequately debunked and relegated to legend. Indeed one can only imagine what would have happened to him had he actually said this after recanting. And yet legend has its own truth and itself has become part of history.

The earth and its moon of course, are destined to continue to be connected to our star, whatever sunspots and storms and flares the sun throws out at us.

E pur si muove

1984

לפני 11 שנים. 6 ביולי 2013 בשעה 17:14

Orwell's 1984 came and went and we are fine. Sure Google and Obama read everything we write, and fucking Big Brother is always on the fucking TV, but we are scraping by.

But 1984 is not just a dystopia, it somehow manages to offer the promise of utopian joy as well.

For the brave in a brave new world.

Thank you 1984

Infinite Possibilities

לפני 16 שנים. 13 בנובמבר 2008 בשעה 4:12

אפשרויות אין-סופיות.

לא נטולות השלכות.

Requiescat in Pacem

לפני 16 שנים. 18 בספטמבר 2008 בשעה 20:43

Dear c.

You surprised me so tonight, coming at me from such an unlikely source after so many years.
Just last year I was thinking of you again, looking for you there.
Now out of nowhere, "maybe you remember something that happened then and there....

Remember? I knew her.

Briefly, so briefly our minds met that night.
Perhaps if more than our minds had touched, it would have been different.
I think it might have been.
I'm afraid it could have been.

I wish I could have saved you.

I'm sorry I couldn't.

Your death lives on in the footnotes of history, but a very small part of your life still lives in my imperfect memory.

Sad but nice to see you again.
Back now and rest in peace for a time.

I still remember you, c.

תבניות

לפני 16 שנים. 18 בספטמבר 2008 בשעה 9:01

תבניות. אני לא מאמין בתבניות. זהו משפט שמסתובב אצלי עשרות שנים. אבל אני בדרך כלל לא משתמש במשפט הזה כי הוא לא מדויק. הוא נכון מבחינה רוחנית אולי אך פחות מבחינה מעשית. כולם משתמשים בתבניות ככלי להבין את העולם. ללא תבניות, נהיה מוצפים במידע וחושים שאין לנו יכולת לעבד אותם. תבנית אחת יכולה לחסוך מאות מילים ובכל זאת לאפשר תפיסה של רוב המוסג.
המגרעת הגדולה היא לא סתם חוסר הדיוק, אלא חוסר יכולת לדעת אלו חלקים לא מדויקים וכיצד.

אני עץ

נו טוב, אבל איזה?
עץ הבאובאב של הנסיך הקטן, בעל תכונות שיכולות להביא להשמדה ללא טיפול נכון?
עץ קק"ל שיגדל להיות משהו בעוד עשרים שנה – אם לא יישרף קודם?
עץ טולקיאני, מפחיד, בעל כוחות אדירים נסתרים ובעל לב טוב?
לפרי, לצל, לשולחן או לנייר או אולי סתם ליופי?
מה שכן, עץ כנראה לא סלע, הוא שייך לתחום החיים בהווה או בעבר.
ועץ הוא מוסג/תבנית ברור יחסית.
מה קורה עם מוסגים יותר מופשטים:
בי די אס אם, שולט(ת),נשלט(ת), דומיננטי(ת), צייתנ(ית), עבד/שפחה, סאב(ית) וכל הלכסיקון.
יש בהם מסירת מידע, לפעמים גם נכון, משמעותי והרבה. אבל כל העומק נמצא במקום הרחק מהגדרות.
באישיות, בניסיון, באופי ובתבונות של נושא התבנית, ובחיבור במסע ובדרך שלו עם אחרים.
ולמרבה המזל, כמעט כל הכיף מתלווה לאותו מסע, לאותו תהליך.
אז אם לא אוכל להגיד שאינני מאמין בתבניות, אגיד אחרת.
בצורה יותר מדויקת: אני מסרב להיות כפוף לתבניות. לא לתבניות שדרכן מבחינים בי ולא לתבניות שכביכול מגדירות אחרים. אין לי חסינות מוחלטת מתבניות: אני משתמש בהם. ואני מושפע מהם. אבל אני תמיד אחפש את האמת, שלי, שלך ואם אנחנו בקשר כלשהו, שלנו. זאת הסרבנות שלי לגבי תבניות.
נא לתייק בקטגוריה הנכונה.

http://sisterschoice.typepad.com/sisters_choice_quilts/images/2008/02/03/square_peg_in_round_hole_2.jpg

The Three Gifts of the Mage: Part 2 and Conclusion

לפני 16 שנים. 13 בספטמבר 2008 בשעה 9:34

Diverse and rich, full of senses and sensations, concepts and metaphors.
Thank you for the gifts, so ripe with weeks of thought, planning, learning, imagination.
Thank you not only for the gifts themselves, but for the efforts and the giving.

Sometimes people make different uses of a gift that what the giver might intend.

One gives an old LP to a friend in the park; instead of taking it home to his non existent record player, he finds that it makes a great frisbee right there in the park, tossing it back and forth .

Not what you planned perhaps, but you did actually give an LP to a guy in the park who doesn't have a record player.
What's that? You thought he might leave the park, go out and buy himself a record player and then hear The Dead Kennedys?
No, this served him better.
He really needed the exercise and he can always download the other music.

So thank you mage, you hit 2 homeruns and got hit by a pitch. So you still got to first base on your third at bat

In the major leagues that is a very good game.

As promised, I got to experience all the five senses and more:
senses of hearing, sight, touch taste and smell
my intellectual senses were stimulated.

And there were other senses involved too.

Some common sense

and a bit of

non
sense.

It was all good and all to the good

Again,

thank you mage of mine.

Happy anniversary.

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