Sink or Swim?

[brown_thumb]

I know for whom the bell tolls. I accept my fate. As a child the ringing in my ears was distant and faint. Lately, it rings more loudly and with ominous tone. But is it truly menacing or is it my fear of the unknown, giving me pause? Time will tell, if there is such a thing as time. Unbeknownst to humankind, are simple truths, yet invisible to our weak intellect. We struggle to see what cannot be seen... tiny glimpses witnessed by a few may hint at what is to come, or not. But are they witnessed glimpses, or are they fanciful wishful imagination driven by a starving need for meaning? Some pretend to know by venue of 'faith'. Others demand cold hard 'data'. Who are the wiser? What is this murky cold misery in which we swim, or drown? Which is the wiser action, or inaction? Is swimming a good fight, and is it all we've got? Is sinking giving in and giving up, or is it simply letting go and our reward is easy floating above what were once relentlessly crashing waves? What is this endless battle we wage? To what gain? To what end? Who are the wiser; believers or provers? I'm neither, and I know not whether to sink or swim.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

nobody knows nothing, and that's a fact!

 

[brown_thumb]

Everybody knows something, I think?

 

[CosmicGiggle]

Well, science does seem to suggest that believers are happier than non-believers.

And both Eastern and Western religions suggest that thinking is the root of unhappiness and should be controlled through techniques such as prayer and meditation.

 

[Gypsy Nirvana]

If you don't know whether to sink or swim....then its best to just FLOAT.

.....Until you can make your mind up.


*I'm floating right now.

..So 'Float On' compadre'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZklwTGZutc

 

[brown_thumb]

Ha!! I've been floating for so long, I've forgotten how to swim. I'm not sinking yet but if I keep taking on more weight...

 

[armedoldhippy]

Everybody knows something, I think?

some of us don't even SUSPECT anything much less KNOW something...

 

[brown_thumb]

I've known many people with greatly variegated beliefs and I could never presume to say whose right or wrong. Perhaps they're all right. Perhaps they're all wrong. Perhaps they're all a little of each. The way I view it, given the limitless vastness of the universe, it doesn't matter. The only thing that truly matters is down here on the ground at macro level. What matters, and it does matter immensely, is how we treat each other, right here, right now. Because yesterday is forever gone, opportunities forever lost, and tomorrow may never come, opportunities may never be realized.

I'm agnostic because I need proof, but I also know there are things we human beings will never see or comprehend. I'm a fence-riding, stuck-in-the-middle, know-nothing agnostic. I'm comfortable stuck here in the middle because I believe that it doesn't matter either way. If the lights go out and I cease to exist, I'll not be bothered by nothingness. If there is an afterlife and there's no special place to go, it doesn't matter because I've simply left this physical cocoon. If there's an afterlife and a supreme being to judge me for my actions here, although I'm far from perfect, I'm not all that bad either, and I do believe he/she/it would understand and forgive my doubts.

 

[noyd666]

KEEP YER PECKER UP.

 

[brown_thumb]

KEEP YER PECKER UP.

That thing quit working long ago.

 

[CosmicGiggle]

I'm a believer in something, I just don't know what it is!

Also, as far as non-believers go, I can't understand how anyone can fail to notice the strong element of MAGIC infusing everything, everyday, it's beyond me how many just don't see it.

 

[420somewhere]

My wife knows everything..

My wife knows everything..

KEEP YER PECKER UP.

That’s all I ask

 

[St. Phatty]

Go to a gym with a pool that's at least 25 yards long.

Then Think, while you're swimming.

Unless you thwim with a lithp.

Then Thinking is, sinking.

 

[Teddybrae]

me dipping philosophical toes in ... Brown Thumb ... are these Ambivalent words that flow from your pen? are you hinting at GIVING UP? Because what could be so interesting and amazing as LIFE? and peckers?
Mr Noyd has the important viewpoint. he is aligned with Evolution. There's no mystery in Evolution. Evolution is whether or not ya got yer rocks off. there needs to be no more to life than that! How Mysterious ...

 

[brown_thumb]

Just ambivalent ramblings.