Standing erect to his full foot height and sending me an ironic kiss with the palm of his right arm, Elf pronounced:
-Ecco un filosofo! [Here, a philosopher!]
He had this glitter in his eyes, sign of some mischief ahead.
-Please, I pleaded knowing it was useless, do not try to emulate Tosca, will you?!
He was quoting a slightly changed line from the Opera where Floria Tosca cry:
Ecco un artista! [Here, an artist],
thinking her beloved Mario feigned very well his falling in front a shooting squad before she realized he was actually shot to dead.
You see the implications!
-Please, don’t be ridiculous, I was trying shame him into silence.
-Ridiculous, ridiculous my butt! he was not shamed and never will be, you know who is ri-dic-u-lous? he marked the word (syllable separation is mine, he is not able to recognize what a syllable is!!), You are ri-dic-u-lous!!! Thinking all those inebriated little thoughts about Honesty!
-I am not ridiculous, and there are no little thoughts in my thinking! I was affronted! I was pretty proud about my disquisitions on so deep a subject, I know I am not a philosopher, but I can think, by Jove!
-You are, too!
-No, I am not, period!
-No? ask anyone what can they make of this sentence:
"facts, I try to define, are as certain as thoughts but difficult to understand in its ontological reality."
this only a small instance! And it was not enough one note but you need three to say nothing at all!
-How can you argue with an empty mind, I said and immediately regretted saying it, I was being venomous and should have restrained myself, there is no point insulting people… or goblins for that matter!
He seemed not affected by my words or anger.
-Now look, life is simple if you can let your hands open, the moment you fold your fingers to grab someting or to turn your hand into a fist is when things get complex!
-Well, that is what I wrote, I said, surprised to see he has understood my meaning.
-So, why didn’t you said it so instead of writing so many elaborated and difficult sentences? It took me just so many words to define your thoughts!
He had a point there! what were my reasons? self complacency? Trying to show off my “knowledge”, but nobody read this, of course it stays online and… Oh, well, maybe there is all that and more selfish feelings. Phew! this darned imp always find a way to puncture my ego balloon. Maybe he really is doing his job to lead the way, as he always points out!
I felt like Tosca over Mario’s dead body, looking down to my dead ego! Darn it all! He knew what he was saying when called at me: Ecco un filosofo…! Only I didn’t jump over the battlement of the Sant’Angelo Castle nor dare to tease Elf with the sentence “Avante Dio”…
© 2007 Soother.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Saturday, April 07, 2007
Honesty! «Third & Last Note» (Soliloquies)
From the beginning of time Philosophy and Religion, on different roads of knowledge, have tried to “remake” humankind ethos following the simple rule of concordance, a kind of psychological action-reaction, “do unto others as you like others to do unto you”, if it makes any sense, but the internal force that define a human being as such is just the opposite: “be as you like and prevent other to be as they like”.
This seems uncouth and barbarian but it is the core of survival, “domination” does not guarantee survival but it “seems” to be the right way to it, a common ground where most human beings find themselves trying to rule, lead, and impose over others, even in small matters.
We may recognize in this need to be “the ruler”, in the reasons we have to justify the need, a kind of fallen nature in humankind, fallen nature in the sense of making sure the survival of the species but of our own self primarily, this drive is common with all species, any individual try to save life in the event more life can be procreated but what differs is motivation.
Not a single creature, with the exception of human beings, thinks in the importance of the self, only our kind try to preserve life through our own person.
This fallen nature comes, is said, from our special awareness of the difference between “right” and “wrong”, which is the leverage to prompt a misconception on the idea that anything right for us personally is the only right thing generally speaking.
There is a trend to align this feeling with the sense of insecurity, lack of stability, or sense of inadequacy humankind found to be its companion through the millennia lived on this planet.
This supposed fallen nature in humankind suppresses any and all possibilities to find a recognizable and ontological definition for this triad (and many other abstract concepts) and will continue doing so while human beings do not find the real meaning of the tissue we call reality, moreover, only after comprising this meaning into the real sense of survival as a whole entity, not as an “enlightened” isolated being but as many personal psyches within a unique essence, is possible to envision an answer.
Even then, after a real understanding of reality, we must find the way to work from the outside of this reality to start glimpsing the primeval rags of Truth, Honesty and Love.
Possibly the major surprise will come from the fact that Love encompass all others.
This premise must have been whispered into human ears in the first steps of our awareness, we do not know its source, but it is easily understood that it could not come from the natural “feelings” humankind could find or “concoct” by itself since we are aware that our, so called, fallen nature would prevent anything that could suggest to help a neighbor in detriment of the “inner personality”.
Each instance known of the occurrence of an action contravening this law written in our core makes us separate the transgressor from our “normal” behavior and we see that person in a higher moral level.
This attitude seems to point toward a possible change for the better for humankind in a far future.
© 2007 Soother.
This seems uncouth and barbarian but it is the core of survival, “domination” does not guarantee survival but it “seems” to be the right way to it, a common ground where most human beings find themselves trying to rule, lead, and impose over others, even in small matters.
We may recognize in this need to be “the ruler”, in the reasons we have to justify the need, a kind of fallen nature in humankind, fallen nature in the sense of making sure the survival of the species but of our own self primarily, this drive is common with all species, any individual try to save life in the event more life can be procreated but what differs is motivation.
Not a single creature, with the exception of human beings, thinks in the importance of the self, only our kind try to preserve life through our own person.
This fallen nature comes, is said, from our special awareness of the difference between “right” and “wrong”, which is the leverage to prompt a misconception on the idea that anything right for us personally is the only right thing generally speaking.
There is a trend to align this feeling with the sense of insecurity, lack of stability, or sense of inadequacy humankind found to be its companion through the millennia lived on this planet.
This supposed fallen nature in humankind suppresses any and all possibilities to find a recognizable and ontological definition for this triad (and many other abstract concepts) and will continue doing so while human beings do not find the real meaning of the tissue we call reality, moreover, only after comprising this meaning into the real sense of survival as a whole entity, not as an “enlightened” isolated being but as many personal psyches within a unique essence, is possible to envision an answer.
Even then, after a real understanding of reality, we must find the way to work from the outside of this reality to start glimpsing the primeval rags of Truth, Honesty and Love.
Possibly the major surprise will come from the fact that Love encompass all others.
This premise must have been whispered into human ears in the first steps of our awareness, we do not know its source, but it is easily understood that it could not come from the natural “feelings” humankind could find or “concoct” by itself since we are aware that our, so called, fallen nature would prevent anything that could suggest to help a neighbor in detriment of the “inner personality”.
Each instance known of the occurrence of an action contravening this law written in our core makes us separate the transgressor from our “normal” behavior and we see that person in a higher moral level.
This attitude seems to point toward a possible change for the better for humankind in a far future.
© 2007 Soother.
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