Twenty-Six Is Undeterred by Being

November 17, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is philosophy by the numbers.

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A philosophical number poem about free will as uncaused cause:

Twenty-six is undeterred by being.

Whatever is will not be merely was.

Each moment is a fluid shaped by will,

Neither moving on nor standing still,

Tide against the rock of what one does,

Yielding to the substance of one's seeing.

Such speculation one might well find freeing,

Images of time that hope instill,

Xeroxes of self as uncaused cause.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Philosophy by the Numbers

11/11: Solitude Is Never Yours Alone

11/12: Sing of the Sweet Sunlight of the Soul

11/13: Silence at the Center of the Soul

11/14: The Ocean That We Live on Has No Shore

11/15: The Child Was Merely Accidental

11/16: Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number

11/17: Twenty-Six Is Undeterred by Being