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Blank Slate

What a wonder! Nothing was written! Absolutely free! Bee, sea, tree - I can create whatever I want to see. Receptively blank as the almighty designed it well, It can in each sketch His miraculous mysteries spell...! Tabula rasa, John Locke calls it - no readymade concepts, Like nectar in a flower, facts fill in all its contents; The environment like my mother nurses my actions, My caring and rearing enable all my attractions...! I am like a natural child, devoid of compulsions, My growing intelligence expulses all convulsions; The Blank Slate - nature's hardware - analyzes all awareness, My contemplations - software - set them rightly in fairness...!!! 06 February 2023

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Date: 2/6/2023 2:09:00 PM
I don’t think we are born as blank slates but each with a personality. Does our environment shape us…surely. Nice fodder for thought, my friend!
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Christuraj Alex
Date: 2/7/2023 6:49:00 PM
Thank you very much. May God Bless You!

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