"Why?"

Riddle me this:

Why answer a question with a question when you can not answer with a question?

To wit, how do you answer a question with a question when you cannot answer with a question?

Why answer something to which there is no question? 

To wit, how do you answer something to which there is no question?

How do you explicate an edifice for which there is no conceptual construct?

If music is between the notes, then philosophy is between the tautology, a polarization between the oxymora.

- David J. Deardorff

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Natus causae existentiae 

It’s a binding call, of a sort. A call that rings not the ossicles of your ears, but rather plucks the strings of your soul in the chords of a siren; chords that are felt, not heard – a call always answered, yet heard naught…

This is not fate,

this is not about a dog tied to a cart plunging downhill,

this is not about inevitability,

this is not about responsibility,

this is about the nature of things at a fundamental level:

This is the wisdom of a learned and tempered compassion;

this is atonement, not triumph – symphony, not melancholy. 

- David J. Deardorff

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