It's the nyquil

[h_christensen]

Marc's sick. I'm sick. Aaralyn's recovering from being sick. Marc's on Dayquil. Or Nyquil. I'm on orange juice and vitamin boosters. I can't pronounce Aaralyn's medicine but she had a rather rough ear infection that left Marc and I sleepless for days and all I know is that whatever the doctor prescribed actually worked. I'm not really used to that

Comments

[johnrzeznik]

This post is so far beyond awesome. You're really amazing.

[h_christensen]

Thank you :[ I will take mind-altering cold medicine more often :)

[vig_morte]

There's a theory that we only use a small part of our brains because of an inherent inability to function effectively at a quicker speed or deeper level, i.e. we'd burn our brains out if we used more of them, so evolutionarily we can not make the attempt. But some of us can conceive of the possibilities, and those that can imagine can approach a facsimile of comprehension. Thanks for this entry.

[h_christensen]

So the way that I understand it, or the way that someone explained it to me, is that in our life there are signs and there are symbols. Signs are known things that stand for other known things. Symbols are something known that stands for something relatively unknown. Now, the idea is that, like you said, we've evolved to try and make the incomprehensible comprehensible, because if we actually attempted to understand something incomphrehensible we'd just ruin our minds - like god, or this spiritual "Moreness" to life, things beyond the cosmological world that science defines. So what we do is we create symbols, like the word "God" or the word "Universe", and those symbols help us make a comprehensible representation. What originally might have 'burned' us begins to cool off because now we've made a name for it, we have placed it into its little linguistic box where we can take care of it and understand it

I love long comments, never apologize for them

[vig_morte]

And it's interesting because at one point, historically, most things were related to symbolic concepts, and as time passed we (collective "we", obviously) were exposed to ideas (i.e. The Descent of Man, The Protestant Reformation, man landing on the moon, nuclear power, AIDS) that forced us to either selectively deny reality (fundamental Christians, etc), allow some symbols to become pointless and/or signs (the concept of "church" as all-encompassing community) or create new symbols (here I'm thinking along the lines of the development of psychology, etc).

For a while it seemed like the degeneration of symbols would be matched by the invention of new ones, but lately that seems to not be the case because of the reasons you stated: information overload cheapens them.

Some people seem to be able to find their own symbols, though, so maybe there's hope? I don't know, and I just wrote you another long comment. =[

[sullen_mullen]

Very glad Aaralyn is on the mend; I hated ear infections for the kids because there was so little warning before they were absoluteley miserable.

And the rest of this was an amazing read. The last line -- don't think so! At least I know I'm never that coherent on nyquil ;)

[h_christensen]

Aye I know, and especially when it was in the middle of the night and even the quick clinics didn't open until like 5 AM.

Hah, coherency is overrated. I tend to just let my mouth run out over the page.

[marc_blucas]

I'm trying so hard to think clearly enough to write something coherent here but I'm still on one or both medicines so I doubt you'll get much of anything that makes sense but this really was a wonderful entry. I love when you talk about things like this because you do topics like this so much better than I ever could. I think about things like this but ever getting them into words would never work even if I just started going off on some tangent. It's all so big and large, the thought of religion and the world because then I somehow get on these thoughts of what would happen at the end of it and I get really scared about what happens when people die and I don't like not knowing what happens with certain things like that and you have to depend on faith and then I don't know if I have much because no one really close to me has ever died before so I've never had to deal with anything like that to know really how I'd deal with that or what kind of peace to draw from those situations. And that really has nothing to do at all with this

[h_christensen]

Coherence as I mentioned is well over rated. I appreciate the effort regardless ;). You shouldn't discount your ability or your resolve just because it's untested. And religion and the world and EVERYTHING all have important bits to go along with this. It's all connected.

They weren't that big were they?! :[ I hate going off and sounding like a poof. I don't like using big words, honest. And I'm not smarter. Everyone excels in different things. And I doubt that I would go insane if I didn't have people to talk to, I'd just post more crazy entries like these. Feel better love.

[noah_s_wyle]

I'm so glad Aaralyn is feeling better. I hope you and Marc feel better soon. I'd send soup in the mail if it would keep.

[h_christensen]

I think soup-making is going to be my job for the day. That and running out to get more tissues it seems. Hopefully we'll all be right as rain soon enough.