This may not have been your intent but what I took from your article is that it's important to use and expand our agency into actual doing and knowing and living and dying. Rather than being a consumer of life.
Yeah, that's certainly a huge component. I'm quite tired of people who try to give me advice on things when they don't show me a way to live it out – or they themselves don't live it out. I think people have forgotten how much knowledge and wisdom is embodied in the 'here and now'; the local and present context; ordinary events.
Even the way we speak nowadays – in grand overarching narratives full of technical details – doesn't give respect to the fact that life has to start right where you are; no matter what choices you make or who you try to belong to.
Not sure how relevant this is but today I randomly looked up the etymology of the word ‘fun’ and it comes from a word meaning trick, hoax or fool. Did our ancestors have fun as we know it? I assume kids did.
We talked about comedy on our last call. There's a reason that the truth-teller most often comes in the form of the jester or the fool. Many things are too dark and too heavy without turning them into amusement.
The Hubcap is my new favorite Religious Symbol
All hail Thor's mighty golden hubcap! Tremble before it with awe, abase yourself to its circular mysteries...
This may not have been your intent but what I took from your article is that it's important to use and expand our agency into actual doing and knowing and living and dying. Rather than being a consumer of life.
Yeah, that's certainly a huge component. I'm quite tired of people who try to give me advice on things when they don't show me a way to live it out – or they themselves don't live it out. I think people have forgotten how much knowledge and wisdom is embodied in the 'here and now'; the local and present context; ordinary events.
Even the way we speak nowadays – in grand overarching narratives full of technical details – doesn't give respect to the fact that life has to start right where you are; no matter what choices you make or who you try to belong to.
Not sure how relevant this is but today I randomly looked up the etymology of the word ‘fun’ and it comes from a word meaning trick, hoax or fool. Did our ancestors have fun as we know it? I assume kids did.
We talked about comedy on our last call. There's a reason that the truth-teller most often comes in the form of the jester or the fool. Many things are too dark and too heavy without turning them into amusement.
maybe there's a horseshoe for comedy and tragedy