Behaving

 Lagrange ‘La-grain-je’: November Essay for Saint Michael

11/1/23

Preface:

I write to formalize Lagrange in order to confirm with others that body language relates to archetypal, symbolic, and primitive means of relating to others. As I often think it’s best at times to write for people having a terrible go at making sense of life, I offer this rationale to people who are too steeped in self-diagnosis and find themselves disoriented every morning, unable to break the habit of a far too egotistical narrative that prevents them from noticing the newness of every day. Accepting the human body as symbol, they will be able to notice their odd behavior in private is more normal than they think and not being too hard on yourself in mind is something we are all, in an area, striving toward, and that by accepting physics, distance, and granting intelligence and the ability to learn to others, one can escape traps of culture that do not fulfill an individual human’s want for freedom and belonging; you spin around in your kitchen because you are human; if you feel dizzy, that makes sense, and you need not blame yourself. 

While reading, one practices the pose and letter of the reader, which is a key demonstration of Patience and Duration, the psychological reality of time and study; while noticing that if what one is reading becomes too hard to comprehend at once, they should feel they can trust others in the surrounding area will benefit from the reader taking a break and grounding oneself in the silence of a room. The information is of value, but not more value than natural processes. Patience and Duration in a community is constantly valuable.

What you are learning enriches the possible vocabulary and propositions of ideas that if missing make a far bleaker world. 

While philosophers argue of the proof of ‘other minds,’ we must learn to respect other bodies and understand all that is intelligent in simple.

It is nature and instinct that allow us to understand one another; we need not attribute this nakedness to conspiracy, but to refined human instinct. If I am sitting at peace, I should start to notice that by not bothering me others approve of this discipline. Our proximity is communication. I am yet another author who assures you in the rote style that ‘you matter and can believe in yourself,’ though if Dream is a general quality you must allow Earth a dream. Let there be a reality based on physics and other people you need not agree with on some things while you can affirm basics and support that demonstrates cooperation

I.               Letters of Lagrange, the non-verbal language originated in Worcester, MA 

To tell you ‘it’s all body language’ is not enough to educate the observer who can identify and participate in this language to function in local society with less argument and realize many representations of opinion and truth never grasp the lived human experience that is constant and has a natural rationale one learns over time. 

There is preverbal understanding.

Understanding is not exclusive but should be common as it is the essence of what we are doing and who we are as a species.

If there were formal signs of Lagrange, which I call the “letters,” they might be as listed below. Keep in mind these letters are not forced movements but learned behavior and reflexes that can be recognized as support and empathy of others who, if you then proceed to talk to about this communication, if you feel compelled to walk, let’s say 400 steps and approach them as what you consider a friend to confirm the present simultaneous harmony verbally, you might find that other human frustrated, as you needed more confirmation that things are okay. The less we need from others in terms of verbal explanation, or the more satisfying we find the things in our immediate area, the more agency you will have and the more you will understand the weight of your individual presence in a public setting, taking back the integrity. 

 The point of formalizing Lagrange is to help younger people notice that the inexplicable understanding of others is in fact based on natural proceedings that are sometimes too obvious to talk about as they are the essence of the human circumstance, and Lagrange should assist our ability to facilitate peaceful conversations, for, instead of the people around us being compared to media, we first establish commonalities. 

1.     Baby steps – patting the feet on the ground gently to acknowledge the correlation between the presence and reality of children and the responsibilities of an adult.

2.     The role model spin – a circular motion of the individual indicating ‘rotation,’ ‘time keeping,’ the rotation of celestial bodies.

3.     The elevator finger point – signifying vertical growth, a straightening of the spine, the idea of moving upward.  

4.     Right foot for force

5.     Left foot for discipline in peace  

6.  Sitting at rest – obviously we should be evolved enough post 2023 to recognize the eastern custom to sit with legs crossed and western notion that having one’s back straight on pew kneelers are both types of meditative postures and is one of the absurd conflict of opposites such as choosing either mustard or ketchup. 

7.    Air gavel slam – good judgment, objective law, and the nearby courthouse. 

8.   Any mutual acknowledgment of ether or light relative to a human body, such as the straight neck under a halo as in a religious painting. This is called ‘light-work’ in new-agey spirituality talk. Though, I submit you will benefit from grounding yourself in an established religion, namely Christianity. Jesus being anthropomorphic, changed monotheism by making the human body God’s representative; we work back toward the body, away from the world as a contrivance of different rhetorics. 

9.  The gestural sling of a ‘stone’– reference to David’s story of slaying Goliath, champion of the Philistines, that is King David, in whose “house” Jesus was born.

10. The height of a cane – this makes the term ‘old’ something constant and relative to the floor, like an old person might just want everyone to feel relaxed in body, not horde the idea of age. 

11. Fleetingly gnawing on the fingernails – a joke about our nerves. 

12. The fool 

13. The sage’s flick of the wrist as if turning a large staff meaning a world-view, a particular one based on history that affects the character of an area; the sage mediates information to make it cohesive and workable within an actual earthen environment and has studied layers of discourse. 

14. The sway of a tree

15. The reader – the pose and act you participate in now, an important act of contemplation and patience that builds Duration.

16. The curling stone – a slow moving object indicative of slow pace relative to the human body, a slow sport.

17. The detective’s magnifying glass pointed at the ground – signifying the investigative process ironically meant in this language to be aimed at the root of an issue or to find the criminal to blame, which is nothing. 

18. The sasquatch – the ineffable.

19. A lick of salt off the back of the hand – a reminder of lowliness, meekness, for “You are the salt of the earth” (Matthew 5:13). This is best not biased towards the salt lick before a shot of tequila, though not making a big stink of another’s drunkenness is inherent of this principle. 

20. The hip C – a very singular slap of a C shaped hand to the pelvis. This letter I was shown by Michael, though previously was shown through art that it was a gang sign; one realizes this sign alone is not violent, that jumping to a conclusion about a subtle gesture is absurd and generalizing; I submit that showing where the legs divide from the torso, one realizes they must stand firm and avoid lust as a unique body. Considering C as a letter, there is a complex about gang culture, scripture, cryptic, and ‘the crips.’ To be shown this once, or to demonstrate it, is similar to being in a religion you are in till death, and one need only take on the responsibility of doing the right thing as an adult, after people empathize with you in times of peril, as people are prone to do strange rites as their display of accepting you and you might not forget that they too feel misunderstood. I submit this gesture might have been a sign for early sects of Christians. It is grounding because to know of this letter does not mean you support national violence, but rather don’t generalize about what might just be a reaction or learned behavior in a stressful environment shown by another unique person. Obviously in working with pantomimes, it is in all people’s best interest to work away from ones that have connotations that might prevent one from adapting in other environments. 

21. The subtle backwards trust fall – not an entire fall, but a mock fall backwards indicating the earth as supportive.

22. The shirk away, as if cowering from the sunlight – indicative of brilliance.

23. The toss up of ether rice – indicative of the present and also marriage bonds which prove moral organization perceived by adults. A young person who is lost and hurt will find new understanding of societal order if they realize the unreality of individual egoism in a marriage and respect that bond and institution as law.

24. The drink of water – signifying the literal and symbolic purity, importance, commonality and cleansing powers of water. Water as a “drink” being different from alcohol is a correlative with innocence and Baptism. 

25. The obvious counting with nods of the head or fingers – indicating numbers, the reality that our experience is confirmed and shared by others, and so is a burden. The most important numbers on a daily basis being the number of people around you who you love rather than our grandiose notions of gain or astronomical amounts that are useful in context but not on the basis of clarity for a reasonable amount of people.

26. A lick or point to the canine tooth – a nod to the dog, man’s best friend, an animal with loyalty and good hearing, and also the symbol of ancient Cynics. There is also the indication of a phantom dog at one’s side signifying the same things, whilst dog training is like learning to civilize our animal urges. 

