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“My most soulful words come from me as a sufi (muslim) poet, my most righteous words come from me as a humanitarian scientist, my most passionate words come from me as a latin lover, and my most humane words come from me as an advaitin (nondualist). The entire world is contained in my chest. Vilify a single culture, and you vilify me.”

― Abhijit Naskar, Her Insan Ailem: Everyone is Family, Everywhere is Home

Sadly, it's been a while since my last upload. (Hopefully this caption/story/whatever-you-call-it makes up for some of that.)

 

Something kind of disturbing happened today. I answered the doorbell and was met by a sixteen-year-old neighbor of mine who asked to use the house phone. He said that his mother had threatened to kill him with a hammer and that he had it all recorded on the iPad he had under his arm. My dad got him some water and we had our neighbor call the police department.

 

While we waited he told us his side of what happened. He had been talking with his mom about something (he never specified what and we never pressed him) and I guess the situation escalated such that he ended up in a locked bedroom while she tried to beat down the door with a hammer while threatening to kill him. He somehow snuck downstairs, got his shoes on, and ran out of the house.

 

At first one police officer arrived and we let them have their privacy (my family and I didn't really want to be involved in this beyond alerting the proper authorities). An additional officer then arrived, then followed by a third officer. One squad car took the boy to the police station to keep him safe while the other two cruisers would go up to his house and talk to his mother. As he walked out to the squad car, I overheard the police officer asking the boy why he wasn't in school today (the public high school began the new school year today) and the boy said that he had been suspended.

 

And that's all I know and that's all I expect I will know about this story.

 

This story lead me to an interesting thought which served as the inspiration for this shot:

 

Is a hammer a tool or a weapon?

 

This question digs a lot deeper than most would think. Does an object’s classification depend on its use or its intention? If classification depends on use, does it depend on intended use or actual use? I’m not trying to play a game of linguistics here, but rather I’m bringing up existentialism.

 

If I use a medieval war hammer to drive stakes into the ground to build a railroad, it’s still a weapon; it’s just not being used as such. An ordinary household hammer (that was originally designed solely for construction purposes) used to assault someone is a weapon. Is there a point at which that hammer ceases to be a weapon and returns to being a simple tool? If so, is the point determined by a set amount of time, or is the hammer no longer a weapon the next time it’s used as a tool?

 

It’s cray how complex something as simple as a hammer can be…

   

Strobist:

SB900 shot thru umbrella camera right @ 1/4 power

Vivitar 285HV zoomed to tele @ 1/4 power shot from stand a few feet behind my head.

Discourse on existentialism while waiting for Mr Godot.

 

© Ted Adnan Photography & Design

 

Where we are, where we could be, and where we used to be demonstrate the difference in time, the awareness of Existentialism, or simply make us realize how fragile or transient is the term "presence".

 

Camera: Leica MP

Lens: Leica Summicron 35mm

Film: Ilford Delta 400 PRO

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Then I lie on my bed, enjoy the moment of existence.

 

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"Some days you say to yourself, 'Even the bad times are worthwhile, because they lead to a more complete human existence, and that is better than experiencing nothing at all.'

 

Other days, you think, 'I sure bullshit myself sometimes.'"

 

(part two in a series of photos with Masha)

Mixed Media Polaroid Art

I like the existentialistic moment here.

Lila (youngest granddaughter), three chicks and a banana.

Io sono due

è chiaro ora

sono due più uno

meno uno e fanno due

che due volte sono

nata e due volte morta

due volte mi sono persa

forse una volta di più

perché due e una sono tre

le volte che ho sbattuto

e una volta ho anche vomitato

ma erano forse due

dato che sono in quattro

a tirarmi per i piedi

mentre dormo con voce di drago

e una volta sola ho amato

ma saranno duecento le volte

che ho toccato l’allegria

però non duecento volte sono nata

perché al centonovantanove

mi sono stufata ed ecco

al due mi sono scordata

non fosse due sarebbe zero

sono io e l’altra due

prendimi come sono

di una due e di due una.

 

Dacia Maraini

(Ingrid, 8/2013)

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Every morning, before the moment I am going to "wake up",

I would keep lying on the bed and ask myself a question...

