Existence has been variously defined by sources. In common usage, it is the world we are aware of through our senses, and that persists independently without them. Others define it as everything that is.[citation needed]
Ontology is the philosophical study of the nature of being, existence or reality in general, as well as of the basic categories of being and their relations. Traditionally listed as a part of the major branch of philosophy known as metaphysics, ontology deals with questions concerning what entities exist or can be said to exist, and how such entities can be grouped, related within a hierarchy, and subdivided according to similarities and differences. A lively debate continues about the existence of God.
Epistemology studies criteria of truth, defining "primary truths" inherently accepted in the investigation of knowledge. The first is existence. It is inherent in every analysis. Its self-evident, a priori nature cannot be consistently doubted, since a person objecting to existence according to some standard of proof must implicitly accept the standard's existence as a premise.
Isaac Asimov (/ˈaɪzək ˈæzɨməv/ EYE-zək AZ-i-məv; born Isaak Yudovich Ozimov, Russian: Исаак Юдович Озимов; Yiddish: אייזיק יודאָוויטש אסימאוו; c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) was an American author and professor of biochemistry at Boston University, best known for his works of science fiction and for his popular science books. Asimov was one of the most prolific writers of all time, having written or edited more than 500 books and an estimated 90,000 letters and postcards. His works have been published in all ten major categories of the Dewey Decimal System (although his only work in the 100s—which covers philosophy and psychology—was a foreword for The Humanist Way).
Asimov is widely considered a master of hard science fiction and, along with Robert A. Heinlein and Arthur C. Clarke, he was considered one of the "Big Three" science fiction writers during his lifetime. Asimov's most famous work is the Foundation Series; his other major series are the Galactic Empire series and the Robot series, both of which he later tied into the same fictional universe as the Foundation Series to create a unified "future history" for his stories much like those pioneered by Robert A. Heinlein and previously produced by Cordwainer Smith and Poul Anderson. He wrote many short stories, among them "Nightfall", which in 1964 was voted by the Science Fiction Writers of America the best short science fiction story of all time. Asimov wrote the Lucky Starr series of juvenile science-fiction novels using the pen name Paul French.
Existence - what is it's purpose, what is the mind
Existence - what is it all about, who am I?
Am I -- just copious amounts of flesh
Assembled by evolutions curiosity
Are you -- just a fragment in my dreams
And your actions product of my imagination
By whom or what, do we define our self image?
Can we rely on the things we see and hear?
How can we divide good and bad, right or wrong?
Don't we all ask the same questions?
Listen to me,
Our insight is limited and limited is our mind
But where we are weak God is the answer
His presence gives reason to my existence
The strength of His affection restores my soul
His suffering is the source of my salvation
And to him shall go my praise
Lord help me to overcome
The boundaries
The limitations
The inner struggle
The inner suffering.
(Sample:) Jesus, what a mindjob!
It clings to your mind
Like a phantasmal leech
Nesting itself deep within
The substance of your soul
Demanding every second
Of your prying attention
In the continual search
For the methods to reveal
The ultimate secrets
Of existence
Infests in your blood
It's magnificent seed
Preparing the symbiose union
It feeds you to grow
It crawls along the surface
Of your reality's cocoon
Impatiently awaiting
The miracle of birth
The parasite completes its cyclus of life
It clings to your mind
Like a phantasmal leeth
Nesting itself deep within
The substance of your soul
Demanding every second
Of your prying attention
In the continual search
For the methods to reveal
The ultimate secrets
Of existence
Infects in your blood
It’s magnificent seed
Preparing the symbiose union
It feeds you to grow
It crawls along the surface
Of your reality’s cocoon
Impatiently awaiting
The miracle of birth
I force the gate to the ages to come
I need to know how tomorrow will be
Force the cage of time, the heaven's gates
I need to believe in my destiny
I look at my life, deny the obvious
I need to believe in my deceptive greatness
Look at the world, I find my place
I need to believe in my existence
Tormented with suspicions
Baffled by delusions
Reduced to theorize on dreams
I have to keep my self-control
Affected in the bottom of my heart
I need to follow the way of light
I need my existence
However He's done shudder the boldest warriors
However he's waked me with tears
The thrills, frozen blood, the wind of death
The fears, misery, the lords of evil
That's Him, and I'm starting to like that
Damocl¨s' sword on this so precarious being
I recognize His glory, devote my life to Him
I'm convinced of His power and shall give blood for Him
I force the gate to the ages to come
I need to know how tomorrow will be
Force the cage of time, the heaven's gates
I need to believe in my destiny
I look at my life, deny the obvious
I need to believe in my deceptive greatness
Look at the world, I find my place
Rockets repressed, an hand pushes the fatal shot ever-
closer to a broken tune.
