Saturday, December 29, 2018

Zero summing it up

So let me conclude
when all is said and done
the game is a zero sum
no matter what you think
they or theirs amount to
you fail to observe the nature
of things, the not insignificant
matter of matter
you fail to factor in
the zero sum, assuming as you do
that your mind can perceive objectively
that doing so, it reveals the way that people
and things affect or impinge on you
somehow... somehow...
             somehow
failing to observe the other side of things
the nullifying waves
or toroidal fields
or call 'em what you will
the matter-unravelling-nought
lurking behind or within every
one
the force or field of conscious-ness
merging-flowing-undoing into the
unbeknowable unbeknown
the dark unatomised side
the unconscionable mind of
neither nor
and there
though you be appalled
though you recoil in terror
there be i
there    i be
the question mark
the uncapitalised me
the if   just waiting
to take flight
and utterly redefine   reality
thereby
therein revealing paradigmatically
real nought    real nought-ity
real not-i   real unity
the tale awaiting its turn
to re-connect
re-veal
re-tell
the simple truth
the sense and meaning waiting
in the wings of conscious-ness
by which, inconceivably, all
no matter what, no matter how
by which all, inconceivably
makes perfect, utterly perfect sense
the minute i steps down
from the high plinth of mindedness
and reverts to a natural state
in which the zero sum is
no longer denied, resisted
fought
is restored as a fallen God
to the panoply of Gods
is released back into the wild
is allowed to be unsummed
unassumed
the circuit thus complete
i resign mind to the bonfires of Phlegethon
and accept the zero equals one
i've always yearned to
be, to know, to consummate
unstigmatically

6 comments:

  1. Zero sum my arse!

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  2. Indubitably - arse an' all!

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  3. But surely there must be something left at story's end when all's been said and done - some trace of somethingness, no? I simply cannot conceive how the entirety of matter, creation or consciousness can simply cancel out, leaving nothing whatsoever - not even an aftertaste or morning-after mood of content or regret? How?

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  4. Confirmation bias... We all suffer from it. "After" is fundamentally no different from "before". Wanting there to be something, failing to imagine how "all this" can be cancelled out is little different from failing to imagine how I can die. Cuckoo la la, shit happens. The real issue is not whether I can believe it, live with it or accept it, no, the real issue is whether I can let awareness of nought's merry zero sum open the gates of awareness, so I can notice the flatness, the "as if" nature of reality and things in general before I lose the opportunity, otherwise I'll only ever be reacting, nowt more.

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    1. Dmitrii Ivanovich MendeleyevJanuary 4, 2019 at 9:13 AM

      Ay man, let it flow unto thee like the very PanGalactic Gargleblaster!

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  5. And thus spoke Zarathustra.

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