Are you kidding me!?

table_top08

table_top08

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this is an essay i just got in honors 10 english. define this statement.

"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a funtion of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past and future events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."

umm what the fuck. help, anyone, please.
 
"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a funtion of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past and future events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."

essentially, nothing is anything without context. if there is no precedent, there is no standard of how to react to something or what results from any given event. if something happens, but does not affect anything else, then it may as well have never happened at all. if i slap you in the face, then your head turns and you feel stinging and blah blah blah. if a tree falls in the woods, it crushes whatever is underneath it; it makes other things move; it affects future events and has resulted from past events. if the tree falls, but doesn't affect the area where it lands or move the grass underneath it or destroy a bird's nest that was in it or affect anything else, did it even happen? uhh. something like that.
 
reality is not an event. an event is not reality. reality is the reaction to an event. which is ironic because, this reaction is not reality either. it just makes the first even reality.
 
"This is not remarkable, for, as we know, reality is not a funtion of the event as event, but of the relationship of that event to past and future events. We seem here to have a paradox: that the reality of an event, which is not real in itself, arises from the other events which, likewise, in themselves are not real. But this affirms what we must affirm: that direction is all. And only as we realize this do we live, for our own identity is dependent upon this principal."

Somethin bout Jay-z and twinkees. That's all there is to it.
 
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