(from you can't deny what you liked as a child)

Three options:
1. Remove all desires
2. Get everything I want
3. Apathy

I know I'm missing something. Oh yeah...

4. Be content

Disaffection X Zeal + Some Information - Some Accuracy=Prejudice?

Hollow
Yet
Pleased
Over
Choices
Revealed
In
Total
Emptyness

Listen!

(seen from The Heresy)

In "analog" community we are somewhat insulated from our true nature because most of us hide it. Much of the infighting and politics in our institutions are hidden from view. Sometimes the accountability structures we create actually hide sin in an effort to protect the institution.

(seen from Mark's Blog)

"Remember that your living now not for your future. The future may never come or may not be what you want it to be but at least you lived when you had the chance to live. It's not whats gonna be but what is."

(seen at scratched surface)

Due to the multiplicity of trajectories potentially experienced at any given moment, one could benefit from a philosophy of circles. Circles are made of three hundred and sixty degrees, while being one. consequentially, depending on ones point of view, or vantage point, different vantages spy different things.

The Gift of Tears

(image seen at Gapingvoid.com)



(poem seen here)

I've the gift of tears
the cleansing gift
that wastes my fears
Washes my sadness
Keeps my soul new
And free of the tears
Imprisoning you...
The hurt can be huge
But if you are not dead
Stand up to the hurt
Feel your pain
Then bask in the lightness
That follows the rain...

Recommended by Eric on The [Wittenberg] Door Chat Closet:

The book: go here

A review: go here

(for those Christians who need a good dose of satire, check out The [Wittenberg] Door Magazine)

(seen at LivingRoom in this post)

In stark contrast, here the only interactions we have with local people are with hotel staff and those trying to sell us their wares on the street.

Similarly the places that we are taken here are incredibly 'sanitised'. We only stay in the best part of the city, slums that we pass are explained away and everything about where we visit is 'sold up'. We spend more times in shops than we do anywhere else.

Whilst I understand why this is the case a small part of me is left thirsting for more. I guess I'm realising that the main difference is that in previous trips the focus was largely on 'connection'. Connecting with culture, people, God and even ourselves. In contrast to this the focus of this tour is much more upon 'consumption'. We are here to buy, eat and be served. We even have opportunity to consume the culture and its people.