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Labels: Visual Arts
# posted
by P.L. Miller, Contributing Editor @ 2/13/2007 09:44:00 PM
13 February, 2007
Fold
by Thomas Kent
Your touch like butterfly wings
whispers carrying across the chasm...
Read the rest...
Your touch like butterfly wings
whispers carrying across the chasm...
Read the rest...
Labels: Poetry
# posted
by Fraser MacKenzie, Online Editor @ 2/11/2007 12:13:00 PM
11 February, 2007
OK, So I Have Nothing Figured Out.
Recently recovered from our files, a piece from Jeremy Farris:
OK, so I have nothing figured out. So I thought I did. At twenty-five, what could I have figured out? Every philosophy I could come up with has already been pondered and explored to the point of being classified as a "school of thought." Every time I make a personal mental breakthrough, every lightbulb lit in my mind has already been burning somewhere for a really long time. I used to feel disappointed when what occurred to me as an "enlightened moment" became a drop in the ocean of the pre-explored.
Now, however, I realize something I had not before. It is a minority of people who pursue thought beyond the realm of what is already there. Most are satisfied, pacified zombies living by what comes on TV every night. Existing to make payments, accrue wealth, and die leaving nothing of substance behind.
I see the endless parade of nonessential people dying, nondescript existences. Blinking out randomly. Leaving only the residue of laziness and complacency at accomplishing nothing of significance.
It is the pursuit of knowledge, the process of mental growth, that separates me from them. I seek the end of my own understanding. I question what I do not grasp. The desire to break through my own outer limit is the key to the next level. When I stop searching for a better, deeper hold on all I interact with, I become what I loathe.
OK, so I have nothing figured out. Anything I can come up with has been thought, tested, practiced, proven and disapproved. I still seek to question authority, question myself, question others. I must, or I admit defeat. As long as there is something I don't know, I am obliged to keep searching. Pressing ever on to the place where faithfulness in pursuit is rewarded with truth. TRUTH IS THE GOAL, REALITY IS THE PROCESS, ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE PRIZE.
OK, so I have nothing figured out. So I thought I did. At twenty-five, what could I have figured out? Every philosophy I could come up with has already been pondered and explored to the point of being classified as a "school of thought." Every time I make a personal mental breakthrough, every lightbulb lit in my mind has already been burning somewhere for a really long time. I used to feel disappointed when what occurred to me as an "enlightened moment" became a drop in the ocean of the pre-explored.
Now, however, I realize something I had not before. It is a minority of people who pursue thought beyond the realm of what is already there. Most are satisfied, pacified zombies living by what comes on TV every night. Existing to make payments, accrue wealth, and die leaving nothing of substance behind.
I see the endless parade of nonessential people dying, nondescript existences. Blinking out randomly. Leaving only the residue of laziness and complacency at accomplishing nothing of significance.
It is the pursuit of knowledge, the process of mental growth, that separates me from them. I seek the end of my own understanding. I question what I do not grasp. The desire to break through my own outer limit is the key to the next level. When I stop searching for a better, deeper hold on all I interact with, I become what I loathe.
OK, so I have nothing figured out. Anything I can come up with has been thought, tested, practiced, proven and disapproved. I still seek to question authority, question myself, question others. I must, or I admit defeat. As long as there is something I don't know, I am obliged to keep searching. Pressing ever on to the place where faithfulness in pursuit is rewarded with truth. TRUTH IS THE GOAL, REALITY IS THE PROCESS, ENLIGHTENMENT IS THE PRIZE.
Labels: Think Tank
# posted
by Fraser MacKenzie, Online Editor @ 2/04/2007 12:05:00 PM