Wasting my time and thrown face-first into a bloody
trail
Left by gods and habits started
While misery dreads the broken-hearted
Behind fragile hours, one more untimely existence.
Self destruct before daylight, wake up dead from spite.
Self destruct before daylight, wake up dead from spite.
I can see you still.
My head's too tired to change what can't be,
Too forgetful to feel what was, what was once seen
I never forgave your silence, your silence.
Sometimes we fail to need and drifting past grief is
easier than making myself bleed.
I never forgave your silence, your silence.
Sometimes we fail to need and drifting past grief is
easier than making myself
Bleed
Show me how to feel for you.
Rockets repressed, an hand pushes the fatal shot ever-
closer to a broken tune.
Wasting my time and thrown face-first into a bloody
trail
Left by gods and habits started
While misery dreads the broken-hearted
Behind fragile hours, one more
Self destruct before daylight, wake up dead from spite.
You come into the threshold
Of another starless night of fear
You're running from the demons
That would drag you down again
Illusions of the world are spinning
Out of time and frame and synchronicity
You're so sad, you're such a sad-eyed girl
You're so sad, in your sub-plot
(chorus)
What is this, what is this
This mess of my existence is
All these politics of
Life and death and relevance
It's my existence
Another morning it comes running
Up your bedpost with the wind
You face yourself just like you always do
Time and time again, the mortal coil of image
Inner peace and satisfaction
And so you keep it on the down-low
Hiding all the secrets that are down below
And so you keep it on the down-low
Tell me baby was it worth it all
(repeat chorus)
Oh just take it all
Make it work and make some sense
Just take it all, You're my existence
You're my existence
Wassup Girl, It's my turn,
You cry and your eyes burn
What's your life's turn, beautiful girl
Who all the guys yearn
What's more to your story
You still learn
Despite why your eyes burn
Soul-Searchin'
I seek and find the ole merchant
The high beacon
Your eyes talk
When you ain't speakin'
And at school
You cry out
Why does water deep dry out?
Your getting gyped
Flat out
The human in his existence
fears to drown in the ocean of his own utopias.
The solitude filling us over the years
I know I'll be here waiting for my destiny
A fleeting eternity fills my soul
with wisdom and harmony
We are alive
Beautiful horizons guide my flight
Carry me on in this beautiful sky
where my heart beats for you
from the beginning of my existence
When the light faded
he fixed his eyes on the eternal abyss
And then suddenly tears of heavenly dew
fell on earth
and even the precious stones broke
In the beginning of life, from a distant point of view,
creation was triggered, in an endless stream of events.
Many things has been written and theorised about the beginning,
but, we finally get to a point
where the only thing we cannot question is our own existence.
Just one time, just for a moment
we're under the same sky
Lost in a small world
Never again will I fall prey
to the elements that entrapped me
turning my back on the life you keep trying to sell me
don't try to tell me it wont last the dedication is
undying
the fire burns on in our hearts and the fuel is never
ending
the beliefs I hold I will never fucking hide
others will fall and turn to the dark side
your weakness makes me stronger and more true to my word
I will never break
The edge runs in my blood
I will stay true no need for a second chance
How could you sell out to a feeling you said was so
All in all we're fading
Like a soul lost in the wilderness
We're cold and we're cut off from it
Not knowing where it's gonna end
There's a star in Bethlehem, it's calling you
It's a memory of One who made it
Be, be yourself
There's no one who does it quite like you
Be, no one else
Cause if you don't then who is going to
You're a tribute to the best of us
We follow everybody else
Not knowing what we're made for
The mecca of the insecure
The sign and mark of the popular
There's a new face on the television
It's a new host with the same derision
Be, be yourself
Don't let the losers tell you what to do
Be, no one else Cause if you don't then who is going to
And the time is now
No reason to look back
Just like an infant born
You've got to catch your breath
And I'm learning Father
Yes, and I'm going farther
Be, be yourself
There's no one who does it quite like you
Be, no one else
Cause if you don't then who is going to?