 

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(Incase you were wondering: it's a very old shot, upon which I did some selective softening, burning, curves alterations and brightness/contrast changes.)

 

It's weird how each person has all these different sides to themself that they never talk about with anyone. Or maybe they have a different personality for each person they spend time with. Both of these are true for me. It always catches me off guard when I notice how different I'm being.

 

There's the forgettable, conformist me, which I revert to when I'm with people I don't know too well and probably don't want to know. I abandon all traces of humour, unless it's to make fun of the latest Jessica Simpson video. I close my eyes and ears against the little voice in the back of my head that's yelling at me to stop being such a normal person. I don't want to be normal. And yet so often, I find myself searching for that regularity.

 

There's the 'artistic' me, the one that comes out when I'm feeling insecure and so I try to back up my existence with what little talent I think I have. I live, breathe, talk and think music and drama until my psyche feels shattered. Yes, I love these things, but I will not let them consume me.

 

There is a real me, somewhere beneath all of this. It emerges only when I'm with people I'm truly comfortable with. Late-night tell-all conversations; giggling about existentialism until the crack of dawn; calling each other names we don't understand - these are signs of honesty in the relationships I value most. It is then that I become the me that is closest to who I want and need to be: something like 30% laughter, 30% music, 30% confused adolescent and 10% scared. Everything else melts away and I forget all the barriers society is telling me to keep up. I am free.

 

So to all you people who give me that freedom (you know who you are) - thanks, yo. :)

"Life goes by around me, I'm among all these people doing things, but I feel like I'm outside of it. Isolation can be liberating and gut wrenching at the same time."

 

Part three in a series of photos with Masha

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PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

 

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

property of the Nedbalka Gallery in Bratislava, Slovakia

 

collection of a modern Slovak art

 

for educational purpose only

 

please do not use without permission

This picture was taken on the field using a diffuser and three other people.

PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

 

he talks about things like "existentialism" and says words like "dichotomy."

PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

 

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

So many times I’ve asked myself, What can be done? And the answer, unembarrassed by its alacrity, has come back: Nothing. Then one day I was on the square and there were these tents. I go to the square pretty often to sit on a bench and watch the shadows make their slow progress across the bricks. But there had never been tents on the square before. Also, there were people in yellow T-shirts with the words “Volunteer Minister” written on them. I sort of liked the phrase “Volunteer Minister,” even though I wasn’t sure I wanted to get very close to an actual example of one—they certainly looked friendly, I thought, maybe a little too friendly, maybe professionally friendly. And I’m not unfriendly. I’m just friendly in the way animals are that have been mildly neglected for a long time before being taken into a loving home. This is the way most people are friendly, I’d guess. Anyway, there is this dance studio right behind where I usually sit in the square. I like to sit there and watch the shadows move across the bricks and imagine that in some bizarre subatomic bending of the laws of physics these shadows are connected to the people dancing in the building behind me. But today there were these tents and the intensely friendly volunteer ministers roaming around. After a few minutes, a young volunteer minister whose bad case of acne had not yet resolved itself came up and asked me if I would like to take a stress test—I must have looked like I was under stress. Since I was sitting peacefully in the sun with my legs outstretched and my hands folded across my chest and my eyes half-closed, this volunteer minister was operating from a very broad idea of what constitutes stress—at least in its outward manifestations. So I smiled and said no thank you and he went away to find someone better able to understand that everyone is under stress when a T-shirted minister needs a volunteer to take a stress test. I continued to enjoy the sun until another volunteer minister came up and asked me the same question, to which I again politely answered that I wasn’t yet ready to admit that I needed a stress test. This minister was a pretty woman in black stretch pants, the yellow shirt and a face that looked like highly glazed plastic fruit. After she went away, I spent a few uninterrupted minutes enjoying my bench in the sun and the thought of the people in the studio behind me miraculously projecting their waltzing shadows out onto the bricks to keep me company. (They have waltzing classes on Sunday.) Finally, I decided I would like to take a picture of a volunteer minister, so I went over to where their tents were, just strolling along but trying to look a little more stressed than I had before. And of course it didn’t take long before this nice sad-eyed woman in a yellow shirt approached and offered me a stress test. I declined but asked if I could take her photo. She seemed very happy to let me. And so we enjoyed a few moments in each other’s company, neither of us speaking, just one person taking another person’s picture—I think we both knew that we were doing something fundamentally anti-stressful. After I took the picture, I thanked her and she offered me a brochure. I said I already had one, but it wouldn’t hurt to have an extra. As I walked away, I noticed the words on the tents: Something Can Be Done About It. I’d known for a long time that no matter what anyone said, something could be done. I didn’t think that in my case it was what the volunteer ministers had in mind, but I felt pretty sure it was out there, somewhere, waiting for me to find it; all I had to do was begin the search.

