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News & ArtsMonday, November 9, 2009
Arts The Reality of Sunsets
Posted by Charles Mudede on Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 9:29 AM
On Steven Shaviro's blog, a lovely passage concerning the reality of the very small and the reality of the very large:
This is one way of understanding Whitehead’s insistence that philosophy must not “explain away” anything, but must accept the reality of the beautiful sunset as well as the reality of photons of different energy levels. (The point of Whitehead’s example is precisely that the beautiful sunset is part of “nature” just as much as the photons are, and that it cannot be “explained away” as being merely a subjective human interpretation, or as involving “secondary qualities” instead of primary ones, etc. The sunset, every bit as much as the photon, is itself a real object, irreducible to the way that human consciousness posits and grasps it).
All of this is so real....
The wonderful image is by tvangoethem.
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That perspective is bugging me. Where in Seattle can you get a view where the Queen Anne TV towers are in between the Space Needle and downtown like that? The way the towers are clustered suggests Capitol Hill but the Space Needle should still appear to their left, not right.... Or am I just not remembering things correctly? Someone help me out, please...
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Ah, question answered simply by following the link and finding that the picture was taken in Belleview... so that's Lake Washington in the foreground, not Lake Union. Got it. Follow the links next time, genius...
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Every Christian who tries to convert me will eventually ask, "so if you don't believe in this then what's the purpose to life?" To which I reply, "the purpose of life is *to live*." Then they call me a Nihilist.
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(meaning that life is also not reducible to a divine purpose or spiritual mission or even pure hedonism)
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Matt from Denver shows his fucking idiocy yet again in not even recognizing Bellevue (not 'Belleview'). Stick with your stupid ass town shitface
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Explains a lot:
When viewed from Belleview the only Seattle that exists are those who inhabitant its very topmost towers...
When viewed from Belleview the only Seattle that exists are those who inhabitant its very topmost towers...
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Wish i wish i were as lucky and cool at 10/11 and choose to be born, raised and rotting in the same town my whole life!
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@ 9, not recognizing a burb is a sign of divinity, not idiocy. Idiocy is better characterized by posting anonymously and getting butthurt because someone else didn't recognize your cookie-cutter burb.
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Matt from Denver----
"That perspective is bugging me. Where in Seattle can you get a view where the Queen Anne TV towers are in between the Space Needle and downtown like that? The way the towers are clustered suggests Capitol Hill but the Space Needle should still appear to their left, not right.... Or am I just not remembering things correctly? Someone help me out, please . . . ."
You can't see the Queen Anne TV towers in the photograph; what you see in the photograph are the Capitol Hill TV towers. The Queen Anne TV towers are just to the right of the Space Needle, north, just outside the photograph. Believe it or not, there is a cluster of TV towers on not just one, but two inner-city Seattle hills bordering downtown! I always loved that feature about Seattle's skyline.
"That perspective is bugging me. Where in Seattle can you get a view where the Queen Anne TV towers are in between the Space Needle and downtown like that? The way the towers are clustered suggests Capitol Hill but the Space Needle should still appear to their left, not right.... Or am I just not remembering things correctly? Someone help me out, please . . . ."
You can't see the Queen Anne TV towers in the photograph; what you see in the photograph are the Capitol Hill TV towers. The Queen Anne TV towers are just to the right of the Space Needle, north, just outside the photograph. Believe it or not, there is a cluster of TV towers on not just one, but two inner-city Seattle hills bordering downtown! I always loved that feature about Seattle's skyline.
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