Wednesday, May 23, 2007

in the theatre of the absurd

The squirrel climbed up and the sun smiled down. "What if everything was causal and we knew all the variables of one big deterministic system?" He stopped and nibbled.

"But thats for schools and their science books. Guarantees do not exist in the grown world. My striving only increases my chances of being higher and my time being more accountable - everything in the universe is probabilistic. My mind is part of this universe. So my mind is probabilistic: I can only attempt at increasing my chances of knowing without being sure of knowing. The billions of millions of planets show it in a way. If there was one planet with one Sun, a moon and its company of stars it could be attributed to the grace of a god. If there were not so many species of plants and animals mutated over thousands of years from one cell (and to imagine the freak event to have caused this single cell in itself) - emptiness was placed but so much has evolved! The odds of us not being here were so fantastically high, and yet, they have been overcome only because there exist so many galaxies, species, people and Time!!"

He scratched his ear. "So maybe I should rest: good things may happen from toil but truly wondrous things happen only by chance. Aha, yet one must not sacrifice skill waiting for that magical tingle as one could be left with neither." And so he got to climbing again, while the sun, why, it laughed!


There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

- Leonard Cohen.

10 comments:

meraj said...

"So maybe I should rest: good things may happen from toil but truly wondrous things happen only by chance. Aha, yet one must not sacrifice skill waiting for that magical tingle as one could be left with neither."

fantstic stuff!...where is all this coming from, my friend bojangles?

Brown Weed said...

haha, from me and you, and a dog named boo!

And you must read The Idiot once I'm done. You'll identify completely - it is all you only!

nkshirsa said...

man .....

Mrinal said...

After another night of drudgery with stupid agreements (which I think are like building software and which explains why I'm so bad at it!)… After getting entangled and involved with the garbage details of living… After losing sight somewhat… Your post was such a pleasant reminder of a brilliant universe of things much higher than those the mind busies itself with unfailingly, unwittingly and unnecessarily. :)

soulasylum said...

:) amazing! :O

Unknown said...

Baba its seriously amazing...

alien said...

Baba its seriously amazing...

Aniket Anikhindi said...

where is all this coming from dude... fundoo stuff!

Mrinal said...

Getting fraught with banality...

Looking forward to being pulled out by your words soon!

Brown Weed said...

ufoo.. I enjoy reading you guys just as much, maybe more. Though Nikhil only writes for himself now, it seems.

and this:
'..those the mind busies itself with unfailingly, unwittingly and unnecessarily..'

The unnecessarily is too much only!