03-15-2016, 08:22 PM
Ideally, I consider myself beyond cynicism, but my head is a detachable organ, so practically, I am very, very naive. Then again, how much of my life experience have I revealed here, outside of what 18 years reveal?
In the beginning, God made the solution to all loneliness: for Adam, he made Eve, and for Eve, he hypnotized Adam -- for Israel, he made Moses, and for Moses, he charmed Israel -- for Mary, he made Jesus, and for Jesus, he fucked Mary. That is, how many times a day do you bone down? Ultimately, loneliness is both a choice and a condition, but a condition one can only choose to heal -- for it can be healed, as all sicknesses can, with blood of lamb, or oil of holy unction, or even ink of psychiatrist. I don't think the question of God's justice or Man's depravity is really tied to it, even if it often feels that way -- solve those problems (neither logically nor emotionally, I am sure), and you'll just end up into falling into another, sometimes higher, sometimes sillier, trap.
As for your aesthetic problem, I'm no Milton scholar, so all I can say is that influences are some sort of a cascade -- there's probably a lot more Milton in, say, Adventure Time than I know, just as there is a lot more Gnosticism and Kierkegaard and Freud than I first thought. I have a feeling that I'm already steeped in Milton, even though outside of a few poems, I'm not really into him yet.
In the beginning, God made the solution to all loneliness: for Adam, he made Eve, and for Eve, he hypnotized Adam -- for Israel, he made Moses, and for Moses, he charmed Israel -- for Mary, he made Jesus, and for Jesus, he fucked Mary. That is, how many times a day do you bone down? Ultimately, loneliness is both a choice and a condition, but a condition one can only choose to heal -- for it can be healed, as all sicknesses can, with blood of lamb, or oil of holy unction, or even ink of psychiatrist. I don't think the question of God's justice or Man's depravity is really tied to it, even if it often feels that way -- solve those problems (neither logically nor emotionally, I am sure), and you'll just end up into falling into another, sometimes higher, sometimes sillier, trap.
As for your aesthetic problem, I'm no Milton scholar, so all I can say is that influences are some sort of a cascade -- there's probably a lot more Milton in, say, Adventure Time than I know, just as there is a lot more Gnosticism and Kierkegaard and Freud than I first thought. I have a feeling that I'm already steeped in Milton, even though outside of a few poems, I'm not really into him yet.