What
prompted Alice to surface from the
looking-glass and begin to read life
in theosophical context? It was the
rabbit without the watch in the person
of the record holder of the Filipino
poet of the year, Tomas Agulto who
kept her in countenance round-the-clock.
“Be true to yourself!”
he admonished, so down the rabbit
hole she went and made peace with
her disparate selves. So thus Alice
has metamorphosed into Juanita along
the way. The aftermath of the bumpy
ride down the familiar hole has her
prose and poetry treading sacrosanct
grounds because the truth cannot be
further from her reality with God.
So then if ontological argument is
to be considered, the onus probandi
thereof rests solely on the germ of
thought that precipitated from the
reality - the same one staring it
in the eye because faith will never
compromise with reason.
The
Onus Probandi
“If my interlocutor desires
to convince me that Jupiter has inhabitants,
and that his description of them is
accurate, it is for him to bring forward
evidence in support of his contention.
The burden of proof evidently lies
on him; it is not for me to prove
that no such beings exist before my
non-belief is justified, but for him
to prove that they do exist before
my belief can be fairly claimed. Similarly,
it is for the affirmer of God's existence
to bring evidence in support of his
affirmation; the burden of proof lies
on him.”
Annie Wood Besant
--Why I do not believe in God
quotes@philosophermag.com
12May 2004
The
Poet lived out His poetry in me and
so I no longer need to write my interlocutor
about taxonomic data with an accompanying
affidavit to desist from further implicating
my good self, because ignorance is
not a crime; however there are acquired
facts in my head that went the way
of a tumor, suffice it to say that
they are right about formal dogmatic
atheism as being self-refuting. I
can never draw poetry from it.
I
quote this time Herbert Spencer whose
agnosticism had me memorizing his
lumbering phraseology “…which
while admitting the rational necessity
of postulating the Absolute or Unconditioned
behind the relative and Unconditioned
objects of our knowledge declares
the Absolute to be altogether Unknowable
to be in fact the Unknowable about
which without being guilty of contradiction
we can predicate nothing at all except
perhaps that It exists.”
Here lies the Poet’s
Onus Probandi and never mind if His
poems speak for themselves in life.
Juanita
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