{"id":57771,"date":"2018-10-12T00:01:54","date_gmt":"2018-10-12T00:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/?p=57771"},"modified":"2018-10-12T04:38:54","modified_gmt":"2018-10-12T04:38:54","slug":"the-teacher-13","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.imhd.nl\/log\/the-teacher-13\/","title":{"rendered":"the teacher (13)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms are constantly in motion, indestructible and timeless, Lucretius wrote (no electron microscope, no highly technical equipment, no advanced mathematics, no nothing). <!--- You are in constant motion. ---> <\/p>\n<p>A choice is a real thing, the teacher says. As real as light, energy, atoms. It sets energy in motion, it creates. <\/p>\n<p>This is how the universe works. Light. Energy. Matter. Particles, governed by simple laws. Energy comes into you. And goes out. Learn from Lucretius. <!--- Know the laws. ---> <!--- Read De rerum natura. ---> <\/p>\n<p>Every choice has a million consequences, most of them you can&#8217;t oversee. A Pandora&#8217;s box of effects. <\/p>\n<p>You set things in motion. <em>You.<\/em> This notion should strike you with awe. <!--- Every choice is the new beginning of all that is yet to come.  ---><\/p>\n<p><em>[Poggio, the hunter of lost manuscripts, trying to restore lost words for everyone to read, rediscovered On the nature of things in 1417.]<\/em> <\/p>\n<p><em><small>[Eerst val je flauw door het gevoel van nietigheid, machteloosheid, zinloosheid, de onbeduidendheid tegenover de krachten in de buitenwereld en word je depressief, ik speel niet meer mee, kinderlijke zandbakreactie, tot je inziet hoe negatieve energie negativiteit cre\u00ebert, hoe een achteloze opmerking iemand stuk maakt, een glimlach iemand helpt, doet ontspannen, en dat zijn gevolgen die je waarneemt, en dan realiseer je je hoe eindeloos machtig je bent, en dan val je op je knie\u00ebn van awe, en dan doe je niks meer omdat je ziet dat elke handeling 10.000 gevolgen heeft, waarvan 9.999 buiten je blikveld, en dan ga je iemand aanroepen (sommigen noemen het bidden), help me om vandaag in ieder geval niks stoms te doen, ik overzie mijn eigen krachten en invloed niet, en dan ga je bedenken wat je met die krachten kunt doen, je life force, creation, <em>out in the world<\/em>, en ga je dat doen. Zoiets. Spiritual journey is ongelooflijk. Je loopt op het pad. Er zijn geen bankjes en je kunt niet terug.]<\/small><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!--- The manuscript survived for centuries in an increasingly illiterate world, in an intellectually hostile environment, against the ravages of floods, time, mold, weather, barbarians, and even the monks themselves who often scraped old vellum clean to re-use for more politically and theologically correct works. Remarkable, Ian Chadwick writes. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- So are the consequences of your choice. ---><br \/>\n<!---  On the nature of things---> <\/p>\n<p><!--- http:\/\/ianchadwick.com\/blog\/lucretius-and-the-renaissance\/ ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- Yet Lucretius wrote his poem in the time of Julius Caesar, before the Christian church even began. Then it was lost for more than 1,400 years, to be rediscovered by Poggio Bracciolini in 1417. Poggio was hunting lost manuscripts through European monasteries, trying to copy them so he could restore the lost words of the Romans for everyone to read. His discovery of On the Nature of Things was serendipitous in the extreme,* but it opened a Pandora\u2019s box of effects. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- It\u2019s astounding how anyone in Caesar\u2019s day could by reason, logical, analysis and inference alone \u2013 no highly technical equipment, no advanced mathematics, no electron microscopes, no particle colliders, no Hubble telescope \u2013 deduce the structure of the universe was based on atoms. And then to infer that those atoms were constantly in motion, indestructible and timeless. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- epicurean thought. pursuit of beauty and pleasure, things in the world. Freely. No authorities. Materialist. A universe that had no designer, no beginning, no end and more starkly, no purpose. ---><\/p>\n<p><!--- George Santayana wrote in 1910:\n\nThe materialist is primarily an observer; and he will probably be such in ethics also; that is, he will have no ethics, except the emotion produced upon him by the march of the world. If he is an esprit fort and really disinterested, he will love life; as we all love perfect vitality, or what strikes us as such, in gulls and porpoises. This, I think, is the ethical sentiment psychologically consonant with a vigorous materialism: sympathy with the movement of things, interest in the rising wave, delight at the foam it bursts into, before it sinks again. Nature does not distinguish the better from the worse, but the lover of nature does. He calls better what, being analogous to his own life, enhances his vitality and probably possesses some vitality of its own. This is the ethical feeling of Spinoza, the greatest of modern naturalists in philosophy; and we shall see how Lucretius, in spite of his fidelity to the ascetic Epicurus, is carried by his poetic ecstasy in the same direction. ---><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Atoms are constantly in motion, indestructible and timeless, Lucretius wrote (no electron microscope, no highly technical equipment, no advanced mathematics, no nothing). A choice is a real thing, the teacher says. As real as light, energy, atoms. It sets energy in motion, it creates. This is how the universe works. Light. Energy. Matter. 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