27. The mutterance of self-talk – indicative of coaching oneself, the reality that we do talk to ourselves to reason in private, ought to be able to in good conscience in a sane world, and also that we might explain to children below us rather than worry about how something makes sense to ourselves. Notice that forgiving another of this is to also spare oneself the pathology of psychological infirmities or oddities we unprofessionally or too industrially apply in a culture that has moved from sin to disease to explain imperfection. 

28. Human body as ren (人) – evidence of being one of many rather than overly individual and removed from the people, a flash of grace given the letter is the shape of a person in motion.

29.  The popped glove – doctor.

30. The home run swing – good reflexes. There are many advantages to using sports as a way to signal physics. In a room, a thought experiment may be done to set people at corners of a baseball diamond. Outside, one might map the ground by the distance between themselves and a person at the end of an endzone or by a goal. With caution I acknowledge that solely relying on sports may cause one to not understand the sobriety of the commonplace where we can make a game but ought to be mature enough to sophisticate our idea of winning. If one already has peace of mind, one need not focus on more games but stopping any game before competition or a need to prove physical strength causes us to mistreat one another. Old men don’t need to run from linebackers. Lagrange uses pantomimes, though toward the literal without anxious motion. 

31. Memes from social media – memes are biological trends before they were ever viral behavior being imitated from videos seen on a handheld or desktop screen. They are part of the human development from day to day in a given physical area, but due to communication technologies we can notice at a glimpse that a total stranger also resembles a ridiculous dog meme from our skimming leisurely on the internet. The impression is in our mind but likely they also see the same viral memes and we can relate and chuckle. Keep in mind, a lot of internet usage is for entertainment. Although a computer is a research machine, we gaze into phones or screens to calm down; devices are like security blankets, and how they affect our minds probably won’t be studyable for a hundred years. A meme, like a cool dog, is understood as humor and playfulness while we balance singularity; the notion that by 2023 digital technology and machinery is becoming indistinguishable from organic life. Alackaday, despite the impressiveness of technologies, the ability of internet memes to spread, and the convincing nature of internet media, I submit that, by the nature of human instinct, we are more in touch with people in our immediate environment. A physical person will need to assist you if you fall off your chair or run away from your cubit to look for sense, not someone you chat with or wait for a call from to feel befriended. While we watch a movie on a screen, laugh at a photo, gape in horror at a movie or newscast, understand your bodily feeling and behavior affects those in the rooms next door and those you are collaborating with daily outside to make society normal. People who ‘feel you’ can relate. You are not alone, literally. The representation and expression of people even if talking in real time via a communication technology may be less proximate and cannot be second to the observer's physical area. I think people get themselves in a lot of psychological trouble by imagining they are actually more connected to things at a far distance than they are while the notion of unseen things is those specific relationships being evident more generally by people in one’s surroundings. The presence of mothers, fathers, etc. The feeling of existential crisis is a trepidation absolutely no one wants to feel and mediatable through reason and respect for the sense of others. Communication technology is a feat of technology, but humanity communicates without it even if that is less evident and requires trust. We have made it a habit to deny our constant connection with others by nature in order to feign privacy but this is just unrealistic and leads to paranoia and a misunderstanding of true influence. If you have to hide in a room to do something, don’t do it. In a room, cherish peace of mind and don’t doubt you are acting. 

32. The semblance of a famous actor – the mature person wants to work away from the oversimplification of the appearances of others being too quickly compared to a celebrity, as they will meet more people and notice more people rather than an idol. We learn, whether consciously or unconsciously, from the movies we watch at night. I submit that acting should be understood as being mindful of behavior and acting from experience of the duration of time, keeping composure as an empathetic human working bravely to maintain true integrity in public places, rather than acting being the zany notion that one deserves so much credit for things they physically do not do. Theologically, we might mistake our transcendence for something that makes us more important than others forgetting that we are often trying to achieve influence that must involve others; if a behavior helps your happiness and health and is no harm to another letter, as a person, normalize the behavior; you can gauge if your letter is accepted into the rotation of letters or if you’re decision is in the people’s best interests, liberation and order.

33. The blind person’s cane –  a reminder not to stare at others and/or that what one ‘works on’ has value and is relevant even if out of sight. The blind cane relative to the body also reminds us to care for those with handicaps. Faith is trusting there is something substantial for an extended amount of time despite material.

34. The student’s backpack and the ether jetpack – the spine and back are important in understanding the human body as the letter. Education remains a path to liberation and a great priority. One might notice the backpack in the presence of a school zone. The ether jetpack reminds us we are in the future.

35. The heavy legs as if legs are held by two toddlers – signifying commitment and homelife. This is a good example of a letter that is earned by duration. One uncommitted consciously breaks the build up of this weight and movement as if breaking a tackle. I suppose some days we do either. We should be mindful always of our biggest commitments and build our ability to focus in public which is supported if the focus is the good we build at home. 

36. The steering wheel motion – signifying taking the wheel, being able to steer one’s life, but also pantomimed when a walker passes a driver while they stand nearby. Lagrange asserts that we feel related to the body in the vehicle rather than the vehicle. Despite the allure of machines, we should be people first communities, industry second.

37. Thumb suck – signifying toddlers and the notion of the ingestion as well as oral fixation in innocence.

38.  The church hunch –  all buildings converted, cathedral ceiling height regarded, and proof that any conception of a prime mover ought to be based on collective religion. The church ceiling is high, but not so high as the sky.

39. The self-love hug – though we may try, we will stumble and hurt, so we must remember to consciously love our own bodies and cherish who you are. 

40.  Breathing

41. Indicating the East – acknowledging the cardinal directions of Earth, specifically where the sun will rise in the future. 

42. Flapping of the arms – indicative of angels, higher thinking, a raise of perception and vertical standing without attachments to a cruddy and accusatory view of the human form. 

43. Pointing to, feeling, or emphasizing one’s own heart – The physical heart remains a logical mystery because it is not where we think, but regulates our blood flow, and while others might have different ideas, they too have hearts; finding oneself puffing one’s breast, you might be reminding yourself and others of the location of this vital organ.

 II.              Practicality of the human body as letter in ordinary places 

 The letters formalized in section 1 are symbolic pantomimes that become instinctual means of doing the right thing regardless of comparison between people. They in fact lead to more privacy and freedom as one separates body from whatever they think ‘everyone’ is thinking or talking about. One finds themselves demonstrating these movements in private, and finds it remarkable how reasonable the pantomimes become. 

What’s more, realizing gestures in an innocent attempt to relate and name phenomena, which could otherwise be condemned as ‘quirks,’ gang signs, or asserted ‘medical’ conditions, can help to orient oneself each day as a way to relate with way more people in public.

When standing in line at a CVS, some might fear they are going to start to ideate again about the skeletons in their closet and feel like a pariah, and then associate with all the terrible people they ‘know’ rather than realize they are in good company as other people have similar experiences;  this is the use of relating to archetypes, to understand their are commonalities. Relief is not going to come from a deep conversation about whatever the heck; it’s more likely to come from a person who clicks her own heels like Dorothy to imply humor and fancy. Not to mention that angst was yesterday, or two years ago, not now, while you wait for the register at CVS. Political or sensational rhetoric becomes cognitive rhetoric and the human forgets they are a mortal, biological organism with limited mobility, or never even realize that simple nature after being so taken by solving the problems of ‘society.’ 

Although humans will solve the bigger issues, the next step is literal. Trusting that more people than not are working toward the same self-knowledge is how one bears the storms of ego.

On a bus ride, no one talks and we say see this is a ‘cold society,’ but really every person gets on and off the bus and tries to find peace, goes through hard things, ex-girlfriends, dead family members, news of impending disaster, drug addictions, etc. and a disheveled stranger is willing to relate to the most stressed out man in the world simply by sitting there on the bus alive. What is said or heard in passing is an attempt to articulate what too will pass. A generation feeling social anxiety has been asked to look at themselves while clearly our societies are geographically based, filled with innumerable things, and we look far and wide and theoretically instead of seeing one another as resources, not to sell and gain, but to feel and relate. 

