THREE MOUNTAINS

There are three tall mountains in a row. Or like a child we believe them to be in a row because they look as such from a distance. A child stands in the village looking out into the mountains and he sees these three mountains as if in a row. The three mountains actually form a perfect triangle – the base of each mountain is equidistant to the bases of the others. The peaks of the three mountains are of equal height, and since they are the tallest peaks in the mountain range, there seems to be a man-made quality to them. Equivalence is a man-made concept, and we take pride in it. We are surprised to find equivalence in nature, and when we do we often start thinking about god or aliens.

A person is never so happy as when he discerns some equivalent property between seemingly disparate things. Thus, it is strange when somebody dies. How does a person die? I am not dead. When I lose a glove, I know that it has not died and disappeared into the æther. It is somewhere. There is a lack of equivalence in death because it is not man-made. Unlike the three mountains, whose parts will infinitely remain, a person evaporates.

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[ande]

but energy is neither created nor destroyed ...like the glove, i will be somewhere ...