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The Thinking Man's Commentary - Part 56 by IAmSimCarstairs, literature
Literature
The Thinking Man's Commentary - Part 56
Lessons Learned In Life Up To This PointSubject - Being A Troublemaker
Am I a troublemaker? You betcha!! Do I like telling the truth? Oh yeah!! As a kid growing up, there was just something inherent in me where I could tell the difference between what the truth meant and what a lie meant. I never really understood the need to lie. But, people are primarily liars. They lie to us and more importantly they lie to themselves.
As a kid I used to make my mother laugh when I would say "why lie, when the truth will do more damage". She saw the joke of it. Not many people do. But, it is true. The truth causes trouble, it causes damage. And I will giv
till eve and morn are gone by Blacksand459, literature
Literature
till eve and morn are gone
roses in red
for a thousand years
over a table of solid rock-
remembrance fallen from heaven
the goose with the bones-
laying gold
in thorny places
you must not cross
a bed of coals
glowed then in the shadow-
cigarette-end smouldering-
for this is Sunday morning
lioness into child. by erdreich, literature
Literature
lioness into child.
you wish to renounce world because you have greatly reduced the sheer complexity of bios. in this phallocentric myth of utter destruction, we see the completion of the figure anthropos, the star gazing one. such anti-materialism is inherently fetishizing, reifying the worldly- seeing world as inherent commodity. the renunciatory nature of christian or bouddhist religion is intricately connected the the very same over reduction, destruction and commodification/reification of bios by capitalism, branding it with the iron of de-finition, rendering the living to fossil. man- the fossil maker. this is but the radical conclusion of values held dear for millennia. but perhaps this crisis is an interpellation, awakening, a light unto the truth of being, a subversive force of pleasure and play yet too the awe-fullness that is gaia, far from being a nourishing mother to be conquered and individualized from. perhaps the cyborg and the kin maker, dare i say, furry- are the bridge over dualistic
