Tuesday, May 01, 2012

If Mary doesn't know, then no one knows what colours look like.

Sunday, April 20, 2008

The Sins of the Fathers are inherent

The phrase "The Sins of the Fathers" is used in a lot of places such as the Bible and the 2007 film, Beowulf.

One might be tempted to think that it refers to particular bad things that particular fathers have done, that their children must pay for. E.g. a father gets into debt, and his sons and daughters may be asked to pay back the debt.

But also it is perhaps also the case that just being, or pretending to be, a father is a sin. All fathers may be getting into debt.

I am not sure about this and I expect that many fathers would disagree, but I think that a lot of, or even all, "fathers" are after the nookie.

Upon this premise, the only real father is in heaven: the spirit of fatherhood and that father loves all children equally. The rest, we pretenders, are sinners, pretending to be him, because they are expected to and because they want to be happy.

When will the kingdom come?

Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Bring your wip

The freddy aphorism that I disliked the most, turns out to be one of his best.

Japan and the West will alas fight again

They are just too far removed and their fantasies destory each other. If only we could learn from each other, and destroy ourselves and our fantasies gracefully.

Things speed up towards the end

One of the things I like about "The Trial" by Franz Kafka is the way in which it speeds up towards the end. Most of us will die "like a dog". All those heady atempts and plans will come to nothing in a swift and confusing way.

By the way, the way that hero of The Trial notices a woman waving in the distance just as his throat is cut is just dreamy. Hail all those that can avoid a final frenetic frenzy.

Bob Dylan is a genuis

He must be a very strange man. He seems very unhappy.

We all don't believe we are going to die

That is because we are not, at least in part, and partly because we are just misguided.

Good artists are sick, and that is a hint

There have been a lot of sick artists. Think poets and novelists with illnesses, or bombs dropping around them, and writers, painters and pop-stars that were sick from the start or have done themselves in. This should raise our suspicion. You'd think it would be the most healthy amongst us. But the healthy are often quite boring.

Hope kills

The middle way is best.

Dancing is important.

Dance with your body, dance with your pen, whatever you do just don't stay still, unless you really mean to go the whole hog, 'gracefullly'.

Marriage is prostitution

This one should be obvious but it is not, nor is it very effective.

Be careful with truth

How much can you bear? We are dependent upon lies for so much of our happiness, that the truth burns cold Lets be careful and not overdue it.

This is a direct Freddy rip off.

The word "love" is far too vague

Love is a word with far too vague a signified. It refers to a whole lot of different things. If we spoke ancient Greek and used all those various words that the Greeks had (eros, phillia, agape...) and realised that they apply to different things, then we would be more realistic.
Sorta-Freudian or self-analytical that I am, it seems to me that if the guys realised that they are only going to get motherly love from their mothers, and realise that eros and motherly-love don't mix much, then they would not expect so much from other women, and behave differently, and finally fall apart, gracefully one hopes.

Love is a lie but it is a fairly good thing that we don't know.

We overestimate love, but we owe our existance to this over estimation. If we really got to grips with the absence of the lovelie then we would have issues. We'd fall apart. If we could fall apart gracefully then this might be a good thing but generally, it is messy. So, keep the faith!

We believe in God

I have argued this elsewhere so to be brief..
1) Humans are subjections, views, and a view by its nature can not self view. Since we believer we can self view, we are either aware of another view, or inventing it. If you believe in your own existance, for yourself and privately at least, then this probably implies a concealed belief in an objective, or at least another, view of yourself.
Can I get tourism in here (lately I am a meant to be scholar of tourism). Humans are tourists, and tourism is about touring, which implies a distance, and self distancing is impossible.
2) We believe in the objectivity of our world. This is silly. The only way that our world might be believable is if there were an objective view of it. Bishop Berkley.

Free is the most expensive

This is a Japanese proverb. It deserves wider distribution. Is there an equivalent English proverb?

We don't know what we believe, or believe what we know

I am all the more certain that I am, at least, very unaware of the beliefs that encourage me to live as I do. It also seems to me that I know a lot of things, such as the fantastical nature of love, life and God, that I do not believe in. The level at which I know them has not sunk down to the level of belief. And a good thing too, probably.

Aphorists have ego issues

It seem to me that anyone that wants to write aphorisms has a bit of an overblown estimation of their own wisdom. This applies to me, but I think that it even applies to the man whose aphorisms inspired me to the abortive attempt - Friedrich Nietzsche.

Saturday, April 08, 2006

Elvis was Goofin' on Elvis

Elvis presely was pretending to be Elvis Presely.

Andy Kaufman, the late great 'song and dance man' or stand up comedian, was one of a vast number of people that impersonate Elvis, as remembered in the R.E.M song. There are lots of reasons why people impersonate Elvis, the most obvious being that he was a great singer, and being something of a first, also an "icon."

But that does not explain why, as quoted in the wikipedia article on Elvis impersonators, "There are now at least 85,000 Elvis’s around the world, compared to only 170 in 1977 when Elvis died. At this rate of growth, experts predict that by 2019 Elvis impersonators will make up a third of the world population." - The Naked Scientists 3rd December, 2000.

There is something about Elvis that makes him emminently impersonatable. I think that it is becuase Elvis was himself an Elvis impersonator. Elvis was, even more than most other rock stars of renoun, a perfect, hollow manifestation of machismo.
We are all impersonating ourselves. Especially men who must grow up and away from the people that raise them into 'a man.' Elvis was better than anyone else. But his bass, falseotto voice gives him away.