A Favorite Quote
I’m rereading a book that has my favorite quote in it. It is a twisted book that analyzes faith and truth and most other aspects of the mind and the soul. What makes it twisted is that it looks at these things through the eye of a man that is not what the world would consider sane.
“Reality is that which when you stop believing in it, it doesn’t go away.” That is the quote from VALIS by Philip K. Dick. It is bad that I have looked it up so many times that I know what page it is on. But between this book and the others I am reading (Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, and The Bible) I have begun inspecting something I am surprised that I never looked at before. I have started to question reality itself. Put another way I have stopped believing in reality. Much to my surprise I see it crumbling before my eyes.
Sometimes it feels like I was riding out a storm on a large safe boat and suddenly that boat just is not there anymore and I am in the ocean being tossed about like that nothingness that was before it all. The chaos of nothingness is frightening sometimes. Perhaps it is better to simple believe in something for safety sake. There is no adrenaline when you are being safe. There is no spice. Besides I really like to ask question. So let reality crumble and we will see what the waves are like with no boat.
posted by The Golden Retirver at 22:06
4 Comments:
If the boat crumbles shant the waves also, and a new world, or whatever surface. Conservation of mass.
The waves are not actually there. They are the chaos of nothingness. How can mass be conserved if it never existed in the first place? This is no longer science where basic assumptions can be considered valid. this is the world of the abstract and its rules are not so cut and dry and they seem to shift a lot.
If rules are not so cut and dry then cant them be cut and dry because not being cut and dry would be a rule.
what you're experiencing is definitely common. theology calls it 'neurath's boat,' when the boat that you've been using to navigate the ocean of life starts to fall apart...you try to frantically put all the pieces back together, but you just end up floating in the water until you find some other pieces from other people's boats to put into your boat construct.
i really like this, ron. you're on the right track. keep pushing.
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