04-28-2014, 08:54 AM
I would like to address this sentence (because addressing the whole thing is simply to tiring, and I am only addressing this because I wrote of it in a poem. He said,
"And then we start feeling all depressed because we realise how insignificant our little controversies are and how little control we have over the world around us and even our own thoughts and opinions."
"Are we a fingerprint miniscule?
A hangnail fallen from the maker,
Flake of skin from the baker?
Or is it only our loafs conceit,
because of infinite inherit frailty,
we think ourselves more than wheat?
No more upon canvas than a flick,
of paint on landscape so sublime,
a single vibration in a chime,
one airy molecule in God’s chant?
Then how mundane our great thoughts,
how pitiful our angry rants?"
...and what is this about but that which existentialism ran head first into. If we perceive the world through our egos, or "being" with a small "b", as opposed to "Being" with a big "B", we come to nihilism, or nothing. Nothing means everything is valued as having the same value, because there are no longer any ways to judge if one thing is better than another. Ultimately suicide or hedonism is the only answer to the question of existence. The question has to transcend beyond "being" into "Being", unless we wish to go down the road of "nihilism" we must allow that there is something greater than our rational minds can figure out, and that thing most often revels itself in what we call art. Art is not what is meaningful in life, but it does point us in the correct direction. If you wish to argue this point, then you have missed the point. Art points to something beyond our reason, our logic, and our small ego selves. There is no argument about it, either you choose nihilism, or you choose the idea that there is something greater than the individual. The (Philosophical) modernist did a very good job of killing off such things as God. They did this because such things like that embarrassed them, they reeked to much of fairy tales, or were only believed by the ignorant yokels, with which of course they wanted no association. However in doing so, they also began to dismantle any structure that superseded the individual self, and that is where we find ourselves today. We are left trying to figure out if a "painting" where someone has shoved paint up their ass and farted it onto a canvas has any less validity than the Mona Lisa. We did kill God you see. Not God the creator (for if he does exists, we do not have the power to kill him), but we killed the god within us that can apprehend things beyond the mere conscious mind that can reason things out and make logical arguments, and tell when the light has turned from red to green. So there is only a choice, not an argument, for you see logic and reason cannot apprehend beauty, truth, or anything of a transcendent nature. "In the beginning was the light and the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:5 (BTW, I am not a Christian, but as the Sufis say, "I will take my truth where I find it.")
dale
"And then we start feeling all depressed because we realise how insignificant our little controversies are and how little control we have over the world around us and even our own thoughts and opinions."
"Are we a fingerprint miniscule?
A hangnail fallen from the maker,
Flake of skin from the baker?
Or is it only our loafs conceit,
because of infinite inherit frailty,
we think ourselves more than wheat?
No more upon canvas than a flick,
of paint on landscape so sublime,
a single vibration in a chime,
one airy molecule in God’s chant?
Then how mundane our great thoughts,
how pitiful our angry rants?"
...and what is this about but that which existentialism ran head first into. If we perceive the world through our egos, or "being" with a small "b", as opposed to "Being" with a big "B", we come to nihilism, or nothing. Nothing means everything is valued as having the same value, because there are no longer any ways to judge if one thing is better than another. Ultimately suicide or hedonism is the only answer to the question of existence. The question has to transcend beyond "being" into "Being", unless we wish to go down the road of "nihilism" we must allow that there is something greater than our rational minds can figure out, and that thing most often revels itself in what we call art. Art is not what is meaningful in life, but it does point us in the correct direction. If you wish to argue this point, then you have missed the point. Art points to something beyond our reason, our logic, and our small ego selves. There is no argument about it, either you choose nihilism, or you choose the idea that there is something greater than the individual. The (Philosophical) modernist did a very good job of killing off such things as God. They did this because such things like that embarrassed them, they reeked to much of fairy tales, or were only believed by the ignorant yokels, with which of course they wanted no association. However in doing so, they also began to dismantle any structure that superseded the individual self, and that is where we find ourselves today. We are left trying to figure out if a "painting" where someone has shoved paint up their ass and farted it onto a canvas has any less validity than the Mona Lisa. We did kill God you see. Not God the creator (for if he does exists, we do not have the power to kill him), but we killed the god within us that can apprehend things beyond the mere conscious mind that can reason things out and make logical arguments, and tell when the light has turned from red to green. So there is only a choice, not an argument, for you see logic and reason cannot apprehend beauty, truth, or anything of a transcendent nature. "In the beginning was the light and the darkness comprehended it not." John 1:5 (BTW, I am not a Christian, but as the Sufis say, "I will take my truth where I find it.")
dale
How long after picking up the brush, the first masterpiece?
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.
The goal is not to obfuscate that which is clear, but make clear that which isn't.