Another Used Thought
Today, I could contemplate the meaning of life, explain how the Republican party are all lying bastards, or discuss the ongoing baseball pennant races. But, no matter the topic, one thing is for sure: It’s nothing that hasn’t been said before.
Yes, despite how I crave injecting you readers with as much knowledge as possible, I honestly am nothing but a human VCR. Certainly, there’s many enlightening subjects that I can bring to you, but, in the end, they all amount to nothing more than recycled thoughts. This isn’t to say I don’t think for myself, but, if I do, I’m bound to merely think the same thoughts as someone previous to me. Even driveling on about recycled thoughts is surely a recycled thought within itself. But, what should I do? Is there a solution to this dilemma?
Well, no, probably not. Despite the seemingly infinite amount of topics that I could raise here, there are also a seemingly infinite amount of people who have discussed the same issues. There will likely never be any new ideas inside this diary, nor in many others. However, what we must strive for is not to bring new ideas forward, but, instead, new perspectives.
No, in the end, none of us can ever hope to be original. We can only hope to be different.
do go to bed
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Please, someone remind me not to write entries at 1:30 AM again. It is becoming a horrid habit.
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Oh please, Matthew, I only said that because I wanted to plug the book I was reading. Lighten up. Oh, sorry I haven’t been online lately, at my mom’s house and I’m not going to tax her computer with the burden of running AIM express. For your reading entertainment: the diaries of Poor White Man and Arsenic22. (yes, you can hurt me later for the amount of IQ you’ll lose just be reading them…)
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Well written, although someone has probably written the like of it themselves in the past.. I’m sure I have.. But a question about your last line- what is “different”?? Does not “different” equal “same” in the end, particularly given the subject of this entry?? Which poses a further question of perhaps if you changed that last sentence to “we can only strive to be the same”, would that not then
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indicate being different?? Hrm.. Reading what I’ve written I don’t think I’ve made my point clear, which is a shame.. But then, I’m not entirely sure I had a “point”, only a stream of thoughts, much like this entry.. *Smiles* Is that a form of irony?? Or is there a better word to use??
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*Laughs at the tail end of the note from fireflies* – Touche!!!
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(Hehe, for the record, in my first note there, I meant that someone probably has written like the of this AS WELL in the past.. I realize you wrote in the entry that it was all recycled thoughts.. But not every thought is articulated as well as you did with this entry.. Hahaha, I know I’m certainly one of the many who don’t articulate my thoughts very well.. I have a way of meandering on forever..
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– as you can so obviously see)
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To repeat what others have said, requires education, to challenge it,requires brains.
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mm. you and your philosophies.
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paradigm shift ~ advancement is not evolutionary, but rather is a “series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions”, and in those revolutions “one conceptual world view is replaced by another”. its not the information (or world) that changes ~ but rather our conception or view of it.
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really Matt I still do like this entry. Used thought or not.
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