We can't see the wind, but we can see the spectacular effect of it ...and it does exist. We observe how it can fill a sail to carry us to paradises unknown, or tear the roof off a shelter. Yes, it can be rather constructive, or sadly destructive.
Do I live by the salt of the earth, or do I like the salty sea ...and what I can see?? Do I merely enjoy sailing, or rather do I live opportunistically??
Who am I, besides being me?
And am I one person on one day, and another the next?? Am I who I want to be, or do I become who I don't want to be??
Can I be whoever I want to be? After all, I have choice.
Perhaps today I choose to be a pirate. Do I imagine all this, or is it real??
Are the following reasons sufficient enough not to believe in me??
- It is possible that I am not real ...some of the signs point to the belief that I may just have been created. (You think possibly ...computer generated??)
- Pirates are of a different character and type ...and I don't sound like a pirate, but more like a suffering philosopher. And a bad one at that. In comparison, Rene Descartes, considered the Father of Modern Philosophy, once said, "I think; therefore I am." But, I say, "I think; therefore I blog." There should be some criteria consideration here ...don't want to blog you down.
- The world population is approaching seven and a half billion people. With that many people in existence, how relevant or true is my existence??
Yes, how relevant??
It's been said, but bears repeating: to my parents, and my wife & our children ...yes, I am relevant. But, to you I perhaps don't need to be. And furthermore, you may find no reason to care to challenge my existence, either way. I perhaps mean nothing to you ...and it doesn't seem to matter. If I insist upon the fact that I exist, you may find no reason to doubt that ...but on the other hand, you find no reason to put forth any great effort to believe it either.
But, wait! There are always countless negative reasons to believe also.
If you think I may be a pirate, you may not like imagining what the implication of that may mean. You may run with that thought through your mind, and image that I'm ...or may likely be mean. You may already have set biases against all pirates, after all, isn't the definition of a pirate ...a thief??
And there is no sense trying to have a rational conversation with me. You'll never change my mind ...you may only end up walking the plank.
So, pirates ...thieves ...they're all the same.
If a thief exists, the thief could break into your house. But, you could have a German Shepherd ...like we do.
But, what if your dog just happens to be vacationing at the time ...with our dog, in the Bahamas? You may say, you have more than one dog though. Well, so do we ...but, there is always an internal struggle between loyalty and jealousy. If one dog gets to take a vacation, then all dogs might want one.
This may sound all too ridiculous, but it probably does to a thief also. Why would anyone send their dogs on vacation without them going too?
So, the thief enters your home ...reasoning that very thing, that since the dogs aren't home, you aren't either. But, you are.
You, or one of your family members gets hurt ...badly. Perhaps you'd like to believe the thief doesn't exist.
You are angry, and rightfully so ...so, perhaps you are not thinking as clearly as you can. How could this all happen? There was supposed to be a police officer patrolling the area at this time, so the thief wouldn't have been able to do what he did ...it would have been prevented. Unless there was no police officer there.
Perhaps the police officer doesn't exist.
I want to believe in the police officer, but I don't want to believe in the thief ...maybe I'd be better off not to believe in either one. I'd be better off that way.
Of course, we all get disappointed ...we all have reason to get upset ...and we all get angry. And usually it's not from a thief entering our home. It's from the humanness of those rightfully residing there ...yes, we also get angry with our professed 'loved ones'.
A blind trust is seldom advisable. And we often trust someone only because others trust that person, without getting to know them for ourselves. But, with a loved one, it is different. A loved one likely believes in you more ...yet, stands more of a chance of being hurt.
A loved one: "I trusted you! I believed in you!"
Other loved one: "Let me explain!"
But, there are no explanations forthcoming ...because a person who is upset usually also doesn't want to listen.
But, wait! There are always countless negative reasons to believe also.
If you think I may be a pirate, you may not like imagining what the implication of that may mean. You may run with that thought through your mind, and image that I'm ...or may likely be mean. You may already have set biases against all pirates, after all, isn't the definition of a pirate ...a thief??
And there is no sense trying to have a rational conversation with me. You'll never change my mind ...you may only end up walking the plank.
So, pirates ...thieves ...they're all the same.
If a thief exists, the thief could break into your house. But, you could have a German Shepherd ...like we do.
But, what if your dog just happens to be vacationing at the time ...with our dog, in the Bahamas? You may say, you have more than one dog though. Well, so do we ...but, there is always an internal struggle between loyalty and jealousy. If one dog gets to take a vacation, then all dogs might want one.
This may sound all too ridiculous, but it probably does to a thief also. Why would anyone send their dogs on vacation without them going too?
So, the thief enters your home ...reasoning that very thing, that since the dogs aren't home, you aren't either. But, you are.
You, or one of your family members gets hurt ...badly. Perhaps you'd like to believe the thief doesn't exist.
You are angry, and rightfully so ...so, perhaps you are not thinking as clearly as you can. How could this all happen? There was supposed to be a police officer patrolling the area at this time, so the thief wouldn't have been able to do what he did ...it would have been prevented. Unless there was no police officer there.
Perhaps the police officer doesn't exist.
I want to believe in the police officer, but I don't want to believe in the thief ...maybe I'd be better off not to believe in either one. I'd be better off that way.
Of course, we all get disappointed ...we all have reason to get upset ...and we all get angry. And usually it's not from a thief entering our home. It's from the humanness of those rightfully residing there ...yes, we also get angry with our professed 'loved ones'.
A blind trust is seldom advisable. And we often trust someone only because others trust that person, without getting to know them for ourselves. But, with a loved one, it is different. A loved one likely believes in you more ...yet, stands more of a chance of being hurt.
A loved one: "I trusted you! I believed in you!"
Other loved one: "Let me explain!"
But, there are no explanations forthcoming ...because a person who is upset usually also doesn't want to listen.
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