So, I'm watching the movie Amelie right now, in bits and pieces, and it's making me wonder if we can still save the world, or it's too late.
I mean, we've always believed we could, right?
I'm volunteering somewhere on Monday or Tues. I think those of you who can should, too.
We recognize certain things in the world are fundamentally broken--how do we fix them?
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mmm i don't know but here's something, seems like rebirthing might be the way to go ~
"the hero is the man of self-achieved submission. but submission to what? that precisely is the riddle that today we have to ask ourselves and that it is everywhere the primary virtue and historic deed of the hero to have solved. as professor arnold j. toynbee indicates in his six-volume study of the laws of the rise and disintegration of civilizations, schism in the soul, schism in the body social, will not be resolved by any scheme of return to the good old days (archaism), or by programs guaranteed to render an ideal projected future (futurism), or even by the most realistic, hardheaded work to weld together again the deteriorating elements. only birth can conquer death - the birth, not of the old thing again, but of something new. within the soul, within the body social, there must be - if we are to experience long survival - a continuous "recurrence of birth" (palingenesia) to nullify the unremitting recurrences of death. for it is by means of our own victories, if we are not regenerated, that the work of nemesis is wrought: doom breaks from the shell of our very virtue. peace then is a snare; war is a snare; change is a snare; permanence a snare. when our day is come for the victory of death, death closes in; there is nothing we can do, except be crucified - and resurrected; dismembered totally, and then reborn."
joseph campbell, the hero with a thousand faces, 1949
i wept like a sissy after that movie
ha! sissy. :)
yep, it was a great film.
great quote, KY.
die and be-reborn.
where are you volunteering?
Teaching awareness is the best thing. It's like planned maintenance, teach the kids not to break the world, and then hopefully it carries through. Our kid's generation is going to be seriously environmentally conscious, mainly beause of our neglegance.
Of the environment I mean...
I just started a job with the MS Society in Winnipeg. We just finished doing the MS Walk. Working with all of the volunteers over the weekend was truly incredible. This is a 3500 paticipant event that is staffed by about 20 people, the rest are all volunteers! Amazing really. Interesting folks too.
Also, that Joseph Campbell book kicks ass. I highly recomend it for all those who haven't read. Nice quote action!
i dunno where i'm volunteering, ams.
any ideas?
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