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tuesday 5th september 2006
ianhimself Started conversation Sep 5, 2006
no alarm went off in my bedroom this morning.... this is alarming from several points of view.... not least from the perspective of the client who was left sitting for 30 minutes in the foyer of an overcomplicated office eyeballing a less than well slept receptionist who was more interested in the early news on sky....
this led me to ponder on causality.... well, i am a frustrated philosopher after all.... a notion to which i don't think i subscribe... it's not random enough.... hints too much at metanarrative too strongly.... has too much potential for profoundly disappointing the soul...some concept of causality is probably at the root of every major religion in the world... and thus, agruably i know, at the root of about 80% of all wars....and thus of a sizeable chunk of the world's premature death toll....
it is better to live in a world in free fall... moments flying on individual trajectories like pellets from a scatter gun....none with any impact on another... that way there is no-one to blame.... no-one to have a franchise on truth (another highly dubious notion)... no one to BE RIGHT ....
but then.... i did forget to turn the damn thing on last night....
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