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Existential questions

by kawakurdi

Member since 2002 · Posted 8 Jan 2005 · 9 comments

Don’t press me hard, I don’t have much to impress What exists more, exists even less What IS IS NOT, What IS NOT IS It is the question of hours and days Relativity is Absolute, Absolute is Relative And Eternity is beyond the living formative Rational analysis is not life analysis Man is not the sole life-form axis Earth is not the sole entity of universe All what is there is not the invisible necklace There is no ladder, no Adam, no Eve But Water, Fire, Sand, and Air to retrieve 1/1000000000000 and less is our contemporary knowledge Man himself is a riddle in his own cage Live for life, like a lame duck Don’t moan for a loss, delight in luck A trivial advice this is too I know Pain is the mirror of this life so Unity of contradiction or disunity Is the essence of all eventuality Just take it as a game, a game it is With not much joy as the result is amiss

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[6] cuddlytiger17 8-Jan-05/3:05 PM Reply
Interesting, but some of your rhymes are really forced.
[10] thepinkbunnyofdoom 9-Jan-05/4:10 PM Reply
Forced rhyme helps drive it well.

<3 Jason
[n/a] kawakurdi › thepinkbunnyofdoom 10-Jan-05/7:01 AM Reply
Thanks Jason. Forced rhymes come from the difficulty of putting a philosophical question in verse but they help to reflect the gravity of the task.
[n/a] richa › kawakurdi 10-Jan-05/2:43 PM Reply
Then it is imperative that you continue to force rhymes lest the reader fails to grasp the gravity of what you are doing.
[10] zodiac 10-Jan-05/4:13 AM Reply
None of these lines are actually questions. I'd change the title. Or just insert questions marks more or less at random for a neat question-y effect. For example:

Relativity is Absolute? Absolute is Relative?
And Eternity is? beyond the livi?ng formative.
[n/a] kawakurdi › zodiac 10-Jan-05/7:02 AM Reply
Questions simply means issues, matters, concerns
[10] zodiac › kawakurdi 10-Jan-05/11:45 PM Reply
No it doesn't.

And please explain how any of your "issues, matters, and concerns", posted above, in any way answer my existential question, reigning concern, and whemied matter, posted below.
[10] zodiac 10-Jan-05/4:32 AM Reply
Incidentally, the best existential question ever is: When the Lord finally lets fly that last great trump he's been whemying for 2000 million years, will we remain in possession of our ears long enough to hear it and fall to the ground under the force of its too-many-parted harmonies, or will we instantly be turned into souls, to be blown this way and that by the terrible and everlasting gusts of wind that follow?
[9] Fayt 6-Mar-06/10:42 AM Reply
o so true...