Tuesday, June 14, 2005


useless...
posted @ 09:42 by ryan in [ From the sage... ]

it was funny. funny haha, funny interesting, funny strange. all of it together. all at once.

how could it possibly? possibly more than one thing at the same time. It would have to be. It is not flat. It is not one-dimension. We tear things down. We tear things apart. We do this so that we can try to understand it. But when was anything every just the sum of its parts?

never.

it never was. the whole is much more than the pieces, because there is a synergy.

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a seed. useless alone.
add some soil. (again, useless alone)
add some water. (another thing, useless alone)
add some air. (invisible, and yet useless alone)
add some sunlight. (yet again, useless alone)

it grows into a plant. (but that is useless alone)
the plant produces fruit. (the fruit is also useless alone)
from here, the roads diverge.

the fruit is useless alone, but add an animal (which is useless alone) and the fruit becomes nourishment, which is not useless because of the animal.

the fruit also has seeds, which are useless alone... [repeat cycle]

the animal (which is useless alone) has no purpose, except to live. But that cannot be ones purpose, or rather, that should not be ones purpose because one would ultimately fail in that purpose.

to live.

instead, the purpose should be one of interaction. socialization. because although one can isolate, one was not meant to be alone.

Meant. means. meaning. The meaning was given. who gives the meaning. Oneself? Possibly, but to be true, then not just one would have to be aware enough to give oneself meaning, but all. That can't be true, so although one might believe one gives oneself meaning, meaning cannot be self derived.

It is also possible that one might never know one's meaning, though one accomplishes it, over and over. If that is the case, then one cannot give oneself meaning.

One is useless alone, for there is nothing alone. If there is nothing alone then there is no meaning alone, so if one is alone, then one cannot give oneself meaning.

alone is meaningless.

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but one cannot be alone.

again, the intention is to interact. though one can isolate, one cannot be alone. one cannot remove oneself into nothing. for one, nothing would lead to death. one cannot be surrounded by nothing because there is always something. with something, there is opportunity to interact. to interact is to fulfill the intention to interact. interaction leads to further interaction which leads to further interaction, etc, etc...

until death. then the interaction transforms into different interaction. if matter cannot be created or destroyed, and matter is converted energy, and energy cannot be created or destroyed, then one cannot be ended, as the energy that was once one is now something else.

to fulfill one's purpose.

purpose is given.

purpose is not chosen.

what one chooses does not alter ones purpose. although it is possible that one may think that ones purpose is fulfilled, one is a part of a greater design. in this design the details may vary, by coincidence or chance, but certainly ones purpose can be chosen to not be fulfilled, granted one knows what is ones purpose.

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I hear the ticking of the clock, I'm lying hear the room's pitch dark.
I wonder where you are tonight, no answer on the telephone.
and, the night goes by so very slow. oh, I hope that it won't end, though...
alone...

till now, I always got by on my own. I never really cared until I met you, and now it chills me to the bone. how do I get you alone? how do I get you alone?

you don't know how long I have wanted to touch your lips and hold you tight. oh, you don't know how long I have waited and I was going to tell you tonight. but, the secret is still my own, and my love for you is still unknown...

alone...

alone

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