PASSiG
King of the Eyesores
「青空だけが見たいのは我儘ですか。」

「人生にタイムカードがあるなら終わりの時間は何時なんだろう」

「この孤独も今音に変わる」

"You've crossed the finish line, won the race but lost your mind. Was it worth it after all?"

"I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone feel a little better."

"And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?"

"I would've danced like the King of the Eyesores and the rest of our lives would've fared well..."

"I'll draw your bath, I'll load your gun. I hope so bad that you'll bathe and hunt"

"They say "doubt everything," but I disagree. Doubt is useful in small amounts, but too much of it leads to apathy and confusion. No, don't doubt everything. QUESTION everything. That's the real trick. Doubt is just a lack of certainty. If you doubt everything, you'll doubt evolution, science, faith, morality, even reality itself - and you'll end up with nothing, because doubt doesn't give anything back. But questions have answers, you see. If you question everything, you'll find that a lot of what we believe is untrue… but you might also discover that some things ARE true. You might discover what your own beliefs are. And then you'll question them again, and again, eliminating flaws, discovering lies, until you get as close to the truth as you can.

Questioning is a lifelong process. That's precisely what makes it so unlike doubt. Questioning engages with reality, interrogating all it sees. Questioning leads to a constant assault on the intellectual status quo, where doubt is far more likely to lead to resigned acceptance. After all, when the possibility of truth is doubtful (excuse the pun), why not simply play along with the most convenient lie?

Questioning is progress, but doubt is stagnation."
「青空だけが見たいのは我儘ですか。」

「人生にタイムカードがあるなら終わりの時間は何時なんだろう」

「この孤独も今音に変わる」

"You've crossed the finish line, won the race but lost your mind. Was it worth it after all?"

"I guess its because we all want to believe that what we do is very important, that people hang on to our very word, that they care what we think. The truth is, you should consider yourself lucky if you even occasionally get to make someone-anyone feel a little better."

"And sometimes you didn't want to know the end… because how could the end be happy? How could the world go back to the way it was when so much bad had happened?"

"I would've danced like the King of the Eyesores and the rest of our lives would've fared well..."

"I'll draw your bath, I'll load your gun. I hope so bad that you'll bathe and hunt"

"They say "doubt everything," but I disagree. Doubt is useful in small amounts, but too much of it leads to apathy and confusion. No, don't doubt everything. QUESTION everything. That's the real trick. Doubt is just a lack of certainty. If you doubt everything, you'll doubt evolution, science, faith, morality, even reality itself - and you'll end up with nothing, because doubt doesn't give anything back. But questions have answers, you see. If you question everything, you'll find that a lot of what we believe is untrue… but you might also discover that some things ARE true. You might discover what your own beliefs are. And then you'll question them again, and again, eliminating flaws, discovering lies, until you get as close to the truth as you can.

Questioning is a lifelong process. That's precisely what makes it so unlike doubt. Questioning engages with reality, interrogating all it sees. Questioning leads to a constant assault on the intellectual status quo, where doubt is far more likely to lead to resigned acceptance. After all, when the possibility of truth is doubtful (excuse the pun), why not simply play along with the most convenient lie?

Questioning is progress, but doubt is stagnation."