mirror eyes, hazel, brown, blue
not portals into other minds
rather signifiers
for what I believe to be true.
I study your antics
dancer in the crystal sands.
interpret motion
and think to understand
motivation from smudged traces
on an intricate carpet
of tiny refracting grains.
instants of action that maintain
the illusion of loving
some other else, yet
all I know, see, care for, and despise
are lonely self aspects, my pet.
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This is something I wonder about a lot.
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this kinda set me on a weird path of thought, if there is a god, perhaps he's put us here to learn of love?? or perhaps more so, similar to a computer programmer, he can imagine something in his mind, and code and articulate so that a computer can act out his ideas or even his dreams, perhaps the same aspect works for god, maybe something or someone has put us here so that we can interact, so that we may love and hate one another, so that whoever that is can learn from us, can understand what it truly is to love, maybe we're programmed to commit such atrocities, or such heroics, that someone else may learn from them, maybe we're all programmed to be teachers, the universal guide to humanity??
this was thoughtful
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Gott ist tot! Ich lehren sie die Übermensch. Heil die Übermensch! ~ Friedrich Nietzsche
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Superman Huh?
I think I understand what you were saying. That we are God is not in dispute. But what I wonder about is if one ever loves or despised anyone other than one's self. Is it actually possible to do so given that other people are in our own reality nothing but our perceptions of them? -
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Everything is a subjective ontological construct (I think).
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