Creation
Besides being mostly void and bereft of matter, the universe at large is cruel and unfriendly.
If the aliens are here, it’s for the conviviality of this one planet.
28-HOME
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Category Archives: Existential
26-HILO
Philosophical
Isak Borg Listens To Anders & Viktor
A: Ah, when creation shows so much beauty, how radiant must be the source!
V: How can anyone today study to become a minister!
A: Your rationalism is as dry as dust.
V: I say that modern man believes in only himself and his biological death.
A: Modern man is a figment of your imagination. Man regards death with horror.
V: Religion for the people. Opium for the aching limb.
20-HUGH
Enormous
Methinks we have hugely mistaken this matter of Life and Death. Methinks that what they call my shadow here on earth is my true substance. Methinks that in looking at things spiritual, we are too much like oysters observing the sun through the water, and thinking that thick water the thinnest of air. Methinks my body is but the lees of my better being. In fact take my body who will, take it I say, it is not me.
Chapter 3 – The Chapel, Moby Dick by Herman Melville
17-MEAN
Hypothetical
Supposing that dreams have any meaning at all and that this meaning can be proved, is it worth while, in any individual case, to look for the meaning?
Dream life amplifies & compensates for the good encountered in previous days, AND those aspects of reality that are bad experiences.
27-NAPS
Hesitation
Zugzwang means “a compulsion to move”. It is a term used in chess to describe a situation where the player is forced to make a move, but every available move is a disadvantage.
If it wasn’t an obligation, the player would prefer not to move at all.
16-TURN
Destination
GO, and eat your bread with joy and drink your wine with a merry heart, because it is now that God favors your works. Enjoy life with the wife you love, all the days of the vain life granted you under the sun. This is your lot in life for the toil of your labors under the sun.
Anything you can turn your hand to, do with what power you have; for there will be no work, no planning, no knowledge, no wisdom in Sheol where you are going.
Ecclesiastes 9:7-10
31-Perf
Infinity
Man must part company with the inferior & superficial. The important thing is to remain firm.
Accomplish one’s task – Courage, no matter what happens.
The I Ching or Book of Changes
22-Wait
Doxology
Guard yourself against mistakes when you see evil people.
The I Ching or Book of Changes