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AE - Each ray of light moves in the coordinate system 'at rest' with the definite - constant velocity V independent of whether this ray of light is emitted by a body at rest or a body in motion., Am, Consciousness was upon him before he could get out of the way. ― Kingsley Amis, Not being John Malkovich, paper proses supposes it noses, Stay now stay now stay now, The Am, The tick of the tock, Writing
The Am
I Am.
Am is I.
All I shall ever know is Am;
Before Am is a mirage dependent on others’ testimony,
Ahead of Am nothing reigns beyond faith and fantasy.
The whole worth of any potential tomorrow,
Any subsequent existence as Am,
Is lightly pinned to plaster;
Its full measure and weight
Held in place by a single flat-headed pin,
Labelled HOPE, beggared by belief.
The only true certainty of every new breath is Am.
Make of this what you can.
Esme's Cloud 
I’m glad because I quite like your Am.
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Thank you dear, that’s good to hear ❤ I rather like your Am too.
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Well, Am here to say hello to your Am.
Mak waves to the Cloud
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And right this very second my Am waves back Mak.
Esme sending love from upon the Cloud
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To am or to ain’t, that is the question…..
I think I understand what you’re saying here.
But remember that a long trail of Was, was Am before it became Was;
And don’t let belief beggar your hope that many more days of Will Be will become Am in their time.
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Was. Must not forget Was, no. Twenty people in the same room at the same time experience an apparently identical event; each one has a different recollection, arguments may break out about which Was is closest to the truth, however, with the Am everything is as true as you’ll ever get. This is not to say the Was isn’t important, how we view it and store it in our hearts forms the structure of our Am, without them, we are nothing but a . . . Bee
And thank you, you’re always exceedingly positive which is a fine trait to have Infidel.
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Twenty people in the same room at the same time experience an apparently identical event; each one has a different recollection, arguments may break out about which Was is closest to the truth
Yes. If you want the objective absolute truth about the event, install a video camera. But the meaning the event has for each of the twenty people will legitimately be different, and can only be accessed from within by each person.
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Yes indeed, the mind will always translate things differently, that’s the key to it all. I’ve often said that say the colour blue I see may well be different from that which other people see. Perhaps very different indeed, everything else is much the same. It’s all how the brain interprets everything, but importantly that interpretation at that very moment is only true at that very moment, our memories are often corrupt unintentionally or otheriwse to suit the Am.
Esme shaking Infidel’s hand upon the Cloud
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Contarianism well put, and food for thought indeed; yet when I think of Was, or when you do, what is it that appears?
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The Was, like the Am, is different for every person — lived experience is always individual, and as we live and develop and become more real and alive, we inevitably become more distinctly individual, more different from each other. That’s why it has to be an I Am rather than a We Are.
Your Am is yours alone; my Am is mine alone.
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Thanks Infidel, I appreciate your feedback. Of course Am is not a universal; it is alone unto itself so to speak, yet without any enduringly instantiated Self (as Buddhists might say), and obviously is not omniscient. We live within a constrained construct of mentation based on sensory inputs and experience — would you not agree? My point on the Was was that it appears only as Am. Simply put, memory happens only ‘now’, in our own Am-ness. The same is true of all temporal projections, of course.
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Yep, everything we are aware of at all is part of the Am. Good nutshell H.
Esme gibbering on but meaning just that upon the Cloud
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Until I read it I thought this post was about The Archers!
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I had to look it up, the river Am! Excellent name for a river that, it couldn’t be better really. Thank you for the linkage Sarada.
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Yeah, I thought it was about radio, too (not Radio 2, and not Radio 4), just . . . radio, you know, FM/LW . . . AM!
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Lol
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Right now you am in the big aum of existence. I hope you feel the connection of all our ams and know that you are part of it all. 💛🙏💛
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Oh yes, more than ever before Val. We’re all made of stars 💛🙏💛 Thank you – beams x
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Madam I’m Adam
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You are, we are, they are.
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Hi there, palindromic Anna here on your radar.
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We are.
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Very much so. Thank you Clare 🧡
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Beautifully expressed, and brave, too, as many may dismiss such words as irrelevancies. It is hard to see, very hard — this business of our being trapped in a tapestry of mentation. Most refuse to believe that they are. Not a Jung-bug, but he understood this point very well, same as you do.
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Thank you Hariod – beams – It’s transcendental water-treading in some ways, and for many ignorance is bliss on this point, but for others, it’s insight (in sight) and gives useful perspective (all manner of). I knew you of all people would get where I/you/all am with this piece. 🧡 🙏
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Descartes would be proud! -grin-
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Coito ergo sum.
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Hah! Bravo. ‘[I] think therefore [I] am.’ Just between you and me though, I think it should be ‘I am, therefore I think.’ 😀
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Actually Descartes’s “I think, therefore I am” was cogito ergo sum. My aphorism is a little different. 🙂
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lol – I guessed at the meaning! What does it mean precisely?
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I make of it what I know! Truth in the telling …
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Always dearie!
-Esme of Am upon the Cloud being x
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❤️
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