Information technology will inspire our views but it does not change the common setting as much as the buzz has led us to associate. A person is on one seat. A person is on another seat. You could commit a crime then, or you could not. Your feeling is not about the man who might in theory commit a crime, but rather you feel differently because you are in an automobile traveling 60 miles an hour. That’s the naked reality that could lead to a new day of less cyclical thinking. Everyone wants relief. To spend time on the bus with a stranger is to spend time with one or a unit of nine billion. Quite literally you have the ability to persuade the worst most dangerous person ever to not act destructively, and we should consider it ‘work’ to empathize, to use simple signs to show empathy rather than needing to know what exactly is going on with another person for us to feel safe. 

To feel belonging without so much effort, we must allow more people to be relevant to our life and train our judgment to be about physics rather than categorization while studying in private about people in an anthropomorphic sense or learning though movies and art, but we don’t need to talk to them or know anything about them necessarily, as we might just be forcing a person to be more complicated as we are used to talking to another person in that way. It is in the nature of reality that it can be confirmed by others, or needs to be, if the conception is useful for the common good, which could be a healthy relationship to The Present. 

You establish enough commonality by making your behavior consistent, you help orient and encourage countless others. 

In a bus or in a line you communicate enough by standing at attention or sitting at peace. Others will confirm this if you ebb from your state of knowing you are enough.

Consider emotions as communication.

In America, 48 million people cannot read above a third grade level yet we act like the political language we use makes sense for us to reach a workable and communicable understanding. People with dramatically different experiences and world-views live at the same time in American cities using different languages. In many situations, verbal language exchange by conversation is inappropriate or impossible. One can’t divert from their responsibilities as an adult to interrupt a person’s day on the other side of the street because in life, not a movie, what’s most important is Concentration. 

You might talk, but the resulting language of a relaxed body need not stress for meaning and is better simple. 

III.            Larger organization and the Intellect

The realization that the people around you and you are in cahoots is mistaken for paranoia if not understood as natural human instinct.

 One need not think they can solve the issues of the world alone when there is also a neighbor in the same building who would need to be ‘in the know’ about this proposed solution to all ailments and their would need to be a tedious coordination with people in other professions to lead this grandiose campaign. While we dare to think positively and healthily and even in a visionary sense, we can confirm being in touch with other when, after an evening’s contemplation, we walk out the next day to find neighbors demonstrating the same biological means; the larger organization and effect of one’s thoughts are immediate but no one person need take credit for mental wealth. Rather, wouldn’t the ideal be for everyone and anyone to relax on their property, have all they need, and feel fulfilled and in connection toward the universal goal of human liberation?

Yes, but what we mistake about influential figures is their geographical and mortal significance. 

A capable intellect, as more of us should be due to our access to information technologies, starts to learn the true experience of world-shifting ideas in their own time in the following manner; they understand the process of working with others simply to live toward a better world on earth. A human can’t share how significant the little things are in private; they cannot photograph all they experience without shifting and disrupting what brought them to that moment but find that love for life is translatable immediately by acknowledging the sensation, or energy, and becoming comfortable with what could be called, miracle, revelation, etc, or even just peace and happiness. These are phenomena that exist, not in competition with new technologies, but are simply other phenomena that have function and are often recognizable to more people. We forget natural sciences had and have involved religion and that there is a connection between funding and what is considered more advanced science, which is really just a more particular branch, microbiology, robotics, etc. Not all people want to create great work and lug around the alleged weight of that task; some are happy to be given a second to breathe or afford groceries. 

The intellect learns to trust neighbors and make longer lasting proofs not limited by commercial want. 

When experiencing Beauty, one need not, like Archimedes discovering buoyancy, jump from their bathtub at a Eureka moment and run down the street,  since they will only run into Rhonda Jones who is being evicted; the particulars of his discovery will lead to the wind being taken out of his sails, while if the inventor realizes his Relief and does not make it too personal, he allows others nearby to be content and provide more relief and wholesomeness to the community in which Rhonda will adapt.

If one’s work, a writing, a study, a machine, a service, etc. is seen to selfishly as a necessary contribution, they forget that the physical product may not be as important as the energy they generate in the process of working; and as for the worth of the product, we have gotten away from the balance that invention is good but much of what we create is not really so much helping people around us so much as it is making money, which is truly not the end all be all of existence so much as something quantifiable and so we think it makes sense.

Selfless behavior is not about gain, nor is it about getting credit, but should make the observer more aware and helpful.

Without attachment to something like Humor, one can enjoy other people’s happiness without the envious idea ‘why aren’t I as happy?’ but one should normalize and not be alarmed when people laugh for no reason.  

What’s more, trusting that fulfillment as a human is more similar than it is different one will understand they do have love and belonging, we simply just don’t have the same experiences with different people. To sit in a room and ideate about what one is not doing is silly work; of course you are not out somewhere conversing because you are there doing something else; appreciate what you are not doing. The numbers sit. Yes, they can feel it too. In a room, a happy intellect can help process reality in the terms they learn through reading, though must want every other person to understand this goodness and so should credit others understanding by their reflection of disciplined behavior. Our compulsion to record and share everything for confirmation on the internet or even with another person is antithetical to Langrange, this grounding system of body language formalized here in Worcester, Massachusetts.

All has not been done. 

A new day gives you, the reader, and her, the human outside, and countless others looking for confirmation, a chance to continue life. 

A hundred photos of foreign lands is not worth one peaceful moment where you are.

If you recall that no structure or life is to be taken for granted, take what you’ve survived as a testament of God’s promise and your own strength to endure again, you’ll see that that promised future reward is actually appreciation for where you are now, and that wanting anything contributes discord while order and routine and not getting bored of the ordinary is of immense help socially.

A wise person wins arguments by learning to not start or enter into arguments that are inherently below their goals due to limited vocabulary or persons who could care less if they make sense; their body may not be affected by banter, and by allowing others to talk while establishing commonality by physics they can ease tension and regard others as to not other them by granting others intelligence in this body language. 

Perhaps the root of evil is a cognitive need that the meditative eradicates and goes about doing so by integrating that solitude into normal public behavior.

Eventually, practicing discipline, sitting at night, noticing the precognitive nature of instinct and body language, if one has integrity, this is evident in their conscious action, their daily routine, habits, their livelihood, their social encounters, and their reaction, and the combination and sequence of letters they embody will be most sensible and garner much love and fellow feeling from those who they may find otherwise isolated concerning language and the logic of communication we recognize. However, one must realize they are working with many, and that exchange of information, shifting ideas, etc. may not happen formally. Perhaps a Christian is of universal help because they are grounded by the symbol of the cross and basic needs and appreciate rather than take credit for what they have and do; by allowing the greater organization to be a mystery rather than not, rather than what is popularly explained as the issue, they allow growth.

There is a difference between naivety and innocence. It is strong to be happy and not cause issues or need others approval.

One can notice much objectively by accepting the human form and finds there is much to base one’s reason on that is not sensational or debatable. 

A room is a place to train, to cultivate strength and mediate what is trivial or gossip versus the general direction of vitality of the masses around you, those in the hospital, those capable of triumph in their own way if empowered as equal; in privacy, we need not escape, but one must strive to be an asset for Peace, to embrace that by reading this paper indoors, relaxing, one is still in community. The intellect is not irresponsible or weak if their discipline or focus is allowed to be identified by a soldier who also values these faculties.

It is not having no regard for the struggles of foreign places, but to help local order by separating the term of a place from the sensation of ‘war,’ etc. 

The commonplace is lovely. If we can develop appreciation locally, perhaps Americans will become less of dependent consumers that then support data that empowers excessive need and dependence on money. We desire change, and change can be measured by time, something contorted by narratives on media which we forget after weeks, nevermind a year.

We tire of the outward showings of righteousness, those examples which would have it as if so many people were not also striving to better the world. 

We can’t express or know how many crimes are not happening. If we mediate paranoia alone amidst a city, learn to gravitate toward reason, like that shriek might actually be laughter and there is perhaps a friend nearby who looks out for this person who has made an outburst, we will find the mind has become too accustomed to irrational jumps and accusations when hearing noise. That this condemnation for the singularity of others’ behavior actually creates the negative influence stunting growth rather than acceptance and encouragement. 

