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‘What is the Meaning of Life?’
‘I think therefore I am’
‘Cogito ergo sum’…Descartes’
‘I exist for as long as I am thinking’
‘if I cease to think I cease to exist’
But if i exist only in my thoughts
can my thoughts exist without ‘me’?
if knowledge/intuit is received through DNA?
is conscious mind a creation of this life?
As nature/nurture influences conscious mind
compare to implicit subconscious ‘knowledge’?;
the wisdom of our antecedents passed on
at the time ‘our’ egg and sperm was formed?
If intuit is passed on through DNA then
how was the wisdom of each forebear combined
‘switched on’, ‘switched off’, accepted, rejected
by this new mind?, brain?, thought-stream?
What influence then has each belief construct,
each organized religion, church, or faith
had on the freeing, or, the capture of our
mind, brain, thought-stream, soul?
What then is the meaning of (our) life
is this our life ‘it’ for us?
or is our purpose to (imperceptibly?)
mould our thread of DNA passed on?
If the sum total of human ‘knowledge’
would take some thirty thousand intellects
to store, then of the whole how much will each
ever understand, more than a tiny fraction?
or is each ‘individual’ intellect simply
a part of a great collective Gaia intuit;
much as each of trillions of microbes
support each body/intellect/thought-stream
our part in life’s great cyclic ebb and flow?
© Rob Greenwood Redcliffe.W/Aust 92772028 18.6.2007 225 wds
‘Memorable Feast?’
We’d levelled up the mantelpiece
the night before, and woke to a
magnificent day… too good to work
so after a lazy late breakfast
and walk and talk we cancelled
our plans, fixed the brick cladding
back on instead, levelled the washer
let the chooks out and decided on
a BBQ lunch – Webber wood fired
charcoal and collected dry Marri under
the grapevine trellis the smell of
mandarines, and wood smoke under
winter sun and blue sky chooks scratched
contentedly potatoes in jackets and foil chicken
in marinade of herbs, bread cooking in cast iron
with banana in skins and lemon halves
rosemary, bay leaves home brewed beer
with twist of orange we chatted and
pruned the vines until succulent and
glazed smoked chicken and sausage
we ate our fill and more oh so perfect
in the warm sun a truly memorable feast
on a randomly special day in Mundaring
©Rob Greenwood Redcliffe.W/Aust 92772028 7.7.2007 150 wds
‘An Empty Room?’
‘An empty room doesn’t need light’
cryptic notice in ‘The Bank’ gallery;
encouraging energy efficiency?, sustainability?
or, some deep philosophical statement?
An ‘empty’ room filled with light
a lightless room filled with dark
in the depths of darkness full or empty?
half full, half empty, half lit?
Trillions of atoms; oxygen, nitrogen
microbes et al of an ‘empty’ room
invisible yet not empty; full of life,
movement, appearing ‘empty’ to our eyes
An ‘empty’ room; may need even more ‘light’
to reveal it is not empty at all; much like
life itself really; appearing to be empty yet
requiring more light to reveal it’s full-ness.
© Rob Greenwood Redcliffe.WAust 20.5.2007 92772028 104 wds
Thoughts inspired by a walk through ‘The Bank’ Gallery Midland WA on 20.5.2007, by the excellent variety of ‘work’, conversation with Corinne, a chance walk upstairs, (the road taken), and a notice on the door;
‘an empty room doesn’t need light’.
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