Tag: existence
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June 07, 2007 05:06 PM EDT --
Are we to go on? Or Are we no more?
My belief is that we linger on as spirits. The reason for my belief is that I have had some real ghostly experiences. Ghosts do exist.
What . . . more
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August 27, 2007 08:05 PM EDT --
Have you ever stopped and thought, why does the universe exist? Neither religion nor science ever try to tackle this concept. They both describe the HOW.
For example, with science, the universe . . . more
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September 06, 2007 11:21 AM EDT --
An empty canvass of a woman
Stripped and empty and content
Not contained but spilling
Spilling over meticulously measured margins
Of the accepted
And the expected
And the respected
Bursting double stitched, . . . more
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December 06, 2007 10:34 AM EST --
The Demigod Blues
Oh, cruel feckless world!
Again you mourn your worth,
For no one does it better than you do.
Your life has been so tough.
The world is not enough,
‘Cos no one’s . . . more
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August 28, 2006 11:39 AM EDT --
This was originally a comment at 100 Days, but the system was down. The topic in the comment thread (look at Day 34 & 35) was uncertainty. MB, Lorianne, and Stray have written eloquently on uncertainty. . . . more
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July 26, 2007 08:43 PM EDT --
The wind
wants to erase our names
To make us planar
To wear us down
The pyramids? Of course.
The Himalayas? You bet.
That sharp spot on your tooth?
Oh absolutely!
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July 04, 2008 11:27 AM EDT --
I went through a terrible divorce when my children were 4, 7 and 10. Their mother found it necessary to designate me as the psychological punching bag for things that went wrong in her life.
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May 12, 2006 11:33 PM EDT --
I've only recently begun acquire a taste for Shakespeare. His prose was too dense and archaic for my wandering adolescent mind. Instead, I chose to focus on integrals and periodic tables. I chose the . . . more
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May 02, 2007 06:53 PM EDT --
Again it is in this sleepy town my mind awakes
A sense of misplaced belonging
A taste memories unresolved
Amongst bitter change and sweet familiarity
I meet the wide-eyed child of me
As the drawn . . . more
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November 19, 2007 01:04 PM EST --
We all know there is a connectedness between the Moon and the Ocean’s Tide, but did you know that the connectedness between the Sun and Moon is just as great as the connectedness . . . more
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December 12, 2007 06:11 AM EST --
Suffocated by the burden of life from which there is no reprieve
Gazed upon by the curious hiding behind the stares of mediocrity
Digging in the bag of seven deadly sins in search of pleasure or truth . . . more
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August 12, 2007 10:00 AM EDT --
Sometimes I have a hard time believing any of you exist. I remember being a kid and playing with toys in the bathtub and thinking, maybe these people around me aren't real and it's one big dream. . . . more
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March 02, 2007 01:55 PM EST --
Why are we Here?
There are more than 6.5 billion people on this little blue plant third from the sun. As far as we know, no life exists on any of the other planets that we have had the . . . more
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January 16, 2008 09:32 PM EST --
For my dear friend and fellow Gather poet Minnie W., whose exquisite subjectivity and the feeling maps that undergird it tell her where the truth lies, on the world wide web and in the wide world. . . . more
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July 20, 2008 11:41 PM EDT --
There´s no wife tonight: no other half of the tale.
No questions or desires blurted down the hallway.
No delivery of daily vignettes across the sofa´s pillows.
No flurry . . . more
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November 01, 2006 04:29 PM EST --
Imagine for a minute that everything you see around you is not actually there. It is just for lack of a better phrase, a figment of your imagination. Could it be?
The world's top scientists now think . . . more
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January 05, 2007 09:00 AM EST --
THE SINGE OF WILD VIOLINS
From out of hidden hues
Comes the lilting lead of a flute
Full of murmurs from your breath
In comes the singe of wild violins
Climbing the heights of harmonies
Full . . . more
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October 17, 2007 11:35 AM EDT --
No lights any time from any of the upper windows, day in, day out. Neighbors rarely see its occupants hobnobbing around. Except for a cranky caretaker, an Old Lady who thinks she can open the rusty . . . more
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November 20, 2007 01:35 PM EST --
The short answer is: we don't "go" anywhere. The human being passes through several stages during his period of evolution. It begins at conception. The mother and father . . . more
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November 27, 2007 07:08 PM EST --
My son came home the other day relating to me a story of a friend at school (who is Muslim) who told him that Jews & Christians are going to hell when they die. It was disturbing to . . . more
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