'For the person or persons that hold dominion, can no more combine with the keeping up of majesty the running with harlots drunk or naked about the streets, or the performances of a stage player, or the open violation or contempt of laws passed by themselves than they can combine existence with non-existence'.

- Benedict de Spinoza. Political Treatise. 1677.




Sunday, January 24, 2010

on certainty 248


248. I have arrived at the rock bottom of my convictions.

And one might almost say that these foundation-walls are carried by the whole house.



how would you know?

how would you know what rock bottom is?

isn’t it rather that you have stopped asking questions –

stopped doubting the ground of your beliefs –

and that your ‘convictions’ – are as uncertain as they ever were?

‘foundation walls carried by the whole house’ –

nice poetic image –

and yes it might suit you to describe your beliefs in this way –

and it will fit well with your beliefs –

because it is as uncertain –

as any belief you operate with


© greg t. charlton. 2010.