Sing like you think no-ones listening

 

[Straylight Run - Existentialism on Prom Night]

 

You would kill for this, just a little bit, you would, you would.

  

I literally sang at the top of my lungs along with this, and just took pictures as I went.

 

[self-portrait]

 

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This account is officially actively taking part of Year 2 of my 365 project.

 

12/11/08 : AM

The perfect Malcolm X pose

on the inside of a bathroom stall in a gay bar in new jersey: "love is for romantics. read more existentialism!"

You would think, with a place called "Philosopher's Club" there would be deep discussions about existentialism, and deep philosophical thoughts.

 

Nope.

 

All you'll find here at 824 Ulloa St is a collection of locals and folks fresh from the MUNI station getting politely hammered and

occasionally trying to discover the mysteries of life, via the liberal application of alcohol...which as I consider it, can be considered as

philosophical.

 

Prints of this picture are available at:

 

signsalongtheway.smugmug.com/Bars-Liquor/Bars-Liquor/2277...

  

PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

 

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

Colorization of another fantastic author, Albert Camus.

I attempted hazel eyes here... a work in progress..!

the thought of Ida confused monkey even more

[200/365]

So it's been far too long living in a house with light coloured carpets not to have a vacuum cleaner. Tonight, in a fit of shear existentialism--or what i might call an HGTV moment, i bought this. The color hasn't been messed with, it's really this nice easter blue. I haven't done any performance testing yet but i'll make addendum to this description if the Eureka enviro vac exceeds my expectations of a competent vacuum.

 

p.s. my longest title yet, i think.

 

p.p.s. Happy 200th to myself :-)

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Without the warmth, I knew I'd fade out gradually...

 

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PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

 

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

1. Out of Bounds and Into the Pool, 2. 75/365, 3. pollo under clouds HDR, 4. 2Dimentional dreams!, 5. Designer CONTACT +491789803472 - Phone Germany Cultural Jamming Interface Design, 6. paint me, 7. Maggie's Mom 1950s, 8. Five Birds Flying Nowhere, 9. Waterpump in the Clouds, 10. Seepferdchen [ by nemoriko ], 11. Gone Fishing, 12. ~Another spin on things~

 

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1.What was your favorite summertime activity as a kid? swimming

2.What was your first pet's name? caesar

3.What model car did you learn to drive on? vw (it was a bright orange passat)

4.What's your proudest moment as an adult? birth of my kids

5.What are your top 3 hobbies (other than photography)? reading , computer, travel (who would have thought there would be a manipulated image including all 3 of thos search parameters)

6.where do you call home? home (home is whereever my family is)

7.where did you call home at age 11 (or any age)? my bedroom (i could be myself there)

8.What word do you love to say? existentialism (makes me look intelligent ...lol)

9.where do you go to relax? the bush

10.Who was your first kiss? Dennis (later my husband)

11.Least favorite food? seafood

12.Least favorite subject in school? maths

 

I chose the protestors I saw outside from a bus as my topic. Military armies are always blocking protestors regardless of where they are. I wondered if any of the military soldiers has ever thought they would like to join the protest. So, I created these designs imagining what would it be like if soldiers decide to join the protest and follow their physical and social essences over human existentialism in this imprisoned society. To express hidden spirit of resistance of the military officers in my designs, I included quotes related to anarcho-syndicalism. I also made it possible to hide the quotes to illustrate how the soldiers can be hiding their basis whenever they want to. There are holes and ripped parts on the designs to give an image of the soldiers banishing their self-protective and defensive sides away. I used bondage fashion as a reference in creating designs for the protestors because I think of them as weak and restricted people.

