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Group: alt.philosophy · Group Profile
Author: bigfletch8
Date: Jun 25, 2008 07:44

On Jun 25, 11:57 pm, TruthSlave home.com> wrote:
> Questions and Answers
>
> We know there are more questions than answers, yet we
> content ourselves with the limited answers served to us.
>
> The same answer for all those unexplored questions. Answers
> acting as labels for all which don't quite fit our forced
> blueprints.
>
> The same answers used to satisfy our disquiet. Our psyche,
> at war with itself, in a quandary cause by accepting what
> barely seems credible. The unconscious fighting for better
> answers, than those which occupy our conscious minds.
>
> These limited answers satisfy a belief in our purposeful
> misconceptions. Non-answers only equal to our confounded
> states. Non-answers as the source of our confounded states.
> Answers adapted from the illusions we sell ourselves.
>
> We will know it when we see it, or so we believe. Having
> accepted the answer, we now look to find its mate, all
> those unasked questions converging on the few answers we
> allow ourselves.
>
> We will know them when we see them, said as the answer
> demands its use, unsatisfactory resolution for our many
> conflicts. A focus binding all the unknowns, all those
> neurological states which refuse to sit well with our
> lazy models. Answers as self-satisfying, self-deluding
> expressions, constructs serving the necessary function of
> answers yet being far from adequate.
>
> That acceptance of the standard answer can be our undoing.
> The absence of better answers, or better questions, can trick
> us into a state of unsound reason. It is only with the truth
> filled answer that we heal ourselves. Knowing what ills us
> can cure us.
>
> So lazy are our answers, that we might as well not have
> language. Those answers barely satisfy as grunts. The barked
> expression, the ill fitting expletive, conjured to solve the
> puzzles which occupy our perplexed states. The tongue needing
> something to say, not content with the questions, with which
> it might play.
>
> What is it, why is it, how is it? Questions which won't always
> have answers, but show us still thinking, with a place reserved
> by the question for better answers.
>
> What, why, how?
>
> Seen from another perspective, some of our answers point to another
> era. Their use again, connecting now and then, the commonality of
> those non-answers, their renewed currency, harking back to a time
> of equal profundity. Beyond meaning, the shared expression, the
> same vague labels, the same shared states.
>
> If we look hard enough to truly notice, we might see these common
> phrases with this other function. In the mean time we content ourselves
> with the answers fashion from our experiences, answers borrowed from
> culture. We will know it when we see. So we are fooled and are mad
> fools.

Each answer adds another piece in the jigsaw puzzle. Two pictures
emerge. One, the group image we each contribute to, and draw from.
Relative madness, but only when compared with absolute insightfulness
of emerging self awareness.The second picture being that of the
picture drawer. Only from the position of unambiguous authenticity,
does one see the seperation of ones viewpoint from that which is
viewed.

BOfL
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