EXISTENCE, n.
A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,
Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:
From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge
Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"
2007 Update: Rusted eternity.
"To be or not to be?" asked he,
Answered the Danish ghosts' lobby:
"Living is without holiday,
To the dead being is more of a hobby."
Existence: I post, therefore I am?
ReplyDeleteSomeone said "To be or not to be" to me once. I answered: "This is not a soliloquy! It is a dialogue between man and machine!"
ReplyDeleteexistence: A former istence...It's all so much clearer to me now.
ReplyDelete"Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans."
ReplyDeleteJohn Lennon
Existence: the shortest distance between "I Am Here" and "I Am Gone".
ReplyDeletenow you see me,
ReplyDeletenow you
Existence: A condition or infliction of pressence not entirely understood and still often debated. Temporary in nature.
ReplyDeleteExistence: The brief moment between before-being and having been.
You said "bastards" in your return comment yeserday.
ReplyDeleteThat would make for an interesting word of the day.
Things could get ugly.
In Philosophy, I learned that I exist, but that it may just be my mind that exists and everything else is made up by my mind. It was pure genius of me to create this blogging thing and to make up so many fascinating blog buddies. You can thank me for your very existence.
:-)
A famished existence
ReplyDeleteHeld behind wire
Caged
Existence: No exit.
ReplyDeleteAl, post and you will be. Dicto ergo sum?
ReplyDeleteClever, my shakespearean android friend.
Poobah, you're approaching omniscience.
Death, too, apparently, Mutha.
Linear thinking is the virtue of those who can't hold their drinks, Neva.
Whatever happened to Karma?
Morgan, you're running with Neva today, I see. Who are these people arguing over existence? That actually is the question.
Jamie Dawn, would it have been too much to ask to give me a clean morning.
Brian, Haiku therefore I am.
TLP, are you channeling Sartre again? Is that some kind of Unitarian ritual?
EXISTENCE, n. And we wonder how come so many of us need blood pressure medication.
ReplyDeleteEXISTENCE n. that brief tension which separates life from death.
ReplyDeletethe cynicism is oozing nicely today :-)
ReplyDeleteI can't read this word without thinking of a certain teacher who chided the troublemakers with "you don't know you're in existence!" Actually, she was my sister's nun, Sister AnnMarie.
ReplyDeleteI've always aimed to at least appear that I knew I existed from that point onward.
Amoeba, fatigo ergo sum? (I used an online translator)
ReplyDeleteQuilly, at least it's thin.
Kyahgirl, I'm going to optimistically see if your presence here means you've posted.
G, Sister Ann Marie was a real philosopher, wasn't she?
Geez, Karma, your 6 words tell everything about existence, the world we live in and life in general. I'm stunned.
ReplyDeleteAlthough you didn't do verifier, lazy chick.
ReplyDeleteSay what, Dawg? I datamine therefore I am?
ReplyDeleteYou worry too much. I recommend a night out.
:P
“Passion doesn't look beyond the moment of its existence.”
ReplyDeleteChristian Nevell Bovee
Aren't you glad passion is so wise?
Ariel, i kinda went blank
ReplyDeletealtjpikf: alternately, just pink floyd
existence,n. functional anatomy
ReplyDeleteExistence: What happens when one aggravates someone with whom they were in a personal relationship having strong emotional ties
ReplyDeleteAriel, way to make a figment work for her imagination.
ReplyDeleteAmoeba, going out is too much work.
Terry, I'll take your word for it.
Actonbell, I just saw the Australian Philosophy Club Drinking Song the other day. I'm glad Eric Idle wrote it.
Karma, that's the ticket. You've been verified.
I digest, therefore I am, Minka?
OE, I'm starting to suspect the O is for Omnipotent.
Sacrebleu, where is my comment?
ReplyDeleteIt was not that great, something about Philosophy giving me a headache, but I comment therefore I am...therefore, in this case at least, I'm not.
These are great! I especially love that second one.
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