On Giving Birth and Eating

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Question: Do you think that in order to give birth, you have to eat well?

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Please be relevant, helpful, & nice!

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Hint: giving birth as in giving birth to ideas, birthing ideas. eating well as in directing your gaze....

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Giving birth as in gathering inheritance

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because I can't say any truth directly, only using words for the sake of instruction.....

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I can say conventional truth with words actually, but not the actual, absolute Truth

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Related question: Can we know anything? Can we even be justified in believing anything??

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And what was the conclusion? Aren't they the same?

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I mean giving birth is breaking bonds?

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After all, Keats did agree with Plato in saying that the artist must be one with, and give birth in, Beauty

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But at the same time giving birth is an escape from the shackles of that which binds us.....

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HueyWilliams wrote:

Hey, once in a poetry writing workshop I was in everybody started discussing whether art was about "giving birth" or about "breaking bonds."  (That was some 3 hours, let me tell you.)

So what did everybody decide?

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Hatty-Freeham wrote:

Related question: Can we know anything? Can we even be justified in believing anything??

If you don't like that question, I invite you to this one!

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I invite everyone to participate!

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Hatty-Freeham wrote:

Hint: giving birth as in giving birth to ideas, birthing ideas. eating well as in directing your gaze....

Um... I can understand how "giving birth" can metaphorically refer to ideas. But how in the world do you relate eating well to directing your gaze?

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HueyWilliams wrote:

Hey, once in a poetry writing workshop I was in everybody started discussing whether art was about "giving birth" or about "breaking bonds."  (That was some 3 hours, let me tell you.)

How many people were in the room during the discussion?

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You are what you eat, as in you are what you turn your attention to. If you gaze in the right direction, your "food" will be healthy and nourishing.

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Again, gaze as a figurative expression for what you turn your attention towards...

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Just as giving birth is a figurative expression for conceiving of ideas

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Hatty-Freeham wrote:

You are what you eat, as in you are what you turn your attention to. If you gaze in the right direction, your "food" will be healthy and nourishing.

Well... in that case I guess I spend my whole day eating junk food.