we all take differents paths in life,
but no matter where we go,
we always take a little of each other everywhere....
Monday, November 03, 2008
2:38 AM
If we’d transcend from the foundations that we’ve been holding on to, we’d realize that they are actually illogical and well, plain silly. We humans do hang on to stuff that don’t really make sense. Let alone our superstitions etc., take for example nationalism wherein we make bonds with people merely because of common geographic reasons. To think that we don’t even have interpersonal relationships with these people.
Even religion in that matter. We hold on to these structures that underlie our society without even knowing if someone just woke up one morning and decided to create a religion. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle, Bokononism was born out of a lie. No one really holds the truth, no one can know what is.
But that is Vonnegut, he thinks the world is meaningless and that everything about existence is absurd. I think it’s a matter of perspective because we are set to live our own lives and it doesn’t matter if we choose to live the lie, as Vonnegut sees it, or life. Like choosing faith despite gushes of doubt once in a while.
After all the quest for truth is unattainable in a lifetime, so why sulk in the unending quest for the cat’s cradle?
newton hoenikker: No wonder kids grow up crazy. A cat's cradle is nothing but a bunch of X's between somebody's hands, and little kids look and look and look at all those X's . . . No damn cat, no damn cradle.
If existence is absurd then let’s just live the lie, they don’t hurt most of the time. Let’s ask questions that have no answers. Who is John Galt? (introduction to Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand)
(I wanted to make a review of Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut but found it tedious so this is all that I can produce for the time being. Anyway, I’m currently reading Atlas Shrugged and trying (really) hard to finish it.)
think happy thoughts!
The girl
full name: Christine Joyce Placino
age: 18 yrs. old! woohoo!
birthday: April 23, 1989
one weird thing about me is: i talk a lot..i mean really..
"it doesn't hurt to be optimistic, you can always cry later" - nope, not my principle..
"it doesn't hurt to be a pessimist, at least you won't cry later" - yep, that's better
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wants..
ice cream!
I.S.W.A.K VCD
dulce de leche cake! miss that
more of my korean crushes
good grades...waah
go swimming!
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