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I used to believe in forever, but forever's too good to be true
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I'm still agnostic. But in the words of Elton Richards, I'm now a reverant agnostic. Which isn't an oxymoron, I swear. I now believe that whether or not there's a God, there is such a thing as sacredness. Life is sacred. The Sabbath can be a sacred day. Prayer can be a sacred ritual. There is something transcendent, beyond the everyday. It's possible that humans created this sacredness ourselves, but that doesn't take away from its power or importance.
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I was a narrative historian, believing more and more as I matured that the first function of the historian was to answer the child's question, "What happened next?
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I believe it was the great ogre philosopher Gary who observed that complexity is, generally speaking, an illusion of conscious desire. All things exist in as simple a form as necessity dictates. When a thing is labeled 'complex,' that's just a roundabout way of saying you're not observant enough to understand it.
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In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.
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Work is only justified by leisure time. To admit the emptiness of leisure time is to admit the impossibility of life.
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Our destiny can be examined, but it cannot be justified or totally explained. We are simply here.
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Certainly the interest in asserting copyright is a justified one.
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Self-justification, therefore, is not only about protecting high self-esteem; it's also about protecting low self-esteem if that is how a person sees himself.
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Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?
