Fractured ego (a senryú)

I do love me a good senryú or haiku! Some of my favorite forms of poetry... I deeply thank you for taking the time, today... 🙏🏻  

btw, your thoughts bring me pure smiles as well, Jay. I take such enjoyment myself in trying to use the 17 syllables to pack a serious wallop... so, if you've felt that brevity, then I'm beyond delighted!  
It's always a pleasure ✨  
 
I hope you are well - 💙.  
🌹 - B

When.....
...............then.

Induction is the last word
In epistemology.

*Googles epistemology*...

🌹 - x

I've recompiled the 7 branches of the study of the way we know things and am left with there is no absolute knowledge, therefore the definition of knowledge must be re-evaluated, Nietzschean style. We know by inference but incompletely because, Heisenberg,  we cannot both know and not know, and we can never know it all. Operationally, there is relative knowledge due to our ever increasingly quantum state of apprehending, a definition of induction. We don't know as much as we will know about the meta context. Letters from reality....

Do I dare ask... What are the 7 branches of study of the way we know things?

and if possible can we dumb this down even further, as to afford me an opportunity to try and wrap my head around it?!...🤷🏻‍♀️

Danke!
🌹 - 💙

On the subject of epistomology:

There are 7 branches of Philosophy, namely, Metaphysics, Axiology, Logic, Aesthetics, Epistemology, Ethics and Political Philosophy.

Epistomology asks how we know things.

Revelation....my subjective view
Authority.......power controls history
Existential.....experience tells us
Ontological...being is knowledge
Teleological..reason and logic traces
Deduction.....specifics speak
Induction.......generalities speak

A priori ..........baseline thoughts
a posteriori...added later thoughts

When we talk about really knowing something, we have to agree that we really never do 100%.

We don't. Dollars to donuts absolutely.

So, no matter what method we take,  there is always room for doubt.

Induction says, you know this far, head back and re-examine the evidence. All the rest of them come to a conclusion. They have a time limit. They just settle.

I've never been a fan of just settling. I can't know absolutely. So, I take skepticism and use it in a positive way. I'll walk towards the truth. I can see see a direction, but I'm not calling the race.

In this way,  I'm a seeker, open, available, ready to accept, a listener. No conclusions.

It's practical to buy a car or a computer, but a better one might be built and probably will, but for the moment: Dodge Caravan Grande, a soccer mom van works.

No judgement. No dogma. All roads lead to the final destination, some faster than others, some better for me, we'll see.

I accept that others have their methods. More power to them. We'll all meet at the end. Some are more rigorous or tougher or simpler or easier.

I just go with it as it is, play my cards, and allow that the journey itself has its own function.

Induction has a handy tool: the self-correcting principle....when I find out more,  I'll know better. History recalibrates everything.

So....there is no knowing....only the a priori sense that shit is more complex or simple than it at first appears. Patience and curiosity are the two biggest tools we have.

Imagination is the doorway to meeting challenges creatively.

Be cautiously courageous.

Patience is not passive. Being assertive can mean sitting perfectly sniper still.

Be detached and aware.

And enjoy.

Eat and sleep when you need to. Be human. Making mistakes is human. Forgive yourself. Let yourself have moments off.

Buddhism has a great often misunderstood concept: Nothing is independent, and therefore everything is in interdependence.

We all need each other. Nature abhors a vacuum. Nietzsche warns to be careful with the little guy on your way up because you'll meet him on your way down. Life is filled with ironies.

The impossible happens every day.

Epistomology is the study of the way we know things. That's humbling. We don't know shit. But.....wait for it. Plan. Work. Understand. Aesthetics...the nature of beauty.

Sex is part of it. So is disease, trauma, death, and love.

When it works, it's awesome. When it doesn't,  it can feel awful.

Let it go. Start again. Grieving is a process of accepting our own mortality.

Induction is the rock climb to the top of your individual journey, no matter how low.

Learn to not be bitter. Enjoy being touched. Touch others when appropriate.  Share your truth, it's your unique blind spot in the universe...parallax.

Somebody will hate you. Somebody will love you.

Probably you will be that somebody.

Let that shit go. Sit around a fire. Drink good coffee. Sleep in a hammock. Kiss like you mean it. Friends are the most valuable experiences. Be humble. We don't know shit.
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Just as a side note.....

The theory of the big bang says there was nothing and then there was something.

Interesting. It all starts with nothing. Metaphysics. Nothingness is the pure state of interdependence.

So, the ego tries to prove that it exists separate from everything else.

Ironic. It begins its fight from the first go. I'm something!

Emily Dickinson....I'm nobody, are you nobody too?

Funny shit.

lol... I'm still reading...



Thanks for the time spent. Very much obliged.  
I like you.
x

Conversations are rare...thank you.

