::Saturday, January 17, 2004::
It's pretty late at night, which is to say it is early in the morning.
So I was thinking tonight that studying what I study and reading what I read has led me to some conclusions. Now these are pretty weighty and not for the faint of heart. (By the way, what I studies today was Archetypal Symbols and what I've been reading is a historical fiction on King Arthur and Avalon and Morgan le Fey and all that Jazz).
So if you don't like deep meaningful conclusions you best go elsewhere.
You've been warned.
1. Ours is not to know. Ours is not to be able to say what is true and what is not, especially when dealing with the possibility of powers such as Gods and Goddesses. Ours is to question and to believe, not one or the other, but both.
2. We can NEVER truly understand the faith of another person, or make any one believe as we do. Everyone has their own sacred relaionship to the world.
3. What we take for granted as the best/more intelligent way of doing something (as in medicine, religion, education) can often be boiled down to arbitrary cultural constructs.
4. You must surround yourself with what you love. Live it. Breathe it. Only then will you know happiness.
There's more but it can wait. I think my clarity is fading.
Goodnight.
All my love,
Erica.
So I was thinking tonight that studying what I study and reading what I read has led me to some conclusions. Now these are pretty weighty and not for the faint of heart. (By the way, what I studies today was Archetypal Symbols and what I've been reading is a historical fiction on King Arthur and Avalon and Morgan le Fey and all that Jazz).
So if you don't like deep meaningful conclusions you best go elsewhere.
You've been warned.
1. Ours is not to know. Ours is not to be able to say what is true and what is not, especially when dealing with the possibility of powers such as Gods and Goddesses. Ours is to question and to believe, not one or the other, but both.
2. We can NEVER truly understand the faith of another person, or make any one believe as we do. Everyone has their own sacred relaionship to the world.
3. What we take for granted as the best/more intelligent way of doing something (as in medicine, religion, education) can often be boiled down to arbitrary cultural constructs.
4. You must surround yourself with what you love. Live it. Breathe it. Only then will you know happiness.
There's more but it can wait. I think my clarity is fading.
Goodnight.
All my love,
Erica.
::Thursday, January 15, 2004::
Okay, just go to sleep already! Geeze, Erica! Stop writing! Oh, God, just stop typing!!!
So even though its been a million years since my last post, brent's threat that someone might actually find their way here has scared me into trying to update it. It may or may not turn out to be a feeble attempt. I'm also thinking of trying to work on my website so that I have a place to post some of the stuff I'm trying to write. I know Brent was all 'blah blah blah' about my problems with writing and I'm not sure what I think about that. But I guess I can try sharing what I do a bit to see what kind of response I can get for it. So I may.
In other news: today I was sorta sick, one of the courses that I thought would be intellectually awesome ended up stinking up my day so I might have to drop it and my job is very unffulfilling. But I had help cheering up and I know everything will work itself out eventually. If it doesn't i guess I will have to go to plan B which is the Emu farm. (Or was it a llama farm? I can never remember. It's not a very well thought out plan.)
All my love, and goodnight,
Erica.
In other news: today I was sorta sick, one of the courses that I thought would be intellectually awesome ended up stinking up my day so I might have to drop it and my job is very unffulfilling. But I had help cheering up and I know everything will work itself out eventually. If it doesn't i guess I will have to go to plan B which is the Emu farm. (Or was it a llama farm? I can never remember. It's not a very well thought out plan.)
All my love, and goodnight,
Erica.
