"I like to rhyme, I like my beats funky. I'm spunky - I like my oatmeal lumpy. I'm sick with this "straight gangsta-mack"...sometimes I get ridiculous."
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Gotta love the classics, right?
Can we be swayed by symbols? How can we not? Our entire reality is symbolic. To quote the movie: "You really think that's air you're breathing?" Descartes led us down a truly ugly thorny path with the whole Evil Demon/Cogito thing. Once you've accepted the possibility that your senses may be lying to you or being lied to themselves, you have to question everything. If you doubt your senses, EVERYTHING is a symbol. The real reality - if there is one - is unknowable. Language, art, music...these things become symbols of symbols. Our very identities g...
More..William Bowman
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