06-10-2015, 06:30 AM
(06-10-2015, 03:42 AM)Erthona Wrote: my religion is poetryHoly cadawallader! This is a little grave...even for you. First person but never mistake character for author. So how the hell are you, old bean!
truth to destroy deception
in myself
Erthona
©2015
OK...on to it. Terse verse and no mistake. Some interesting counterpoints expressed by your "fictional" ( you ARE fictional, aren't you?) character. Not to dive to deeply, but religion(s) is (are) often is adequately described by it's(their) one common parameter...belief. Counterpoint to belief? Truth. So counterpoint one.
Counterpoint two. Truth destroys deception....hmmm. Interesting hypothesis though the addage "in myself" makes a paradox. If truth "destroys" deception in "myself" then "myself" is already deceived and so "belief" is debunked by the statement. Put another way " I am deceived by belief therefore I suspect that my belief is a false belief and is untrue...but if it is untrue then then I do not believe it is false. Therefore it is true." Harrumph. I think that this has been philosophically done to death. Who was it now....?
Best,
your cerebral counterpoint,
tectak
PS. Some punctuation end of L1 is essential but inconsequential.( Epimenides loses to Godel. I like the illogical conclusion which makes computers crash...or burst in to flames in cheap Sci=fi movies)