Every act is a repetition Traditional Cache
ILReviewer: Since I haven't heard from the owner I'm reluctantly archiving this cache. If the owner wishes to reactivate this cache, please e-mail me at IllinoisGeocacher@yahoo.com and I'll unarchive it as soon as I can.
Every act is a repetition
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This is a small ziplock plastic container, but big enough for travel bugs and other small items. This cache is hidden south of the Bird and Butterfly sanctuary in the park. It is not in the Bird and Butterfly Sanctuary and no one will have to enter the sanctuary to find it. You do not need to cross the fence. Bring your own pen.
That every act is a repetition is perhaps debatable. If time in general is cyclical like the seasons, then everything happening now will happen again and already happened before, including the hiding and subsequent finding of this cache. If time moves forward like a ray of light, never returning to a place it has already been, then it is not the case that this very cache was and will be hidden and found over and over again throughout the endless eons of time, but rather this cache represents a totally unique place in the history of the universe. Yet, perhaps the universe is determined physically down to the very tiniest details, so that if one had enough information one could plot from the Big Bang onwards, the path of all of the matter that traversed space and time to end up exactly here now at this point. This cache exists here now and could never have been anywhere else. Was I just a vehicle for its placement, a mere automaton on an errand for the universe to deliver a package? This was put here intentionally, yes, but was I free to choose its placement? And are you free to find it? Is you signing of the log as determined already as the transit of Halley's Comet across the sky?
From a psychoanalytic point of veiw, we are all always hiding and finding the same cache over and over. There is, from this symbolic point of view, some primordial cache buried deep within our collective unconscious, which we are all seeking out. Who hid it, and when? Our ancient mothers?
The particular GPS coordinates of this cache differentiate it from all other caches in existence, but the overall story is always the same. Our lives intersect at the proto-cache or ur-cache, the primordial cache from which the very idea of hiding something for others to find originates.
The permutations of concealment and discovery are not infinite. There is only so much space and time on earth. Where will the last geocache be hidden? And what if there was a geocache hidden that nobody ever found? What if there was a geocache that everybody found?
These are just some of the philosophical thoughts I had as I was walking around looking for a place to hide this geocache. Please, share your own philosophical thoughts on geocaching in the log notes below.
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CONGRATS TO GeoVern ON FTF 11/16/09
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