Belief Wins
Every time
By a brain, in
The mind VS.
Mind games
That can not
Decipher
A real event
From an
Imagined one
Remember when
You pulled a
Bright yellow
Cool dimpled
Lemon from
The fridge
Sliced it in half
With a sharp knife
To make slices
For lemonade
But instead
You brought that
Lemon half
Up to your mouth
Sank your teeth in it
For a big bite as
Your mouth fills
With saliva in
Anticipation of
The bitterness to
Gently swallow
While reading this
Asking yourself
Where is the lemon??
Oh yeah……
Belief wins
Every time
By a brain in
The mind VS.
Mind games
P.S.
If you reread this
It will happen again
In case you are wondering where the lemon is, it is floating in space inside Bertrand Russell’s teapot. At least that is what I believe.
“If I were to suggest that between the Earth and Mars there is a china teapot revolving about the sun in an elliptical orbit, nobody would be able to disprove my assertion provided I were careful to add that the teapot is too small to be revealed even by our most powerful telescopes. But if I were to go on to say that, since my assertion cannot be disproved, it is an intolerable presumption on the part of human reason to doubt it, I should rightly be thought to be talking nonsense. If, however, the existence of such a teapot were affirmed in ancient books, taught as the sacred truth every Sunday, and instilled into the minds of children at school, hesitation to believe in its existence would become a mark of eccentricity and entitle the doubter to the attentions of the psychiatrist in an enlightened age or of the Inquisitor in an earlier time.”
― Bertrand Russell
Love the lemon experiment. You are SO right: It works every time.
What if people who never heard all the preaching about the teapot, yet they spontaneously had an experience or vision of this teapot. How would you explain that?
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I had that vision of the teapot, with the lemon inside. Shared it with others. Job done. Likewise, I had a very vivid dream/nightmare that I missed my dentist appointment, and that do to my tardiness, he pulled all my teeth. I made sure I was on time. Brain and teeth win. 😁
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Nice!!!
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