Author: SPH
“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
How the erotic enters, merges with, shapes, nurtures, enlivens the healthy and flourishing functioning of the thinking-brain mind –
And vice versa – and, mutually and generously – That’s the arena for doing some real work! And even more – how all that schmeer enters into and merges with actual, physical, historical, everyday life and reality