You're more than welcome! - (I'm the thankful one!)  

I almost choked on my water I was drinking while nearing the end of your replied eloquence and of course me and my lack of graceful-anything, almost had a Johnny Carson spit take moment, laughing so hard over that Emily Dickinson comment... lol.... 😂 😂... 💦  

I'm already middle aged and I feel like I have barely scratched the surface of things learned or what I am fully aware of. It feels big—tough and kind of daunting because I'm just smart enough to realize just how not smart I am.  

Reading your very kind and generous layout out via layman's terms of the 7 branches has me in awe of all that I don't know. I'm hopeful because I know I have a natural propensity to really delve in, to fully gain  some additional clarity.  

What stuck out most in my mind that you wrote was about curiosity and patience being the biggest tools we have. I definitely relate and feel that's me, almost to a T. ...I'm constantly trying to recalibrate my patient mind as my deep deep curiosities take me on flights of divergent fancy... I have hope yet!!  

There's so much rich enlightening info here, I truly am lucky to have been so gifted - Thank you!  
I feel like I have already learned so much, RT.  Your efforts aren't futile, either. I will continue to soak it all in, rereading and then exploring further what you highlighted in the steps. I never in a million years expected to learn as much as I have and will continue to, from putting 17 syllables out into the world.... ✨ 💫 ✨...  


It is funny shit, innit!!  
;)  
-B  

One of the funniest consequences of looking around a lot is that it all connects. 6 degrees of separation. So, hybridizing ideas bridges the gaps between categories. Dog cat.

We've gotten to a point where history has become present. All of human history is only a few seconds on the geologic clock.

Comic books are written on the college level.

At $20 an hour, someone would have to work 900,000 years to earn as much as Elon Musk made on one special day last year.

So, it won't matter what you study. Yoga is biomechanics that creates biochemicals. Nutrition is biochemistry that impinges biomechanics.

Knowledge is doubling every 2 years.

That's 3200% in 10 years.

It's out of control.

Some how I do actually sort of follow this logic.... (maybe?) It's out of control, yeah more than likely it is, right? .... Or maybe it's always been out of control, and we've just shrunk our microcosm, to where we feel and actually are, closer with easier access to everything than we've ever been before, so it only feels like it's completely out of control.....

I like how you reinforce the idea of actually taking the opportunity TO look around and see that ideas themselves are merging, changing ... possibly becoming something bastardized or maybe there is a potential for possible 🙆🏻‍♀️ uniqueness?
.....

I continue to ponder....


Hope you are doing well, missed your poems today.
🌹 - B

Absolutely. The metaphor I use internally is a diamond,  And we are all individual facets of that diamond. One gem, many views. One reality,  and infinite worlds of views of that reality.  Our voice, once developed, becomes a lens to see the world, which sees us as its blindspot at our point of tangential reality. Our job is to learn our view and communicate it. Uniqueness is our super power. We can't afford to squander that power on dogma or doctrine. We see what we see, even if it agrees, but not because of it. Rebel by nature. I wouldn't be a member of a club that would have me as a member, Groucho says.

Your 17 syllable voice, in order be true to the 21 rules of haiku, must be formulated as its progenitor, Basho, created it. He simply spoke in a breath stop that he calibrated naturally. It was not forced or measured. His meditation expressed itself in the footstep. Bam.

What we know of as rules are in fact our description of what he did. It's cultish to try to copy him only. Take a breath....At a station by the metro....petals on a wet black bough....Ezra Pound.... Williams... the triadic foot...Paul Reps...Zen Telegrams....Drinking green tea, I stopped the war.

Each expression of Basho's intent followed the subtext....breath....17 or not.

The original sound bite was the words said in a breath.

Issa did it as a matter of terse sorrow at the bleakness of human existence.

Dickinson did it on scraps of paper in her panty drawer...

William's did it on his prescription pad...So much depends on a red wheel Barrow beside the white chickens in the glistening rain....summarizing Walt Whitman as sense of America as the moment a father stops his sustaining work to call a doctor to tend to his young daughter's injured leg...hell, the farmer was working to sustain her...and Williams saw the nature of Americanism from the point of view of a Beat generation grandfather who had delivered thousands of babies, and what Ginsberg had seen as the best minds of his generation, in Howl.

