Nobody Knows!

Nobody Knows!

Perhaps time isn’t linear?

                Our miniscule slice of eternity

                                Could last forever.

Perhaps time is circular,

                Recurring in endless repetition?

Perhaps consciousness is a dream?

                Reality an illusion?

Perhaps our minds are products of evolution?

                Mere survival mechanisms.

Perhaps nothing matters at all

                And everything is of no importance?

Perhaps life is an accident

                Of no concern?

Perhaps all religions were invented

                Out of fear and wonder?

But perhaps time is circular

                Our minds glorious

                                A triumph of accidental wonder?

Perhaps we endlessly relive

                All the experiences

                                We go through in life?

Perhaps that is our destiny?

But nobody knows!

Really!

Nobody knows!

Opher – 15.1.2025

I look at all the religions and philosophers that have ever lived, the greatest minds, powerful thoughts, wondrous words – and I think – they are only guessing.

Nobody knows.

They are making it up.

Reality is not understood.

Our minds are not understood.

They are all guessing.

The cleverest minds conjured up Karma, heaven, god and paradise to provide reason and explanation.

All mere fantasy.

Plucked from our thoughts and wishes.

Nothing real.

No facts.

People believe with all their hearts. Strap on bombs. Dream of paradise. Believe what they are told; what is written.

But it only imagined.

It has no real substance.

No god ever appeared.

No Messiah exists.

We are really just organisms with limited minds who live for a short time on an inconsequential planet in one of trillions of galaxies. We have no great significance. Our lives and thoughts are miniscule. Believing won’t make us more important. We simply have not got the capacity to understand much. Reality is incredibly complex. The universe beyond comprehension.

We are ants grappling with infinity.

Nobody knows!

Nobody!

My thoughts are as good as yours!

Imagine!!

Just imagine what the world could be like if human beings were really intelligent!

Poetry – Searching for Paradise

Searching for Paradise

I’ve been searching for paradise.

Under a blue sky with warming sun

I’ve hunted for where it might be.

I’ve asked my many friends;

Travelled over green hills and mountain peaks,

And through many a grove of trees.

Taking my love by the hand

We’ve wandered through magnificent lands

In the hopes that we might see.

I’ve read a thousand books

And heard a million heart-warming tales

With which I thoroughly agree.

I’ve looked through microscopes and telescopes

At crystals and planets,

Magnificently huge and exceptionally twee;

I’ve studied multitudes of wondrous creatures,

Beautiful blossoms,

And many a restless sea.

I’ve read gurus, poets and philosophers

But none of them agree

So I’ve come to accept that what will be, will be.

I think that finally,

I’ve come to understand

That paradise

Is always close at hand.

19.4.2020

Isn’t this life wonderful?? It has such a range of wonderful experience.

All we can do is dive in and sample it all, lap it up and try the full gamut.

Why limit yourself?

Launch yourself at everything!

Search for what is important.

Search for beauty.

Search for love. It’s all out there!