animals
yep, right now on the wheel of time - i feel very animal. i like to feel animal, it's like the basis of life. i have all of my basic needs met quite well. maybe the details aren't perfect, but i have a strong, steady and sure base. kind of like how i look. my details are realllllly ugly, but as a whole i am an ok human specimen.
my friend greg and i have been engaging in philosophical debates everyday about the christian faith. honestly, i wish they were more like debates though - for it seems that all discussions end in "well jesus said, blah blah blah, and relationship with god, blah blah blah". it's like that is their trump card that they waaaaaaay overuse. think! you sons of bitches! maybe religion is for lazy people who don't want to think, and can just do everything that someone tells them. ooooh, i'm sure i'll offend people if i continue.
i went to a laotian buddhist temple though, on saturday. my sunrise viewing was canceled, on a count that is was cloudy and raining terrentially - but it was ok, because i had a very nice day off regardless. anyway, it just so happened that on that moist and rainy day the laotian festival of water was being held. their temple was amazing. a giant structure, architectually constructed to look like it defied gravity with sloped roof and so many pillars and 8 spoke wheel flags. it's color, BRIGHT RED, with golden tiles and hints of green. when you approach the temple, you are met by a group of monks. not priests, skinny old men in robes that touch... chalices... ahem, but MONKS my friend. giant men, who bear more resemblance to lions. huge puffed up creatures, arms greater in circumference than my whole body. they milled around, looking like stalking sacred beasts, but had the calmest most gentle and compassionate eyes and voices. they let me inside, where many young girls and drunk old asian men were chilling and living it up. i left soon after, as i missed the festival itself, by the short visit was so very entertaining.
now i am reading 'the tao of physics', while simultaneously listening to a PBS special by stephen hawking on the history of modern cosmology. did you know that long ago, in the times of the greeks, science and religion were one united entity? the gods and spirits were thought to be flowing through all things. they didn't even have a word for "matter", because they was no concept of dead, lifeless "stuff". it was all sacred. the breath of the ancient spirits flowed through all things in these times. oh, how i wish it were still so. that appeals to my little boy side.
maybe it's because i was raised on video games that i love these things so much. dragons, giant bright red temples, magical "mana" energy flowing through everything.
well, that is now out of my system.
thursday night i will visit NYC, in jeff's wake, to visit a girl whose dainty voice comforts me so. i really love having someone to... i don't even know if i have a word for it. volley with? they are not philosophical debates on the nature of being, or the physical origin of supernovas, but they are ever so important to me. miss lele. we are going to see the bodies exhibit, hah, a collection of cadavers - opened and splayed for those who are anatomically allured. i cannot wait to see them.
ok, it's 1230 and i have to go to wegmans to buy ice cream. i'm a night owl. peace!
my friend greg and i have been engaging in philosophical debates everyday about the christian faith. honestly, i wish they were more like debates though - for it seems that all discussions end in "well jesus said, blah blah blah, and relationship with god, blah blah blah". it's like that is their trump card that they waaaaaaay overuse. think! you sons of bitches! maybe religion is for lazy people who don't want to think, and can just do everything that someone tells them. ooooh, i'm sure i'll offend people if i continue.
i went to a laotian buddhist temple though, on saturday. my sunrise viewing was canceled, on a count that is was cloudy and raining terrentially - but it was ok, because i had a very nice day off regardless. anyway, it just so happened that on that moist and rainy day the laotian festival of water was being held. their temple was amazing. a giant structure, architectually constructed to look like it defied gravity with sloped roof and so many pillars and 8 spoke wheel flags. it's color, BRIGHT RED, with golden tiles and hints of green. when you approach the temple, you are met by a group of monks. not priests, skinny old men in robes that touch... chalices... ahem, but MONKS my friend. giant men, who bear more resemblance to lions. huge puffed up creatures, arms greater in circumference than my whole body. they milled around, looking like stalking sacred beasts, but had the calmest most gentle and compassionate eyes and voices. they let me inside, where many young girls and drunk old asian men were chilling and living it up. i left soon after, as i missed the festival itself, by the short visit was so very entertaining.
now i am reading 'the tao of physics', while simultaneously listening to a PBS special by stephen hawking on the history of modern cosmology. did you know that long ago, in the times of the greeks, science and religion were one united entity? the gods and spirits were thought to be flowing through all things. they didn't even have a word for "matter", because they was no concept of dead, lifeless "stuff". it was all sacred. the breath of the ancient spirits flowed through all things in these times. oh, how i wish it were still so. that appeals to my little boy side.
maybe it's because i was raised on video games that i love these things so much. dragons, giant bright red temples, magical "mana" energy flowing through everything.
well, that is now out of my system.
thursday night i will visit NYC, in jeff's wake, to visit a girl whose dainty voice comforts me so. i really love having someone to... i don't even know if i have a word for it. volley with? they are not philosophical debates on the nature of being, or the physical origin of supernovas, but they are ever so important to me. miss lele. we are going to see the bodies exhibit, hah, a collection of cadavers - opened and splayed for those who are anatomically allured. i cannot wait to see them.
ok, it's 1230 and i have to go to wegmans to buy ice cream. i'm a night owl. peace!