Know

The Only News I Know
by Emily Dickinson

The only news I know
Is bulletins all day
From Immortality.

The only shows I see,
Tomorrow and Today,
Perchance Eternity.

The only One I meet
Is God, -the only street,
Existance; this traversed

If other news there be,
Or admirabler show –
I'll tell it you.

I know certain things--even though I was never taught them and I never learned them.

Seen recently: 'To know is nothing at all; to imagine is everything'. Know what I'm imaginin'..??!

I know the sky is blue.

But how do I know if the blue I see is the same blue you see?

I think the REAL question is »To know, or not to know.«

Epistemology – The branch of philosophy that studies the nature of knowledge, its presuppositions and foundations, and its extent and validity [Dictionary.Com].

I know what I know and you know what you know but who's right if what you know and what I know do not agree?

This is not always a simple question to answer and my simple philosophy is that probably we're both right, unless you're lying. And among my challenges in life is to better see what it is that is not clear to me. To ask, what is it that we are saying that is creating the difference?

I do tend to get angry if I don't understand but please forgive me. It's all a part of the big mosaic of life.

Sometimes I really want to know what the meaning of all those strange dreams is.
They are so fascinating that waking up almost seems to be a sin. So fascinating, so magnificent that only them seem to be real. That you only want them to be real, not the world into which you just woke up.
Btw, does anyone know if a cat can wallpaper? In my dreams, my cat could not...

Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach him how to fish, you feed him for life.

Do you know what I mean, dude?

»Its not what you know, its how you use what you can vaguely rmbr to pretend that you know stuff..« – Steve Belmonte

We are told that wisdom is better than mere knowledge. So why are we always stuck at wanting to know, know, know.....??