Though, we must be able to support and feel happiness for others, just not only on occasion or because of livelihood, because are paid to do so, or whether the cause belongs to us. Strive toward seeing the body as innocent, not naive, but helpless against much and capable if realized in basic terms like mother, father, daughter,  and son etc. The universal of family is an alternative categorization that is better than psychological infirmity, race, friend or foe, nationality, when in passing. 

We should understand that others are progressing by Duration, getting older and more experienced naturally, more used to you and your good, and we need to move forward in our Rational, Inclusive Dream while having enough established basis between us so that we have secure footing and don’t need to rely on sensational new language each day that feigns logic because it’s promoted; the basis that will allow us to empower ourselves as citizens is based on earth and natural and ordinary surroundings, regional, not absolute but singular; when a group of people comes onto the bus speaking in poor English, you’ll find more often there is no problem there and we need to see humanity before we start to dip into the generalizations about who to blame.

Social anxiety can be mediated situation to situation and literal truth rather than opinion is a helpful indication to any ‘friend.’

 Lagrange, identifying the body as letter, rotates and reinvents so that one has an idea of what remains firm, the role model, physical conditions such as being in transit or sitting in a chair, the power of dream as in self-belief and love, the fact one’s concentration can be understood without invading privacy. We are at times easily irritated by one another, not because we are helplessly different, but because we are the same in essential ways we take for granted that would have us thinking anxiety, depression, etc. is something we need to make singular and complicated rather than a part of life you win over by the amount of minutes you feel free and realize absolutely no one wants to feel doomed or sad about the basics. As far as safety, we prevent a lot by acknowledging the simple in a situation but would sound ridiculous making statements like ‘the sky is blue.’ 

IV. Michael’s Rhetoric 

To have you understand Lagrange as grounding, applicable in other places but best understood as original and geographic for the sake of your own implementation on Earth, I must illustrate a one-of-a-kind human interaction. I am not saying that you could have the same experience or haven’t with what could be an archetype, but I believe I learned the basics of this language as if I was being taught what already existed from a master, and I am writing down what apparently only I could describe, my body being equally as original.

As a writer and one who loves to read, I had lost my sense of meaning due to excessive priority on internet media; notions such as ‘cancel culture’ suggesting that one could work as hard as they wanted but for no legitimate reason or for their own human flaws can be depicted online as a criminal, and that there is so much art on the internet and anyone can be an artist, suggesting what I strive for and sacrifice for is the same product as a person who has 300,000 views because online users find their product relatable or understandable. What I learned is that despite either of these things, cancel culture and art without history or dominant influence, as commodity or entertainment, what I focus on on a daily basis yields its own results; there is no absolute contribution in this life, rather, humans are best working together to process experiences and media and record only attempts to represent what life is.

To understand yourself as part of a community in which what you do is important because of how it makes you feel and to write in a method that denotes what does not get priority or cannot be described in other forums is to support Freedom and a Goodness so necessary for human nature that it is true religion and exists despite credit as it is that innate. The youth must understand in an age of many evidences, that there is a difference in doing it yourself, and although it appears like all has been done and is being done, this is probably the result of privilege; Lagrange can help one understand the absolute is not frozen, complete, but a process in which they can engage. 

I will describe Michael based on his relationship to land, his habits, how he was treated, and his speech. 

If one wanted to get a word from Michael, they would need to go outside and find him there, for he wasn’t the type of man one would plan to call on a phone; notice the exclusivity he had when he was a letter. Notice how absurd it would be to leave your room and seek out a singular wise person. In a time when I feared other men of my generation for their lack of the ability to judge accurately, I could walk up to Michael with all of my ‘bad feeling,’ and he’d only sit there and smile. My need for help was not an inadequacy. 

Up close, his stench was of use, reminding one of the baseness of the human animal, reminding one of the olfactory sense, like smelling salt. While one feared being judged, being labeled with hate-rhetoric, one really just forgot what it meant to be on earth, and it was key to learn that the fear and worry generated by media is not worth the feelings of hate or distrust toward people that would inspire an actual crime, or the crime of not realizing a talent or ability to be a contributing adult, that, despite our fear, life will pass us and that our passion used effectively enhances the experience. A communication device, such as a phone, with all the weaponized rhetoric from online, can give one a mind of nonsense, and many people are too proud to have a conversation; people not as morally conscience will not be deterred by this media like a thoughtful youth, so the careless or those who do not seek to improve communication will laugh at your articulations as they were already used to just sitting their and being careless, as if the divine is defined and maintained by those at too young an age to understand long term consequences, taking for granted that it takes effort to build and better society, plus a new generation cannot just lazily inherit meaning, and, as time goes on, ambition is more important than apparent acceptance in movie promoted social gatherings. 

Michael was not careless. 

His discipline I recognized after experiences with eastern holy men.

Michael dwelled in Main South, up the street from where he liked to sit cross-legged at dawn in front of a cafe. 

 Michael would walk the same stretch of land, a half-mile on Main Street.

The consistency of his walk made him reliable. 

Notice this had nothing to do with conversation.

I viewed what I saw from Michael like advice. 

There were a few poses that seemed like reactions, but considering his person were rather like guiding points, that represented strength. 

Miming breaking a bundle of sticks over one’s leg, and imitating a popular video game character’s fighting style from the Mortal Combat franchise, happened at a glimpse and it was my trust and acumen that found brilliance in simplicity.

These were memes demonstrated in a glimpse, memes in nature, as “memes” are originally understood, trends; but technology’s impact on our sense and culture was also apparent and the notion of using a tool versus being reactionary to a tool was made clear. This all preverbal, demonstrating that what was in my mind did affect how I saw another, but who had no desire to hide and insist I was merely projecting, and, rather, would help me down to earth rather than make everything my problem as we often think logical rather than assess societal trends we could work through together.  Michael was able to be of such help because he was arranged and didn’t rely on language. His behavior and motion was not confined to one discourse, but was displayed by the human body, effortlessly. Of course his way of communication resonated with so many, yet as a figurehead, he did not use a podium, as that would effect the message and make it less immediate. 

When meeting Michael, I realized that if one had the chance to talk to God their questions would not be as complex as they imagine.

 I did not need to ask. 

Also, it showed me the history of Jesus Christ when I realized that all Michael needed was a few things, including food and water to be motivated to wake up early and smile in the populace. 

A religion with a depth of meaning that has lasted us ages was originally to progress and allow our species to advance, to guide us toward present civilization, to put prominence on morality and human frailty, and Christianity’s inherent use is still at a primitive level in case we do get too confused on Earth, but the proof of this religion is best experienced through direct contact.

The experiences of Christians has needed to be watered down by symbol as we were to become more benign.

Its promotion remains not parallel, but longer lasting and encompassing to newer ‘industries’ and their media.

We equally miss the point to not realize Christianity outside of church, but what we must do is learn to balance that ‘spirit’ side with reasonable explanation that influences positive changes in given industries, since the language supporting industry for certain reason promises a relief that it cannot grant and so is illogical to hold so prominent.

I realized I was too complicated, and unaware of how good I had it and by attaching to discourses before my body and my family and my mortality, I was not realizing my potential, not seeing what it really meant to influence people. As I was raised a Catholic, I first recognized the markings of the Christ in Michael. 

The irony was that he seemed to sense this. He did not make me feel that my cognitive rhetoric could not be helped. 

Also, he was able to help mediate the idea of the messiah complex, a person being unrealistically righteous, as he simply sat there through the sensation of this problem, for such terms as ‘messiah,’ ‘God,’ ‘Jesus Christ,’ must be able to exist and worked with to make sense of experience, though are kept in quiet where they have value rather than in outpouring. 

Realize that it takes bravery for allowing people to think you mighty and strength for you to allow their to be generally good tidings and possibilities in the air rather than be bitter about everything and call that intelligence.

One day, Michael’s hair was long.

Another day, his head was shaved

He wore a black hoodie and a navy blue hat with the name of some pharmacy company that I’d never heard of for weeks straight. 

