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Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Krysta Frost, 14-1: Midterm Post, Part II


I just posted the last of my midterm blog posts on Mirror Box, entitled "Part II: The Earthly."


 


Preview:



The thread between the Divine and the Earthly is tenuous, and it can break under the weight of a single thought. 

So break it. 

“Why was it necessary to create the idea of a god?”

Maybe because it was far too hard to look anyone in the eye. 


* * *

You can always count on etymology to deepen your understanding of the world: passion, which is not as elegant as we believe it to be. It’s not fluid. At times, it becomes momentous. But it is never without inertia, without patience. 

Nevertheless, it is still a force. Compassion. Root: compati. To suffer with? Is that really what we’re all doing? Are we all just sufferers on this earth?

But note how a synonym for suffer is endure. We endure. We experience. We live. We lose. We stay.

* * *

Perhaps it was necessary to create the idea of a god because the hardest idea to fathom is that of us. Every idea has a root; somehow, we knew that the search for that root would be futile. How can you determine the beginning or the ending of constant motion? How can you trace its source?







2 comments:

  1. Brian Hester12:27 PM CDT

    I really enjoyed reading this blog. I do often think that God is something we fabricated to give reason to our short comings and failures. Such as using the divinity of God as something unreachable by humans. Or as you said because sometimes it is hard to look in the mirror.

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  2. Very well done, Krysta, very humane. I really like the idea of "motion," not impact," as at least one of life's important meanings. In the words of an old philosopher I like to quote: "the nectar's in the journey."

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