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Is It For Real?
Dec. 7th, 2003 11:35 amDecember 7; there is a movie on BBC - detectives discuss a crime committed on December 7, 1996, and they say - it happened 7 years ago. Wow. Do they change the timestamp every time they play it? Is not it the same kind of artifact as the cat walking twice in the Matrix? Twice the brindled cat hath walked.
Or is it all in my mind only? I've been thinking lately, what's the secret of me and my wife thinking or saying the same thing at once? I came to a conclusion that it is me who thinks and her who says. Recently I started noticing that some other people do it too - repeat after me, when I say something silently, to myself.
E.g., last weekend, Oct. 30th, we went to a restaurant, and there was a cute group of nicely dressed black people, obviously right from the church. One guy had the end of his necktie on his shoulder. Funny, I thought in Russian, he has a tie on his shoulder. The guy did not react. Then I repeated the thought in English, very-very clearly: "you have a tie on your shoulder". And the guy immediately took it off.
You have to think clearly if you want other people to understand what you think. Or at least to beleive other people understand you. Who cares about real reality? Is Live Journal a reality? Is tv a reality? My son, when he was five, asked me whether we were for real or on tv. I was sure to know the answer then. Forgot it since.
Or is it all in my mind only? I've been thinking lately, what's the secret of me and my wife thinking or saying the same thing at once? I came to a conclusion that it is me who thinks and her who says. Recently I started noticing that some other people do it too - repeat after me, when I say something silently, to myself.
E.g., last weekend, Oct. 30th, we went to a restaurant, and there was a cute group of nicely dressed black people, obviously right from the church. One guy had the end of his necktie on his shoulder. Funny, I thought in Russian, he has a tie on his shoulder. The guy did not react. Then I repeated the thought in English, very-very clearly: "you have a tie on your shoulder". And the guy immediately took it off.
You have to think clearly if you want other people to understand what you think. Or at least to beleive other people understand you. Who cares about real reality? Is Live Journal a reality? Is tv a reality? My son, when he was five, asked me whether we were for real or on tv. I was sure to know the answer then. Forgot it since.
