I can’t think of what I’m trying to say

I used to be critical of those who would claim to think of great thoughts but then say, “I just can’t articulate them.” I used to think that they didn’t really think great thoughts at all, they just wanted people to think they did, without having the obligation of proving it via articulation. But now I believe that these people really did have great thoughts. I believe that they were thinking of the ineffable and universal truths, truths that cannot be articulated in our empirical world. Truths like the Dionysian musical mood and the way that love feels. But these are not the truths that are valued in this world, so those that can think and feel great thoughts but can’t articulate them, these people are treated dubiously by the rest of the empirical world. Many of these must be the great artists. Those who were forced by their genius into outlets that were not conventional or orthodox. But what else would we have them do! There were no other vehicles from the other worlds, of which they thought (or more accurately, felt and believed), to our world here. It is the people who have the gift practical thought and articulation that thrive in the empirical world where they know how to speak the languages—mathematics, science and all other studies of the natural world—that hold sway over cause and effect.