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Hmm, I would like to say God. But, as I see things, He has given us everything including the opportunity to be His immortal children. I am not sure exactly what that means, but taken literally, it means an awful lot. No, we are our limiters. We limit ourselves on earth, we might nix heaven, it is not God who does this. Our sins, if nothing else, have lead us to the failings of flesh which might be our binds, as is my case. Not my personal sins, our original sin, is what got us here.
Blathering. Fine. Oh, but I did get some things done today. Not much. More than I had expected if only what I had hoped. I am again trying to dig out of the hole I am in. We will see. I feel almost like a groundhog. I wonder if they ever figure out it is merely their shadow that scares them back into their hole? Then again, without that fear, given their many limitations, the ones who figure it out and do not scurry do not live to create another iteration of the fearless sort. I do not, like them probably, know what my "shadow" is. But just as surely as they, it drives me back into my hole. Fairly I suppose. How many times can a guy die or be close enough to it to realize the fundamental reality of it before... losing his edge... or gaining it as some might prefer to suggest? A even dozen would do it, and that is about my count.
Still, I will sally forth as soon as I... can? will? I hate the cave. It is a good cave. It is, sort of, my cave. I have friends here. I have things to do. Being stuck, I would guess, even in heaven if one should not wish to be there, would be... difficult. And stuck I am. Sam. With green ham. When I... leave that out too long. Ha. Blathering. Tired. Bedtime.
Good night.
Ever read Castaneda?
ReplyDeleteHe was a charlatain, but there is a tremendous amount of wheat amdist the copious chaff of his fantasy. A lot that gets around to what it means and what it takes to face death as a warrior and not a meager coward.
I read his works and internalized them to a large degree with suspended disbelief for a number of years until I finally had to discard it as so much chicanery. But there is much worth gleaning in the midst of the dreck.
Really though nothing we do not have as Christians if we fully comprehend what we believe.
No, I do not believe I have read that work. I have read others, and about other ethics or norms such as samari codes, fools who would be fighter kings, and novels of old. I may not know THAT work, but I too have fallen for the machismo of warriors. There is something in there, I know that too. But hand a fool a sword, let him practice until he is perfect... he still, if he truly is good, ages and dies. The truth of death. Only Christ beat that rap. Still, he did arm His men, he did suggest if this was His kingdom men would be warring their way to him, and many other things. Christ, also, was not a peacemaker. Both self proclaimed and through the Church He created and the history of His people.
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Ah, I see. I ought to look it over. (If you wanted a shorter answer/response?) :p
"Outlander"..read that ;)
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