Tired Soup for the Chicken Soul

I wish I was back in those times when i fell in love with David Hume’s philosophy. Those times when I chose to believe him when he said that there is no such thing as causation.

That there is only a series of unconnected events.

That it is just out of habit that we think one event caused the next.

That there is no certainty that the sun will rise tomorrow just because it did today.

Yesterday, today, and tomorrow are different. Separate. Distinct. Unconnected.

Until I realized the absurdity of such extreme positivism.

But now, I wish we were Hume-ans.

I wish we’d make an exemption. Just once. Just for this instance. And believe that the things we keep on doing are not necessarily mistakes just because they were before. That the past, the present and the future are not connected.

Or maybe I’m just wishing a little change of perspective. Just a slight one. Just for this instance.

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