Each of these unique voices,  Sandburg, Cummings, Sexton, Francis, Frost, even Eliot in his expatriotism while looking at the wasteland of history, telling us to speak up, to speak out, to be heard, to develop, like Crane, or Hemingway, or Stienbeck, what Williams called In the American Grain, that particular sensitivity, the canary invthe coal mine of the American experiment of pure Democracy...that leaf of grass that is us alone....sitting at the Star Wars bar at the restaurant at the end of the universe of human freedom....thanks for all the fish....As Voltaire had said, we must cultivate our garden. Pour ourselves into the labor of survival. I regret I have only one life to give....but Paul said, I die daily. If democracy is the crack in the shell of the tyranny of the mind, it is empathy formulated as compassion, resurrected as compersion. I love your breath as it expresses itself. Freedom of speech for all. Even those I disagree with. Your breath is not my length...but, quantum psychologically, it is my breath. We breathe the same air...the same breath...Walk your pace. Wake in your struggle. Your struggle is my struggle in the unconditional agape of reality. This is human suffering...and we emancipate ourselves from ourselves...together.

https://youtu.be/3LLpNKo09Xk

This is Kerouac Reading while Steve Allen plays piano
....I listen to it several times a year....for years. Enjoy.

Oooo... Thank you, RT
That's very kind of you, I greatly appreciate you sharing.
🌹- 🎩
x

At 68, I'm the oldest person on my entire branch of the family. I'm within 3 years of the reach of my now deceased parents. Giving away whatever I've gathered is my process goal. If there's a specific thread you're following....open a query. It's not arrogance; it's a fire sale.

Middle age is young. For me, the last 25 years was 5 minutes ago. Jet pack?

The truth does set you free.  Always treat everyone  with Kindness and Respect.  Keep on writing you strong beautiful smart sexy woman.

I absolutely agree with you, Francisco!
Thanks for being so helpful and such a faithful reader. It's greatly appreciated!
🌹 - B

Hey Blue 🤗
We all, sorry, I usually and wrongfully that the other person is a magical mind reader,

but, unless we are like Spock and can do the mind meld , and say the magic words "my mind to your mind, my thoughts to your thoughts".
I usually make an ass of myself  😁.

Love this short verse
Love n peace
💜💜💜💜

Hey there, WM :)
Ironically, it's often an enormity of pride or ego that gets in the way of actual discussion, hence, the creation of that feeling of having to be a 'mind reader'....lol.... Which is The. Worst!

*It's about one's own pride and ego. When hubris starts 'expecting', only to be confronted with a reality that's completely different, what happens next— that's what will really reflect someone's true character, in my opinion.... and were my thoughts while writing...

I very much love where your thoughts took you,WM! That's the beauty of senryú and haiku.... A true favorite form!... Thanks so much for visiting, it means a lot to me - 🌹
—B

Dear Blue
To be honest, some of your Senryu poetry is beyond me,, and not just yours, it's not something I've come across before.

So, rather than put two feet where I usually only put one foot, it's safer for me to put the pen down, unless I'm pretty sure of keeping both feet on the ground rather than the sticking out the sides of my mouth 😂😂.

I'd prefer to stay silent rather than offend.

Love, hugs and peace
✌️🤗💜💜💜💜💖💖

I can tell you right now, with a 100% honesty... I welcome any thoughts you might have or guesstimate at. There's no offense I'll take or ANY wrong summation /answer you can give... Please, remember that.... I welcome your individual impressions with open arms.... You have no worries about me getting offended or upset.. Not at all. Not here with me...🙏🏻    
    
So we're clear.    
:)    
🌹 - B    
x    
  
PS - There are times I've even gone back to reread a senryú or haiku and if I didn't include an Author's note, I was hard pressed to remember the exact intent.... hahaha. Sometimes subjectivity is aok.    
You're awesome, WM... I appreciate your truthful thoughtfulness. - ✨

Well Blue
When you say such nice things like that to me, how can I refuse.

It's actually a pretty powerful poem
Pride cometh before the fall
Nodding my head in agreement with this little gem💎💎💎

Love n peace Dear Blue
💙💜💜💜

;)))

❤️🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤🤍

i like this much - feels a little like witnessing voyeuristic revenge. i think it is ok not to have a note...i always felt a piece should stand on its own through time...and should its axis change with time or context...so be it.

I have evolved to that thinking — about the Author's notes. I actually like and prefer subjectivity and the outcome of various meanings dependent upon who's reading. The art of it, like when you're viewing a painting. Different people derive different emotional meanings from the art they perceive. There's no such thing as a 'wrong answer' or a static meaning that hinges solely on the Author's or an artist's original intent..... You're spot on- when inevitable change happens, it happens... so be it.
You summed it up nicely, dear poet 🙏🏻

I'm glad you found enjoyment and left me with your terrific thoughts!

I truly adore seeing you 🦋
🌹 - 💙
B

yes, i agree - like a painting!

Captured well the fragility of being human with such beautiful brevity.

The words certainly breathe and have existential dominion, ma dear.

Beautiful.

Thank you for reading and for your lovely remarks, Cipher. I can't help but love this format. It's definitely a favorite of mine, so your eyes taking a gander mean a lot to me.  
 
