This is what the meteor showers looked like over our house in Philadelphia only a lot paler
They arenrCOt really falling stars tho you will see one from time to time
Mostly just lights streaking across the sky
It was too cloudy here this year
https://secretlosangeles.com/perseid-meteor-shower-where-to-watch-los-angeles/
Maybe the shower is a superheroes cape, trailing behind him
Who designs his cape
How many color combinations do they come in
marika wrote:
This is what the meteor showers looked like over our house in Philadelphia only a lot paler
They arenrCOt really falling stars tho you will see one from time to time
Mostly just lights streaking across the sky
It was too cloudy here this year
https://secretlosangeles.com/perseid-meteor-shower-where-to-watch-los-angeles/
Maybe the shower is a superheroes cape, trailing behind him
Who designs his cape
How many color combinations do they come in
Pondering how names name can be Taoistic.
X-rays, radio waves, longer and shorter
forms appear in a spectrum of sorts.
marika <marika5000@gmail.com> wrote:
This is what the meteor showers looked like over our house in Philadelphia >> only a lot paler
They arenrCOt really falling stars tho you will see one from time to time
Mostly just lights streaking across the sky
It was too cloudy here this year
https://secretlosangeles.com/perseid-meteor-shower-where-to-watch-los-angeles/
Maybe the shower is a superheroes cape, trailing behind him
Who designs his cape
How many color combinations do they come in
... So, the Perseids are not a cape. ...
marika posted:
... So, the Perseids are not a cape. ...
That's interesting.
who posted:
Pondering how names name can be Taoistic.
X-rays, radio waves, longer and shorter
forms appear in a spectrum of sorts.
If some body, or some
one were able to see radio waves they
might be viewed as every where all over.
Cell phones sending messages. Television
signals over the air. AM and FM radio.
Short waves and ham all passing through
each other. Not to mention the stars.
Radio telescopes are able to see far.
Wireless transmissions inside a house
from a router to a computer near hear.
If some body or some
one were able to see sound waves,
moving through the air, or water,
that might be too distracting.
Seeing all the meteors in time lapse
photography is interesting. Shooting
them with a camera for a spell.
- thanks! aye. Cheers!
aye wrote:
Wireless transmissions inside a house
from a router to a computer near hear.
This sentence disturbed me
A thing I read a few months ago purported to explain these transmissions
can be used to spy on people. That they function like a camera, or
something like that.
Googling on it suggests it is more than just paranoia.
marika posted:
... it is more than just paranoia.
Life seeks ways.
To do and to be.
The way that is a way, spoken, walked, mapped
and such might not always be the Way naturally.
What is, the Way, the Tao.
Rhetorically speaking.
aye posted:
marika posted:
... it is more than just ...
What is, the Way, the Tao.
Rhetorically speaking.
The Zhuangzi has many stories.
A-ha!, it said to its self.
This is not the Way.
eye posted:
The chicken,
realizing how it was talking to its self
there followed a realization that, if that
were true then it was not its self naturally.
" ... Therefore I say, the Perfect Man has no self; ... ."
Without landing, without flapping, it flew.
To ride with the wind, to glide, finally free.
It was like riding a bike, coasting, with no hands.
eye posted:
A-ha!, it said to its self.
This is not the Way.
The chicken,
realizing how it was talking to its self
there followed a realization that, if that
were true then it was not its self naturally.
https://terebess.hu/english/chuangtzu.html#1
"Lieh Tzu could ride the wind
and go soaring around with cool and breezy skill,
but after fifteen days he came back to earth.
As far as the search for good fortune went,
he didn't fret and worry. He escaped
the trouble of walking, but he still had
to depend on something to get around.
If he had only mounted on the truth of Heaven and Earth,
ridden the changes of the six breaths, and thus wandered
through the boundless, then what would he have had to depend on?
Therefore I say, the Perfect Man has no self; ... ."
- thanks! aye. Cheers!
marika posted:
aye wrote:
Wireless transmissions inside a house
from a router to a computer near hear.
This sentence disturbed me
A thing I read a few months ago purported to explain these transmissions
can be used to spy on people. That they function like a camera, or
something like that.
Googling on it suggests it is more than just paranoia.
Yes. A search suggests, reflections
can be observed, motion sensors of a sort, using wireless
transmissions of radio waves by intercepting them.
This is the first aye's herds of t'hats.
Actual data can also be intercepted.
Phone calls can be as well. Lots of ways
apparently exist for people who are involved.
A question might be, why would someone spy
on me, or you, or anyone else when there are
millions of people who could be, and are, involved.
In terms of Taoism, when there are things, material
and non-material possessions, problems emerge
which are associated with those things.
A question occurs, how to evolve
in some way, to transcend as it were
and be less and less involved, until finally,
eventually being uninvolved a form of wu-wei is.
To listen in on a phone call, why
would anyone care what is being talked about,
unless a good reason were to be. Homeland security
was elevated after bad events took place.
