“Purity is a negative state and therefore contrary to nature.”
– William Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury
We experience the natural world as full of things. All we know are things. We name them so we can think and talk about them. Even space, emptiness, is some-thing. The idea that there can be an other, an absolute absence or negation of thing-ness, exists not in our experience, but as an abstraction of the mind, like negative numbers – or purity. Perhaps the mind’s greatest achievement is Nothing.
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When you search for truth, the eyes have it.
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Oneness gives validity to all similes.
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‘Contentment is Wealth’ – Irish tune title.
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Some money costs too much.
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Faith is the victory of hope over experience.
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Evidence is objective, fact-based, verifiable and logical.
In the presence of Evidence, faith is not required; facts are facts.
Faith is subjective, hope-based, un-verifiable and beyond logic.
In the presence of Faith, evidence is not required; Faith overcomes facts.
Faith, quite literally, defies Logic.
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Just because we don’t yet know the answer to a question doesn’t mean there isn’t one.
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Assume nothing; learn how to See.
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Every cigarette you smoke gives Death another blowjob.
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Science is only as accurate as its tools.
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Doc Watson never cared what his guitar looked like.
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String players:
The left hand is what you know; the right hand is who you are. (reverse this for lefties)
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Social media = cultural gangrene