 

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (October 15, 1844 – August 25, 1900) was a nineteenth-century German philosopher and philologist. He wrote critical texts on religion, morality, contemporary culture, philosophy, and science, using a distinctive German language style and displaying a fondness for aphorism. Nietzsche's influence remains substantial within and beyond philosophy, notably in existentialism and postmodernism. His style, and radical questioning of the value and objectivity of truth, raise considerable problems of interpretation, generating an extensive secondary literature in both continental and analytic philosophy. Nonetheless, his key ideas include interpreting tragedy as an affirmation of life, an eternal recurrence that has become subject to numerous interpretations, a rejection of Platonism, and a repudiation of (especially 19th-century) Christianity.

PH: Lilia Pereira Fotografías

 

Serie analógica, toma directa, Año 2003/2004

 

"El Alma de la Ausente" nace como un proyecto expositivo que va mas allá de la mera exhibición de imágenes religiosas. La obra pretende una reflexión hacia ciertos temas introspectivos, tales como la muerte, el juego de los dobles, el trauma, el placer, lo sagrado, el vacío, la metamorfosis, etc.

Estas fotografías dialogan tácitamente con una de las obras mas grandes del cine sueco "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (El séptimo sello) de Ingmar Bergman. El cine de Bergman siempre se caracterizó por la introspección y el tratamiento de los temas que mas afectan al ser humano. En "El séptimo sello" se expresa el existencialismo, la eterna búsqueda del ser humano por darle sentido a su vida, la vida, la muerte y todo lo que ello conlleva.

"El Alma de la Ausente" intenta plantear la ambigüedad de los temas antes mencionados, como característica principal, proponiendo al espectador que apele a su subjetividad para conectarse con lo mas oculto de su ser. Lilia Pereira.

 

Series analog, direct, Year 2003/2004

 

"The Soul of the Absent" was created as an exhibition project that goes beyond the mere display of religious images. The book is intended to reflect certain introspective themes such as death, the game of doubles, the trauma, pleasure, the sacred, the vacuum metamorphosis, and so on.

These photographs tacit dialogue with one of the greatest works of Swedish film "Det sjumde inseglet", 1957, (The Seventh Seal) Ingmar Bergman. Bergman's films are always characterized by introspection and treatment of the issues that most affect humans. In "The Seventh Seal" is expressed existentialism, the eternal human quest to make sense of life, life, death and everything that entails.

"The Soul of the Absent" attempts to raise the ambiguity of the aforementioned issues, as its main feature, offering the viewer that appeals to their subjectivity to connect with the most secret of your being. Lilia Pereira.

“A critical analysis of the present global constellation- one which offers no clear solution, no "practical" advice on what to do, and provides no light at the end of the tunnel, since one is well aware that this light might belong to a train crashing towards us-usually meets with reproach: "Do you mean we should do nothing? Just sit and wait?" One should gather the courage to answer: "YES, precisely that!" There are situations when the only truly "practical" thing to do is to resist the temptation to engage immediately and to "wait and see" by means of a patient, critical analysis. Engagement seems to exert its pressure on us from all directions. In a well-known passage from his Existentialism and Humanism, Sartre deployed the dilemma of a young man in France in 1942, torn between the duty to help his lone, ill mother and the duty to enter the Resistance and fight the Germans; Sartre's point is, of course, that there is no a priori answer to this dilemma. The young man needs to make a decision grounded only in his own abyssal freedom and assume full responsibility for it.

An obscene third way out of the dilemma would have been to advise the young man to tell his mother that he will join the Resistance, and to tell his Resistance friends that he will take care of his mother, while, in reality, withdrawing to a secluded place and studying...”

Slavoj Zizek, Violence, First Picador Edition: August 2008.

 

God's Standard of Justice:

www.theawaitedone.com/articles/2015/07/10/gods-standard-o...

 

Just how fair is God's system of justice, really? This article weighs in.

 

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