Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

"It* consists of possibilities that are felt as a possession of what is now and here."

*'It' refers to the future. From "Art as Experience" by John Dewey.

Yes, the future is full of possibilites. But possibilities are not actualities and possibilities as a possession of what is now and here don't interest me much. I think I'd prefer actualities that don't rely on my now and here.

BobGeorge is crackin' my ass up right now

Great thoughts, Jone70

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

(2) Matters for consideration. At any pretrial conference, the court may consider and take appropriate action on the following matters:

this relates to my life because i get to file a number of claims in conciliation court. yay!

i simply *love* the way each county has its own quirky little, non-standard forms to use for this purpose

imago said:

This takes discipline but, believe me, you'll not only look better, you'll feel a lot better.

Dovetails rather nicely with my "No Sweets Week" thread.

"The impact was hard but not much worse than a rough landing."

That was a really hard impact when my foolish seven year old self thought the glass back door was open and ran full speed towards it only to get the stupid knocked out of me when I smacked against the closed door. That would have been a perfect scene for a Windex commercial, all I needed was the laughing birds.

Skylightt said:

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

1-Page 17 it has a title and 2 paragraphs

2-ok, I'm there

5(4)-and we're still eating vegetables...

[Edited 6/20/12 12:34pm]

The nearest book to me just happened to be Ecrits by Jacques Lacan.

Here's the sentence (from the second full paragraph):

"This is why we cannot say of the purloined letter that, like other objects, it must be or not be somewhere but rather that, unlike them, it will be and will not be where it is wherever it goes."

Here's my desperate attempt to relate it to my life:

Despite this excerpt having been lifted from a reading of a short story by Edgar Allan Poe, Lacan's point here seems to be ultimately that a psychoanalytic session will more or less automatically produce results with time if free association is used. The patient should be just given enough time and they will start speaking more openly about their lives and their problems. The analyst must not interfere too early by offering his insight or he might just confuse the patient and hinder him from revealing crucial information about his condition. The analyst must pay attention especially to how the same behavioral patterns seem to get repeated in the incidents the patient brings up and how the patient articulates his confusion in relation to the these matters. What I've learned over the years is that I shouldn't make too big conclusions about people until I know enough about them and the only way to really know something "deeper" about them is to pay attention to what they seem to be confused of (or what bothers and irks them). Having said that, I try not to analyze people as much as I used to.

The excerpt itself also refers to the old Freudian concept of the death drive, but at least in this text Lacan doesn't adequately explain what he has in his mind about its connection with the analyst's appropriate time for intervention.

"Erst zum Hintergrund hin verschwimmen die einzelnen Physiognomien in der Menge."

It's a book about artworks by Picasso, explaining technique and meaning and whatnot. Boring.

"Oh God is watching us from a distance"

From "Journey of Souls - Case Studies of Life Between Lives" by Michael Newton

"The tunnel effect they experience when leaving Earth is the portal into the spirit world."

How it relates: Although I haven't read this book in years, it happens to be within arms reach of where I'm sitting at my computer. In recent days, have been thinking of friends, family, and celebrities that have passed on, and what it is, if anything, they may be experiencing.

"There, as I watched, two customers lined up to pay."

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

Seems like I'm constantly seeing two customers of the "Love" business lined up to pay unknowingly.

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

Umm, where is number 4?

"Go into the shed and fetch a burlap sack."

Umm, closest life relation, I went into the kitchen and got a plastic bag!! LOL!

Nice thread!

"The minister's voice was barely audible from the pulpit, he himself so small as to be almost invisible."

-The Outlander

This clearly has something to do with Imago and the treads he makes...

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

1. NFT to London

2

3. The brilliant Renoir Cinema resides in the belly of the Brunswick Centre, a Brutalist masterpiece with some posh shops thrown in for good measure.

4. I'm a desperate love addict. Ace is so kind to remind me of that, even in this thread.

LadyCasanova said:

"The minister's voice was barely audible from the pulpit, he himself so small as to be almost invisible."

-The Outlander

This clearly has something to do with Imago and the treads he makes...

"...between dying of hunger and a bullet in the head, the bullet would be much quicker."

(my son is reading "The Hunger Games")

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

All things considered, a bullet to the head WOULD be quicker...

dJJ said:

imago said:

Grab the nearest book to you.

1. Turn to page 17.... If page 17 is a title page or an unworded page, go to the very next worded page that has at least 2 paragraphs.

