I was thinking about the concept of permanence earlier this week and came to the conclusion it does not exist. Here are my thoughts:
Permanence is a state of foreverness, it lasts for eternity. A tattoo, for example, is argued as permanent, but obviously is not as one's body will decompose and the tattoo will not follow in the same shape as before. Sure, the inks may spread out or something after death, but it will not be your tattoo that you got.
A relationship is another thing argued as permanent which annoys me to no end. Sure, I love my fiancé and I want to be with him "forever" but when I say "forever" I mean that I want to be with him for as long as possible. One of us could die, we could break up over something, who knows? I sure as hell don't.
Nothing can be argued as permanent. Life, we could die. All of us. We don't know.
I guess my ideas around the concept of permanence are much like my ideas about certainty. We can't be certain about anything, and we cannot think anything is impossible. Things can be extremely unlikely or extremely likely, but not certain or impossible. Those are lies we tell ourselves everyday in order to stay sane. We are "certain" the world will not end, we are "Certain" we will not die this day, we are "certain" that we will wake up to all of our members of our lives being alive and we are "certain" that we will drink coffee every morning. No. You cannot be. Obviously you will die someday, so will your family. Even concepts of even more permanence than individual lives, but life itself cannot be argued as certain. Sure, it is highly likely that the world and EVERYTHING will not end, but we cannot argue that it is impossible because there is no possible way of knowing.
I am an atheist, I believe to a high degree that there is no god, but again, I cannot be 100% certain even if the evidence points towards there being no god.
I don't know. They are similar ideas, I suppose.
Anyways, I thought of crushing some souls today with my whole "permanence is a lie" train of thought, which came from one small stupid insignificant thought: I was thinking of getting "Nick" (my fiancé's name) tattooed on my finger. Then I started thinking about how even if this tattoo is permanent and Nick and I aren't "together forever" that a tattoo is about as permanent as a relationship anyways.
Deep, eh? I hope. I am drunk right now. I haven't been drunk by myself in a while, it doesn't happen too often. I'm not even super drunk, as I am capable of typing right now.
I feel as if I am making several misplaced comma splices, , , , , , , ,.
That's enough I suppose.
What do you think about my ideas on permanence, and/or certainty?
Permanence is a state of foreverness, it lasts for eternity. A tattoo, for example, is argued as permanent, but obviously is not as one's body will decompose and the tattoo will not follow in the same shape as before. Sure, the inks may spread out or something after death, but it will not be your tattoo that you got.
A relationship is another thing argued as permanent which annoys me to no end. Sure, I love my fiancé and I want to be with him "forever" but when I say "forever" I mean that I want to be with him for as long as possible. One of us could die, we could break up over something, who knows? I sure as hell don't.
Nothing can be argued as permanent. Life, we could die. All of us. We don't know.
I guess my ideas around the concept of permanence are much like my ideas about certainty. We can't be certain about anything, and we cannot think anything is impossible. Things can be extremely unlikely or extremely likely, but not certain or impossible. Those are lies we tell ourselves everyday in order to stay sane. We are "certain" the world will not end, we are "Certain" we will not die this day, we are "certain" that we will wake up to all of our members of our lives being alive and we are "certain" that we will drink coffee every morning. No. You cannot be. Obviously you will die someday, so will your family. Even concepts of even more permanence than individual lives, but life itself cannot be argued as certain. Sure, it is highly likely that the world and EVERYTHING will not end, but we cannot argue that it is impossible because there is no possible way of knowing.
I am an atheist, I believe to a high degree that there is no god, but again, I cannot be 100% certain even if the evidence points towards there being no god.
I don't know. They are similar ideas, I suppose.
Anyways, I thought of crushing some souls today with my whole "permanence is a lie" train of thought, which came from one small stupid insignificant thought: I was thinking of getting "Nick" (my fiancé's name) tattooed on my finger. Then I started thinking about how even if this tattoo is permanent and Nick and I aren't "together forever" that a tattoo is about as permanent as a relationship anyways.
Deep, eh? I hope. I am drunk right now. I haven't been drunk by myself in a while, it doesn't happen too often. I'm not even super drunk, as I am capable of typing right now.
I feel as if I am making several misplaced comma splices, , , , , , , ,.
That's enough I suppose.
What do you think about my ideas on permanence, and/or certainty?
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