Contrary Existence

That which

Does not exist

Can be imagined

That which is

Imaginable

Can exist




How can one

Grasp reality

When it has

No handles?

Besides being

Too heavy to lift

To awkward for

A proper grip

No one can carry

The other end

If their subjective

Shared certainty

Does not match

Malleable minds



All of the cute

Reasonable rhetoric

Used to describe

Detailed definitions

Of how one perceives

A particular point *



If the other person

Does not or can not

Play along perceptibly

Then all is lost

Save for the challenge

Of (if both are willing)

To connect their hand/mind

Michaelangelo style

Of at least attempting

To connect to the

Painted depiction of

Touching the hand of

God / Word / reality

Never quite reaching

But always trying to

See and understand

Each other’s

Subjective solipsism





* is something I call

The communicating pizza dilemma

Which is as follows

If you met a person who had never tried, tasted, or smelled pizza and they wanted to know exactly how it tastes. The best you could do is break down and describe the particular ingredients and their savory sensations combined as a unit.

Starting with the dough, turned crust, covered with a tomato sauce. Spicy salty or sweet. Followed by pepperoni, cheese, peppers, onions, olives, etcetera, so on and so forth. Let alone what it is like to eat it, hot and fresh or cold and / or reheated.

No matter how clear, clever, and concise your detailed descriptions are. The other person will never ever experience the same sensation you understand.

Not only that, when you are describing your experience, you are not simultaneously experiencing how you taste pizza when you are actually tactilely owning that, at a moment when you yourself are actually eating pizza.

All the mind melds of mozzarella, gooey and stringy and stretchy, not quite hot enough to burn either tongue, is going to let anyone else experience your subjective experience.


Meanwhile, I was sidetracked

After describing contrary existence

As a simple stand-alone short blog post……..



That which

Does not exist

Can be imagined

That which is

Imaginable

Can exist




“I never wish to be right,
Only to be understood,

If you have questioned
Your beliefs. Then maybe
I have done some good. “

– Angelo Devlin