Tasks / Graph Of Desire
Generate a graph of your desires.
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I've been trying to graph my desire for months now. I'm finding it very difficult. If I ever find success, you'll see it in the praxis. But you may be right.
I beg to differ with you Myra.
But seriously, I do agree, I have no idea in hell how to complete this task.
Lincoln, why don't you apply it to a desire you wish to eradicate?
Perhaps.
We'll see if I can wrap my brain around it in any way.
How the dickens do you isolate a desire though? I might want a cup of tea but really I want the warmth and thirst quenching qualities as well as the fact I love tea. Which desire do I graph and even those can be broken down further. I don't really think I'm thirsty yet when I think of tea it makes me thirsty.
Case in point, Adam Smythe. By breaking down your desire you have already begun to negate it. I couldn't have illustrated it more beautifully.
Sorry Myrna, but If that was true, there would be no such thing as love songs and all the other odes to people's desires.
From "How do I love thee, let me count the ways" to "I like big butts and I cannot lie." From "I want to hold your hand" to "I wanna sex you up"
If ones desire scatters if one shines a weak light on it, then maybe one should reexamine how much affection is really there. Any amount of talking and thinking about my beloved, say, chocolate, will only make me desire it more.
No?
mmm, i could really go for some chocolate...
It depends on how you approach it. If you enjoy desiring a particular thing/person/experience, then why analyze it, why negate it? Indeed, you should just write a song about it instead.
Furthermore, analyzing a desire might subvert that desire, but does not necessarily eliminate any fondness or affection for that thing/person/experience. Ask any recovering alcoholic.
I mean only to apply rationality to irrational or unwanted desires. Enjoy your chocolate.
Ah, but talking about it isn't exactly the same as graphing it, quatifying it.
A love song speaks to the quality (or qualia) of love, but not the quantity, really. You can say "I like big butts", and when someone says "how much" the only real answer most of the time is "a whole lot". If you dig in and start asking the detailed questions to quantify the love of big butts, you get lost fast. How big is "big". Whose butts qualify and whose don't. Is it just because of size? Shape? or could the face of the person help qualify the butt as one you love. Does the butt look bigger when the face is prettier? What if she likes football?
When you start having to answer all those questions, it is a whole lot easier just to throw in the towell and start focusing on something else... like Myrna's lips, for instance.... ahem... I mean mouths in general, of course... slip of the tongue there.
you people are really annoying, and to tell you the truth, i think you have accomplished the task already....you are demostrating a desire to argue a point. okay, you win! but personally, i think that if you really desire something, and you really desire to do this task, you just fucking do it... stop this nonsensical bull shit.
Um... BUNE, if you look below you'll notice that I have completed it. And I don't think the "argument" is about semantics at all... or at least it is about how the semantics of trying to articulate desire into a quantifiable norm in order to graph it affects the desire itself. And it does affect the desire just as a scientist's observations affect the outcome (and graph) of their experiments.
I've done the task and I speak from experience about how examining the desires changed the desires. Some of those examinations were painful ones, and that pain certainly messed with any pleasure thinking about the desires and trying to quantify them brought.
The point of this area of each task is so folks can talk about and around a particular task when they're preparing to do it or when they've done it... or just to joke about the task. You don't have to read it. Calling it nonsensical bullshit is a little insulting, though. So, I'm going to challenge you back. quit complaining about what is said here and do the task yourself. Then come back here and I'll be happy to read about whether or not examining your desires changed them.
Geez, just enjoying a little conversation. (Hope i didn't come off as bitchy or anything, Ms. Minx).
Why's everybody so touchy lately?
If you're not interested by the conversation, then I invite you to stay out of it. eh?
Either one'a you ladies can touch me any time.
Oh, all right... you too JTony.
Not at all, Bex!
i love a little intelligent discourse!
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