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From the last post I take the idea of the building block.

What we have are a myriad of blocks pulled from our selves, other blocks from our friends and aquaintances, blocks that we take from larger frames like our social and economic environment that are formed by the myriad of organizations and governments; and finally our physical environmantal limitations, (I.e. we need to breate air) make up the last blocks we have.

A little sidenote--this breakdown is also a buildingblock---a simple construction created to put form to an idea. The idea of building block is more malleable ( I will explain at some point in the future if it makes sense to or if I am able to expand, the idea is still growing).

But the idea that the self is really a cocollection of these building blocks, draped over yet another framework of building blocks(our body) helps us to look at our existence parsed and to define parts of ourselves at lease for the moment.

Enough of that.

Growing the buildng blocks idea is something I would like to do in the context of my life. But this is only an example. we could probably analyze any thing, idea, person, or structure with the building block idea.
The building block idea is a concept that can be used to create as well as deconstruct.

First---I have my body, a shell that is doing fairly well for the time being but is aging rapidly, (or I am just percieving it as aging more rapidly) it consists of hands, arms, legs, feet, a head , lats of sensory perceptors and some stuff in the middle that I need to watch out for but don't really use on a regular basis to accomplish anything outside of my body (Allow this shortness for it is not my main point).

Second-- I have my mind and my ideas, things that float around in my head sometimes they are written down and sometimes they are lost. Along with ideas are what I choose to call themes. I should explain a theme. It is an idea of a certain proportion, an idea linked to other ideas to create a larger picture. A theme in a sense is a larger structure created from building bocks-- ideas. Themes have strong associations in my mind and become things that I want to see accomplished. Themes I have are related to the creation of stories, the learning of a subject, the learning of an instrument. The things I choose to decicate my time to, those things have their beginnings as themes. Please not that this is an in retrospect perspective. the building blocks if my mind are things like the various moods I have, my energy level and the such.
third-- I have my life. What I am currently doing----running a business, fixing houses, trying to plan for a change and a constant attempt to fit it all in. hopng to relax, loooking for something more fulfilling.

ohh an idea----the idea it that when writing out a thought it may be more complete but that in the calm completion of it, during the transfer to words on a page, the idea is slowed down and morphs into something else that is only a distorded reflection of the origional idea. but here I guess i've done it again. The idea comes on and I Use a word like morph and I realize that in transmitting an idea we mold it to words that are expressable, and in the doing of it perhaps some of the idea is lost; perhaps only the curse of a poor vocabulary but perhaps the curse of the human condition, each human doomed to isolation from direct contact with one's own ideas. Perhaps we are ambling through life not knowing what we or others are thinking, only perceiving reflections of the mind dulled by the prisim (prison) of language. but perhaps we must also see the possibility that an idea may not even be able to take root without a medium.
And Yet in this bleak hopeessness I continue to write on hoping, pleading, enduring this dull reflection of existence in favor of blackness, the absence of any reflection at all. Yes this perhaps is why we all choose life over death. We choose to endure bleakness over nothing because after all something is better that nothing.

Ahh. That was a fun idea anyway.

back to building blocks.

Third-- we must account for what exists. Each thing that exists is a building block much in the same way our bodies are composed of blocks. we have an actual physical reality that must be counted ans parsed into little blocks.

Fourth---we must recoginze that we have the ideas of others that have built this world, and we must, to a certain extent, function within these ideas---our goverenment has been choosen, our monetary system has been chosen, and the like for many other such constructs like our language and our accepted rules of behavior. We may disagree with them but try to come up with one independently---it's no easy task. So why not consider it fortunate that we don't have to reinvent these things very frequently--I mean ours work pretty well. Could you imagine scrapping english because you decied that you invented a better language---perhaps it's possible but is it realistic? So we have certain building blocks we must endure---or more positivley use to create more complex things. this is what I meanwhen I say we have others ideas

More or less, I guess looking at thinks broken up like this creates some holes but likened to the ideas of simple machines, if we put put them together, we can create much more complex ideas and perhaps create a fuller life.

The idea would lik to develop next is the idea of lost meaning betrween the thinker and the perciever. There are many components to language and many components to ones mind. How do things get mis-interpreted or, how can we avoid being misunderstood? Especially from the perspective of a writer writing for an audience, when telling a story how can one be sure that the reader is actually reading it the way it is intended, or is that always the goal, I'm thinking of some poetry that was meant to be misunderstood by certain people and understood by others, and certain Novels that are rather cryptic. I bring this up because i tend to misenterpret frequently.
even better..use theidea of building blocks to analyze lost meaning.

Have fun.