The NSA was said to be listening in on every call
and flagging every email that had key words in it.
If one has nothing to hide, then why worry.
Hackers might want to hack accounts and steal
money and probably do in various ways all too often.
With money arrive money problems. Without any money
problems can occur involving money. Life is curious.
Life seeks ways.
To do and to be.
The way that is a way, spoken, walked, mapped
and such might not always be the Way naturally.
What is, the Way, the Tao.
Rhetorically speaking.
- thanks! aye. Cheers!
I have raised chickens.
You cannot keep one chicken. They are social. They die from loneliness. Literally
If you use the word spy a little more generically, some thoughts could
occur.
Many humans have voyeuristic traits.
It isnrCOt just the government or onerCOs employer that rCLspiesrCY.
People love gossip, and have loved it for the entirety of their existence.
A lot of the holy books are basically gossip passed down to the later generations.
People love intruding into othersrCO business.
Today we have the news, celebrity gossip, reality shows.
Public executions have evolved into candid camera type shows.
People rubberneck at accidents. Tik tok influencers invite us in to their lives.
A passage from the book I have been reading.
rCLWhether these came from the Clifford plant, we cannot say, but they mark a turning point in LinnaeusrCOs thinking. If bananas could bloom and fruit in Holland, what other plants might be coaxed into flower away from their
homes? The banana had bloomed thanks to heat from a greenhouse, but
Linnaeus believed that plants could also toughen up outside and acclimate
to colder climes. He vastly overestimated the physiological adaptability of plants. Although he tried for decades, none of his subtropical and tropical imports survived for more than a few years.
Bananas were a rare novelty. Tea, though, was a mainstay of international trade and a special obsession of Linnaeus. With no supporting evidence, Linnaeus declared in 1741 to the Swedish Academy of Sciences that rCLthere is no doubt any morerCY that tea would grow in southern Sweden. rCLPoor Chinese,rCY
he gloated, they will rCLlose through this more than 100 barrels of gold a year.rCY In ScandinaviarCOs most widely read publication of the time, the farmerrCOs almanac, he looked forward to Swedish tea plantations causing China to lose its rCLflowering bliss, and leaving Sweden not a small part of its fortune and happiness.rCY His plans were repeatedly thwarted. Five[rCa]rCY
Excerpt From
How Flowers Made Our World
David George Haskell
You cannot keep one chicken. They are social. They die from loneliness. Literally
I recently heard that about hamsters.
marika posted:
I have raised chickens.
You cannot keep one chicken. They are social. They die from loneliness.
Literally
I recently heard that about hamsters.
Growing up, we had a hen that laid an egg a day
and lived to be until she didn't any more.
Exactly how long, from the day she hatched
from an egg until she lived no more is unknown.
She wasn't in a coop as I recall.
Her nest might have been on a ping-pong table.
- hmmm ...
I have to wonder why such a wondrous shape as an egg, an infinite shape,
full of prized protein,
https://www.marthastewart.com/are-egg-whites-healthier-than-whole-eggs-12075983
The yellow orange sun,inside, the real treasure
It doesnrCOt break when she lays it, doesnrCOt break when she broods
How did it
End up being the same shape as null/zero/nothing
But then, boom, here comes Gladys, upsetting my musings and defying all my notions of naturerCOs delicate pristine clean designer lines
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/sep/08/gladys-the-giant-pumpkin-is-this-biggest-fruit-in-world
marika posted:
I have to wonder why such a wondrous shape as an egg, an infinite shape,
full of prized protein,
https://www.marthastewart.com/are-egg-whites-healthier-than-whole-eggs-12075983
The yellow orange sun,inside, the real treasure
It doesnrCOt break when she lays it, doesnrCOt break when she broods
How did it
End up being the same shape as null/zero/nothing
Ontologically, something, existence, being as it were
emerges or is born of nothing, nonbeing. At least
according to a line in the Tao Te Ching that is.
https://www.taoistic.com/taoteching-laotzu/taoteching-40.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_egg
The cosmic egg is iconic.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundun
There's a tale in the Chuang-tzu about Hun Tun.
" ... the state of hundun is likened to an egg ... "
But then, boom, here comes Gladys, upsetting my musings and defying all my >> notions of naturerCOs delicate pristine clean designer lines
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2026/sep/08/gladys-the-giant-pumpkin-is-this-biggest-fruit-in-world
'The emperor of the South Sea was called Shu [Brief],
the emperor of the North Sea was called Hu [Sudden],
and the emperor of the central region was called Hun-tun [Chaos].
Shu and Hu from time to time came together for a meeting
in the territory of Hun-tun, and Hun-tun treated them very generously.
Shu and Hu discussed how they could repay his kindness. "All men,"
they said, "have seven openings so they can see, hear, eat, and breathe.
But Hun-tun alone doesn't have any. Let's trying boring him some!"
Every day they bored another hole,
and on the seventh day Hun-tun died.' - ibid.
Reminds me of Gladys.
- thanks! aye. Cheers!
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