<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463663" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Epistle ll</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">everything's interconnected: <br>sex and procreation unlinked<br>then faith in immortality is shaken-<br>how nervous we get! <br>for faith relies on earthly correlates<br>via blood-lines and genome, does it not? <br>question that and you question<br>the point of life itself.<br>there go the churches and temples.<br>there go coercion, guilt, shame.<br>there go the shifting backdrops of existence<br>so depended upon as cues. <br>there goes the price of gasoline.<br>there go advertising and the press.<br>there goes television and magazines.<br>And, approaching the Pascalian paradigm<br>we even begin to wonder what<br>on earth we're doing this for-<br>getting up in the morning and so forth-<br>since the distraction of that willing bondage<br>(willing and necessary) <br>supplants the need and eventually even the urge<br>to think-the task of the nimblest, <br>the only act with governable outcome.<br>Think architecture-'frozen music', as Goethe called it-<br>yielding pyramid, parthenon, Hagia Sophia<br>(we're all in this together) <br>of ritual-purpose, but nonetheless<br>the product of thinking<br>and logic-the mathematics of language<br>the language of men amenable to logic-<br>God! what if the god-like task of thinking<br>was the primary end of humankind<br>instead of hamburgers and overtime? <br>and looking for someone to pay the bills<br>in exchange for sex? <br>What if....</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Morgan+Michaels">Morgan Michaels</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=463663" data-title="Epistle ll de Morgan Michaels" data-description="everything's interconnected: sex and procreation unlinked then faith in immortality is shaken- how nervous we get! for faith relies on earthly correlates via blood-lines and genome, does it not? question that and you question the point of life ..."></div> </div> </div>

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