Wednesday, November 28, 2007
"the irony is that i'm otherwise a fairly happy person who, for some reason, feels compelled to practice the catholic art of self-flagellation"
i wanted (us)
to imagine it's not
0545 on a tuesday
morning and i'm not
wide awake
or that you're somewhere
twisting into knots over
this too
or that
everyone hadn't stopped
believing in
magic or the
truth of cinema
or imagine that
this all has a purpose,
that i'm going to
rush to the airport
before you go,
tell you you're not
leaving without me or
that i'll find you in
six months
when all this
is over and
you'll cry, of course,
and agree and we both
admit it was all so
foolish and there was nothing
to have stood between us
for so long
but instead we're
here, or
i'm here and you're
somewhere
sound asleep
so,
why do i knot
up on this
over and
over why
do people we love
die why do
so few things play out
the way the movies
tell us they should
it's 0548 i
can't sleep i
don't know where
you are and i
wish i didn't care.
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p.s. i have already rec'd one alarmed email since posting this.
i'm happy, well fed, and sleeping most nights. :)
He's going for parody now.
:)
I agree with you 100%. Life is f'n stupid sometimes. Sometimes I think that morality and values are a manmade invention that is necessary to organize society.On the other hand, the laws of nature are virtually immoral.
A tiger kills an antelope and feels no remorse. A bacteria invades your body and kills you and there is no moral value to that event whatsoever.
So when we project our moral and emotional values onto the world it inevitably disappoints us because maybe the structure of the universe is so cold and logical that it bites us in the ass whenever we make decisions based solely on emotions.
But I would like to think that this is not the case,mostly because I view logic and objective reality as cold by definition, and an incomplete appraisal of the universe. What do you all think?
ha! hoo boy! think about what?
i paraphrased some of yr blog ideas in my article this week. the notion you expressed that we need to find or create meaning in our mundane daily existence.
i'm far too tired to respond to your above comments, which seem equally excellent. i will get to them tomorrow, though...
I believe Love is the stuff, and this commits me to a moral ontology.
So in that sense, I believe the world IS moral content.
The lion eating the wildebeest is the world yearning for itself, wanting to be with itself.
Surely, the blades of grass reach towards the sun while the sun bathes them in return with a warm shower of photons.
This is the basic ecological morality, i.e., material reciprocity.
And life isn't stupid, it is farcical.
So as to man-made inventions, I don't think so, I just think that morality becomes generative with us, meaning that we make something that is pervasively around us into something different, something that changes us, that binds us.
A morality that yields to the subtlety of altruism I guess, instead of a brutal one that drives us to feast and famine.
Farcical and brutal, but I wouldn't have it any other way.
And any appraisal of the universe in by rule incomplete, as it is closed. Reason must be closed to be reason, and reality is open.
Where's Victor Frankl when you need him, eh?
ACtually, if you ever see a tiger kill an antelope, it does so with much love and affection.
quick! someone gimme a crash course in frankl! go!
Thats nice. This blog is actually a good outlet for me since most health professionals just give me a weird look whenever I bring this kind of stuff up. They're the weird ones! Hah.
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