"Sunday too far away..."

[deathpixie]

Ah, Sunday evening. Time to curl up in the beanbag with the computer on my lap, drink a cup of caramel tea and enjoy the lst of my weekend. Not an overly productive one - not in the practical sense, any way - but I have been writing, and talking to people, and burning CDs and went out for dinner with my dad. All good stuff.

It's been a thinking kind of weekend. Lots of questions, lots of answers, lots of thoughts. Memories. In a good way, mostly, although some of the memories are sad, or wistful. Wishing for things beyond my reach. But in all, I'm feeling good. Better. Quieter.

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I don't understand this thinking in absolutes. Good vs Evil. Right vs. Wrong. There's always another viewpoint, another perspective, another reason for why something happens. And in a way, thinking in absolutes limits us, over-simplifies the world. Turns it into one of those child drawings, all one-dimensional and flat. Stops us from thinking, stops us from feeling. Stops us from seeing the answers, and also the problem.

I never want to be limited like that.

Comments

[d-benway.livejournal.com]

I tend to believe that there are seldom any clear answers, and that research mostly leads to better questions.

Yes and no...

[msss.livejournal.com]

I think there are some things that are absolutes. Paedophilia is wrong, to pick a really easy example. That said, there aren't very many of them. The world is too complicated.

There are absolutes.

[seraangel.livejournal.com]

There are some that are inevitable. Night will always follow day. Or day will always follow night if you prefer. :) There is absolute good and absolute evil, it's just that most of the time the world deals in the greys. There's a reason it's said that you can't see God without dying. The human mind really isn't equipped to deal with an absolute, as much as we might like to think we think in them.

And that's truly the thing. With our limited minds there will never be absolutes. So, we can only think in greys. I find that somewhat limiting. We'll never find the answer because we always think that the answer must be more then simple.

When the truth is, to find the truth you must look for simple, rather then complex.

*grins* And yes, I am rather feeling philosophical tonight.

The meaning of life, the universe and everything is simplier then a babies cry, and yet we keep searching for it as though it were the biggest mystery in the world. We can't accept that it's already been solved countless times. And now, it isn't 42. :)

~B.