Keep your high ideals and moral superiority to yourself, I want nothing of it. All your beliefs amount to nothing--less than nothing. Why? Because you believe that things should be other than they are.
Come close and I will tell you a little secret. Everything is as it should be, for everything is as it is.
Thursday, August 31, 2006
On Coffee and Faith
"With one ounce of faith, you can move a mountian. With one cup of coffee, you will be satisfied with the mountain where it is." -- A moment of lucidity from a neighborhood lunatic
Monday, August 28, 2006
Accidents and Omens
"We are nothing more than an accident, some piece of blind chance. In the end it comes to nothing. Life is nothing more than a momentary farce at which few people are srong enough to laugh." Thus whispers to me my little truth.
"But what of all the gentle beauty and playful subtleties of nature and life--are these, too, a mere accident of being; meaningless and transient? Or might they present us with some omen--a glad tiding in the form of a riddle?" Thus say I to my little truth.
"But what of all the gentle beauty and playful subtleties of nature and life--are these, too, a mere accident of being; meaningless and transient? Or might they present us with some omen--a glad tiding in the form of a riddle?" Thus say I to my little truth.
Sunday, August 27, 2006
The Burden of Self
It is here that the individual must stand upon his levee, and facing the rising waters, shout for all the world to here, "I will not succumb to this!" Such defines the challenge set forth to all who would carry the burden of the Self.
A Fleeting Moment
A fleeting moment; a passing thought,
Drifting aimless as a leaf
Caught in an autumn breeze,
As it gently makes its way
On its journy to nowhere.
Drifting aimless as a leaf
Caught in an autumn breeze,
As it gently makes its way
On its journy to nowhere.
Saturday, August 26, 2006
A Moral Interpreted
"An ass and a cock were in a straw-yard together when a lion, desperate from hunger, approached the spot. He was about to spring upon the ass, when the cock (to the sound of whose voice the lion, it is said, has a single aversion) crowed loudly, and the lion fled away as fast as he could. The ass, observing his trepidation at the mere crowing of the cock summoned courage to attack him, and galloped after him for that purpose. He had run no long distance, when the lion, turning about, seized him and tore him to pieces.
"False confidence often leads into danger."
--Aesop
What world leader, upon hearing such a fable, would not immediaetly thereupon behead the messenger from sheer indignation? And yet, certain world leaders would do well to learn such a lesson. I think in particular of our own not-so-beloved, yet ever fearless, leader here in the U.S.
That a dangerous enemy fears us, should not thereby lead us to believe that the time for pursuit is at hand. That an enemy is so easily scared does not signify that an enemy is so easily defeated. For it is in our most fearful moments that we become the most destructive. This tends to be an attribute common to all men--a note for asses.*
*Yes, the last four words were a direct theft from Nietzsche.
"False confidence often leads into danger."
--Aesop
What world leader, upon hearing such a fable, would not immediaetly thereupon behead the messenger from sheer indignation? And yet, certain world leaders would do well to learn such a lesson. I think in particular of our own not-so-beloved, yet ever fearless, leader here in the U.S.
That a dangerous enemy fears us, should not thereby lead us to believe that the time for pursuit is at hand. That an enemy is so easily scared does not signify that an enemy is so easily defeated. For it is in our most fearful moments that we become the most destructive. This tends to be an attribute common to all men--a note for asses.*
*Yes, the last four words were a direct theft from Nietzsche.
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