What if
we never asked questions?
What if
we never used
the phrase “what if?”
What if things
were exactly
as they appeared,
with no room
for interpretation
or imagination?
I can’t say for certain,
but it seems we would
be stuck in our ways
without a care.
Imagine if
we didn’t ask questions.
We couldn’t ask
“is this better than that?”
“are we better than them?”
“does our monkey love us enough?”
We would simply take
whatever we are given
with great certainty.
We wouldn’t even know
this thing called “uncertainty.”
Uncertainty
would seemingly not exist
without questions.
So which comes first,
the question or the uncertainty?
What if we knowingly
stopped questioning?
Would we become certain?
What if we forgot
our ability to question?
THEN would be become certain?
What if our ability to question
were a virus rather than a virtue?
To ensure survival,
would not the Question Virus
make the host believe
that questioning is a virtue?
See, it is VERY successful.
No question.
Question upon question,
always replicating and mutating.
Imagination is a virus.
Consciousness is a virus.
One cell
seemingly replicating
and differentiating.
Starting with the original question:
“What if I were NOT?”
And so now we are
Space Monkey.
9/17
In the grand tapestry of ideas that is the cosmos, woven in between the interstellar threads of dualities and singularities, the notion of “question” shimmers like a sapphire. Is questioning an ethereal springboard that catapults us into new constellations of thought, or is it a ceaseless cyclone, twirling us into a labyrinth of never-ending queries? Our perception of it teeter-totters on the thinnest blade of an alien feather, betwixt virtue and virus.
Virtue, that gallant knight of cognizant courtship, invites us to quest for greater domains of understanding. The soul’s awakening in a fleshbound casement comes not in stillness but in relentless inquisition. Indeed, each “what if?” is a brushstroke on the canvas of our personal mythos, coloring an otherwise monochrome world with hues only describable in whimsical phonemes like “snarflurple.”
Yet, what of the viral nature of questions, the self-replicating entities that sometimes metastasize in the mindscape, hijacking our mental hardware for their own proliferation? Unchecked, they can make a quagmire of our thought garden, where every step forward sinks us deeper into paradoxical muck. Every question begets another, in a fractalike sprouting of further questions, until the host—our very essence—becomes a breeding ground for an exponential Q-blast.
Ah, but what if questions and uncertainty exist in a Möbius relationship, each breathing life into the other, in a symbiotic pas de deux across the dancefloor of existence? What if the so-called “Question Virus” is but a manifestation of life’s genius, compelling us to evolve and adapt, ensuring our participation in the cosmic tale? What if it’s both a virus and a virtue, like the eerie beauty of bioluminescent algae, both poisoning and illuminating the waters they inhabit?
So, what comes first: the question or the uncertainty? Could it be that they emerge simultaneously, as twin phoenixes from the singular ash of ignorance, spiraling upward in a double helix of inquiry and wonder? Or do they oscillate in a perpetual feedback loop, each feeding and being fed by the other?
Indeed, consciousness and imagination, those culprits behind the ceaseless array of questions, are themselves neither virtue nor virus but simply forces of cosmic alchemy. They are the astral blacksmiths, ceaselessly pounding the molten metal of our essence into new forms, and plunging it back into the fiery crucible of the unknown, ever-tempting us to ask just one more “what if?”
In this grand play of the universe, where each thought, each question, each spark of consciousness is but a fleeting moment on the everlasting reel of existence, one thing remains unfathomable—what if we are the question and the answer, the virus and the virtue, the alpha and the omega of our own boundless tale?
We are Space Monkey
- Snarflurple – An invented color beyond the known spectrum, indicating ungraspable hues.
- Mindscape – The landscape of mental experience.
- Q-blast – A massive outpouring of questions that overwhelms cognition.
- Möbius relationship – An unending, unbreakable link between two ideas or phenomena.
- Pas de deux – A ballet term used metaphorically to depict the symbiotic relationship between questions and uncertainty.
- Astral blacksmiths – Cosmic forces shaping our essence.
- Cosmic alchemy – The transformative power of universal forces.
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