nEW EDEwZEALOUS ENTRY – THE ANIMATED LIFE

There is a rendering of fact which makes itself manifest, compelling neither mind nor heart. It is a rendering of such, itself without a heart. That matter must have a heart is evident in the force it impels rather the one it dispels and disposes. I witness no manifest of estrangement and many implications of such in physics will be discussed in this pace and time series.

And the mind? Must it enter the spatial estate of the heart dead or alive? Must it falter and fail never having been kindled? Is it in essence a resource estranged from its source without any relational element to reference its existence?

I came upon a snow man recently, maker unknown. And as I watched the figure in its estate, life struck me not as the rich investment of life and existential animation it is but as oddity to its realistic and rudimentary disposition. It held no evidence of ancestral, systemic or organic disposition. Could the evidence of life be merely symbolic or purely imaginative?

As I walked closer to inspect the figure, it came alight in all its artificial confirmations as some null entity may—material proclaiming vacuous estate, arms stretched aside made of leafless tree stems, eyes made from tree barks. However did it come alight?

It needed scientific reconditioning despite its glorious state. I smiled and whispered under my breadth as I closed in on the figure, “Let’s call it scientific reconditioning.” I tugged at the arms. The thickening ice around the tree stems made the effort harder than it should be. It pulled through without destroying the form of the figure. I then repositioned it by inserting it in the head of the figure rather than the sides as arms. The repositioning was hard as well but I made sure it was cleanly achieved so the form of the figure is preserved. I did the same for the other arm.

The arms were now horns as they should be realistically. Snow never fall horizontally. The figure was starting to make sense as a horned animal rather than a snow man, a snow-deer perhaps. And such the world with the figure in it regained some realistic insight. A world where snow-men rather than snow-deer are imaginative is less scientific than one where snow-deer is imaginative because science cannot induct its imagining against its base facts otherwise they cannot be called scientific imaginings. Despite fact based origination, imaginings are yet merely that—imaginings.

Imaginings cannot animate life without the elements of life being accessible as an implication, presence and activity. That is, that there is a base fact animating the validity of the imagining.

Life animating life is a much serious subject as it must go beyond the implication of base scientific facts as presence and activity to ultimately call upon a space-time-self-alertness dynamics imply against the opposing fact—the affirmation of death.

It is better to have your head in the clouds, and know where you are… than to breathe the clearer atmosphere below them, and think that you are in paradise.

-Henry David Thoreau

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