Light the path you're supposed to see
Just like the salt that filters through the need
Like the star that's falling from the sky
World gone lost from so-called standards
Where does it leave us? Annihilation
Human race will be lost
World leaves us in total chaos
Bombs were made for our nation's safety
World's defense, what's it for?
What is left? But plenty ruins
Lost society human's doings
Destruction was made by those who lead
Decimation's what they meet
What was this all made for?
Who's the winner when no one scores?!!!
Existence
Existence
Existence
[Verse 1: Ill Bill]
Yo yo this life is hard, my mental level is odd
Like devils versus gods, there’s a war inside my mind going on
Squads represent these separate emotions
Three quarters of us is made of water, now it’s land versus ocean
Soaking, it’s like open wrists, had this bitch sucking my dick for poker chips
Deep throating shit then she sucked her own tit
I got bizarre shit, you’re just a moving target
Take a style, dissolve it
Like ? it made of brown sugar vomit
Fright night of the comets, seven Islamics named Mohammed
Rocking scimitars give the illest scars to the godless
Unworthy ones, my verse is thirty guns
Blasting off north, my rhymes are sawed-off
I’m hip hop, I can’t be bought off
I blast a scripture like a fracture blister
Attack the system like when cancer hits a random victim
Splatter liquid like a twisted sponge
I’m like a biscuit, hit your lungs
Twitch your tongues, we putting rhymes in circulation
Like it’s drugs inside bloodstreams
I like to visit other countries asking other things
The universe is all ours to explore, that’s what my mother thinks
My brother thinks most cats are shady, I think he may be right
But fuck the darkness, I’mma try to focus on the light
I be the true and living ruler of my world
I want world peace so if you got beef stay the fuck away from me, chief
The green leaf is sparked like soldiers stomping through a swamp
Without high boots and radiation suits that’s glowing in the dark
It’s a tribute to myself, I’m burning kids like they was grilled cheese And every time I open up my mouth I kill MC’s
I seen the greatest men destroyed by cowards so I watch my back
Most of these cats so damn whack that they’d be lost without their gat
That’s not to say a gat is evil, only people can deceive you
Make you bleed through wounds that never heal and leave your spirit feeble
It’s depressing, the truth will set you free so just accept it
You don’t even have to like my shit so long as you respect it
[Chorus]
Without the positive we can’t exist
Without negativity we can’t exist
Without the sunshine we can’t exist
Without the darkness we can’t exist
Hey yo without a little love we can’t exist
Without liquor and drugs we can’t exist
Without free religions we can’t exist
Without the television we can’t exist
[Verse 2: Goretex]
It’s like my views are ancient, crusty like basements
Studying spaceships, anal probes with metal prong testing temperature placement
Teeth of a dragon, face of a lion, children of Zion
Half-breeds who defecate iron burnt to flames
We find robots ? insane ? intelligence
Sons of the sun with astral resonance
Bigger than rap, I live a life of decadence
Turn mass to energy
Medicineman celebrity conspiracy, Tel Aviv
I put my pyramid, never deliver it without ?
? more like storms in my breastplate
We militant, we legislate laws with no decency
’98, our brothers use brains and low frequencies
One time for sharp kids, killers who biblical
There’s two ghettos, one of them mind, the other physical
To break food we on that hunt for ?
