(x(Syntax)) + Consumption = Vices/Sabotage
Two things that control/influence what we are able to perceive through our experiences in life: SYNTAX and CONSUMPTION. 
The architecture and structures that we create with language vary depending on the placement of words in a sentence. For example, or perception of reality may vary depending on the placement of the direct object in a sentence. Accordingly our perception of the physical object, where we “place” it, exists within the viewers visual and cultural syntax, which is dependent upon the linguistic syntax. And what’s more, a listener/viewer/reader will take your syntax and interpret it within their syntax which is most likely made up of a very different architecture and the two parties may never be able to connect. This lack of connection is no fault of their own, they literally do not posses the structures to translate. This is particularly relevant to the parent/child relationship.
I think that perhaps music can surpass some forms of syntax that cannot be access through language or gesture or image. This may explain the magical powers of music to penetrate memory. For example, when my father, brother, and I listen to Neil Young or Joni Mitchell there is a level of reality that is completely inaccessible otherwise. The space between my father and his children is completely irrelevant, we all just sit and mourn the possibility of human honesty.
Similarly, what we consume could be considered another form of architecture. What we eat influences our chemical make up, physical form, mental capacity, etc. Or what we consume through purchase, creates physical structures that create our placement.
The Doctrine of Signatures contends that every whole food has a pattern that resembles a body organ or physiological function and that this pattern acts as a signal or sign as to the benefit the food provides the eater. This blows my mind. Here is just a short list of examples of Whole Food Signatures that were posted on this forum:
- “A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye…and science shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.
- A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.
- Grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.
- A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuron-transmitters for brain function.
- Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the human kidneys.
- Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don’t have enough sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.
- Eggplant, Avocadoes and Pears target the health and function of the womb and cervix of the female — they look just like these organs. Today’s research shows that when a woman eats 1 avocado a week, it balances hormones, sheds unwanted birth weight and prevents cervical cancers. And how profound is this? .… It takes exactly 9 months to grow an avocado from blossom to ripened fruit. There are over 14,000 photolytic chemical constituents of nutrition in each one of these foods (modern science has only studied and named about 141 of them).
- Figs are full of seeds and hang in twos when they grow. Figs increase the motility of male sperm and increase the numbers of sperm as well to overcome male sterility.
- Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycemic index of diabetics.
- Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.
- Grapefruits, Oranges, and other citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.
- Onions look like body cells. Today’s research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.”
It’s so simple, I love it! Why would this not be true?
There is at least two ways that you could percieve this based on your syntax.
- As the radical visionary Jakob Böhme perceived it, evidence of the natural world vibrant with the numinous images of the Deity, or “as above, so below,” an expression of the relationship between macrocosm and microcosm; the principle is rendered sicut in terra.
- Evidence of egocentrism.
Do you see the difference?
What separates us from each other is the placement of the object.
I often sabotage my own tendencies toward syntax that will keep me from you. This bleeds into other parts of my life. Parts like decision making. I want to be a raw foodist, but it will give me a syntax which creates not only feelings of superiority in terms of nutrition, but also influences my physical architecture which will literally become unable to have certain foods without becoming ill. What is interesting about this is that I am not sure if it would make me more ill than I might be now, but I would become hundreds of times more aware of it because I would have forgotten what it was like to feel inner turmoil from foods.
I think this is a metaphor for why some of us cannot make decisions of what place is the best place to move to or what project is the best project to invest in. Or even whether I should have coffee today. Every form of syntax influences each other. It seems like we could be missing out on the entire picture by subscribing to something. Is being in the best physical chemistry possible worth feeling like I should convert everyone to my new way of life in order to be able to eat with them? No.
Would giving up my vices to become perfect be worth the isolation? No, so I sabotage.
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we need to talk about this. we need to talk about animal intelligence and communication and human projections on the natural world. hi my name is laura and i was just thinking about some stuff and i thought i should tell you a little about it.
what you have touched on here is precisely why i sometimes wanna keep going through the motions of my old self (old syntax). i know that my new self alienates in new ways.
language is everything. culture is language. the enlarging brain and articulate speech are the chicken and the egg. articulate speech enables the brain to enlarge, or become more complex. when we shift and manipulate syntax we are ever so gradually altering our brains.
also, i think it is wholly possible to be a raw foodist and bring to it a more inclusive syntax.
Comment by Alisha — February 8, 2008 #
Quick note: Leave the bottom button of your suit or sport coat unbuttoned:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_VII_of_the_United_Kingdom#Fashion
Comment by Mikey — February 8, 2008 #