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Ashim Shanker

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He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t – beyond a hint of skepticism – say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.
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Doubt has become the veritable wellspring of my creative process and my philosophic explorations. It has equipped me with the temerity and wherewithal to question certain truths deemed ‘fundamental’ by my betters. Defiance has made me stubborn – possibly even arrogant – enough to shrug off rejection and all fears thereof, no matter how lacerating to the self-esteem these could be. It has given me the will to seek only to satisfy myself.
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Innumerable arcs intersect and scatter into a vast indefinite sea.
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#existentialism #human-experience
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The sounds of my breaths slowly begin to fade away, and I can hear again the waves in the darkness. The waves again! Reverberating through a hollow tube. Focus inward, and ignore the sound! Ignore the cause. Think not upon the cause of that cause or upon that cause’s cause’s cause. There is more than we will ever be able to explain. More than I will ever know and observe, and thus our systems are riddled with gaps.
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#breathing #causality
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He may actually have been existing in the past and approximating a conceivable future, which brought even the assumption of his immediate perceptions as being in the present into doubt. And thus, he couldn’t—beyond a hint of skepticism—say that he truly existed right now and in this moment, but instead it seemed more rational to assume that he simply existed and nothing more.
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#skepticism #past-and-future #past-and-present #solipsism #perception-and-reality #ontology #time-slipping
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All events of the past withered to mere skeletons, veined and fleshed of fancy.
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#imperfection #past-and-present
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Etchings endure, But not in SandMeanings Collide To Unresolved FragmentsCodes fizzle to StaticThey are not lostBut UnheardNever lostFading slowly to SilenceBy infinite degrees
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#poetry #permanence #static
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The temporal heart resonates at whispersFrom a Truth overarchingOf whose countenanceTimeless Intellect yearns vainly to fathom
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#poetry #inspirational #truth #intuition #intellect
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We had found a more binding union than could be afforded us through mere Particle Egalitarianism. Now, we were all residents of the Accursed Lands.
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#metaphysics #impermanence #self-interest #environmentalism #egalitarianism
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The lights became stars, which became streaks in the grayspace, and then networks of fading shimmers
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#poetry #light #space #doubt #impermanence #ambiguity #divinity #network #singularity #metaphysical #ephemeral #gray #multiplicity #pluralism #ontology
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