 
You're beautiful, too!  
 
love love love sent your way ✨ 😘 💫 😘 ✨  
 
🌹 - Blu

flame of the burning
ego ~ may proudly sear ~ but
truth will snuff it out

Yep... you totally got it, C!
You are a senryú master, dear soul. I adore how your mind can so easily generate some really wonderfully poignant and moving as hell senryú /haiku. It's brilliant!

Thank you for this little accompanying gem. I greatly appreciate it!
🌹 - 💙
xo
B

Dear BV,

I feel like this is the script for every emotional upheaval I’ve endured for, I can’t even count the number of years now. For me, it reads like the ultimate confrontation between to souls but the offender realizes too late the mistake that was made. What’s lost is not retrievable. This is probably a cryptic comment. But I know what I mean 😉
What you need to know is this stunner touched a poetic nerve and it was super appreciated.
H🌷

Ohhh Honoria...
There aren't too many things that leave me utterly aglow with pride and beaming bright, but your words of super appreciation are definitely one of them. My joy is tempered bittersweet, knowing you're so able to empathize. I am humbly grateful for such thoughtful kindness. I wish that some of the emotions your keen mind picked up on weren't prevalent in certain points of my life, either. I suppose we live and definitely (and hopefully) learn.
Big (hugs) my dear lady.

It's my pleasure, and good fortune to see you 🦋
All my warmest regards,
🌹 - 💙
B

That damn feather gets us every time hehe. Wonderfully pinned, friends.

It's that 'last straw'.. Doh!!... lol... 😉
Thanks for reading and for taking the time to leave me your thoughts, DC. it means a lot. I'm glad you enjoyed my little senryú.

Happy new year, I hope it's going well.
🌹 - B
☃️

The truth burned
Really got me

Great ink
-22

Your kindness of words and thought are truly appreciated. I'm delighted to read that you felt the heat.  

It's always a pleasure to see you POft!  

Warm regards 🌹 - 💙  
B

The fire of truth burns hot
Well penned, Blue


hugs,
buddhakitty  

Hey bk :)
It's a lesson that I think we all, always can get burned by, that's for sure. Thanks so much for reading and leaving your thoughts with me.

I adore it!
🌹 - 💙
B
xo

Succinct and striking, with a rather pleasing symmetry to the senryu I just read by Jemac called Stars, kind of a juxtaposition. I love the didactics of runningturtles up there too, drank it all in.

Yeah, RT has been a true wellspring of wonderful thought, inspiration and hilarity...
I can't thank him enough for the stellar comments.
Glad you were able to partake!

I am glad you dug the symmetry... sometimes it's the immediate little jotted down strokes of inspiration that flourish, well.....

Much obliged, Daniel.
It's always such a great time to read your thoughts.

Also, I fully understand what it's like taking care of an elderly mother as I'm in the exact same position. Luckily she's still fully independent but it's definitely getting closer and closer all the time, as to how long that just might be able to continue. I send out well wishes for patience, supportive vibes and my kinship in awareness of just how hard that is.... A gentle reminder to take care of yourself, too! ✨ 💫 ✨  
Warmest regards, dear friend 🙏🏻  
🌹 - 💙  
xo  
Susan

*hugs* One day at a time.

Implies a narrative with a story of its own - my opinion anyway.

Yesss! You're so very astute....This was very much a snapshot taken of one specific moment....
Well done you!


Thanks so much for stopping by to share your thoughts with me, I greatly appreciate it.

🌹 - B

Truth always prevails, indeed

I very much like to hope so, too.  
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me!

I'm very grateful-
🌹 - 💙
B

I have been that arrogant and though I remained righteous in the end, the inbetween is something I've carried as a learning lesson.  Reading this in a feeling you know.

Hey there, Remy!
I appreciate that very honest response. I love that you had a takeaway of carrying that learning lesson with you, to me that's a sign of positive personal growth...-🌹... We all should be so keen.

It's always a pleasure to see you 🦋
Happy new year, I hope it's a great one ;)

Warmest regards,
—B

Captured with confidence until reality collides.

Damn that truth of life, eh?!?.  
Yeah it's often a hard lesson to really learn, is my feeling... All of our ego's are sensitive, it's precarious territory.... I like walking a fine line sometimes....  However, I am naturally good hearted and aspire to not be a dick, if possible.... Is my earnest hope, anyway.
 
Thanks again, CS.  
I absolutely love seeing you 🦋  
🌹 - 💙  
B

Expressed powerful and the visual accompanies this so well.
Strong work Blue!

💪🏻
Thanks so much for the killer kind words, the list add and all the support, W

Glad you enjoyed it as a whole.
Senryú are such a favorite form of poetic expression, so your thoughts have valuable meaning for me!

Be well and be safe out there-
🌹 - B

Swift and powerful words.