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Bullshit-detection toolkit
Bullshit-detection toolkit
about 3 months ago

What is faith? It is belief in something without sufficient evidence. Billions of people pride themselves as being people of faith. Conversely, the atheist prides herself in being skeptical. I.e. she withholds faith until sufficient evidence presents itself…

Equanimity
Equanimity
about 3 months ago

Late one Friday afternoon Suskia and I drove out to Sandy Bay, a secluded beach near Cape Town that remains unscathed to this day, bulwarked against man’s imperious hands by two towering peaks…

Who are you?
Who are you?
about 4 months ago

Who are you? You can answer with your name. But that’s merely the word by which you are called.

You can say that you are an engineer or artist. But that indicates what you do, or describes your career.

If you are proud of your lineage, you may point to the fact that you are the daughter of King X or Y. But that merely indicates your relation to another human being.

You could say that…

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Who are you?

October 20, 2018 in Photography, Writing, Philosophy, Spiritual

Who are you? You can answer with your name. But that’s merely the word by which you are called.

You can say that you are an engineer or artist. But that indicates what you do, or describes your career.

If you are proud of your lineage, you may point to the fact that you are the daughter of King X or Y. But that merely indicates your relation to another human being.

You could say that you are a human being in the twenty-first century who reside in a specific location. But that merely points to the locale of your aleatory existence.

You may answer with certitude that you are the son or daughter of God. But such a claim would merely signify that you associate yourself with the identity of another being, or that you subscribe to a set of concepts associated with that specific god.

You may point out that you are created from dust and that you are a spirit that inhabit this bodily frame or you can point to the fact that you are a cluster of atoms that were born billions of years ago in the belly of a star. But both these lines of argument merely describe the substance and process by which your existence came about in the first place.

We could go on…

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There’s something fundamentally inexplicable about who you are. There’s no amount of knowledge to dispel the ineffability of your appearance here, in this galaxy, on earth, in this locale.

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Perhaps such a line of inquiry makes you uncomfortable. Surely, I am I?

But who… am I? Shall we start again at the beginning?

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Faith demands the absolute, requires certainty and desires security.

Doubt, however, surrenders to the lack of evidence. It is patient and humble. It resists the imposition of meaning.

Perhaps, today, you can embark on a new relationship with doubt, with the mystery of being.

Who are you? You, are a mystery.

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About the photos:
Actor, Greg Kriek
Sea Point, Cape Town 2018

Tags: black-and-white, western cape, sea point, waves, greg kriek, cape town, south africa, ocean, kriek, identity, gregory
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