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 Non Zero Chance Math is the language of pure objectivityAnd there are three mathematical pathwaysTo understanding the nature of beingFirst, the default perspective :You can simply quantify yourself as a magnitudeYou can be five or seventeen or six thousand twenty-twoYou can multiply or add, factor out the common variables But there ’s always a higher numberSo we shed what used to give pleasureAnd grasp for ever higherFundamentally it ' s a disbelief in the concept of infinityWhich is a metaphor for " atheism "Which gives rise to the word “god”Which is the active participle of all ego Which is believed to be calculableBy a series of esoteric numerical manipulationsThe second way is to turn from all quantified numericityAnd embrace total zeroBut there are two notions Of zero. The wrong one is a nihilistic nothingnessThis is the path of cynicism and suicidesWhy go on? You ’re nothing with nowhere to goBut who ’s that face in the mirror?Who says ouch when the needle is buried?Who weeps when the Wilco song plays?Who grieves?Who buys the gun?Who says none of this is real?It ain ’t no oneThe best way is the the dark side of zeroNot the decimal placeholderOr the zero times anything is zeroBut the empty setThe undefinedThe emptiness of pure absence The answer to anything divided by zeroWhat is a number without nothing at all?What is nothing at all without the all?What is love without its lacerating loss?Take those three statements and wr...

Source: Buckeye Surgeon - November 2, 2022 Category: Surgery Authors: Jeffrey Parks MD FACS Source Type: blogs