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polish the scratches
since beginning of us
we were on the verge
of blowing up
in attempts to defend
our identities
and self-conceptions
you made many sketches
with the bleak graphite
not pushing it too much
easy to erase
and easy to reuse
the ink is for the brave
I opened myself
to the levity of youth
I didn’t knew as lad
my early years were full
of my personal ideology
I never lacked direction
we smoked and chilled
we drank and ate
we fucked and cuddled
we had good times
but we never reconciled
coolness and warmth
you defined your freedom
as not being in a family
support – as not being
in each others way
why having others count on you
allow their influence to cloud you
there’s no life worth living
in a world of chaos
there’s no purpose and meaning
goals, struggle and adversity
are for the serious and uptight
those not really getting it
let go
let go
let go
om-mani-padme-hum
om-mani-padme-hum
om-mani-padme-hum
things shine forth
when you’re attending fully
engaging in endeavours – in pain
hitting and tapping into alignment
until your molecules & structure
becomes non-contradictory
as the internal structure
of a diamond
shining forth
reconciled and unobscured
things shine forth
things shine forth
(inspired by Jordan Peterson)
“Why so soft, so submissive and yielding? Why is there so much negation and abnegation in your hearts? Why is there so little fate in your looks? And if ye will not be fates and inexorable ones, how can ye one day– conquer with me?And if your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to pieces, how can ye one day–create with me? For the creators are hard. And blessedness must it seem to you to press your hand upon millenniums as upon wax, –Blessedness to write upon the will of millenniums as upon brass, – harder than brass, nobler than brass. Entirely hard is only the noblest. This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: BECOME HARD!”
– Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
we were on the verge
of blowing up
in attempts to defend
our identities
and self-conceptions
you made many sketches
with the bleak graphite
not pushing it too much
easy to erase
and easy to reuse
the ink is for the brave
I opened myself
to the levity of youth
I didn’t knew as lad
my early years were full
of my personal ideology
I never lacked direction
we smoked and chilled
we drank and ate
we fucked and cuddled
we had good times
but we never reconciled
coolness and warmth
you defined your freedom
as not being in a family
support – as not being
in each others way
why having others count on you
allow their influence to cloud you
there’s no life worth living
in a world of chaos
there’s no purpose and meaning
goals, struggle and adversity
are for the serious and uptight
those not really getting it
let go
let go
let go
om-mani-padme-hum
om-mani-padme-hum
om-mani-padme-hum
things shine forth
when you’re attending fully
engaging in endeavours – in pain
hitting and tapping into alignment
until your molecules & structure
becomes non-contradictory
as the internal structure
of a diamond
shining forth
reconciled and unobscured
things shine forth
things shine forth
(inspired by Jordan Peterson)
“Why so soft, so submissive and yielding? Why is there so much negation and abnegation in your hearts? Why is there so little fate in your looks? And if ye will not be fates and inexorable ones, how can ye one day– conquer with me?And if your hardness will not glance and cut and chip to pieces, how can ye one day–create with me? For the creators are hard. And blessedness must it seem to you to press your hand upon millenniums as upon wax, –Blessedness to write upon the will of millenniums as upon brass, – harder than brass, nobler than brass. Entirely hard is only the noblest. This new table, O my brethren, put I up over you: BECOME HARD!”
– Friedrich Nietzsche: Thus Spake Zarathustra
Published 8th Jun 2018
Author's Note
Inspired by Jordan Peterson talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLteWutitFM
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Anonymous
- Edited 8th Jun 2018 2:43pm
8th Jun 2018 2:42pm
just going frame this in my favs..
honestly, im speechless really as if its written
then uniquely hung on the walls of my soul..
deeply felt
honestly, im speechless really as if its written
then uniquely hung on the walls of my soul..
deeply felt
You have always been too kind with me! I'm grateful you're reading me.
" …our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgements about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these are too relative). Thus relativism’s closest approximation to “virtue” is “tolerance.” Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other. (That emphasis on tolerance is so paramount that for many people one of the worst character flaws a person can have is to be “judgemental”)… and just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.
…
Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.
…
…(For relativists, ideals are values too, and like all values, they are merely “relative” and hardly worth sacrificing for.) So, right alongside relativism, we find the spread of nihilism…
…
…Moreover, by implying that values had lesser reality than facts, science contributed to yet another way to moral relativism, for it treated “value” as secondary. (But the idea that we can easily separate facts from values was and remains naive; to some extent, one’s values determine what one will pay attention to, and what will count as fact.)
