The prophets dreamed in thunderclouds and flame.
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We name it quantum now, but the miracle’s the same.
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Ancient eyes saw into the dust of time.
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We call it remote viewing and claim it’s sublime.
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They whispered warnings through deserts of stone.
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We use headsets and frequencies to feel less alone.
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They saw kingdoms rise like sparks in the night.
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We see algorithms bloom beneath electric light.
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Their message was faith, but the logic was dense.
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Now we model belief through quantum pretense.
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Empires once bent truth to a celestial decree.
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Now reason bends language till it breaks into three.
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Kant said the pure mind cannot truly see all.
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Yet we market enlightenment in videos small.
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He built critique from the bones of the brain.
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We build content and call it spiritual gain.
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Ludwig whispered: “your words make your world.”
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Now hashtags are prayers that endlessly twirl.
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The prophet had visions, the thinker had doubt.
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The mystic saw inward, the lab mapped it out.
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We still seek meaning through the mirrors of thought.
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Yet every reflection forgets what it sought.
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Epistemic threads weave both book and machine.
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Each claims the unseen through the seen.
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Imperial minds once conquered the map.
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Now rational minds colonize the gap.
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Between knowing and naming lies the soul’s refrain.
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Between mystic and metric breathes the same pain.
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The oracle trembled, the physicist dreams.
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Both wrestle the void that unravels their schemes.
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The language of faith becomes syntax of fact.
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But both are translating the same abstract act.
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From prophecy’s scroll to quantum equation’s glow,
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We’re retelling one truth we still don’t know.
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Every “I know” trembles before the sky.
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Every “I am” whispers—so tell me, why?
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And the thunder answers, as it always has…
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Not in words—but in silence that surpasses.

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DCG