Mind Dough: Recent Episodes
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One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Ideas are powerful. Ideas shape us, and ideas transcend us. This channel is for just that: Ideas.
This is my way of sharing. I invite you to be open to my ideas. Whether you agree or not, let them change the dimensions of your mind, and be richer for it.
This channel is about thought, philosophy and the general wonder if existence.
What is our familiar existence? Seemingly a silly question. As I look out of the window I see the sun shining, trains passing by and people living their lives. This is what feels as our familiar existence. The world we expect to still be there when we wake up from a nights sleep. The world that was here before we were born and the world that will continue after we are long gone. The physical world.
But what is it really?
Imagine being in a perfectly round, white room. You’re standing on one half of the room, and as you look around you notice someone else is there. Except it is not someone else, it’s you.
While the concept of everything lies within the fathomable its actual form only casts a shadow in my mind. A promise of it being there, but with edges faded and unclear.
Like a character in a story could never observe the book he is written in, we could never observe, or even fathom the concept of everything.
If nothing isn’t a thing, something has to be. And if nothing isn’t a thing, something has to be everything. Born from not being nothing, existence becomes everything. Infinite.
If there is nothing, there is nothing to prevent something to be.
If there is something, this is everything to prevent nothing to be.
“Philosophy begins in wonder.” – Plato
“Wisdom begins in wonder.” – Socrates
If anything. The sense of wonder makes life worth living. For losing it, is losing beauty itself.
Existence is not the chair you sit in nor the air you breathe. It is not the molecules that build you, the space you move though or the time that ages you. Everything we know is but one entity in the ocean we would call existence.
One’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions. – Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Ideas are powerful. Ideas shape us, and ideas transcend us. This channel is for just that: Ideas.
This is my way of sharing. I invite you to be open to my ideas. Whether you agree or not, let them change the dimensions of your mind, and be richer for it.