Spiritual Caffeine.

My mind has bore a heavy weight since Sunday. It depressed me, but in a way was promised good fruits. Today I was visited by an old friend, wise in a different way from all my other friends. I was made to remember who I once was, and who I am become, and who I will be. And I drank a pot of dark dark coffee, and became ill. Yet the frenzy of mind did bring forth the first harvest of the promised fruits of my heavy weight. The knowledge of the means of the collapse of the selfish and the selfless. The 8 fold path lay itself before me, to be walked on. History teaches that Raymond does not take many steps before he strays, but it also teaches that even one step can do much good.

So they say...

Money is power.

Thus, if time is money.

Then time is power.

A Definition:

Desire is love trapped in pictures.

Some thoughts.

A quick thought: Maybe we could move from defining our words, to describing the things.

Nietzsche was far above most. I know some people who might, with some fortune, go far far beyond him. They are my closest friends.

Heidegger was a clever one, mining etymology as a collective memory of a race. That's a cool move. "WE [a people] are a mind, and our language is its memory."

A maneuvering:

We misunderstand the utterance "God is dead" as an atheist theological argument, as is obvious. But just as surely we misunderstand it as a description of historical precedent--that a God once lived amongst his people, and has died to them. Rather, it is a proclamation about the nature of God, and an offering of a predicate to God. "God is omnipotent, omnipresent--and God is also dead. " The omnimorbid. Much more, though, it is a making of something as God, putting it in the place of God. What I'm saying is, the logic goes as such: God is dead. Therefore, death is God.

That is, the totality is dead; death swallows up life. When we get down to it, death is truth, while life is something about death, and shows up within death. It is no coincidence that Nietzsche starts to wax materialistic when offering proofs of the eternal recurrence, speaking of configurations of matter, forces, and the law of conservation of energy. Matter, in materialism, is dead. The eternal recurrence is just this: that everything has already happened; it will happen again, but only as it already has--given each moment a perfectly rigid permanence. The present becomes meaningless, as it loses all of its determining power, and all spontaneity. The present just is the present as already-happened. The future also becomes defined by the past: what happens in the future is just what already happened. And to be past--and purely past--is just to be dead.

Surely there is another way.