Originally posted by coquetteOriginality is an illusion... because even if it's new to you someone else has surely seen or done it before. I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect variations on a theme is probably the closest anyone can actually come to being 'original'.
i don't like posting anything original and substantial, yet it is all that i do; a rationale for such reasonable behavior eludes me
i dread the notion that i might yet learn enough about myself to comprehend such idiosyncratic behavior
Originally posted by lemon limenow, see, i was thinking just that very thought, but i didn't write it, because i knew that it was derivative.
Originality is an illusion... because even if it's new to you someone else has surely seen or done it before. I don't know this for a fact, but I suspect variations on a theme is probably the closest anyone can actually come to being 'original'.
there you have it.
Originally posted by coquetteI don't bother limiting myself to making 'non-derivative' statements, because I do not believe statements embodying original ideas actually exist. Originality is an illusion just as the idea of 'randomness' is an illusion. Nothing is random and everything is derivatve, whether we know it (or like it) or not.
now, see, i was thinking just that very thought, but i didn't write it, because i knew that it was derivative.
there you have it.