…When the ancient Greeks sailed to India and elsewhere, they too discovered that rules, morals and customs differed from place to place, and saw that the explanation… was often rooted in some ancestral authority. The Greek response was not despair, but a new invention: philosophy.
Socrates… decided that instead of becoming a nihilist, a relativist or an ideologue, he would devote his life to the search for wisdom that could reason about these differences… he looked at different approaches, asking which seemed most coherent and most in accord with human nature.
For the ancients, …(to) have different ideas about how to live did not paralyse them; it deepened their understanding of humanity and led some of the most satisfying conversations (…) about how life might be lived.
…The idea that human life can be free of moral concerns is a fantasy.
We are rule generators. And given that we are moral animals, what must be the effect of our simplistic modern relativism upon us? It means we are hobbling ourselves by pretending to be something we are not. It is a mask, but a strange one, for it mostly deceives the one who wears it. "
-- Norman Doidge, Foreword to 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
P.S. Try asking a relativist, nihilist, tolerance-entitled millennial what’s their artistic or any criteria about selecting the photos on their Instagram and see the cloak of radical tolerance come off, as they can’t stand their own dishonesty and behaviour incoherence… responding by just walking away pretending that nothing happened because in their eyes “nothing has happened that they can explain.”
Exactly 12 days ago my girlfriend walked away on me after living together for some year... after I confronted her how come we have so many experiences together and there's zero pictures of us together... It's just her face again and again avoiding me to even get caught in the decor... On the other end there's zero barrier for the rest of her friends to end up in her feeds of photos. She's a photographer herself and I don't consider myself bad looking.
I know, too much information. Just needed to blurt this scorn out here.
" …our modern relativism begins by asserting that making judgements about how to live is impossible, because there is no real good, and no true virtue (as these are too relative). Thus relativism’s closest approximation to “virtue” is “tolerance.” Only tolerance will provide social cohesion between different groups, and save us from harming each other. (That emphasis on tolerance is so paramount that for many people one of the worst character flaws a person can have is to be “judgemental”)… and just about the most inappropriate thing an adult can do is give a young person advice about how to live.
…
Intolerance of others’ views (no matter how ignorant or incoherent they may be) is not simply wrong; in a world where there is no right or wrong, it is worse: it is a sign you are embarrassingly unsophisticated or, possibly, dangerous.
…
…(For relativists, ideals are values too, and like all values, they are merely “relative” and hardly worth sacrificing for.) So, right alongside relativism, we find the spread of nihilism…
…
…Moreover, by implying that values had lesser reality than facts, science contributed to yet another way to moral relativism, for it treated “value” as secondary. (But the idea that we can easily separate facts from values was and remains naive; to some extent, one’s values determine what one will pay attention to, and what will count as fact.)
…When the ancient Greeks sailed to India and elsewhere, they too discovered that rules, morals and customs differed from place to place, and saw that the explanation… was often rooted in some ancestral authority. The Greek response was not despair, but a new invention: philosophy.
Socrates… decided that instead of becoming a nihilist, a relativist or an ideologue, he would devote his life to the search for wisdom that could reason about these differences… he looked at different approaches, asking which seemed most coherent and most in accord with human nature.
For the ancients, …(to) have different ideas about how to live did not paralyse them; it deepened their understanding of humanity and led some of the most satisfying conversations (…) about how life might be lived.
…The idea that human life can be free of moral concerns is a fantasy.
We are rule generators. And given that we are moral animals, what must be the effect of our simplistic modern relativism upon us? It means we are hobbling ourselves by pretending to be something we are not. It is a mask, but a strange one, for it mostly deceives the one who wears it. "
-- Norman Doidge, Foreword to 12 Rules for Life by Jordan B. Peterson
P.S. Try asking a relativist, nihilist, tolerance-entitled millennial what’s their artistic or any criteria about selecting the photos on their Instagram and see the cloak of radical tolerance come off, as they can’t stand their own dishonesty and behaviour incoherence… responding by just walking away pretending that nothing happened because in their eyes “nothing has happened that they can explain.”
Exactly 12 days ago my girlfriend walked away on me after living together for some year... after I confronted her how come we have so many experiences together and there's zero pictures of us together... It's just her face again and again avoiding me to even get caught in the decor... On the other end there's zero barrier for the rest of her friends to end up in her feeds of photos. She's a photographer herself and I don't consider myself bad looking.
I know, too much information. Just needed to blurt this scorn out here.
Anonymous
9th Jun 2018 11:37pm
anytime dear one, anytime
