"I could sing a song, and will sing a song, although I am alone in an empty house and must sing it into mine own ears"
"I sat there waiting, waiting for nothing,
Enjoying, beyond good and evil, now
The light, now the shade; there was only
The day, the lake, the noon, time without end.
Then my friend, suddenly one became two."
-Nietzsche
I love to sit and just meditate on these two thoughts. Especially the second, the duality of it, of both of them. It's so invigorating for me, that something so isolated and cold can be so full of life at the same time . Like meditation itself. It's an act of isolation but through it you can feel a complete oneness with everything. Consciousness is such a wonderful gift and the opposite could be said as well. Consciousness can be a horrible curse. We all feel so small within this vast universe that we cannot even comprehend it, but we tend to forget about the cosmos we house in our own minds. In a sense we've created everything that we know. It makes me wary of just about everything though. What can you believe? What can we know? Everything is based on our senses and our experience of certain events. Should I believe in love and altruism, or does biologic need necessitate the will to do the things we do? Part of me wants everything to be so simple that we can look at the human race like a national geographic special on animal behavior. It would be sad, but easy. The other part wants to know that there's much more but that's frightening, that's filled with utter chaos knowing that there is a form of consciousness beyond life. It's like falling from the sky, you fear the ground but at least you know what it is to fly.
On a lighter note check out my awesome new photoshop pic!
"Listen Marty all you need to get back to the future is fourty-seven pounds of manure and I can do the rest, ok?"
Marty McFly's such a dumb ass.
"I sat there waiting, waiting for nothing,
Enjoying, beyond good and evil, now
The light, now the shade; there was only
The day, the lake, the noon, time without end.
Then my friend, suddenly one became two."
-Nietzsche
I love to sit and just meditate on these two thoughts. Especially the second, the duality of it, of both of them. It's so invigorating for me, that something so isolated and cold can be so full of life at the same time . Like meditation itself. It's an act of isolation but through it you can feel a complete oneness with everything. Consciousness is such a wonderful gift and the opposite could be said as well. Consciousness can be a horrible curse. We all feel so small within this vast universe that we cannot even comprehend it, but we tend to forget about the cosmos we house in our own minds. In a sense we've created everything that we know. It makes me wary of just about everything though. What can you believe? What can we know? Everything is based on our senses and our experience of certain events. Should I believe in love and altruism, or does biologic need necessitate the will to do the things we do? Part of me wants everything to be so simple that we can look at the human race like a national geographic special on animal behavior. It would be sad, but easy. The other part wants to know that there's much more but that's frightening, that's filled with utter chaos knowing that there is a form of consciousness beyond life. It's like falling from the sky, you fear the ground but at least you know what it is to fly.
On a lighter note check out my awesome new photoshop pic!
"Listen Marty all you need to get back to the future is fourty-seven pounds of manure and I can do the rest, ok?"
Marty McFly's such a dumb ass.