Materialism is Hell

I have nothing to say and I am saying it
- John Cage

Conditions to be me

Everything in this world

can be replaced with

something else,

except me;

that's what it means

to have an identity

But you can replace us

one and all

with something else

someone else

High trade

And, when am

I, you?

After all, I'm only

a number

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What do you see?

I must use words like
information and entropy,
un-poetic words
(to some)
This world will not go back to grazing
on the beauty in our eyes
We must see enlightenment
In what is here
now
like it was done before

The music of our poetry must
be Stokhausen or at least Hindemith
or Schoenberg;
not Schumann!
This new wine can not be served
in mimicry
Mimicry is nothing now

We can no longer
ignore numbers

Question reality seeing
it digitized

What your eyes saw
is not real

It's that easy now
That easy now

For Christ's sake! It is not
the physical mountain that is
sublime!

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What could be worse than the circular argument of Darwinian purpose for human beings. Kill or be killed? Survival of the fittest; and the most preposterous, our purpose is to perpetuate the species.

To be dumped in with all the other animals, because we share traits in the physical dimension is hell!

Living the life of a wildebeest with the consciousness of an angel - what a cruel fate of nature! Not to even be treated like a human - abhorrent - it makes me shudder!

Quite simply, the fact that the Darwinian competitive model explains the physical behavior of the survivors, is simply stating that the traits that help the next generation survive will be evident in the survivors. This has nothing to do with purpose. It simply states that in a competitive environment, the survivors will have traits that help them survive. It is self-evident.

Now if we start off by saying that we can be explained completely in terms of physics and biology, then of course, death is a physical, biological, event. Dead dog, dead child, dead whore - all same.

But you can't prove there's nothing after death by starting with the assumption that we are only physical - this is circular.

How can we know what's after death for us; humans - with charities, and poets, and village idiots and mardi-gras and churches and universities and good will and funerals? Socrates showed this over 2000 years ago. It is in the definition of death.

There is some part of all of us that thinks it is eternal. Maybe it is, maybe it isn't. It's a maybe though.

So what are you are going to stake your life on? Try being an animal for a day. Don't dream, don't feel compassion, don't feel a oneness with the world, don't appreciate the privilege of consciousness; try!

If you choose to believe you have the same fate as every other beast, go ahead, but then don't whine about it!

Keep your hell to your self.