Ideas

Yes some of the ideas I have adopted did not originate from my method. Many did but many did not. But they all had to be put through the method. Beginning with ideas. Most of us know Descartes' work. I know most people know that it doesn't really prove anything accept that we must challenge ourselves by doubt: the basis of my method.
But what does this famous statement tell us about ideas? Absolutely nothing. Descartes was asking the wrong questions of himself. He was trying to philosophize upon what he did not have. Obscurity is the death of meaning, and consequently, philosophy.
Again what does this have to do with ideas? Everything. There is no thing that exists in the universe that does not have an idea to go with it. This is important on many levels. We think of our existence as the most important. Destroy something, say, the chair you are sitting on; did you, in a single act destroy all chairs? Of course not. Let's say you succeed in destroying all chairs in the world: did you destroy the idea of it? No. Simply because someone somewhere will think: 'Gee, I need one of those thingys to sit on.'
The idea is immortal. It will always be there.
But why is that truth so damnably important?
As I stated earlier we think of our existence as the most important. But what ideas are telling us by their infallibility is that our existence is not. We are in a temporal reality where infallible permanence does not exist. But we understand things, like math, that express infinity.
Our existence does not express absolutes like ideas show themselves to be. But we naturally find ourselves clinging to absolutes. For this equation I have my suspicions upon its mysteries. But for now I will leave it as it stands: a beautiful, coincidental observation that will never go away.