Tuesday, January 8, 2008

from "The Mysterious Stranger"

"In a little while you will be alone in shoreless space, to wander its limitless solitudes without friend or comrade forever--for you will remain a thought, the only existent thought, and by your nature inextinguishable, indestructible. But I, your poor servant, have revealed you to yourself and set you free. Dream other dreams, and better!...You perceive, now, that these things are all impossible except in a dream. You perceive that they are pure and puerile insanities, the silly creations of an imagination that is not conscious of its freaks - in a word, that they are a dream, and you the maker of it. The dream-marks are all present; you should have recognized them earlier.


"It is true, that which I have revealed to you; there is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream - a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought - a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!"

Monday, October 1, 2007

Cold water in your face...

...brings you back to this awful place.

Wednesday, September 19, 2007

What is Limbo?

Limbo derives from the Latin limbus meaning something like "edge or boundary of Hell". It is the alleged condition of those who die in original sin without being assigned by their creator to the Hell of the damned.

What does that mean for you and me?

It's all about living on the edge of a precipice but stuck in a kind of surreal, semi-death-like state, unable to move up toward 'Heaven' or down toward 'Hell'.

Quagmired in the complexities and entropy of everyday life.

Next: What can we do about it?

Tuesday, September 11, 2007

from Limbo

Sitting here in Limbo...

This is just the beginning. More to come...