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All content files (*.txt, *.html, *.river) are now in /.
I did this to simplify the compilation step, and to make
linking easier.  I'm still thinking about whether I should
move the contents of js/, img/, and lua/ into /, or into
an 'assets' folder of some sort.  We'll see.
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2title: Philosophy
3id: philosophy
4genre: prose
5
6project:
7 title: Book of Hezekiah
8 class: hezekiah
9 order: 3
10 next:
11 - title: Proverbs
12 link: proverbs
13 prev:
14 - title: The purpose of dogs
15 link: purpose-dogs
16...
17
18Importance is important.
19But meaning is meaningful.
20Here we are at the crux of the matter, for both meaning and importance are also human-formed.
21So it would seem that nothing is important or meaningful, if importance and meaning are of themselves only products of the fallible human intellect.
22But here is the great secret: *so is the fallibility of the human intellect a mere product of the fallible human intellect.*
23The question here arises: Is anything real, and not a mere invention of a mistaken human mind?
24By real of course I mean "that which is *on its own terms*," that is, without any [modification][] on the part of mankind by observing it.
25But such a thing is impossible to be known, for if it be known it has certainly been observed by someone, and so it is not on its own terms but on the terms of the observer.
26So it cannot be known if anything exists on its own terms, for it exists on its own terms we certainly will not know anything about it.
27
28By this it is possible to see that nothing is knowable without the mediating factor of our mind fucking up the "[raw][]," the "real" world.
29But by this time it would seem that this chapter is far far too philosophical, not to mention pretentious, so I must try again.
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31[modification]: i-am.html
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