Red: Do you drink alone
Waverly: Of course not, good God, what do you take me for, some sort of miscreant? I drink with MySelf
R* YourSelf?
W* No, MySelf; I find most others tend to inquire about things which I’ve no interest in discussing
R* So you talk with yourself?
W* No, I’m not crazy, I talk with MySelf
R* I don’t follow, how do you mean, MySelf but not – YourSelf?
W* MySelf, Me, I, you know; Yourself, You, her/she; See?
R* Yes, but no, not really. What’s the difference between MySelf & YourSelf, theoretically speaking?
W* MySelf is the person I am, it’s me, not the person that you or anyone else perceive – what/who I know, intrinsically. YourSelf, or You, is that person that others see or create or reify to fit their perceptions of the being they are interacting with.
R* But why do you feel the need to differentiate based on the reality in your self and the perception of others?
W* I don’t, it’s just the way it is, I didn’t make the rules.
R* I’m sorry, you didn’t make the rules?
W* Well No, I’ve no say in the matter, it’s just the way it is, was, will be.
R* I’ve never heard anyone make this argument before so…
W* that’s because it’s not an argument, it’s a basic principle of existence.
R* Since when?
W* Since the Universes.
R* The Universes? But what does 100 billion years of space have to do with perceptions and realities?
W* Nothing.
R* Then why did you say it’s a principle existence of time eternal?
W* Because it is. Just because the universe doesn’t take credit for a principle doesn’t mean it hasn’t always been. You have to believe that certain things ARE, simply because they ARE, not because you can explain or define or deconstruct them. If that were the case, we’d have died off before the first Pithecus walked upright.
R* Why
W* Life doesn’t have time for that sort of interrogation when trying to survive. The question of perception, as it is and as it’s perceived, constructed, reconstructed, retooled, disembowled, reconfigured, reimagined, is a question that spans more millennia than recorded history has recorded. Perception, as a general construct, seems quite simple, yes? And therefore people think of it as a very cut & dried subject, concrete, static, when in fact it’s one of those ideas that plays out in a variety of ways, maybe a 1000 or 10,000, in one mind, and in 10 minds, interacting with one another, giving every variant thought hundreds of new, additional thoughts, and on and on. This is why A.I. will never capture the essence of creativity. Not human creativity, not animal creativity, plant, rock, soil, water, air, nothing, it’s too stupid to consider the nuance of the way one person’s perception colors another’s & it most certainly won’t ever go through any of the life experiences that we have, or that river’s have, or anything else.
R* OK, this is heavy, I didn’t think my initial question would result in my brain hurting.
W* Well, that’s part of the deal, we ask questions without knowing answers, or maybe thinking we know the answers, and sometimes we’re unsurprised and sometimes we’re dumbfounded by what we hear. There’s no reason to feel inept or unable, life is hard, and stupid, and ridiculous, and full of both the circuitous and the non-linear that proves to be linear long after the fact. Though linear isn’t even a term that we can ascribe a particular definition to as we need look no further than latitude and longitude and the process of delineating seemingly curved straight lines that have no beginning and no end, and are based on the make-up of the earth as it was several hundred years ago, and the trajectory it follows, which changes, and therefore changes the make-up of the orb as it is at any given point, and over time changes the degree to which earth’s land masses and atmospheres are affected by the forces of gravity and radiation and pressure and volcanic activity and tectonic shifts and then with the poles shifting, slightly, and constantly, possibly causing further disruptions in the continuum that we rely on for our alarm clocks, altering the very definition of what we think of as fixed and therefore throwing all previous knowledge relating to everything in recorded history out the proverbial window.
R* So you’re saying that if you drink with myself then you’re drinking alone
W* fer fuck’s sake, how in the fuck would I drink w/ yourself, don’t you mean you, drink with you
R* you said that yourself was not the same as myself – so then wouldn’t I refer to yourself as myself if referencing something that you’re engaged in?
W* No, that’s non-sensical
R* I don’t get it. Myself & yourself don’t mean the same when speaking about yourself but when speaking about someone else they do mean the same?
W* myself & yourself never mean the same thing, regardless of who’s using them
R* can we start over?
W* This is why I drink… with MySelf