Christ has Risen!
I saw The Passion of the Christ on Good Friday, I had to discipline myself to do so. Last year I refused to see it, for a variety of reasons. Mainly, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to identify with the suffering Christ, and I would feel guilty for it. I knew the movie provoked religious feelings in many, and encouraged them to renew their faith, to confess their sins etc. This year, I was afraid it would touch me, and I didn't want to be touched. I wasn't. I saw 'the whip, the crown of thorns, the nails' (a reference to an old poem by my ex) and was not moved. Emotional coldness on one plane entails emotional coldness on any other plane, in my opinion. I am making a rational decision to be a believer and, for the time being, this is sufficient to find meaning and purpose in life.
Background - I sent the kids to Granny's for a week, but this time I'm not making any experiments in isolation. On the contrary, I'm planning to be with people as much as possible. Places and things include the following:
- climbing gym
- hairdresser's
- Social Security Instutite (FOUND the document when I took the car to the car wash! Cleanliness IS next to godliness;)
- cousin's birthday party
- science fiction conference
- real climbing
- cinema and/or gaming.
- Hannah Arendt's Human Conditon (written in the 1950s, looks very promising).
Last but not least: yesterday I went for a short hike in Vitosha with a friend. We spent 6 hours talking about a variety of things - books, childhoods, movies, philosophy, politics, religion, etc.
I am not good at summarizing ideas and opinions, though, which is a pity. In addition to this RL conversation, I would like to retell an online conversation about nature vs nurture, the role of having children, ways to make your life less than boring, etc. I wanted to paste the log here, but I was refused permission so I won't.
Lazying around is a fantastic pastime:)
And to finish with one of my top ten quotations:
'Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.'
Frank Zappa
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Armenian/
There you go:)
I saw The Passion of the Christ on Good Friday, I had to discipline myself to do so. Last year I refused to see it, for a variety of reasons. Mainly, I was afraid I wouldn't be able to identify with the suffering Christ, and I would feel guilty for it. I knew the movie provoked religious feelings in many, and encouraged them to renew their faith, to confess their sins etc. This year, I was afraid it would touch me, and I didn't want to be touched. I wasn't. I saw 'the whip, the crown of thorns, the nails' (a reference to an old poem by my ex) and was not moved. Emotional coldness on one plane entails emotional coldness on any other plane, in my opinion. I am making a rational decision to be a believer and, for the time being, this is sufficient to find meaning and purpose in life.
Background - I sent the kids to Granny's for a week, but this time I'm not making any experiments in isolation. On the contrary, I'm planning to be with people as much as possible. Places and things include the following:
- climbing gym
- hairdresser's
- Social Security Instutite (FOUND the document when I took the car to the car wash! Cleanliness IS next to godliness;)
- cousin's birthday party
- science fiction conference
- real climbing
- cinema and/or gaming.
- Hannah Arendt's Human Conditon (written in the 1950s, looks very promising).
Last but not least: yesterday I went for a short hike in Vitosha with a friend. We spent 6 hours talking about a variety of things - books, childhoods, movies, philosophy, politics, religion, etc.
I am not good at summarizing ideas and opinions, though, which is a pity. In addition to this RL conversation, I would like to retell an online conversation about nature vs nurture, the role of having children, ways to make your life less than boring, etc. I wanted to paste the log here, but I was refused permission so I won't.
Lazying around is a fantastic pastime:)
And to finish with one of my top ten quotations:
'Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth. Truth is not beauty. Beauty is not love. Love is not music. MUSIC IS BEST.'
Frank Zappa
http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Armenian/
There you go:)
2 comments:
You got me curious. I feel I'm missing out on so many interesting conversations, it's unfair I don't have 2 lives.
Two lives are not enough, believe me:)
I'm missing out on so many interesting lives it's definitely not fair;)
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