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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
Ended December 3, 2021 • 39 Entries • Created by EstherFlowers1
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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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nightscribbler in Philosophy
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Enough

I might mourn the existential despair that floods me later, but for now, a cup of tea in my hands and the sun on my cheeks, this moment is enough.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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DaveK in Philosophy
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Inevitable Existence

The gate

That keeps me from falling.

Off the cliff.

I loosen the screws

Holding it together, like

going home.

There is only 1 outcome.

I was grateful.

The View.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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Harry_Situation in Philosophy
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SHOWER

When I was young I used to sing in the shower.

As an adult I often find myself standing in the shower contemplating the meaning of life.

#philosophy #existence #shower

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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EstherFlowers1 in Philosophy
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Nothing Rhymes Well With Want.

Have you there no itch to flaunt?

Feeling sated? Nonchalant?...

Welcome boredom’s endless taunt.

To want for naught is still to want.

(note: scratch out lines one through four)

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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rlove327 in Philosophy
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This challenge makes me think of that Browning line from “Andrea del Sarto,”

“...man’s reach should exceed his grasp,/ Or what’s a heaven for?” I have it on good authority, however, that Browning thought neither of Audis nor iPhones when penning this line.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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Iamagoofball in Philosophy
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But That’s Life

You say to Lament or celebrate, but it's not one or the other. Existence is a cycle of Lamentations and celebrations.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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Hewman in Philosophy
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I'm going to die. I can't tell you where, I can't tell you when. who knows? I could die after posting this, or even before I finis

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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The Journey In Us All
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WhiteWolfe32

Overflowing Cup

when you have

an overflowing cup,

just get another cup

because you'll always

need more.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
emilyaine in Philosophy
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Just One More

“You’ll be happy,

For a half-century”,

Unfathomable eternity

When they were twenty.

Those years do not help

Now. Soul-wrenching death.

She’d remake the earth

For one word, for one breath.

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Lament Or Celebrate The Inherent Insatiability Of Existence (30 Words Or Less)
Yep, that's what I said: 30 words or less. Exciting, right? Isn't it simply better to be restricted? To have rules to follow or even to break. After all, to accomplish something by limited means is a far more agreeable feat than to face the queasy expanse of a blank slate, is it not?
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PolarBears in Philosophy
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Cycle

We're humans. We take whatever slithers out of the deepest voids of this beautiful world, ruin it with our own two hands then complain until our curiosity is peaked again.

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