on certainty 210

210. Does my telephone call to New York strengthen my conviction that the earth exists?

Much seems to be fixed, and it is removed from the traffic. It is so to speak shunted into an unused siding.

if your conviction is real –

there is no need to strengthen it –

no reason to

if on the other hand –

it is a pretense –

and hot air

then yes –

you will have to shore it up –

on a regular basis

hence –

phone a friend –

in New York

NB

good idea to shunt –

the rubbish –

conviction –

certainty –

and anything else –

that’s ‘fixed’ –

in an unused siding

© greg t. charlton. 2009.