Cause race haters and pigs in white sheets running with quakers
[Chorus]
Without the inner-self we can’t exist
Without oxygen we can’t exist
Without a bag of weed we can’t exist
Without a little greed we can’t exist
Without some real friends we can’t exist
Without the dividends we can’t exist
Without photosynthesis we can’t exist
Without mass transit we can’t exist
[Verse 3: Sabac]
Prepare for mental combat, I react like twenty gats
And holds some straps, ready for nothing
? take me out or hold me back
Then I come back only to walk down mean streets like Perry Thomas
At a seminar where they asked us who practiced the art of conscious
Beware of toxic drinking tap could be a deathtrap
A setback to leave our arms folded and our necks back
Existence leads back to Egyptians and conflictions
War missions, colour-free property, and fake religions
Battle scars and nudie bars, ? stars to crash the earth
Leave us jerked and out of work
Forcing all mine to convert to carry weapons for aggression
Ruger M double 7’s, crash the heavens like our demo did at Geffen
Now we’re prepping barracudas ? computer age ? influenced
In our brain to re-enact the deep attack that caused the pain
Our social differences, existences, the listeners are businesses
Non Phixion is like ministers, walk the world until it finishes
[Chorus]
Without some food stamps we can’t exist
Without reproduction we can’t exist
Without a clear mind we can’t exist
Without a little pride we can’t exist
Without a clear mind we can’t exist
Without some intellect we can’t exist
Without old school we can’t exist
Extinction of the world in which we exist
Infected by the curse of a devil's kiss
Corruption is the highest depravity
But nothing changes our morality
Together we must face our destiny
If you want to find your own identity
Forever bound in the same recurring dream
Alone in the dark, the answer so far:
Who rescue me?
Pollution of the ordinary mind
Inflicted through the evil of mankind
Relentless on advance to eternal fame
Possessed by effects of the kindled flames
Together we must face our destiny
If you want to find your identity
Forever bound in the same recurring dream
Alone in the dark, the answer so far:
Who rescue me?
Hearing my screams
they die on walls
just like my hope
fearing the dawn
I can't hold on
to breath the air of liest
timegreyed hair
and dead blue eyes
endless nails
on useless hands
carrying the spawn
of electric scans
Bloodpainted signs on the dead walls of the corridor
through the keyhole I can see them all
humaoid demons in white wea rs and a pen in claws
writing down the fears and dreams to see
how the madness spreads in us
the vicitims of sorrows lust
guiding to insanity
to the doors
to kill me free
The windows are made of steel
there's no way, there's no heal
quarantine, the desease,
I can feel it
I can feel the c haos in me
I can't living with all this pain
inside of my head
headache is bursting my head
into flames of chaos
and the committed crimes
shoes us the legation
of human madness
step by step
step by step
step by step
step by step
step by step
step by step
step by step
to insanity
Bloodpainted signs on the dead walls of the corridor
through the keyhole I can see them all
humaoid demons in white wears and a pen in claws
writing down the fears and dreams to see
how the madness spreads in us
the vicitims of sorrows lust
guiding to insanity
to the doors
to kill me free
Hearing my screams
they die on walls
just like my hope
Disillusionment surrounding my eyes
Why can't I be the one to set them free?
Through endless grace
the suffering will be joy
bringing new peace,
detaching karmic forms
Living now is my only choice
to reach within my own mind
going forth where the self is stored
to rise above my own ploys
What is there to prose?
when no one knows the truth
to all of God's secrets
The God is in the man
the man is in the God
Why do you hide?
Liberated soul is set free
to join the divine ones
Immortals like God
living through life with their love
guiding the young ones
through their cycles
continue life as we know
embracing divinity
My child, view your existence with joy
it is forever!
[Sample:] Jesus, what a mindjob!
It clings to your mind
Like a phantasmal leech
Nesting itself deep within
The substance of your soul
Demanding every second
Of your prying attention
In the continual search
For the methods to reveal
The ultimate secrets
Of existence
Infests in your blood
It's magnificent seed
Preparing the symbiose union
It feeds you to grow
It crawls along the surface
Of your reality's cocoon
Impatiently awaiting
The miracle of birth
The parasite completes its cyclus of life
[Sample:] So you're here to change the world
This hollow feeling, the knowledge that you exist
Amidst your insecurities, cover up only to coward out
And never shutting up only to never speak aloud
Have you dried up entirely?
The walls of a church don't make it holy
It's what's authentic that completes the sum of it's parts
Don't excuse yourself from life today on the pretense of your past
You're hurt, you're broken, that's alright
This might be what it takes to wake you up
This might be what it takes to wake you up
Are you at your wits end yet?
Are you at your wits end yet?
Are you at your wits end?
Are you at your wits end yet?
