Is Anything Wrong
Is anything wrong in being... only what we are?
Sometimes a cigar, I find, is only a cigar.
Sometimes the unproven is unproven for a reason.
The spin of random orbits decay is what drives the season.
By god, we can't find god 'cause he's only in the mind.
If you cannot see what isn't; doesn't mean you're blind.
A contest entry
- What do you have to say to the cynic? by RechercheCadaver.
1000 points, ended January 6, 12 entries
Honorable mention
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Please tell me what you think
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"Sometimes a cigar, I find, is only a cigar." And I thought it was an alien cockroach.
Well, you have a good point, though I have found that certain concepts in gnostic traditions work really well if applied so I can't help but wonder if there's anything more to it. After all, all we have are observations and raw data, the rest is interpretation. It could be that someone observed something that I haven't. I don't think it's healthy to believe anything, but to rule something out based on limited experience is just as unhealthy.
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I wouldn't call
millions of people over thousands of years searching for and not finding concrete evidence limited experience.
As far as I can see the case for the existance of The Tooth Fairy and Santa have shown more concrete results than the search for any gods, and we know why they have produced results.
I could propose that the universe and all in it are ruled by the presence and whim of flying monster cookies and it could not be proven or ruled out any more than any of the idiotic theories that people dress up and pay homage to every day.
For alien cockroaches watch Men in Black. They look nothing like cigars.
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Concrete evidence meaning material evidence. If anything, spirituality seems like a psychological matter to me, which is why I am skeptical about the actual, literal existence of deities. But I don't rule out that people have had unique psychological experiences that can have many interpretations. Or that it is possible to feel a unity with everything without resorting to personification of the universe as a divine force. People pay homage to beliefs, not theories. To me it's all semantics, call it the sun God of egypt, call it the holly spirit, call it whatever you like, to me it's just self-awareness and fear of the unknown in one of its many masks.
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unique psychological experiences
Like Jim Morrison I got the best ones from LSD. LSD or LDS, it's all seeing things that aren't there. As long as they aren't feeding you killer Kool Aid or asking you to shed your container they can be useful as the opiate of the masses, but I ain't one of the masses and I don't drug myself anymore either.
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Like what you had to say.The backround is well chosen and the rythem flowed freely.Good luck in this contest.
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Thanks.
I don't know why so many people spend their lives looking for something that isn't there.
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