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Published: 2013-05-29 00:56:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 416; Favourites: 7; Downloads: 0
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Choose a road, any road that's straight, and step on it. Get the tips of your feet to point to the North, forward. Now walk, trust your shoes to get you anywhere, but look up as you do. Look at the night sky, the clouds, the stars, the moon. Pay no attention to the cars, to the people, to the wind. It's you and the universe, it's you and infinity, it's you and absolutely nothing more than existence itself.As the soles of your shoes caress the pavement, contemplate the apparent stillness of everything. Contemplate the unnoticed movement. The road, the road isn't there any more, it can't tell you where you are now. The world, you left it behind, in oblivion. So when there's nothing around but the sky, and the movement of your legs is the only thing you have, does it feel like you got anywhere at all? Is trusting yourself enough, or is the absence of your surroundings too overwhelming?
If you walk for long enough, you might not even notice you're moving. Movement will become stillness, and stillness will be long forgotten. The distance, it's relative. Keep your eyes closed for long enough and you might not even notice you're not sleeping. Reality will become a dream you will only wake up from once life is gone.
Ignorance can be confused for wisdom, good communication skills can be confused for a good thinker. And awareness is only temporary, you are only aware of the present, a tense that is fictitious. Once the future comes it soon becomes the past, and what we call the present doesn't last for any amount of time we can notice before it's gone. Time itself is a human invention.
So I encourage you to stop.
Stop and calm down. Breathe in, breathe out.
Take it all in and let it out, leaving no place for nostalgia.
Free yourself from the false awareness.
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That second to last paragraph is a dangerous way of thinking. Have you ever read 'The Illustrated Man'? It's a fantastic book compiled of a bunch of Ray Bradbury's short stories. I think there is one where it has a guy who thinks like the second to last paragraph and he goes insane, I nearly went insane thinking like that.
Saying there is no objectivity is prideful. It shows we can't look outside ourselves for truth so we rely solely within ourselves, but someone who bases everything off objective truth becomes jaded.
From what I've observed, there is about an equal amount of subjective and objective truth for us to explore.
Like we can never really know how long a second is, or that color thing where I'm not sure if we're seeing the same colors you're seeing, or how emotion feels to another. However, we have to have faith that we can depend on some things, like 2+2 isn't relative, neither is gravity, you know? I like the way you think : P
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I've red a few stories from that book but I didn't get to read that one. I'll try to find it though, sounds interesting (:
The thing is you have to learn how to separate things, think in parallel lines, on one side you have objectives and life and you're living it. On the other line you understand that life and everything is relative and even though nothing makes sense to us human beings, it doesn't mean we get to depress ourselves and go insane. I'm not sure you can follow me? Haha
I agree on gravity, but I'm one of those persons who believes maths just like time is a human invention. I mean, multiply a negative potato with three negative potatoes and there you go, three potatoes out of nowhere. Maybe we sort of guessed a few rules but it needs perfecting.
Thanks (:
And thanks for replying, it's nice to have someone to think with.
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Well in respect to objective reality I meant in the philosophical term which means, observable reality that is true, and can be viewed and shared among third persons and with math I get what you're saying but you can't have 3 negative potatoes so that question can't exist.
You have to break it down into it's simplest form. A certain French philosopher from the 1900s calls bringing an argument down to it's most simple, truest form deconstruction.
So think about it, you owe three boxes of... potaters. If the person you owe boxes of potatoes to owes you three potatoes for every box you owe him then you will have a positive amount of potatoes.
The problem isn't math, but the education system. They need to deconstruct their methods before teaching them : P
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You tell that to my math teacher.
And sure, I get what you mean.
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