He was over six feet tall, and his thinness, and slow, gaunt, prowl made this wordless communication most evident. 

Mike’s voice was calm.

“Spare some change?” was his refrain, day after day and he remembered my name, in a tender voice that stuck with one as salient amongst noise.

I could approach him with all my theory and impossibility but he would not budge, yet I could give him all my money and still need to accept that he was not in my way, did not judge me, and was sitting where he was and I would need to move to see him despite all my ‘thought.’ His wisdom was his actual person and his routine. He was a man who did not belong to the world; but I learned from him that what mattered most was very organic things. It wasn't a matter of Michael’s opinion, but rather that he existed in the first place that gave his rhetoric worth, hence body rhetoric, the true value of people esteemed in retrospect.

A carried away intellect will suffer from too much thinking. You have plans, but it will take many days to lay them out and in the meantime the next step is literal, a left, or a right, or a wheel. As a system of communication, Lagrange suggests that if I left my chair to pursue Michael outside in a fright, he might move in the meantime as we were related by our discipline in other spots, what we shared something pure, such as the soul, the holy spirit. How could any young person understand the development of that journey and what has passed and been witnessed? No, a clear mind learns daily. Not to mention there are countless people around you who need someone who can be a good man rather than you fulfill something you must learn and do gradually that should, if you are wise, be for the common good; a rebellion, such as art can be a tactical assistance to society rather than something vocally antisocial that is really of no help and denys the intelligence of ‘normal.’

Michael’s company was the entire community; he received a “Hey Mike” from a husband going into the cafe for coffee and sat on the bench with the rowdy, “sick” homeless or more subjectively driven lives who could not be so easily categorized within professions, and these other individuals also defied understanding and showed the dynamic of the apostles, in that one could not bother Michael for more teaching but had to move forward with it, probably because salvation is needed all the time by many and not everyone, me in particularly, will be of the most help by not assimilating into more professional settings. 

Loyalty to him was to have seen a great man in a way so pronounced one immediately recognizes it.

He was a friend to those suffering, mostly because he could sit and not judge. 

He did not need one thing at all to feel secure and was proof of the wealth of the spirit. 

As a fact, I had never seen him angry, or make an outburst, only found in loving company, simple and upright. If his bliss was because of drugs, his comedown would have been public, too. I saw him two times in apparent duress. Once, he was swaggering like the portrait, “The Temptation of St. Anthony,” outside the soup kitchen, as if those little imps were really taking bites of his frame, and another time he wobbled by a fair on Main Street where people were telling others “Jesus loves you,” handing out prayer cards.

As we crossed paths, he kindly slurred,

“Hey Nick, spare some change?” and I gave him some quarters. He proceeded to spike the quarters on the ground. 

Every day, Michael was a step ahead of me with Lagrange, as in I was learning basic letters, priority of mood to the notion I am an adult and children see the world differently despite my complaints, that even the most muscular man feels sad and the person with many nice things should not be envied as they too feel and need the same at the most basic human  level, none of these things appropriate to discuss in a casual way; whatever woe I could think of, or confusion, it was never so much that could not be recognized as a struggle limited to earth. 

One did not become like Michael by pursuing his life but by realizing their own body, the human circumstance, and how irrelevant so much is; and the more one accepted Michael, the more reality was enriched by other perspectives, as one of the facets of his communication was the notion of the alpha and the omega, as he was enlightened by being of earth, his body strong though not attached to ideas and so was the peace one came to with death upon meeting Michael, who, showing the body was the final authority, showed that in public there is universal, intelligible, and social culture, but it is based on a different method of action.

I witnessed the unbelievable.

Once I hesitated to approach Michael at the corner, partly because I was mediating obsession, and a teenager shouted from a car window,

“Ah nah, don’t talk to him, he’s just crazy.”

Which one of us was he even talking about? 

Giving prominence and taking direction from Michael was in fact encouraged by others whom before I was too in my head to find relatable.

This idea of a comment from a car window being something that then is associated with a person, the target of blame, demonstrates the reality of body rhetoric, putting humans first as a means of confirmation, the language of unfounded opinion or accusation being largely something that comes up mutually and is worked through by various techniques, some masterful, others that aggravate a soul and make it blame itself. We hear language but what we hear comes to what we are listening for. If we have a complex about ‘crazy’ for example, we are victim to a common term, afraid of judgment that may be totally impersonal. Much cannot be explained. Much is primordial instinct and emotion. For the thoughtful person trying to be of service to others but finding their behavior is not conducive to a professional authority, or for all those who are learning and reading or graduate with degrees they have forgotten have more agency than money-making, I declare an educated mind can hear holy writ and advanced language, relevant talk, rather than be blinded by what we are taught to think about people in general in certain areas, and allow communication by being there in body. In short, this is peace-making, but in our information age we can also consider it sense-making. You are respected as an equal. I asked Michael once if he ever got angry by the Worcester Plaza. Micheal laughed and said “Yeah,” then when I said what I already knew, that getting revenge was not good, he laughed and said, “No.” Even when I forced myself to be disenchanted, it was clear when one approached him he would be able to negate whatever, “stuff,” one was walking around with, as he knew humanity, mono y mono.

His time and place was quiet.

“How you doing Nick?” he asked.

“Good, how are you Michael?”

“I’m good….”

“....”

“Nick, can you spare some change today?” 

Another example of why language resulting from a calm and patient, an ideal demeanor, should be simple, and why one should practice the principal of charity when it comes to spoken word, that is allowing others to make sense rather than being on guard and overly critical and mistaking that for superiority occurs when one volunteers to help the homeless and a displaced mother, consistently going for breakfast, asks for Dove soap by saying.

“Do you have Doov?” 

Why should mispronunciation enrage you considering the context, you being able and she suffering, from a different background?

At one point, Michael began to wear simple white plastic rosary beads. The fear that one thought they met Jesus and had been mistaken had evolved to the whole reality of the Christ requires relationship, apostles, his cousin John, etc. The religion is based on body and humanity, and is alive and well though so constant that language limits our ability to realize ideal living. We pray for what we want instead of needing less and participating in the salvation of relief from what we have accepted to be important, unable, sometimes, due to ineffective process, to get to the root of our issue, which might be the fact that we think we have an issue. 

The history of Catholicism has more quantitative and qualitative data than most ‘theories’ or even scientific proofs we give prominence and funding, but a Christian can choose to be a sheep, a shepherd, or a lion. It is, for example, a decision that I took years to write this essay rather than talk to someone about what I was learning, as that is what faith is, the trust to experience life in one’s own way with a certain trust that you are on the right path by God but must wait, than one gradually learns to live, to rationalize this notion or learn about God, even if you think yourself ever capable now, and that you don’t need twenty opinions to believe you can be happy and trust Time and more than twenty people can affirm you are balanced if you stop thinking so far away. 

Usually, we know what not to do if we don’t know what to do, and looking at the world this way allows us to see things more clearly and participate in something larger, escaping the issue of the individual dream, turning into process, walking in public without fear, and Lagrange should help us to accept our ‘quirks’ in private are actually ways of communication.

There are wise choices we need to make between oneself and God, and when one works that way, one becomes a formidable agent of Goodness. We forget that things like gossip or doubt make us all doubt our place in life. 

It is a blessing after being ‘up gainst a wall’ to find you really don’t know and there is a bigger picture, the version of life through God, that is intelligible but the essence of living that is usually distracted from by culture.

Michael’s name as a term means to beat confusion in order to see the common life in an elevated sense once our personal sins and vices are triumphed, and that experiencing his presence is a great change we cannot take for granted. After this personal acquaintance, it would be the job of the person to understand, again, that Jesus has shown them enough, and that, as an adult, it’s time to double-down on helping local ethics. 

