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Mar 2013
One cannot know.
That is to say that one cannot know
what it is one knows, much less know all there is to know.
Nor can one know what there is to know,
for no one can know what it is that's known
much less what is not yet known,
or still further what we cannot know.

Yet I said it so. How can I know? Do I even know?
I don't know; call it a hunch.

Therefore I ask,
that is to say: "seek to know"
if I know what I think I know
or if it is Confirmation Bias
served on a bed of Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
with a side of Arrogance
and a nice glass of Ego?

Who am I to know?
Will we ever know?
I don't know.

One cannot know.
After typing "know" so many times, I realized how phonetically inept and confusing English text can be, especially when one repeats a word over and over and over and over.. the spelling and/or definition seemingly become(s).. ambiguous and/or arbitrary. Hooray language!
Anubis the Philosomancer
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Anubis the Philosomancer  29/We're all a bit mad here.
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