Some more of my wild and off the wall theories...
It is possible that the meaning of life is to try to experience the journey to knowledge (or knowing something - anything really) without including your own impressions. The journey to knowing what really exists outside of oneself.
G.E. Moore asked "Does beauty exist without human perception?" The question is - does it? I believe that nature is so beautiful and whole in and of itself that it does exist as such without our interpretation of it.
Trauma is processed when we are not in control. Trauma is processed in a part of our mind that we can never control and ultimately can not ever fully understand. This creates the idea of "that". It's like that. It's this big. It's like. The concept that the closer we come to knowing something, the more imaginary our description of that something to one another gets. (I think I have to stand in front of you and use my hands to explain this one accurately.)
"Re-fashioned(,) her memory of him, and there it stayed in the mind affecting one almost like a work of art." - Viriginia Woolf
This idea that our memories are art is incredible!! The ideas that we create and establish in our minds are magical in such a way because they are art that we can't ever show to any one else. This form of art is true and pure in the most sincere fashion.
Art is an attempt to take something out of the world. The key here is to take OUT OF the world. Art is a cookie cutter of the living. Therefore, art can only freeze something by destroying it. By interrupting the life that exists at that moment, we can create art, a something that is frozen in time, yet imperfect.
Brad said "We're going to die alone, apart, isolated and misunderstood. Ultimately this attempt to communicate is in vain." 2/21/08