The paradox of Christianity is that you can do the right thing and allow others not to, as you also understand what it’s like to sin; but personally, wanting a better rational system, I find that my personal sacrifices makes me happy, based on earth, and of good use, as I’ve read enough to help raise the world from base wants. I am all for the notion of ‘Heaven’ and how this becomes a place in the mind, so that not only acting wrong but thinking wrong is to be avoided; this gets easier once one makes progress, and I would say that meeting certain people at times of life are signs of progress and if one forgets or doubts those encounters they are forgetting pinnacle parts of human history including interface between God and Man, not through media, but through singular encounters.

 We are confused by the commercial.

I could have been the type who never credited Michael, him not being relevant. Grace and divine providence, older ways of looking at things, make the most sense to define this encounter from my subjective experience. I could have also been the writer who continued to not better my behavior and diet and company and used therapy or caused more pain to myself and my family instead of letting Michael help me realize the groceries dropped off from my Grandma were the true love I already had in life by God and that the sacrifices of others should wake us up from the ‘world is out to get me’ mentality in order to take initiative. Michael told me he was from Worcester and played basketball before he started drinking. One day I saw him with a hickey. I could have called my uncle the police chief and gotten background information to assure me that Michael was human, or even a criminal, but, the irony is even if he was just human he taught me that humans are in fact always in relationship with divine, and we all work toward good judgement in our lives, but to have a mind of education is not just of use to one person. People on a daily basis struggle to process experience. Innocence and realizing the broader public allowed me to learn. You have a social duty and are supported to make the right decisions, but where those show and the credit given is only particular examples. A jerk could speculate, and often does, that anyone looking soddy and speaking freely in public is a drug addict, but the irony of my religion and, what I came to find out has been a longstanding tradition, is that Christianity is about mediating the highs and lows in a sense so pure it is actual; many people have experienced euphoric highs and glimpses of truth through drugs and drink, yet it takes discipline and knowledge and the next step of that education, balancing mortality and realizing good judgement is a general asset rather than a professional one, to make one’s higher thinking constructive. 

It was not till after months of letting me reason while encountering him that Michael began to wear his rosary; he only mentioned “Christianity” once.

Day by day he gained reality and so did all the people around me as humans, and then he was no longer seen by me. I stopped looking around so much outside and trusted I could walk confidently on my path. 

 Hadn’t he taught me enough to inform my practice of sitting, appreciating, and accepting all the positive change, letting other people participate in my life with human love and not expectation?

 As Michael was who imparted me with the kernel of understanding that became this essay, I gained a better understanding of a pure soul, as I see him in people and find that it is a social practice to encourage that part of people, sometimes up close, sometimes from afar, but always with faith that I had learned something from a wise man that remains a basis despite the noise and appearances. The love that he showed was for humans. Anyone who has opted for eternal life had to understand it was about loving humans.

 V. The Cynic School

There is a great, academic volume on my bookshelf called The Gospel According to Dog: The Good News of Ancient Cynicism (pub. 2018) authored by Frances Roseuvir, a compilation of writings from and about who are considered ancient cynics, founders of a school of thought that put emphasis on the human body as something that will inherit nothing, that should model itself after the dead, smelly, decaying and natural, and that, by resisting pleasure, one attains virtue. Cynicism had also been recommended to me in conversation with a university friend of mine who introduced me to philosophy. Too often, the term cynicism is hastily assumed to describe finding petty faults in life and being mean to people, more along the lines of nihilism, believing in nothing, but true cynics were actually very disciplined and strong. Embracing they were human gave them demonstrable wisdom and kept the development of abstract thought and society grounded. They did ridicule people, but to test them; their language was second to bodily fact. They were self-reliant. They championed Hercules as a model of strength, says Roseuvir. After certain experiences of seeing my thinking cleared up or empathized with through singular encounters, I submit that original Christians were like cynics and that while we go to churches there is a deeper layer of Christianity that we must trust supports us when we make ethical decisions in private or in settings where logic is tainted and against general welfare and development of human life and we must not forget what those people would deem pain and sacrifice when we decide to influence the world; in what was recorded of encounters with Christ, language of miraculous claims is ironic because they are claiming might for the human form as a speaker, the anthropomorphic, and trust in nature, through God, to satisfy what is needed, which involves moving one’s reliance away from industry and government while also being able to accept charity and to give one another the opportunity to help one another as equals, in something so innocent as washing the feet without Lust. They were aware of an interrelatedness between people that could not be argued against as they were present, as in proximity, and the language they used was ornamental, an attempt to record actual experience, though they too were formalizing the ineffable. 

Nowadays, we pass through areas like South Main Street in Worcester and are too conditioned by the narrative that in low-income neighborhoods there are people who don’t work hard and that are unintelligent. There certainly are drugs and crime in that area; we see striking examples of ‘street people’ who are speaking wildly and we fear this, in part, I submit, because we approach these situations with notions of psychology that were developed aside industrialism and notions of efficiency. We don’t believe that if we withhold judgement or acknowledge the base reality of humanity that we ‘progress’ simultaneously alongside others. Accepting equality, we would be assured of our own integrity, that the will to overcome things like depression, want, etc. are universal while the appearance of people doing this is not at all shown by examples of people who have made money; we mistake flamboyant behavior and bold speech, self-expression, for an obstacle to our own ideals as we have not realized that others do not want what we have but would like to be self-realized alongside of us who live conducive to our freedom, and we have limited our ability to hear language because we apply templates to organic life.

Our social anxieties can no longer prevent us from acting with integrity in public once we realize someone who appears down on their luck would absolutely love to have the opportunity you do in life and does not envy you, but, in order for you to truly succeed you need to be working for that person internally to not condemn, for those who are in need, rather than trying so hard to fit into ridiculous groups of people, give your striving a firmer basis.

The will of the people is understood through memes and values and we might deny it, only see a ‘friend,’ now and then.

Of course, not everyone can be claimed to be a textbook cynic, one, like Michael, who is disciplined in maintaining value by focusing on what is being human, aware that is our constant ‘job,’ but I believe many people can be taught through behavior to see out their spiritual want for respect, such as, the homeless are not wrong  by feeling scorned, and there are issues in our society that are corrupt, but if they gave up drugs they would come to better terms with notion that material success is ‘fake.’ 

The issue with want and money is that they limit our thinking. They don’t allow us to access the develop’ment of theocracy.

The argument that a person who is neglecting the feelings of others to make more money is unethical no longer needs to be so rigid. 

Forget their outlet; support their actions to support their family and individuate themselves in that racket. 

Don’t generalize. 

We have moved much of our scientific curiosity away from the human perspective and this has resulted in abuse of resources, our bowing down to computational gadgets while historically informed and wondrous things persist on earth, and we let things become increasingly expensive as ideals define ‘friends,’ and ‘workplace’ culture, that causes us to act less than natural. If we have gained so much in knowledge, understanding, and advanced technologically, it makes sense to have new paradigms of government, such as Lagrange, which acknowledges more capable people not waiting on decisions described through media, but doing good around them with what they have, being aware they are effective. 

What you want is love and belonging. 

Learn to not have to talk about your issues all the time, see people in innocence, learn trust, and learn what it means to be part of the human story we cannot possibly describe alone as we live it together.

Kenosis, the Christian process of emptying out, is not to forget the weight of sin as described in doctrine, and it is not to give up your sense of inherent meaning, but to constantly evaluate yourself in terms of the meek. I submit, Kenosis is intentional, daily or nightly, rejection of things like political narratives, media stressed events, etc., and realizing common ground is physical, of earth, water, etc. on a new day, non-attachment to these sensational societal rhetorics that try and tell us what we are not doing while we try to preserver, not waking up and finding our motivation from media or a common enemy, and while we develop a quiet mind without judgement, through negation of what we know, as was recommended in Aeropogatic apophaticism, we allow so much new experience, singular, as we realize the absolute in each human body.[1]

Meeting holy people suggests a parallel narrative. We encounter holy people then look at a news feed instead of sitting with firsthand experience and letting it be relevant; then, from day to day, there is the paradox of ‘communication technology’ our new generations face. We have heard of sadness or mental issues, and I see intellectual stupor despite these tools, because, in reality, despite the capacity for these to be research devices, they do not communicate things that others in the past championed or identified as being valuable, eternal even, partly because these devices can condition us to desire some output and to participate in sheer irrelevance while we forget that there are so many around us who we are connected with and working with and who can understand you, your familial tendencies, and even your greatest dream, for there is no greater dream than life; Wisdom allows others to participate in one’s dream not to imagine some competition for completely different end goals.

