EGO -- A Density of Echoes

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Date Posted: 15:12:46 12/15/01 Sat
Author: Absurdity
Subject: EGO

"I am I" said GOd.

"Prove it," said Perception.

"I do no need to do so," said God.

"Then how can you be so sure that this is a pure statement?" asked Perception.

"Because I am. I exist for my own sake," said God.

Perception responded, "But can you be absolutely certain? For if there is nothing beyond I, there can be no comparison to establish an absolute such as I."

"I am certain beyond doubt," said God.

"And how can this be?" asked Perception.

"Because I allow you , Perception, to be," said God, "and in doing so create a mirror of Ego, which proves to me - I am I."

Perception stopped and thought. This was evidence of an inarguable nature. Yet something was amiss. There, it occurred to Perception, must be some flaw to the supposition. And then it happened - a miniscule crack metamorphosized into an infinite gulf, a fissure in logic so tremendous, nothing, not even the force of will could seal it.

"If I were to tell you I am illusion," said Perception, "Would you believe me?"

"This I believe," said God, "For if I have allowed you to be, then your entirety is as absolute as I; being an extention of the will of I."

"Excellent," exclaimed Perception, "Then you have disproved your own existence. By allowing for the assumption of my being becoming absolute, I therefore, exist. Using this premise, along with the premise of my being illusion, you have consigned yourself to the only certainty - Paradox. Let me explain. You have allowed me to become a certainty, and you claim I am a mirror of your own certainty. Further, you have allowed me to become illusion, thus a mirror of illusion. If this is so, then I has become illusion, and I am I is no longer an absolute certainty."
"I will occupy myself with other things then," said God.
"That is proably best," said Perception.

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