Author: SPH
The longest night of the year
“The Boy is Everywhere Now”
Subtitle from Its a Wonderful Life on some random streaming service And it increasingly feels as if the subtitles are generated by AI – possibly not just transliterating the spoken words, but something closer to translating them, with meaning derived in part from the context in the film overall: Like, George’s weakly reassuring “Nothing’s wrong” … More “The Boy is Everywhere Now”
When will beliefs, or ideology, become a species- differentiating characteristic? Has it already happened?
Maybe foxes said We do not do it that way – we are not savages, at which point they separated from those other dogs
I should find a way to best, or at least better, express my full capacities, or at least one or a few shards of them
The context being: I have not WTF?!?!?
Living in your body is the only way to be actually alive
Literally – if you’re not in your body then you just don’t have any capacity to really be alive – bodies are what exist, what live
Religion isn’t about ultimate concern, rather a basic foundational view of and orientation to the world
Within which world, you can have all sorts of concerns, from petty to ultimate – which latter, for most people, in fact revolves around family more often than not
Varieties of nature lovers
Recreational “nature lovers” Poets Writers, intellectuals Scientists Prophets Artists Hermits Wild women/men Gardeners Devotees
You are your spine –
The growing of a spinal is the primal act of self- emergence – Before that, relationship and even unity with others was the whole reality Or at least that’s what I imagine, can only imagine, since I seem not to have felt any of that, myself – which leaves me still, again, existing in the … More You are your spine –
From early on, my whole existence and identity has been, not messing up female lives, or risking my relationship with them
Those goals/motives have shaped everything I do – in my relationships with women, and in every other aspect of my life, most of them drained and shadowed by the energy put toward women