There is no template for understanding all the happenings of now, but you are basically holding a phone or looking at a computer, and what you feel is proximate, physiological. 

There are better disciplines that would allow us epistemology, awareness of what humans can know and communicate, and, if we all took more care to spend time considering the actuality of our bodily situation instead of thinking we are solving national and international conflicts by being outraged amongst people who are trying to find food for the day, we’d develop minds that do not judge hastily and allow new experiences and small triumphs, and our intelligence would not scare us as we’d learn our instincts and how much can really be done from day to day. 

Moderation is the kind of thinking that makes it forward, that has allowed humans to reach this state in their story. 

And while you might lose your sense of gravity, an idol on the median holds a quarter, as if it were the weight of one life. 

Isn’t he allowed to be happy?

As Nietzsche (b. 1844) recommended, pity is no good, for once you see the unprofessional as equals you’ll notice your strength is theirs, your head high is their confidence too, and with less want you’ll notice you’re asked less as you’ve eliminated the hassle and give more than money.

‘Respect’

For Lagrange, the human is both letter and letters, and this rotation and daily acknowledgement of variables demonstrated by the human form is not to have one lose integrity and pretend or ‘escape’ but to adapt quickly and to stay consistent no matter where they find themselves acting. With less judgment, allowance of mystery, one allows others creativity which is inherent to biological process. By sitting and needing less, having food and water and being happy, forgetting to think there’s more we can know, we start to become more aware when we are working or amongst people, and this is how we will find worth again after having been shown, only through representation, what life is, as we learn the value of our own experience, what we have to say rather than what we compulsively assume relevant. If one takes a risk at work, or feels a pain, grieves, needs help identifying a cognitive issue, they find they are surrounded by empathy at home where they practice sitting for duration, just being physical.

The rotation between archetypes, indication of physics, memes for humor, and then just sitting or standing and talking, with toes on the ground sensitive of language for children, is all part of being one person, but I submit you only realize that by empathizing with the many who appreciate this sort of flow or working logic. If you have food and water, you can practice Lagrange. Don’t fear awkward behavior for a moment and realize a new friend, and let your behavior in private remind you of your consistent work on Tomorrow. You will become consistent. Also, ignoring behavior in the temptation to be negative promotes the focus that is health and is a gate used to affirm the paradox of being both important but one of so many mortals; that one moment of not accusing another who shouts when you walk outside then leads to acknowledgement of innocence, not naivety but positive and encompassing direction, this life, this time, how you act freely while respecting legality, physics, and our innate want for belonging, is the thrill, but ebb and flow from order to change and establish and enforce genuinely common ground. 

 Appendix for Lagrange in Academic discourses 

Linguistics – Wittgenstein’s notion that “Most propositions and questions, that have been written about philosophical matters, are not false, but senseless. We cannot, therefore, answer questions of this kind at all, but only state their senselessness. Most questions and propositions of the philosophers result from the fact that we do not understand the logic of our language” (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 45), might have to do with the actuality of a person using language rather than studying discourses as being absolute, might have us not recognize that two people ‘parlaying’ in public might be in dialogue despite what might sound like shallow conversation, and if “Michael” becomes the name for something ineffably sacred, not to mention something that has understanding not to be shouldered by one man, one gradually learns that “form” is protected and liveable with through a type of language that sounds completely parallel, as the soul needs to be able to have its own soil, and this has to do with what Wittgenstein writes concerning colloquialism. Formality, and the keeping of doctrine and legitimate study is important, but the intellect will break their mold and learn wisdom of the heart once they realize it is conducive to the freedom and intelligence they want to inspire that other people don’t have to speak the way they expect and must put words to things for some time to then make progress in understanding, but a real definition of most things is to be confirmed not by academics but by immediate humans. See “November Essay on Ringlish,” “November Confessional Essay on Wrap: ‘N.E. Moor’” and “November Essay on the Author’s Encounters with Christian Terminology in 2023.” 

Prime mover – Aristotle asserted God is “Pure Act,” or motion. Since ancient times of discourse, there has been investigation into the notion of a prime mover, a cause of this pure act, the one in charge, the intelligence or substance. Lagrange’s prime mover is understood as a human who starts trends in behavior that are then spread amongst people on earth, whether a city, or eventually across the lands. Though, memes from a phone which are shown like a viral dance, are certainly not the only memes and should always be mediated with a grain a salt, less we forget we are in connection with people around us whose memes branch back to familial habits and other more fulfilling notions of learned behavior. Working back to the notion that God is in the lead of this pure act, a true prime mover is and was Christ, removed from desires or drives that influence the mover to act hastily or without their own consent under the guise of culture and media. Christ was a prime mover as a human and his body was proof. Though what was seen might have been limited to gesture and acts. This is why Christianity is clouded by accepting scripture as rote. Understand that if you are not moving and walking outside right now, when you do move, it is significant, and that brings integrity to the human form. Not being influenced to move by the wrong things, such as panic, is a great help to many people who will, after duration, understand you and support you moving freely. The sensation of seeing people moving in harmony, which Lagrange aims to formalize and make intelligible, was described in a journal entry in a biography on Robert Lax by Michael N. McGregor titled Pure Act (pub. 2015), though for various reasons, including him being a foreigner, Lax became a bit paranoid to see he felt connection with actions from a distance, as he was not rationing general doxa; one should simply be reassured of some kind of soul language relative to body and accept they are connected with others, by definition this includes not knowing much of what others whisper, such as fisherman parlaying on a dock, not having absolute authority over understanding, and so one should discipline emotions, develop understanding, let the youth have youth, and be a presence of peace, being strong as evidence that Time is good, as Lax strove to be as a poet and man on Patmos, where St. John received his Revelation, and where he made beautiful poems as one man amongst this harmony, he sat with as himself.

Neoplatonism – I gather that Neoplatonism was part of the work done by Fathers of the Church and that it has to do with seeking oneness and finding the balance of virtues or forms and what a person may demonstrate. I submit that racism and sheer underestimation of intelligence prevents one from seeing goodness since it should be involved in all human life; evidence of these virtues is the good done by others, both in a friendly walking conversation, a father leading their family, and laughter as well as displays of bravery and discipline focus of a hard worker who ignored signs but empowers Concentration. Virtues cannot be limited to being evidenced through any appearance of a person, and this is the problem with much advertisement or commercial displays of equality and equity; they are isolated cases, advertisement.

Leibniz’s record of knowledge – Leibniz (b. 1646), whose work is key in understanding the Western shift in  science toward rationality, dreamed in an essay titled “Discourse Touching the Method of Certitude, and the Art of Discovery in Order to End Disputes and to Make Progress Quickly” that “Concerning unwritten knowledge among men of different callings, I am convinced that it surpasses in quantity and in importance anything we find in books, and that the greater part of our wealth is not yet recorded. There are even some sorts of information privately possessed by certain persons and lost with them. There is no mechanical art so slight and scorned which may not furnish some important observations and considerations; and all callings have certain ingenious skills which is not easy to be informed about and which may nevertheless lead to consequences of the highest importance. We may add that the important matters of manufacturing and commerce can only be regulated by an exact description of what belongs to all sorts of arts, and that questions of militia, finance and navigation depend a great deal on Mathematics and on Physics particularly. And the chief defect in many scholars is that they occupy themselves only with vague and well-worn arguments while there is such a fine field for exercising their minds in solid and real objects to the advantage of the public. Hunters, fishermen, merchants, sea voyagers, and even games of skill as well as of chance, furnish material with which to augment useful sciences considerably” (Leibniz Selections, ed. Philip P. Wiener, 47-48). Leibniz calls for a collection of more knowledge and more study in the 17th century, and it is funny to think of what he’d make of a computer and representations of life we find through videos and the amount of knowledge we now have at our disposal, but, what he misses out on, as we do, is what would a man do with knowledge and how education is not just information but practice that becomes individual; he is a genius, a polymath, but does he forget he is only one man, one body? A resource of information, such as the internet has been achieved, but the paradox of knowledge remains; most of it will never be recorded, and we, at this point, should learn how to not record if it interferes with our practice.

