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| aaron (profile) wrote, on 10-12-2008 at 9:48pm | |
| The cynicism that wants to say I'm just chasing memories is dying away. I'm not, and what would it even matter if I was? I can't be too concerned with this. I just need the emotional detox from time to time. It's a way out of myself and into something else. I'm exhausted. Every time I launch down one of these intellectual tangents I find myself back in this place. Answerless. I'm not an academic, God forbid I should ever be. What a worthless, pitiful, miserable waste of life. Do I want to spend the rest of my days comforting myself with the illusion that by faking omniscience and judging others I'm some how pushing the progress of humanity? Fifty thousand years of human experience and all we've managed to "progress" to is some fancy gadgets and the undermining of moral uniformity. What do we award people Nobel prizes for again? We have not changed. We will not change. Unless we evolve into something else (which we won't, thankfully, because the general public doesn't look favorably on social Darwinism) we will never move past our shadow. I refuse (and please, please hold me to this) to devote my life to figuring anything out. I'm not God, I don't want to be. I just want to love people. That's all. Love God, love people, and that's it. That's all I've got left in me. I've exhausted my ability to understand. I'm done with the books and the debates. I'm done with academia. I don't care. I don't care because I don't understand, and I don't care because I don't think anyone else understands either. Lewis got to a point where he said, "I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived." I have been so blindingly afraid of coming to that point because it seems illegitimate, even scandalous for and eighteen year old of a mediocre intellect to make the same claims as one of the twentieth century's philosophical giants made, much less at the end of his life. Nonetheless, here I stand. I haven't any answers. I don't want answers, I want life. I want love. I'm done with this philosophical wall-flowering. I don't want an outside perspective, an objective view. I want to be in the thick of it, and know it first hand. I don't think there is any teacher more legitimate than experience, and experience is not objective. |
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| Anonymous | 10-13-08 1:18am "What do we award people Nobel prizes for again?"
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| aaron | Re:, 10-13-08 3:55pm That was kind of my point. |
| Anonymous | 10-14-08 7:41pm For the record, that anonymous comment wasn't me.
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| aaron | Re:, 10-14-08 9:18pm Thanks. I'm glad you're name is clear. |
Anonymous | Re: Re:, 10-14-08 10:47pm Yep. Clear as crystal. |
| aaron | Re: Re: Re:, 10-15-08 1:38am Actually, your name is Kalie, not Crystal. |
Anonymous | Re: Re: Re: Re:, 10-15-08 6:25pm uhh... Yes, I suppose you are correct. |
fallingflowers | Re: Re: Re: Re: Re:, 10-16-08 1:51am and i'm lauren
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