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I rode my bike 45 miles, had a glass of wine, and called Prof. W. (who insists that he's not Prof., but I can't follow the logic there). He was not home, so I had another glass of vino, and called again--voila! I must say talking with him was stunning. I then watched Waking Life, and then went to Borders to buy a Shostakovich CD (string quartets). I had a low-fat apple muffin thing and a decaf, mulling over the meaning of it all. I still say there's no story there. Hmm.

There's no there without stories.

One is responsible for one's words, but not for the way in which others interpret those words. Words do not have consequences; only actions do. Words have meaning, but meanings are not themselves atomic substances, as the analytical positivist would like it (Although, granted, they can unequivocally indicate some particular or other, as in medicine, mathematics, strategy, and science, for example, but not necessarily so in ordinary conversation, nor especially in imaginative thinking or musing, which is just as normal a condition with us.), so those meanings are not always simply on the surface. Furthermore, the intended meaning is often not the interpreted meaning; and even when the meaning is clear, the meaning can still change, emerge, like in Oedipus Rex. Life is a myth, a story, as it is lived, and as it is interpreted by others. Not being a thing (with definite properties), but just a reflexive soul, nothing remains of speech except for ideas epiphenomenally occuring--and Lord knows (Jesus only spoke in parables, as did the Oracle) how they arrange and root themselves once out in the open between us. Isn't this precisely what logicians have been trying to settle for thousands of years? Like Waking Life says, we are all just figures in other peoples' imaginations. Consequences are always physical structures, independent of words. Moreover, words, themselves, are never true or false (Aristotle--On Interpretation). It is the imagination of reality which haunts us!

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Yet another statistically meaningless self-selected survey.

Great comments on this post here by the way.

I think, after the election, people aren't going to be taking the power of blogging too far.. The surveys and statistics they came up with didn't reflect the outcome. Ultimately it was just wishful thinking on one parties part that the blogging community would have more power than they did..

In time though, I think that bloggers will have more infulence.