I know you were never mine to begin with. Not that you are something to possess. (Maybe that was the problem). Anyway, I know you weren't mine (and I yours). Yet, I feel like I am losing you. Water running through my fingers.
Perhaps, if you were beyond becoming another's, above all possessing, an ideal that one only aspired to reach (as I thought you were), then my self-esteem wouldn't have taken such a hit.
Drip. Drip.
Desert Palms.
Dry Arid Lifeless.
Time whizzes by and I, I write of glimpses I steal
Tuesday, November 25, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
I sat and I thought what has already been thought
How do I know anything? Can anything be known?
I take it as a given that I exist. That is my starting point. The world exists in relation to my own existence. That is the world is what I see and percieve it as. It follows then, that without sensory information there is no world. Having defined my existence and its relation to the existence of the world - without me there is no world, I proceed to question the existence of God. Since my primary assertion is of my own existence, nothing exists before me and nothing exists after me. And god if he does exists, then exists outside my own existence since he is supposed to be always there.
If, on the other hand, we question our very existence, and proceed to say that questions need not make sense or have answers, we are basically saying that nothing can be said with any certainty and this does not lead to a better understanding of anything. Basically it is not saying that nothing matters (meaning is what we ascribe, so things need not matter), which is an acceptable position to take, but that nothing exists.
What is the proof that I am not living in the Matrix?
I take it as a given that I exist. That is my starting point. The world exists in relation to my own existence. That is the world is what I see and percieve it as. It follows then, that without sensory information there is no world. Having defined my existence and its relation to the existence of the world - without me there is no world, I proceed to question the existence of God. Since my primary assertion is of my own existence, nothing exists before me and nothing exists after me. And god if he does exists, then exists outside my own existence since he is supposed to be always there.
If, on the other hand, we question our very existence, and proceed to say that questions need not make sense or have answers, we are basically saying that nothing can be said with any certainty and this does not lead to a better understanding of anything. Basically it is not saying that nothing matters (meaning is what we ascribe, so things need not matter), which is an acceptable position to take, but that nothing exists.
What is the proof that I am not living in the Matrix?
Friday, November 07, 2008
Stance
I have given it a thought and this is where I stand on the following issues.
I
support gay marriages
oppose the death sentence
believe abortion is a personal choice
disagree with the notion that economic inequality is a necessary evil
consider the separation of religion and state vitally important
denounce war
believe climate change is real as is evolution
reject the relation between truthfulness of an idea and the desirability of said idea
embrace the idea that it is better to have one's eyes open to the squalor around than to close one's mind and live in the Matrix
and
I definitely definitely love Jon Stewart's Daily show.
What does that make me?
I
support gay marriages
oppose the death sentence
believe abortion is a personal choice
disagree with the notion that economic inequality is a necessary evil
consider the separation of religion and state vitally important
denounce war
believe climate change is real as is evolution
reject the relation between truthfulness of an idea and the desirability of said idea
embrace the idea that it is better to have one's eyes open to the squalor around than to close one's mind and live in the Matrix
and
I definitely definitely love Jon Stewart's Daily show.
What does that make me?
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