Crying time for pretending what truth you harbor,
sinking from our youth,
evolution will never end...
yet we dare become set in our ways...
afraid of death we stand our ground,
until we fall suddenly into the abyss.
Why are we always surprised,
that in dying our values change?
Life is some strange alien,
and we are left alone with infinity...
some would see emptiness,
those sudden nihilist,
laughing although it is so infinitely sad,
that they given time and only began to understand life,
in the end.
Vanity...vanity!
Never and nothing and it doesn't matter.
There are no human answers to this infinite passing away...
that's okay.
We share this moment with our most ancient ancestors.
And we understand it no better today.
Mortality is in the cards for you.
Body darkening, the living move on....
overpowered by them...
nothing can save you....
and that is...
it will be okay.
We all ride the worm...as if we face him now.
Nothing can save you...
nothing should.
We Live. We die.
We return to the infinite universe we live in and can not understand today.
There is always tomorrow.
Our stuff...gets mixed into the maelstrom.
Much as it is now.
Not such a radical change.
Our perception...is missing some very important concepts.
Sociophilosophy
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I am very much opposed to the illusion idea ...
What I define as real, IS real ... So: we may get a paradigm of real, yes? If what is real for me, is real for YOU, it makes TWO of us. Now, if we can find those who share with us our perceptions, we may be three ... BILLION.
Let us not forget that God Himself said: Where two get together in My Name, there is My Church.
Ah.
RIGHT NOW what IS real IS: I love your poetry. And your adorable and somewhat deliberate probing. LOL I think you would have been such an enjoyable member of my family, do you know?
Pen on, Poet.
Love
Myra
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The general consensus for a period of time was that the earth was flat. I'm sadly sure I could recruit a group of people who would agree with me that it is. I'm certain though that it will not make the earth flat. No matter how hard we believe, threaten, and cajole the round world scum.
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Ah Poet ...
no matter flat or round, we are here and that is reality.
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I still find it difficult to say with 100% honesty that I am okay with the idea that once I die - that is it. Though, the realist in me wants to adhere to that, wants to be okay with that.
It is okay that I am just a dustspeck in this universe, that my energy is only perceived to exist ..by me. That is the vanity of it, at least part of it. Somehow this idea that who or what we are is important enough to matter when we pass..
when really - we are just that: matter.
Depressing. It shouldn't be, and maybe I'll eventually be able to say and think that without it being so, but today it is depressing.
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I'm given to understand that the self is an illusion, reasonably so, everything is obviously interconnected. I suppose that when that illusion of self is lifted, there's no reason to fear death. It's all theory though. We've all got some growing up to do before we can see the big picture. In the mean time, here's my treatise.
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Ok, in the name of discussion then..
(and I'm not necessarily disagreeing)
if self is illusion, what is real.. a collective presence?
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There's the rub. Actuality is largely incomprehensible to us. We walk around seeing a very slim spectrum of what's going on, and all of our perceptions define our ideas and beliefs. As we've increased our perceptions through IR cameras, telescopes, microscopes, we've begun to see that the world is a very different place than we had previously ascertained. We can't know what's real, we can only work within our own value system.
Like when you're lovers been away too long and your imagination starts creating scenarios, we're sometimes not too good at dealing with unknowns, especially those with emotional significance. We're quick to attach to one likely theory or another, instead of admitting that we just don't know.
So I can tell you that self is an illusion, but unfortunately have no concrete alternative to offer. Accepting that you don't know is a good way to start learning. It's the one honest conclusion I can offer.
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awww...cute baby!
Ok, back to your previously scheduled programming:
I don't expect proof really, just ideas.
I absolutely agree about perception, though.
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