I have put the first post up, and the second post will be coming soon.
The blog is called Mirror Box. A mirror box is a device that helps alleviate phantom limb. In this case, the mirror box is philosophy, the phantom limb our questions.
Preview:
“Why don’t you believe in god?” is what they used to ask.
“Why don’t you believe in god?”—louder, now—meaning, “Why don’t you believe in me?”
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Maybe the question that has afflicted humanity since the beginning of time has nothing to do with god, and everything to do with us. Maybe we’ve been gazing at the cosmos for far too long, and what we’re really searching for has been here, around us, within us. You could take the harmony of a thousand religions and reduce it to a single note, stronger than the rest, sustained—
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Listen as the cosmos rise, farther and farther, indiscernible now, over the course of thousands of years. The sound is soft, light—like bells. Consciousness sways to the music, and the sound is defined sometimes as laughter, sometimes as scorn, sometimes, even, as nothing at all.
(I will probably edit my first post a thousand times both before and after I put up the second one, but I thought I would share it now.)
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