I admit there are many diverse reasons why I chose the pyramids in Egypt as the apex of my global journey in 2010.
Many of them were very rational, i.e. a fun photo opportunity, it was sorta on the way from China to Germany, and I'd never been to a desert before. And although such things are rational to my mind, I understand that some of my reasons would be categorized as very unreasonable (you know, like the fundamental basis of the universe; i.e. how can an electron be in two places at once? or how can the oldest stars in the universe be older than the universe itself? and if matter is never created or destroyed, how can the universe begin in the first place?). However, with respect to my choices, I would say I also had some mystical reasons as opposed to unreasonable reasons, although you might consider them to be one and the same (although, ironically, "one and the same" is a mystical attitude through and through).
A very respectable philosopher, who would disapprove of all of my mystical thinking, just reminded me of another secret motive I had for voyaging to the pyramids that, to me, represents one of the many activities where rationality and mysticism make love: writing.
Writing was invented in Egypt around 6000 years ago.
Egypt: thank you for inventing writing. And writing, thank you for inventing Egypt.
Hey! Shall we play with the numbers, have some mystical fun, and propose that the number of centuries between the invention of writing and its current use by this writer is somewhere around, um... 61?
Think: whichever character you decide, knowledge, wisdom and imagination will play with unique verse, and we enthusiastic adventurers can come up with a creative explanation from somewhere inside, so long as we enjoy the ride influenced by the story we provide
Many of them were very rational, i.e. a fun photo opportunity, it was sorta on the way from China to Germany, and I'd never been to a desert before. And although such things are rational to my mind, I understand that some of my reasons would be categorized as very unreasonable (you know, like the fundamental basis of the universe; i.e. how can an electron be in two places at once? or how can the oldest stars in the universe be older than the universe itself? and if matter is never created or destroyed, how can the universe begin in the first place?). However, with respect to my choices, I would say I also had some mystical reasons as opposed to unreasonable reasons, although you might consider them to be one and the same (although, ironically, "one and the same" is a mystical attitude through and through).
A very respectable philosopher, who would disapprove of all of my mystical thinking, just reminded me of another secret motive I had for voyaging to the pyramids that, to me, represents one of the many activities where rationality and mysticism make love: writing.
Writing was invented in Egypt around 6000 years ago.
Egypt: thank you for inventing writing. And writing, thank you for inventing Egypt.
Hey! Shall we play with the numbers, have some mystical fun, and propose that the number of centuries between the invention of writing and its current use by this writer is somewhere around, um... 61?
Think: whichever character you decide, knowledge, wisdom and imagination will play with unique verse, and we enthusiastic adventurers can come up with a creative explanation from somewhere inside, so long as we enjoy the ride influenced by the story we provide
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