Docs from Ferdinand ***, tagged "outlook"

On the killing fields

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Tue, 12 Feb 2008 13:43:01 +0000

Is this what we want?
Is this what we need?

A slow death

On the killing fields

--The Klinik

What would be your feelings now, if you had been rescued all alone?

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 09:37:02 +0000

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As the rain stopped falling and the waters calmed, land appeared once more, and the sea recovered its shores. Likewise the rivers came back to their channels, the hill-tops became visible, and as the land rose up the trees showed their tops, and finally the whole world was restored.

When the Flood was over, Deucalion and Pyrrha, having come to Mount Parnassus, worshipped the CORYCIAN NYMPHS—deities living in the mountain —, and Themis, the goddess who then kept the oracles.

Soon Deucalion 1 (*) realized that this restored world was an empty world. And however difficult or impossible it is to live with other men and women, even more difficult and more impossible is to live without them, in complete loneliness. And that is why, noticing that silence filled the lands that had been left desolate, he burst into tears, and trembled at the thought of being left completely alone:

"What would be your feelings now, if you had been rescued all alone? Who would console your grief? Be assured that if the sea held you, I would follow you, my wife, and the sea should hold me also." [Deucalion 1 to Pyrrha 1. Ovid, Metamorphoses 1.358]

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(*) Deucalion is the son of Prometheus and Clymene. When Zeus punished humankind for their lack of respect by sending the deluge, Deucalion and his wife Pyrrha were the sole survivors. They were saved because of their piety. Prometheus advised his son to build an ark and they survived by staying on the boat.

When they were finally able to get back on land (on Mount Parnassos), they gave thank offerings to Zeus and consulted the oracle of Themis how they might replenish the earth with humans once again. They were told to throw the bones of their mother behind their shoulder and the human race would reappear. Since the mother of all is Earth, they threw stones and reformed the human race. The stones thrown by Pyrrha became women, those thrown by Deucalion became men.

Sei

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 08:24:01 +0000

Ferdinand *** has posted a doc:

Man hat in der Welt nicht viel mehr, als die Wahl zwischen Einsamkeit und Gemeinheit.

(There is in the world only the choice between loneliness and vulgarity.)

--Arthur Schopenhauer

Aurora is the effort

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Fri, 13 Jul 2007 13:52:01 +0000

Ferdinand *** has posted a doc:

Aurora is the effort
Of the Celestial Face
Unconsciousness of Perfectness
To simulate, to Us.

--Emily Dickinson

It's just a feeling

nobody@ipernity.com (Ferdinand ***) — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:17:01 +0000

Ferdinand *** has posted a doc:

Everything will be alright
Everything will turn out fine
Some nights I still can't sleep
And the voices pass with time
And I keep

No time for tears
No time to run and hide
No time to be afraid of fear
I keep no time to cry

--SoM