Yesterday I went to the movies with my brother, his wife and her daughter.
We saw Star Wars II.. forgot the title.. nevermind.Fortunately I am still
so childish (or gullible) to enjoy a good fable, but the well appears to
be drying out for George Lucas. Apparently there is a covert narrative of
events in the world the last few years..but is no kind of epic drama of
the soul.It was the so-called action bits which were the most rewarding....
But it was good to get out of the house and do something with
my brother and his folk for once...
The Gnostic Friends Network has a
section which I discovered just now, and some of it I found to be very interesting and inspiring... especially since so many "provocateurs" and truely modern thinkers are represented there.
History... is a nightmare from which I am trying to awake."
I also never dreamed of seeing this from Soren Kierkegaard (in Either/Or. 1843):
The gods were bored, and so they created man. Adam
was bored because he was alone, and so Eve was created. Thus boredom
entered the world, and increased in proportion to the increase of
population. Adam was bored alone, then Adam and Eve were bored together;
then Adam and Eve and Cain and Abel were bored en famille; then the
population of the world increased, and the peoples were bored en masse."
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The particular quote of M.C.Escher explains a lot about his artwork, I think:
Only those who attempt the absurd will achieve the impossible. I think it's in my basement... let me go upstairs and check.