The walls of a church don't make it holy
Security isn't glitzy or glamorous, concrete or cohesive
Therein lies the truth, lift your head up high
It's what we know we aren't that makes us who we are
It's what we know we aren't that makes us who we are
You're hurt, you're broken, that's alright
That makes us who we are
You're hurt, you're broken, that's alright
It's over it's finished, I am dead inside
I'm not gonna feel anymore
I am dead, please bury me, I am dead
Our relation-creation of dark passion
I am forever sbudued and tranquilized
Your desertion-converting from my eyes
My feelings caught in your jar like fireflies
This sensation-frustrations of simplified minds
My dreams they die as they lie on the naked floor
This dimension-ascension to sullen despair
You say the world is out to get you
You're living on borrowed time
You're always looking over your shoulder
At the demons in your mind
There's something moving in the shadows
Someone's hiding behind the door
Suspicion breeds in every stranger
Terror bleeds from every sore
You say you're feeling down and out
So what?
This world makes you want to shout
So what?
You're looking for a helping hand
Well, guess what?
Where you die is where you stand
So what?
You say that no one understands you
Nobody know where you've been
You take it all upon your shoulders
You know you just can't win
There's something stirring deep within you
The fear is building up inside
Welcome to human existence
Of thoughts to my being I wonder
I contemplate my inner self
My senses’ only assailant
In this reality
So I rise above my creation
Into my mind beyond my perspectives
I release myself from my inner chains
To free my soul from damnation
I convey my essence of spirit
As it shines upon me
How beautifully tragic it is
Through the darkness we will fight- deviance leads to destruction- the rightous path- no obstruction- the fate of all life is in peril- we must make injustice sterile- liberation- dawn of freedom-exploitation of all life must cease- we must fight for our existence- oppressions shackles we will release- and to all those who refuse- its your evil that we despise- and if you do not chance- you will meet your sudden demise- equality by all means- we can settle for no less- to ensure the rights of the innocent- we will confront- and put your evil to rest- justice coming- existence of truth- images of change- am i getting through- lets rid these gaps of ignorance- its time for crucial change- to rearragne the mentalities- that are so fucking deranged
Where is your master?
Where is the one who promised you salvation?
I watched every one in the world succumb to a power they know nothing of.
They wait like cattle on their knees to answer this higher powers every beck and call.
Welcome to the new reign, say hello to the face of evil.
They will never give in so we must force them to abnegate their throne.
Follow me, you won't be left behind if you get off your knees.
No one's coming back for you.
I have seen the pain that is caused by simply doing nothing.
Will we stand aside and let their fear control our lives?
I am only man, I am doing everything that I can.
I am only man, when will this life be enough for you?
Existence
I'm losing control of my existence
I'm breaking the walls of whom I want to be
Leaving behind a burning desert land
Leaving behind whom I used to be
After the time that I've never lived
After the space where I've never been
After my conscious reality
your expectations grew on me like rust effects steel not
a single moment in life you questioned existence born
in chains i just had my dreams and i swore rebellion but
I don't know how you found your way here,
But you won't be leaving in one piece.
How many times must I reiterate all of your inconsistencies?
You are fucking hopeless.
If only your mind was open as wide as your fucking legs maybe your life would start to make sense.
I have washed my hands of this.
Don't walk, run.
You better run faster then that.
You better run as fast as you can.
Let me hear you scream.
I want you to beg for mercy.
You will be made an example off.
I only hope the worst for you.
If your lungs were to collapse this very second no one would notice you were gone.
Every person that you let down, they can all hear you scream now and none of them will do a single thing to save you.
If the air in your chest were to cease and you were to stop breathing, I think I could sleep at night, I could sleep at night.
I'll give you the fame you've been begging for when they find your body, you'll be on the news front page.
You have gotten in over your head.
The waves swallow you whole.
You will be forgotten.
This is only the beginning.
Sit back and let me recall everything you said to me.
This convoluted fantasy world that you claim to see.
You'll never know until you open up your eyes.
This is, everything, I have, to say.
This is, everything, I have, to say.
You will know...
Pushing forward to find you're something more then this.
Everything you have been taught in the world will never make sense.
Will it be something you learn to live with or will you strive to be something anomalous?
This is everything that I have.
This is everything. It's everything I am.
It's not the first time that I've been here and it won't, it won't be my last.
It's not the first time that I've been here and it won't, it won't be my last.
Making progress everyday, I will live the life that's meant for me can you say the same.
