Posted by obsidian on October 23, 2009, at 20:32:09
In reply to Re: I feel sad.... » obsidian, posted by Sigismund on October 23, 2009, at 1:14:02
> Hi Sid
>
> Only an individualistic culture would seek to locate the reason for sadness within the individual.Please tell me more about what you mean. :-)
> Yet, while there are reasons to feel sad, it is helpful to know what some of them are.
> From the case you mention, wasted time and feeling might be one.sort of an empty feeling in part
> (I'm indulging my melancholy by doing some overlapping reading...."Stalin's Hangmen" and "The Devils" by Dostoyevsky, as a sort of enquiry into the alternate realities we humans dream up and act out.)
>
> I was talking to someone this morning and The Fire Sermon came up, we took the dog to be blessed on St Francis's Feast Day and prayed for all the animals in the factory farms, and then the reading was from the Book of Job ["Curse God and Die"] (I hadn't thought the Anglican Church had it in them).
> It's all colour and movement round here.wow, interesting stuff sig :-)
strangely enough, at my last visit to the dentist, as he drilled my tooth and I sat there with my mouth gaping open, the subject of Jesus came up. "Yes, well..." I said mumbling, "he's the ultimate symbol of suffering." Then I had to say, after he told his assistant that she was going to hell, and then the subject of heaven came up, "uhh...I don't really believe in heaven." "Oh", he said, "you're one of those".
I said something about believing we were "borrowing carbon", but of course I think it's more than that.
This family member of mine is 97. I hope I make it to 97.
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