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b_b  ·  3836 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Not All Women: A Reflection On Being a Musician and Female

Well, there's a basic philosophical difference between "come out of" and "come into." "To come out of" implies that we are all connected to the fabric of the universe, and thus we are all connected to one another and to every other living being in a very fundamental way. "To come into" implies that the universe exists independent of us, and that we happen to occupy an infinitesimal part of it for an infinitesimal time. One is a philosophy of connection and the other of division. I don't know that either is correct or incorrect (or if it even makes sense to talk about which is "right", as existence doesn't lend itself to logical inquiry very well), but, for whatever reason, I prefer the former. In the former, the cosmos could never be said to be "unfeeling." Therefore, I don't wish to change the statement, but rather challenge its assumptions.