...MORNINGS are the answer. While are bodies are yearning and sometimes screaming for more rest, we will ourselves to get up and move through our routine. We kick ourselves in the stomach with strong coffee and barely keep our tired eyes open. We're wishing that we'd just make it through the day or just past the morning hours until our energy level starts to rise. There's so much "wishing" going on that the time accelerator gears turn faster and faster until we "get our wish" and then the afternoon is ticking by and people like me start wishing we had a few more hours or just a little more time to get all this work done. The only thing is, those gears are so heavy that they can't be slowed down in time for that afternoon work to get finished. And so our kids grow up "too fast" and time marches on. There's no way to stop it.
OUR SOULS ARE BEING SPAMMED
McManus concludes in MEANING ENTRY #6. He talks about varying philosophies, like the "nothing is real" and the "only thing that's real is the physical stuff we can see and prove" camps that seem to prevail among the intellectual elite, even though they are diametrically opposed. I took a Government course at the University of Texas that was really a philosophy course in disguise. It was called "Government and the Politics of Reality." Professor Edwards seemed to get a real kick out of seeing us wrestle with philosophy and ask questions about what is real. Owen Barfield and other authors were read and discussed. One popular idea was that reality was just a collective agreed upon state that existed in our minds. It was all completely relative. I got a kick out of being the oddball in there, actually believing that the physical world and the unseen spiritual world was reality.
McManus describes how our present culture has become one of options. From Burger King's "Have it Your Way" campaign to places like Build A Bear, we have options galore to choose from. The same is true for philosophies and the "answers" offered for the "What is truth?" questions. Sometimes, it seems, the vast number of options move us toward disbelief.
We can't put a finger on it,
but what is happening is that
our souls are being spammed.
is your middle name james?
and do you live in beaumont
My middle name is Gene and sometimes that's my first name and I sing for a band called Lust Control. I'm not from Beaumont, though. I used to live at 4305 Beaumont Court in Fairfax, VA, though. Does that count? I've lived in Austin for 26 years now.
Posted by: Doug at December 29, 2007 05:20 PM