As many people know, I have been unable to find solid ground in my philosophical quest. I have found no certainty about what words are, nor have I found a firm foundation for thinking.
Therefore, there is no choice but to learn to cope with "not knowing" and "emptiness."
Today is exactly 1 week before Trump becomes president for the 2nd time. The world feels in anticipation of something big. And it's not good. Much will change, but how, no one knows yet. An ominous, dark shadow.
As human beings we have our own consciousness. We ask ourselves who and what we are and what we are capable of. We can do this very well by ourselves. But the answer also comes from outside ourselves. We are given language by our parents and by society. And we are given stories. Fairy tales, stories from the Bible, stories from our parents and grandparents. And at school we are given stories about our country and about science. These stories give us many answers (whether they are true or not).
Mardoe is the strangest word in the mirdan-philosophy (and that is saying something).
Mardoe is the word without meaning.
You can think about this for a while, but it is possible to have a word without meaning. We, humans, are able to do that.
At first it appears as if mardoe is not stable, it automatically gets a meaning after a while. The vacuum of mardoe wants to be filled. That is not a problem. When a useful meaning appears, just give it another name. It has become another word and mardoe will appear again with the next attempt to stay meaningless.
Pu is the word we use to express not knowing in the Mirdan Philosophy (blog 1).
There is a boundary between knowing and not knowing that we frequently encounter and cross ( blog 2).
An example of such a boundary: Computers are made according to simple rules, while we live in a world that often does not fit the boxes the computers operate on. (blog 3).
The behaviour of cows is unpredictable. You read it in my previous blog "Cows and not-knowing".
And when that behaviour leads to changes in the ecosystem, the ecosystem is unpredictable too.
That's what I learned in my internship.
After my internship I saw the same pattern more often.
The behaviour of individual people is unpredictable, especially when a lot of people interact with each other.
This leads to a completely unpredictable society.
A young bull lived in a small herd in a nature reserve on the shores of a lake.
He felt strong, but was, like any young animal, at the bottom of the hierarchy.
One day he challenged a senior bull, it was a mistake, he was expelled from the herd.
The nature reserve was small, so he could not really leave, but returning to the herd was impossible too.
He took the gamble and swam into the lake, quite far away there was a small island. There he was safe from the herd.
Pu is the first word of the mirdan philosophy.
It is the word for everything we do not know or understand.
Imagine you do not know the meaning of life, then that will be pu for you.
Or you do not know what you want to do this afternoon, also pu.
More examples of pu are:
We now live in a post-modern world
It is as if we still live in the structures and truths of the old world, but no longer believe in it.
These old structures continue to collapse and we stand there and watch it happen. It makes us fearful, because there is nothing else yet, but we cannot or do not want to prevent this collapse.
We could make another attempt at repairing, check if it can even be repaired. Or we can do something else.
The time has come not only see the lack of relativity of these old truth but the time has come to say goodbye to them.
Pu means: Everything I don't know or understand at this moment.
Pu is an abstraction, comparable to R in math.
It's like a mathematical set of all mental components you classify as "don't know or don't understand". It has no counterpart in the real world, it only exists in your mind.