How does it feel to know you're worthless?
I would have sacrificed everything.
Everything I have inside of me.
I would have given my all.
If only I had the strength to.
I wish I could go back to when it was all so simple.
I could smell the ocean air. I could feel the ground beneath me.
Everything in this world it was all so tangible.
But I had all my hopes and dreams deeply suppressed inside of me.
I don't know how I got to this place and I'm not quite sure how I will make my way out.
But one things certain.
One thing I know for sure, take it or leave it, I am who I am.
BOUNCE!
I, I tried, I tired to give, it all to you.
I'm tired of talking about redemption.
I will not longer forfeit these feelings.
I will see you in the trenches.
When everything is said and done what have you done to change the way you live your life, the way you life your.
I will tear apart everything you know.
You know nothing.
When it all comes to the surface, when it all comes crashing down on you,
Will you realize I was there for you (I was there for you).
The probability of me being here when you realize what you've done is slim to fucking none.
I won't stand for this. You will feel my pain.
Retrace your, retrace your, retrace your steps to this day and no one's standing behind you.
Disillusion starts to kick in, and everything starts to make sense.
So who is standing behind you now?
Retrace your, retrace your, retrace your steps to this day and no one's standing behind you.
So here, here's to the past, here's to realizing the last five years of your life was a lie.
Everything, everything, everything, everything won't wait.
I sure as hell wont wait for you.
I've done everything I can, to pull you back in.
This is the last time you will ever speak my name.
This is the last time we will ever make a memory.
I have tried to set things right, why walk on broken glass if you don't have to.
I know you're broken, but some things aren't worth being fixed.
I've seen it so many times everyone in this room they have turned their backs on you, and I'm not gonna stick around to see you tear your self down.
I swear with every ounce of strength I have inside of me, I'll see your face in hell.
You, will, walk, alone.
Retrace your, retrace your, retrace your steps to this day and no one's standing behind you.
Where is your master?
Where is the one who promised you salvation?
I watched every one in the world succumb to a power they know nothing of.
They wait like cattle on their knees to answer this higher powers every beck and call.
Welcome to the new reign, say hello to the face of evil.
They will never give in so we must force them to abnegate their throne.
Follow me, you won't be left behind if you get off your knees.
No one's coming back for you.
I have seen the pain that is caused by simply doing nothing.
Will we stand aside and let their fear control our lives?
I am only man, I am doing everything that I can.
Which ways do you chose, which ones to abuse?
Come along, make me stronger and taste no longer
When moments are gone, when moments turn to stone
I'll be the one to carry on...
Which ways to accuse, which ones for fair use
The ignorance drop down of a joyless stardom
When moments are gone, when moments turn to stone
I'll be the one who takes it all...
I have to go, to feel inside the pain is real
I know, I never choose to go
You have to know, I'm dead inside, seems poisoned light
I know, I'll be leaving now
I wonder where we will go?
I wonder why we might know - it's forever
And there is no way going back again for now...
So if you try to take it on
So if you try to leave it all - forever
I will not drown
There are ways we wonder, there are rays we encounter
There are things we say and we find in any way
Antisense behaviour, tearing saviour
Harvesting - the bleak seed raver
Hear me calling, see me falling in vain
See me asking for answers, when I cry out in pain
Start to leave all behind, try to fold and unwind
Some suffer-
Some thrive-
Some live-
Some die-
Some love-
Some hate-
Some find nothing in common-
Some relate-
Some sin-
Some are innocent-
Some are good-
Some are bad-
All I want is to understand-
all my life I've searched for answers
why can't I know the reasons we live
who is this god that we all worship
or will we ever know-
Some think, some drink, some sink into a hole they can't let go
Others bleed for their sins, some draw blood for them ends
Some steel, some deal, some peel off their skin and try to start again
The rest fiend, the rest still dream my heart pumps just to feel that cream
I'm elevated cross faded with a bag of tricks I'm in the mix since 96'
Shoot the facts and relax, we melt on wax, on top of the world is where we at
When I trip I slip, my cons got grip, to the left and to the right shit is tight
Cause I'm an addict addicted to music
It's a habit you know I choose it-
Scrape the pieces off the wall of my hate
Clean the slate but its far to late
I stitch my own skin you can't penetrate