Eye: What is a visionary?
Ewe: A person who can see.
Eye: Isn't it true that most people can see?
Ewe: I'm not denying that.
Eye: I mean that I believe that I see more than most
people.
Eye: By connecting everything I have ever seen into one
congruent image.
Ewe: [Sorry if this
confuses you, but that is why it is in a different color. Up to this point, I
have been trying to use the first person point of view in these writings. I'm
warning you that that point of view has now gone out the window.] What does that mean?
Eye: That means that I can see everything, all at once.
Most people just use their eyes.
Ewe: Ok then, how do you see, other than using just
your eyes.
Eye: For that, of course, an example is needed. A
startfish is always a good example.
Eye: Because it exists.
Ewe: Why not pick a tree, or a dog, or a cat . . .
hell, why not just pick a freakin' stop sign.
Eye: Fine. We'll use a stop sign, although there are
two reasons why I didn't pick the stop sign to begin with.
Eye: Right. There are three reasons why I didn't pick
the stop sign to begin with.[[[I take it that no
one was expecting that Spanish Inquisition, right?]]]]1.) Stop signs involve driving, and that is an entirely
different, if not more complex, concept. 2) I needed a plug for bubba. 3)It
was the first thing that came to my mind.
Eye: Child, there are more points flying around this
page than there are in an entire basketball season.
Ewe: But more specifically . . .
Eye: Right, the stop sign. Or does that mean I cannot
continue.
Ewe: As far as I can tell, you haven't continued yet
. . . except for this non-existent conversation.
Eye: When you first look at the stop sign, you see
language.
Eye: Do you know what "Yeah, I guess" means?
Ewe: It means that I am vaguely aware of what you
are referring to. However, by using those words, I am stating that I do not
require any more information. I understand that connection.
Eye: Oh yeah? Try this. Explain to me how your mind
bio-chemically allows for understanding the sign's meaning.
Ewe: Dude, I couldn't do that! Frickin' scientists
can't do that.
Eye: I can.
Eye: Would you like me to?
Ewe: Yeah, but could you do it in terms I
understand?
Eye: That's what I've been trying to do since you read
the first word you ever read on these pages.
Ewe: Well, to make it simple for us "not-so-deranged"
folk, could you start with the stop sign?
Eye: Ok, but that really depends on what aspect of the
stop sign you'd care to examine.
Ewe: It's a damn stupid stop sign. It doesn't seem
that complicated to me!!
Eye: In normal every-day usage [e.g. stopping at the stop
sign], it doesn't seem all that complex to me either. However, when I
actually take the time to look at it, it becomes infinitely complex.
Eye: Duh! But I am actually trying to make a
point.
Ewe: I think the points all flew out the windows a
short time ago.
Eye: Perhaps, but I'll do it anyway. If I were trying to
prove to someone that I was a visionary, by my meaning of the word, I would
show him my ability to create a logical [or most-plausible in the worst case
scenario] explanation for any phenomena.
Ewe: Such as seeing a stop sign, right?
Eye: Right. The first thing that happens is that you see
the stop sign.
Eye: This happens first because in using our eyes, we are
also using light.
Ewe: And that happens first because light travels at
the speed of light . . .
Eye: Which "appears" to be the speed limit of the
universe. [I use the word "appears" because I don't believe that all that math
stuff we humans have is complete.]
Ewe: Ok, so we see the sign and then . .
.
Eye: No. The sight isn't complete yet. Focus,
focus!
Contestant on The $25,000 Pyramid: Things
that witches say.
Voice over: No, silly, that's "Hocus
Pocus.
Ewe: Why isn't the process complete yet?
Eye: Because I've only mentioned the stuff that happens
outside the body. You know, photons and stuff. Photons are the little tiny
"particles" of light that travel really fast. Kinda like an atom, only an
atom has mass, or weight.
Eye: So then the particle of light hits the lens on your
eyeball. Yes, "lens" is a technical term.
Ewe: Great, just what I didn't need to
hear.
Eye: Well, it eventually passes from the lens of the eye
to the nerve cell. Here is where the picture gets interesting.
Eye: The first part of the nerve cell says, hey, I
recognize this stuff. It is supposed to travel in this direction.
Ewe: The nerve cell says that?
Eye: Well, no. But, if nerve cells were capable of
speech, that is what they would say. Anywhoo, as the nerve impuse travels
into the rest of your brain, things like color and hue get added. . . unless,
of course, you're blind, but in that case you wouldn't be driving so it
doesn't matter all that much what a stop sign does look like.
Ewe: And your basis for these claims are . . .
what?
Eye: That smoking can ruin your health.
Eye: Well, when it comes down to conceptualization, the
easiest place to start is CERTAINLY NOT at a sign that says "Stop"!!
Ewe: So where would one start then?
Eye: With a story about creation.