non-relationships
I would like to discuss non-relationships. What is a non-relationship? I don't know. It's something I have just invented and I hope to figure out what it is here.To start, there's a guy on the street that asks me for a cigarette. Do I have a non-relationship with this guy? No, because we have this relationship where he wants something and where I say something.
A stray dog starts to follow me around. Never seen him before. Now we have a relationship where he follows me and I try to figure out who he has more of a relationship with than me. So now I know this dog, and it's not a non-relationship.
Since this seems hard to figure out, maybe we can get at it by asking what a non-non-relationship is. Is that the same as a regular relationship? Do the two "nons" cancel each other? This is an age old philosophical thing. In short, constructively speaking, they do not. So what is it, constructively speaking? Probably that we don't know if it's a relationship or a non-relationship. If I imagine a very large talking shoe, I can not say in which relation we stand, as I can offer evidence for neither. Nor can I fashion the shoe so as to vouchsafe reality to him or her; to do so would establish a relationship indeed.
Nor, analogously, will I endeavor to define a relationship. I don't know anything about that. Unless I'm a shoe and I come to life and there's this other shoe and we tie our laces together. . .but this has never happened.
So I have no idea, really. Come to think of it, I don't think I invented it, either. But I think I know who did.
The dog claimed he did but I think he was just trying to get some attention. The smoking guy's dead, and everything else seems to stick to its own kind. I miss thinking I knew what the hell was going on.
If you want to have a non-relationship with me, I have nothing to say to you. Literally. Don't want to blow it, do you?
Comments (13)
If you answer this post then you are having a non relationship.
But please try keep it platonic
pleased to meet you
Because if we had a non-non relationship, and you were spouting philosophically like this, first thing in the morning, the chances of one of us being dead with an axe in the head, and the other being on the run, or incarcerated, are extremely high.
what does an axe in my head mean to you?
Now I'm confused
Is Molly trying to instigate a ménage à trois
pat, come on man, that was a non-dog. I was just trying to save it from axes being thrown about. I think it has its own now and you'd better call it Mister.
I think I'm going to make it a point to philosophize every morning now
Perhaps you mean you are afraid to disagree with molly .
Don't worry most men are.
When two people not know other good to have empathy this also a non-relationship can be. For example in long distance.