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HERES A THEORY

THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING

Humans have reached a critical point in consciousness. Enough now have awoken to the realisation that our understanding of consciousness has reached it’s limits. Whatever conclusions we may reach about our place in the multiverse, however brilliant, they will always remain bound by the fundamental flaw in our thinking. This achingly obvious semantic error, first recognised by Shakespeare, the architect of the English language as we know it, has remained hidden, lurking like a virus, threatening our very existence.

To Be, or not to Be, that is the question“.

What exactly is Being? It cannot be described, try to and you end up describing ‘Doing’. How does the dictionary define ‘Being?

Something, such as an object, an idea, or a symbol, that exists, is thought to exist, or is represented as existing.

And how does the dictionary define ‘Exist’?

To have actual being.

We have here a classic feedback loop - nothing but assumptions.

Descartes may well have nailed it when he said “I Think therefor I Am”, but what is I?

So now we know the problem, what solution can we offer? Humanocentricism could kill us all, all the sleepers slamming against the walls of a semiotic prison, seeking oblivion in drugs, bashing each other like monkeys, somethings gotta give…

Lets give up our delusions - make an effort to think without using any of the tenses of ‘to be’ - lets abolish ‘are, am, is, was, be and been’ from our thinking. Lets throw out all of the self definitions that no longer work - like ‘human’ and ‘time’.

Let us all face the music - we DON’T know what we ARE, we ARE deluding ourselves, lying to ourselves thinking that we have any clue when we clearly don’t.

Who out there has had enough of the monkey squabble? We let down our gaurd and before you know it our elected representatives claim to be our leaders. The Orwellian nightmare of War IS Peace has become a reality. Present a new idea and the conditioned masses ask for validation from an ‘official’ source, to prove it IS so…

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1 comment to THE PROBLEM WITH EVERYTHING

  • Try it as state of being. I am currently suspended in a human state of being. When I keel over, I will be in a decaying state of being, then I guess I’ll pass into an anti-matter state of being and complete the cycle - a United States of Being. Heheh

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