Translations in Shades of Grey

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Understanding isn't black and white, it is found somewhere in the shades of grey where all the translations merge and emerge... We are the people of babel, our cultures, politics, philosophies, religions, language and traditions... all stain our comprehension, our attempted translations until not one of them appears the same yet every one is an expression of like thoughts and ideals, hopes, dreams and the identical unknown factors with which we all struggle.

We take extrapolations of the known and create expressions of the unknown and the unknowable. Writers and artists, musicians and prophets, scientists and philosophers all speak of our human existence through their individual means. Translating that experience through their languages into that which we recognize and relate to, giving us a medium with which to comprehend the incomprehensible.

Yet for every translation there exists yet another... layer upon layer, one position, one moment in time, a mere 360 degrees and infinite possibilities. Billions of people each translating their world into the language they understand, the specific dialect that suits the stains left by their experience and in each beating heart and thinking mind lies the truth.

How can there be truth when every expression appears so different? And if there can be no truth does that mean it is all a lie? Or could it simply be the results of the same never ending human pursuits, a common reality, lost in the silent spaces between us?

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[snow3585]

a little artistic....

[thequestionmarkofGod]

Well my intent was to express my thoughts in new more symbolic ways to essentially "translate them".

[snow3585]

good stuff...i am remember being on youtube a year back and you were doing your expressing in a much more crude manner...

:)

peace

[thequestionmarkofGod]

anger is a phase of grief and there is nothing about my changing world views that did not entail grief.

[goldengun85]

"There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the Universe is for and why it is here, it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another theory which states that this has already happened." - Douglas Adams

[richi1hotmailcouk]

this is good but does anyone really want to think that deeply into this stuff , it will only make you crazy , have faith and belive in god or dont have faith and dont believe its simple really , i dont believe in god... have no reason to but im not questioning if he is real

think about that

[thequestionmarkofGod]

How many roads can he possibly walk down?

[andrewrberkshire]

How many roads must a man walk down?!?

[thequestionmarkofGod]

I love questions... answers are nice but all too often irrelevant.

My theory is question everything, ask anything... don't worry so much about finding the answer... the important part is the question.

Think... 42.

[thequestionmarkofGod]

yep... and thus imagine what happens when we add in all the other means through which we communicate...