I will warn you all now, this post contains subjects of high philosophical thought and may cause headaches not unlike the one shown in the picture accompanying this post.
Settled? right, good. Im not sure how to really convey this, but my thoughts right now, if they had a visible form, look exactly like this storm of epic proportions. In fact... thats a good start.
In the beginning, there was man, and man was given an instinct to survive. with that developed a brain, and henceforth, an imagination. Now. Lets start with materialistic things. This isn't a question of whether something exists or not, but rather, HOW it exists.. for example. This keyboard I'm using to type. It exists. Why? Because i can feel it. i can see it. I can hear when i press it.
But what about... the smell of perfume? you can see it in the bottle. You can see it when it first settles on your skin, but then... what? yes! the smell.
Next... concepts. Lets take... anger. Why does it exist? We cant see it. We cant hear it. We can only see how it reflects upon people; their expression, their tone. Its not something that hangs in the air, per se. Its something that we sense, based on how it makes people act.
What would happen, if we could not see, taste, smell, hear, feel something.. whether it be a material or a concept? Would that mean it doesn't exist? If we are oblivious to everything around us, does it exist at all? or is it our imagination that makes something real?
This is something i was discussing with a great guy named Ed (a diamond in a pit of granite if you ask me) and, based on what we both discussed, i have come to the conclusion that our imagination is the key to the existence of everything. Even things that have never existed materialistically are items of common knowledge worldwide - lets say, a dragon. They have never existed and yet even small children will describe the exact same concept as an elderly person on the other side of the world. How is this possible? how is it that something that has never existed materialistically, and yet is the description of a material being, exists? Yes, it does exist, because it is in our imagination.
Conscience gives birth to existence.
That is all.
1 comment:
Ah, well, now, see... Dragons, technically may/most probably did exist at one point or another.
I mean, seriously. I find it extremely hard to believe that 2 distinct cultures (for arguments sake -The West and The East) both came up with the same creature that's never existed?? Pah m'dear, pah.
I says it existed, but that it died out, but it left such an impact that the creatures have been retained in humanitie's deepest memory... almost as if in a genetic memory.
Maybe that's where imagination stems from, maybe it's a genetic memory that the subconcious only has limited control over.
Sci-fi writers say that there's only a number of different stories (I think 9, or maybe as few as 5) but that the stories they can write are infinite in number. It's all in the detail -but still, why only a certain number, and why does everyone only come up with that certain number?
One last question to leave you with -why do I get my greatest brainwaves in the Twilight? Could it be hereditary (my mother is a morning person, but her aunt is a complete night owl). Could it be environmental (no, I don't know how that one would work either). Maybe it's all in my mind...
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