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If I Ruled the World

so many unknown variables to consider for such a tasking pursuit a conditional ‘If’ but what if ‘whether’ reigns in a supreme challenge conjectures battle refutations and synapses blocked in surrender as long as suppositions succeeded in their hypothetical contemplation the world may as well be flat and circle unhappily one of its moons the ‘I’ would be futile a self negating deprecation on auto-destruct and endless loop of no Self on a path to nowhere and nothingness not of Buddha like Nirvana but hell on earth as we know it too well a spinning confusion of gravity with levitation spared its flight of fancy when meditation and pondering could not lift the soul above the mind ‘ruling’ that wishes to overcome suppression domination and power appears a futile concept when freedom should be the ultimate aim of course anarchy holds its merits but people cling to being governed by false leaders fake news and an insatiable need for crude abdication in an attempt to cast responsibility and shred all courage and hope ‘the’ poses the question of this or that where and when whether at all a simple adverbial adjective refusing to rest on quiet incomplete duty bereft of solitary meaning and such an imposter of clarity and precision no stand alone metaphor of context and contingency lost in the process but the planet needs answers and I do not give up easily if besieged is there a ‘world’ out there a compass and globe in my restless attempts to understand question emphasize deconstruct and give a sweet home to live up to its promises and dreams as opposed to terminal decline word has it that there are only illusions betrayal and survival of the fittest engulfed in delusions conflagrations raging inferno straight from its core ‘I’ if it was able to resist compartmentalization of Ego Super Ego and Id might not want the elusive generational torch snuffing out a last breath maybe I am overthinking under emoting and have surrendered in vain to lost beauty and a vacuum of distant echoes of an unforeseeable future therefore I conclude that if I was the ruler I would ask my kids for advice 14th August 2020

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Date: 8/22/2020 2:47:00 AM
... everything would be different ... I give my vote to you and your children .... best wishes in the contest, Kai :) - (I posted to this contest yesterday :) - Have a lovely weekend :) - hugs // Anne-Lise :)
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Kai Michael Neumann
Date: 8/23/2020 3:43:00 AM
Thank you. A funny episode is that my daughter once asked me whom I had voted for in the UK general election. 'We cannot vote, we have a German Passport.' 'Oh I just did and nobody questioned me when I registered.' She had voted Liberal Democrats, who then betrayed the students ...

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