YES WE CAN

No Game

“Life is a game, boy. Life is a game that one plays according to the rules.”"Yes, sir. I know it is. I know it.”

Game, my ass. Some game. If you get on the side where all the hot-shots are, then it’s a game, all right- I’ll admit that. But if you get on the other side, where there aren’t any hot-shots, then what’s a game about it? Nothing. No game.

The Catcher in the Rye – J. D. Salinger P8

Open Question

Leo Tolstoy wrote in his essays on Civil Disobedience and Non-Violence, “If man finds no meaning in life, he dies.” Without God where does man find his meaning and how does he verify and validate his or her life.

From Church and State p211

In Memory

SURREAL

On a global Manhattan canvas,
Contrasted against a clear blue summer sky,
Two great Twin Towers beckon.
High symbols of strength, money, freedom and power.
In the distance, controlled technology in hand,
Free-willed madness streaks with rage through open space,
Striking in an instant of time.
At light speed, colours explode from some dark age of evil, anger and hate.
Cameras on streets and rooftops catch and record on cue,
The bursting red-hot fires of hell,
The powerful black weight of damnation,
Makes all tumble and bow down.
Grey, hot ashes and dust distort minds, shatter hearts and twist bodies.
Innocence and souls are lost.
Humanity grieves, rivers of tears gush as one,
And all ask, “For the Love of God”,
Why?

Written 9/13/01

Sorrow

For in much wisdom is much grief, And he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. Ecclesiastes 1:18

Alias Grace – Margaret Atwood

The truth is I don’t want him watching me while I eat. I don’t want him to see my hunger. If you have a need and they find it out, they will use it against you. The best way is to stop wanting anything. P40

Truth – Albert Camus – The Fall

Truth, like light, blinds. Falsehood, on the contrary, is a beautiful twilight that enhances every object. p 120

Metaphysics, let the thinking begin

Metaphysics is “the ultimate science of being and knowing and deals with the first principles of things, including such concepts as being, substance, essence, time, space, cause and identity”[i].

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[i] Oxford English Dictionary

Truth is non violence – Mahatma Gandhi

All Men Are Brothers