Footnotes2Plato

Those with distaste for metaphysics need not read past this period. If you’re still reading, I’ll take it that you, like me, have a sense for the mysterious weirdness of existence. All in all, the concept of existence seems to me to be at least improbable, and, at most, a never-ending free-fall of Being toward… Read more

1. What is the ego? The Buddhist wants to say the ego is a fiction, as this seems to be the only way to avoid the reductio ad absurdum inherent to mind/body dualism. If the ego is real, it must exist in a self-contained dimension not subject to the laws of time and space. It… Read more

Why do we insist on measuring alien technology in terms of time? We say, “It is likely that advanced forms of alien life are thousands, if not millions of years ahead of us technologically.” First off, what is it we typically mean when we refer to “technology”? Do we mean something material and mechanical? Something… Read more

Clothing is scattered across the carpetAnd dinner plates pile upOn all the tops of tables.Books go unreadAnd phone calls go unanswered,While the patients of my mind–troubled thoughts–Remain alone and without cure. The dial of my dayHas wound tightAround the sun,Pulling quickly its tripBetween clouds across the sky. The sand falls gently,The hourglass grows full.My lungs… Read more

I have a message For the world. Not to scare you, But I think it Should be heard. People ought to Let themselves Get hurt and get lost. Suffering is the shortest route to Bliss is the sound of serpent’s tongue Who was guilty of a sin And whose nemesis Was his reflection’s grin In… Read more