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Monday, August 10, 2009

Crossing the Roots

Posted by on Mon, Aug 10, 2009 at 10:25 AM

As for me, I prefer my bridges to be dead.

To the tipper Christin: The reason why I refuse to ride a horse is not far from the reason why I would find it hard to cross that bridge. Life as a means of transportation is as troubling to me as life as a form of architecture. There should be no being in being a bridge.

 

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slaggy 1
You don't believe in using animals to help with work? Haven't you also said that you believe all objects have a soul? What is the difference between a car and a horse?
Posted by slaggy http://www.videowatchdog.com on August 10, 2009 at 10:30 AM
zephsright 2
Sooooo chop down some trees, killing them, to make a bridge or form the still living tree into a bridge and kill nothing. I say that bridge is the coolest friggin thing ever!
Posted by zephsright on August 10, 2009 at 10:43 AM
3
Charles, whatever you do, don't check out http://vegitecture.blogspot.com/.
Posted by lkjh on August 10, 2009 at 10:46 AM
Charles Mudede 4
@1, you have put a difficult question in front of my face. my panpsychism is woefully underdeveloped as an idea.
Posted by Charles Mudede on August 10, 2009 at 10:47 AM
5
This point of view makes no sense. You prefer dead trees over living ones?
Posted by jinushaun on August 10, 2009 at 10:57 AM
very bad homo 6
I am pretty sure plants don't have feelings or emotions.
Posted by very bad homo on August 10, 2009 at 10:59 AM
Charles Mudede 7
@5, bridges are not trees. i like living trees and dead bridges.
Posted by Charles Mudede on August 10, 2009 at 11:10 AM
Banna 8
Charles has never been in a tree house (or climbed a tree for that matter), swung on a vine, or pulled himself up a steep incline while hiking by grabbing on to vegetation.
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on August 10, 2009 at 11:20 AM
Charles Mudede 9
This is true. He has not.
Posted by Charles Mudede on August 10, 2009 at 11:38 AM
Toasterhedgehog 10
I see no compelling reason to argue that everthing has a soul. I also see no reason to be sure there is no such thing. We obviously cannot trust that our perceptions perfectly represent reality, so feeling that things have souls does us no good.

If the soul is the idea or purpose of a thing, all souls in inanimate objects exist in the human mind exclusively. A bridge has no anatomy where awareness of it's existence can take place. A horse has a brain in which the idea of self can reside. I might be totally misunderstanding what panpsychism is though. I'll look it up.

As far as humans using horses for work, it's a symbiotic relationship that's as natural as any other. We care for and protect the horses, in exchange they loan us the use of their vastly more powerful physical bodies. The horses may not be aware of the nature of the relationship, but their primary biological urge is to avoid extinction, and we've helped them to populate the globe. Everybody wins. It's no less natural, and shouldn't be any more troubling than the relationship between an anenome and a clownfish.

Those living bridges are beautiful.
Posted by Toasterhedgehog on August 10, 2009 at 11:41 AM
Banna 11
Never walked across a lawn then, either? What's the distinction?
Posted by Banna http://www.ucp.org on August 10, 2009 at 12:41 PM
Charles Mudede 12
I prefer astroturf.
Posted by Charles Mudede on August 10, 2009 at 12:47 PM
slaggy 13
I think I love you, Charles Mudede.
Posted by slaggy http://www.videowatchdog.com on August 10, 2009 at 1:01 PM
Toasterhedgehog 14
@13 I'm a fan too, but I find his opinions on animals and plants incomprehsible.
Posted by Toasterhedgehog on August 10, 2009 at 1:14 PM
rob! 15
Anybody know the language being spoken? Sounds like Italian in places, but I'm not used to hearing it spoken by natives and have limited reading comprehension.
Posted by rob! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZBdUceCL5U on August 10, 2009 at 4:28 PM
yucca flower 16
Charles, you know where wood comes from right?
Posted by yucca flower on August 10, 2009 at 5:57 PM
17
Charles, you came all this way to the PacNW, and you aren't even close to being ready to enter the woods at night and encounter the Sasquatch, are you?

How you gonna categorize him?

Ape? Man? Must he be categorized?
Posted by CP on August 12, 2009 at 5:54 PM

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