Wednesday, May 28, 2008

Lost in the Dancing Wu Li

What if the glass is not half full or half empty? If the atom is empty, and it looks like it is, like just a bunch of space inside space inside space, then the glass must be empty also. Whatever we put in the glass must then come from our minds, no? So the glass is full of illusion, and outside the glass there is more empty space, but the glass exists, so there is something, right? The glass is empty, but it exists, like us, and so we are the glasses, constantly full and empty at the same time. Not that it's any relief, but at least now if you hear two people debating about optimism and pessimism, you can tell them both to shut the fuck up. The glass is empty, and our brains are full of illusions. Life is grand, and not, and then again. Sometimes we fill the glass with emptiness, and sometimes it's something a little sweeter. Which illusion will it be? But then wait a minute... we also invented the glass?

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