Variations Otherwise
Downfall Of Loxodromes
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Super-duper anagram!
"Oh, science topples galaxies."
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"Alas, logic pops existence, eh."
Is this anagram a sign that the universe as we know it is just an illusion? Will science or logic be able to "topple" our perceptions of reality?
I know this anagram is somewhat lame because of the appearance of the words "oh,", "eh", and even "alas" in it. But still, I find it interesting that our language would seem to align so as to allow this pair of related phrases to happen to be anagrams of each other.
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Another small anagram.
"Paradox"
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"A rad pox"
("Rad" means cool {for those of you unfamiliar with 80's slang}, as in "RADical, man! Hey, dude, that's rad!")
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I am concerned that what I perceive to be reality is only an illusion.
Okay, I WANT all things to only be an illusion when it comes to mass-suffering, such as that suffering in, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan or Haiti or elsewhere. Wouldn't it be nice if the Neo-Nazi revisionists were correct, and the Holocaust didn't really happen? (And, oh yeah, the Neo-Nazis don't exist either!)
But... I want things to be real when it comes to small personal things in my life -- such as my cat, and my art, my friends and family. (I really don't want the truth of reality to be that I am still a virgin because I was only dreaming when I thought I got some.)
But how selfish is that? Am I willing, if it was somehow up to me if things are real or not (which I don't think it is, anyway), to make all things real just for my cat's sake and my art's sake, if making things real would mean the mass-suffering of billions of people?
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No poem today! Yay!
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Leroy
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