Descartes
I think (...) I have thought of this before: he just made it famous first! ~his "Argument from the Origin of the Idea of God?" What do you think of it?
posted by Velvet at 12:50 PM
A stream of creative writing, questioning and contemplation of any vein of thought relevant to the enhancement of a meaningful life and to the construction of a civilization of love.
posted by Velvet at 12:50 PM
2 Comments:
Sophia,
Sweet. A blog. That's a real sweet name/theme for it: the ink-blood vein. Clever. That's awesome. The content on there is random and cool.
I enjoyed your post about clubbing. I think you are right-on about it being an ersatz liturgy. People instinctively seek to escape the corrosive, atomizing effects of modernity, and relationships of purely pragmatic interest, and to join with each other through participation in something greater than themselves. Too often, the Dionysian forces in society exploit this ultimately good instinct (via sports, clubbing, sex), offering a cheap and easy substitute that never satisfies the restless heart and sometimes causes a lot of harm in the process. But in clubbing, AFAIK, it seems there's an escapism at work too -- into something primal rather than transcendent. I suggest reading Pieper's _Divine Madness: Plato's Case Against Secular Humanism_ for a fun short book on the ecstatic in Platonic philosophy.
Best,
Eric
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