Dennet and the problem of other minds – In Consciousness Explained, Dennet wrote, ‘the term zombie apparently comes from the Haitian voodoo lore and refers, in that context, to a “living dead” person, punished for some misdeed and doomed to shuffle around, mumbling and staring out of dead-looking eyes, mindlessly doing the bidding of some voodoo priest or shaman. We have all seen zombies in horror movies, and they are immediately distinguishable from normal people. (Roughly speaking, Haitian zombies can’t dance, tell jokes, hold animated philosophical discussions, keep up their end in a witty conservation - they look just awful.) But philosophers term zombie for a different category of imaginary human being. According to common agreement among philosophers, a zombie is or would be a human being who exhibits perfectly natural, alert, loquacious, vivacious behavior but is in fact not conscious at all, but rather some sort of automaton. The whole point of the philosopher’s notion of zombie is that you can’t tell a zombie from a normal person by examining external behavior” (Dennett, 72 – 73). Extended into a serious argument about ‘other minds,’ this zombification could understandably be the result of looking at humanity with apathy or superiority, though where theology touches and philosophy can’t is where that kind of encounter, with a zombie like person, is an example of the holy spirit at work, and one could reassess this notion of zombie as a person moved by that spirit, considering not all that culminated with that spirit would be an outspoken representative, as it would be saving or guiding a person in a more base sense for survival. 

Pop culture – Cultural icons who can be seen as originators of memes and outlets for religious fervor may be viewed as help distilling the sensation of God, who wants others to experience salvation, feelings of belonging and happiness, but one must eventually be closer to the language and conventions of religion, as God is what allows us this introduction to display and effect of the individual soul as mouthpiece for the masses. The peace and freedom and happiness one listening to a pop song in private generates is of great value to those around, though of course, one doesn’t go to their window or another person looking for a reward for feeling good when enjoying music. In fact, cultural icons are less influential than holy people who are not identified as by definition that role in humanity is selfless, not needing praise as it is necessary and constitutes what we are despite our naivety.

Gang culture, recent history, & not oversimplifying the urban - A gate is kept between your relationship with so many people and points of view you will never have that may be in support of your true ideals once you realize that in problematic areas there is more of a want for salvation, as well as struggle, triumph, and unrepresented happenings. The difference between a cryptic C, which was shown to me by Michael once, and a soldier’s salute is the discourse behind these gestures exclusive to the participants, both by some termed as cool, both with assumptions of violence no one wants to continue; be less reactive and that gets the salute. Are both symptoms of fight or flight responses? Learned behavior through nerves or fear? In places of different values, we accuse others of not being adequate, but things like legends and acts of miracles etc. will happen there even if others would use different language. People will protect their meaning; it’s best to practice assuming every person has allegiance in the end to God. Narratives continue. A Christian need not know a person’s beliefs to see Lagrange respects the human form. A gang and a religion both have a notion that the way out is death and not fearing death is what both want so we should forgive one another and learn to organize bigger numbers of people with the right motivations, changing what is cool, configurations of numbers of people a natural governance. It is singular to African American thought that there is a history of liberation and organization that persists despite others acknowledging it as being a new development, not to say the characteristic of a “ghetto” is a requirement for African American narratives and that more peoples, from Haiti, Brazil, Dorchester, etc. haven’t  settled onto Main Street, and if we were to accept the celebrations and validity of parallel stories of triumph instead of breaking people’s spirits, to feet the small sparks of triumph we sense, we’d be more up to date, to find that sense of worth, allowed to be plural, can be made understandably singular, acknowledgeable, a respect of human; to overcome race is to overcome race; but commercial displays of equality are always irking as they nod to something proximate but don’t represent it well enough, and the opportunity to treat someone equally is situational as we strive for the absolute of ethical law, and anyone should be encouraged and can be encouraged to feel secure, though as talking about bias can be patronizing, we can simply condition our own body’s response to another, let them have difference, and find we are both amazingly simultaneously alive, though moderate and cool. Returning to the singular human form as letter, we take less weight on needing to know so much as an individual, as an individual, before it is in a group with legitimate discourse, save for family, has universals as the human creature. I submit, in unlikely places, there are people aware of keeping time more than those who become complacent then bellyache about what they don’t know. Power to the people, all people. Learn to wait, allow others their difference, respect heritage, plurality of meaning, spirit, and then after getting a sense of the historical mind of a community start to work on Lagrange as becoming day to day between all peoples, who need to be able to behave differently and are not by all professions needed to be judged.

Regionalism, states, the urban, and the rural – Lagrange has been formalized in one American city, Worcester, Massachusetts, with a population of 207, 621 (2023). The essay’s implications about memes and non-verbal language being able to impact how we govern and make sense can extend, begin in other places with more singular encounters, writers able to translate, people wanting respect and having human capitol today etc. There has always been a divide of the urban and the rural. In rural areas where people might have lived after city life, they should refrain from speculating and using the news as a serious means of learning about the world and country, as they have minds full of using people like backgammon pieces, templates of how to look at a mass of people that are useable but create tension, for themselves and others, and then enter cities, largely blind and inundated with defensive, bifurcating language. In the rural or seaside setting, reflecting on less information and exploring empiricism more often than engaging in ‘politics,’ would be of help and probably increase the freedom and happiness of American citizens. If you’re not there, how would you know?  

Heaven and Eden as non-places – Wherever we are at with the development of humanity, it is not a stretch to think that paradise is a peace of mind, a balance of ideal and what can be communicated objectively, but we must realize our ability to show others peace and live in peace amongst others. What Michael showed me is that anyone who would want eternal life would love humans. This takes coordination and a respect for others to understand realizable ideals, process, and that duration, time spent in places, is an investment of our spirit that has other fruits, things not necessarily advertised as culture and importance and history attributed to big name cities. All people everywhere should find meaning in where they are and build that meaning together to live with constant worth. This heaven-building is shown in folkways, arts, industries, good police work, etc., and noticing local culture is both absolute through virtue and proximate to a place like Worcester can prevent us from being controlled by totalitarianism that turns us against neighbors. When the individual understands their ability to directly affect proximate understanding of ‘human nature,’ which takes time, discipline, the ability to be down to earth, respect for human institutions, other roles, leadership by example in private, and that life has little to do, or at least proportionately little to do, with representations and communication we find on screens, they will see that their private paradise has a counterpart in all other people. Such is a tradition, a knowingness of our species, “To see a world in a grain of sand, And a heaven in a wild flower,” as William Blake put it in “Auguries of Innocence,” is not a cover for laziness or a drug reverie, but an ability to see beauty and feel peace we should practice and get better at doing in situations, allowing others to practice by helping ourselves all stay oriented in the reality of context, what Christ calls The Kingdom of God may be acknowledged without the fire and brimstone.

Michael’s Serenity, or his lack of overcritical judgment – After meeting Michael, I assert the irony, and glimpse into the perfection which theology works, as an angel is at once a person watching over you from an apartment building, as I saw Michael, the arch-angel, from a distance, but at the same time is a real phenomena kept legitimate again by relationship; as this term ‘angel’ has practical and commonplace implications as well as mystic  historical record. There is in essence great use for practical boundaries of our imagination and being able to realize it’s an artist’s work to mediate going too far with being a part of local order, giving expression while not inventing more pain, is perhaps a good step for someone wanting to do good with their talent. There is evidence of others suffering and of being happy with less, and if you view the poor’s laughter as triumph you’ll escape the snare of not being content until you are accepted in some other echelon. The eternal works in real time and is a basis for all humans, so to connect with it makes one a wiser instrument which should come before any special attention to one’s work on the world’s stage.

[1] Apophaticism – (theology) (n) – (of knowledge of God) obtained through affirmation.