2024-10-01 at 11:15 AM UTC
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looking at old threads
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
We're dust in the wind.
It's easier if you get used to letting go now.
2024-09-29 at 6:14 PM UTC
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What is the meaning of life?
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Proudly displaying insecurities like they are medals of honor, driven by a need to dominate and suppress truth.
2024-09-29 at 12:47 AM UTC
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What is the meaning of life?
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Tiger got to hunt,
Bird got to fly,
Man got to sit and wonder, "Why, why, why?"
Tiger got to sleep,
Bird got to land,
Man got to tell himself he understands.
2024-09-29 at 12:08 AM UTC
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What is the meaning of life?
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
Meaning is something people create and give to the world.
Humans are the craziest animals in the jungle. Instead of just doing what we do, we think about what we do, and we wonder why we do. We make up words to symbolize the things we think and create language. We think about thinking, and we over-think and call that philosophy. Philosophers pretend to lead us back to reality on ways paved with more words of higher abstraction, like devils promising to lead us to Heaven. If the devil is the Father of Lies, words are surely the Mother.
Conscious mind is a creation of words. The nemesis of abstraction is that the symbol becomes the reality, and the individual differences in the real world are occulted behind the Veils of Maja. As the focus of the mind shifts from the immediately tangible world to verbal concepts, the mind becomes separated from the body and both lose their health. Paradise is a myth about a preverbal Consciousness, before men created words and subsequently mistook the symbol (idol) for reality (God); the Fall of Man and his Expulsion is the consequence of worshipping verbally fashioned images.
Artists have a vocation to express their perceptions of reality from every point of view that man can reach, at every different time that man can live in, to provide us with handles on universal truths. All the myths and all the religions present us with different pictures of the same panoptic entity, and that entity is ourselves.
2024-09-28 at 6:16 PM UTC
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What is the meaning of life?
Obbe
Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
In the beginning, God created the earth, and he looked upon it in His cosmic loneliness.
And God said, "Let Us make living creatures out of mud, so the mud can see what We have done." And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. "What is the meaning of all this?" he asked politely.
"Everything must have a meaning?" asked God.
"Certainly," said man.
"Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this," said God.
And He went away.
2024-09-28 at 5:01 PM UTC
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What is the meaning of life?
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Alan What?
[annoy my right-angled speediness]
One time I was out for a walk when a tiger leapt out at me from behind a bush. The tiger chased me to the edge of a cliff, where I caught hold of the root of a wild vine and swung myself down over the edge. While the tiger sniffed at me from above, I looked down and saw, far below, another tiger watching and licking his chops. I could tell the vine wasn't going to hold me up much longer. Then I saw a wild strawberry growing out the side of the cliff within my reach. Grasping the vine with one hand, I plucked the strawberry with the other and ate it. How sweet it tasted!
