{"id":27634,"date":"2025-07-07T17:13:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T16:13:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/?p=27634"},"modified":"2025-07-07T21:05:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T20:05:39","slug":"i-think-therefore-i-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuartmillerosborne.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/07\/i-think-therefore-i-am\/","title":{"rendered":"I Think Therefore I am"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Means that by the very act of thinking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It proves the existence of a thinking entity <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A self that does the thinking <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It establishes the certainty <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of ones own existence<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Even if everything else is doubted <br><br><br>It comes so easily to you Rufus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you call yourself Tuppence Tuppence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My name is not Tuppence Tuppence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is just Tuppence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is what I said <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have not answered my question <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because I did not like my birth name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What was your birth name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Penelope but it was shortened to Penny <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If people had called you Penelope<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you have changed your name <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is an abstract question Rufus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As this has never happened to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was always Penny this and Penny that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Never Penelope <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why do you love me Tuppence <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because of your mind <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It attracted me at once <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nothing else <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No nothing else <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What attracted you to me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Was it because of my beautiful body <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Do you think that you have a beautiful body<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">What do you think <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Visually you have beautiful body <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It is a pleasure to look at <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yet if I was blind <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I would not really know that <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You might have been able <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To study me by touch <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Perhaps <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But my visual senses <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would have become confused <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If I was a foul looking hag <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Would you still desire me <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You are not a foul looking hag <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That is not an answer Rufus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I slept with you on our first date <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Did you think that I was easy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Easy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yes did you think I was easy <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You were easy to talk to<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No was I easy in a sexual sense <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Not at all <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It was a natural progression <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Of our first night <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">It might have happened after six months <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But it would still have been the same<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Why does time complicate things Rufus <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Because we do not understand time <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Means that by the very act of thinking It proves the existence of a thinking entity A self that does the thinking It establishes the certainty Of ones own existence Even if everything else is doubted It comes so easily to you Rufus Why do you call yourself Tuppence Tuppence My name is not Tuppence 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