2. Go to the second sentence of the second paragraph.

3. Type it here

5. Find some desperate way to relate it to your life.

1. NFT to London

2

3. The brilliant Renoir Cinema resides in the belly of the Brunswick Centre, a Brutalist masterpiece with some posh shops thrown in for good measure.

4. I'm a desperate love addict. Ace is so kind to remind me of that, even in this thread.

"There they were, my all-star line-up, stood somewhat lacklustre to say the least, at the bar, barely saying a word to each other".

From Chris Evans 'Memoirs of a fruitcake'.

Relating this to my life in some way... Ummm... well the best I can come up with was I reached snapping point with a colleague at work the other day and I had a bit of an outburst. It doesn't happen with me very often. After that our usual tight-knit and friendly office environment suddenly went all weird and we all barely spoke to each other for the rest of the morning. It was awkward.

"What this means is that when we don't see the whole picture, we are likely to act in a way that is self-defeating."

Hmm, well, I've been known to wear the rose-colored glasses..

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"La nina recogio las flores, se dirigio a la barranda arrastrando los zapatos y observo atentamente a su madre"

Gabriel Garcia Marquez-Los Funerales De La Mama Grande

OK, so, I've mentioned before that I have a lot of books within a close proximity to the computer I'm using most of the time when I post at the Org. Today, however, sitting on the third shelf just below eye level, turned upright so the cover was facing outward, was Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Other Tales" (that big pink Barnes & Noble edition).

Page 17, second line of the second paragraph...

"Would the fall never come to an end?"

I don't need to relate it to life, that is life.

The honeymoon was spent in Honolulu,but poor old Mayte wasn't getting her husband all to herself.

Cant really relate that to my life, as I have never had a honeymoon and my partner pretty much hangs around me most of the time!

The book is Slave to the Rhythm by Liz Jones (I keep my Prince books next to my computer).

"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is."

I should stop myself from living a life full of fear of transience, spending each moment trying to capture the moment itself, only to realise I have spent more time trying to capture it than to actually live it, realising I have lost that very moment. I should stop seeking the middle of this world where everything agglumerates just to be there and to know that this is where everything happens and that life cannot be more overwhelming than here, because I know that if I ever find it, I will grow unhappy again, seeking for the centre of the universe. Everything is relative and had its beginning and will have its natural end, so there is no need to worship any of our Earthly pleasures. We can only use them to preserve them to fit our momentary desires, knowing they will fade away just like we will fade away with time. Nothing is for the sake of anything else than being.

Dave1992 said:

"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is."

I should stop myself from living a life full of fear of transience, spending each moment trying to capture the moment itself, only to realise I have spent more time trying to capture it than to actually live it, realising I have lost that very moment. I should stop seeking the middle of this world where everything agglumerates just to be there and to know that this is where everything happens and that life cannot be more overwhelming than here, because I know that if I ever find it, I will grow unhappy again, seeking for the centre of the universe. Everything is relative and had its beginning and will have its natural end, so there is no need to worship any of our Earthly pleasures. We can only use them to preserve them to fit our momentary desires, knowing they will fade away just like we will fade away with time. Nothing is for the sake of anything else than being.

Oh lawd, Ace is getting to all of us with his Buddhist philosophy.

Dave, you'r much more fun when self occupied and doing everything you can to get people to admire you. I like that about you. And the stories it leads up to

dJJ said:

Dave1992 said:

"To Him is due the primal origin of the heavens and the earth: When He decreeth a matter, He saith to it: "Be," and it is."

I should stop myself from living a life full of fear of transience, spending each moment trying to capture the moment itself, only to realise I have spent more time trying to capture it than to actually live it, realising I have lost that very moment. I should stop seeking the middle of this world where everything agglumerates just to be there and to know that this is where everything happens and that life cannot be more overwhelming than here, because I know that if I ever find it, I will grow unhappy again, seeking for the centre of the universe. Everything is relative and had its beginning and will have its natural end, so there is no need to worship any of our Earthly pleasures. We can only use them to preserve them to fit our momentary desires, knowing they will fade away just like we will fade away with time. Nothing is for the sake of anything else than being.

Oh lawd, Ace is getting to all of us with his Buddhist philosophy.

Dave, you'r much more fun when self occupied and doing everything you can to get people to admire you. I like that about you. And the stories it leads up to

Actually, that line is from the Quran...

And whow - I've never in my whole life done anything to "make people admire me". Admiration doesn't fulfill me in any way. When people know how to value me/the things I do, I rather see it as a nice thing we have in common and a nice way to connect, because that requires similar values and feelings. However, this is never inspired by pride or vanity!