Life is a Fabulous Blend...
Friday, October 22, 2004
  Pose a prose of pondering please
I tend to take after my father. My mother takes much at face value but has alot going on in her brain that remains unsaid, but my father on the other hand, is different. He has read more self-help book than your local library owns. Everymorning and everynight, he spends a good 15 minutes reading. Actually, I hardly ever catch him in the act; i most often only observe his pondering. He reads everything and anything. Most are either of religious content, about CHristianity or others becuase he believes in knowing everything before choosing something, about sports and leadership, or about desire and life. Every so often if I spend more than a good five seconds in the same room as his lazyboy while he is pondering, he throws random questions at me or cites a quote that intrigues him. I respond to every one of them, understand half, and care about even less. He's involved me in his "quiet time" ever since I was about 7. I think this started the way I think. I take after my father. We think the same, solve the same, and ponder similarly. It is from him that I adapted my most favorite silence'breaking question; "what are you thinking about?" People tend to reply similarly to my response to my father's inquirious questions; they always answer, but hardly even give it thought. Most common response; Nothin. That's BS if i ever heard it. Youre always thinking. It is only when you are unable to label or connect iwht thoughts that say that you are thinking nothing. I can honestly say I have never been thinking about nothing. Every hour of every day I find my mind covering the most random to the most dull of subjects. SO now I pose this; is everyone else like me? ARe you just lazy when replying 'nothing' to the question of actual thought? Or really are there times or mental domanty? Do you, like me, find your self questioning the realities or a governmentless society or the lasting effects of genetic engineered foods or the curiousity of the ability to lable air or sound waves or light or the untangible? I will never know unless someone comes clean here......
 
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i believe that i am always thinking. but perhaps i just don't catch myself when i'm not? i don't know.
 
Kara, make sure you go see I Heart Huckabees. There's a great scene that addresses your question.

Anyhow, yes, I think I am always thinking. I don't think others are always thinking. I am guilty to answering "Nothing" but truly its because I don't really wanna confess what I was thinking about, maybe its a secret, or something just kind of weird. However, I COULD be thinking about "Nothing", meaning, the essence of nothing, and whether nothing can exist in a universe of something. But the chances of that are rare.
 
so thats 2 out of 6,396,125,944. Anyone else?
 
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