Plato makes me look like Jade Goody.
Time’s very precious, what life is made up of; I’ll try not to use fourteen words when four will do.
At university, I study philosophy. The main thing this has taught me is that I’m not all that bright. Plato makes me look like Jade Goody. Hell, my fellow students make me look like Jade Goody. Its a good thing to surround you reading with people way brighter than yourself. But as bright as Ghandi, Kierkegaard and Einstein were, what baffles me more than their thinking is the idea that smarter minds have lived and died in anonimity, repressed in plantations or by poverty, because of their genes, geography or gender. Even more amazing - these people will still exist outside of the limelight in the quiet shallows around us. You, the reader, for all I know, could be one of these people.
The thing thats hit me recently is that God clearly has a sense of humour, and we humans have been placed in a massive lifelong joke.
We are just way too inquisitive for our little capacity to understand a very complicated life. From there, it all becomes a tad too silly. It’s funny that women, with all their beauty, find men attractive - they look like apes and can often smell “of boy” as I’ve heard it put. To expect Darcy/Prince Charming is pushing it when men don’t comply with hygeine standards, let alone Disneys scriptwriters. On the other side of the coin, men find women attractive, even though they function with depth of raw, emotional beauty and sensitivity which can surpass what man can ever be conscious of, which makes them hard to understand. Sex is funny too. We humans express our deepest, most dignifying and sacred affection (and ideally devotion) to another person by lying too close to them making odd, graceless movements, grunting, sweating and pulling silly faces. We are then so embarrassed of this that some of you are getting flustered having just read the previous sentence. “Oh how taboo”…grow up! Are you the type who’s tempted to blame this act on white birds to your children until they are 12? Don’t do that either, you’ll make it harder for them to grow up.
And then the bigger joke, we live in a life that can only be understood looking backwards, but we still have to live it facing forwards. Experience is our teacher, but like an annoying friend, he only pipes up with his advice just after we could have used it - even then telling us what we already know. Its brutal! We live in an age where spiritual living has been beaten into submission first by athiests and then believers trying to keep athiests happy. We live where people deny real good and evil so they can live less demanding lives, but will talk on end down the pub of the decaying society as if the two aren’t exactly the same thing on different scales. We live where people believe humans are a made by matter + chance + time, without any purpose - because thats just silly. But the same people are still willing to tut at the television screen at senseless bad stuff on the news - which, surely, is just man worshipping his maker?
Most humourous of all must be that I am still sure I have found the answer that accounts for all of this world. The biggest joke is that I, little cocky sprat Allen, should know anything that big and amazing, but I do. Thats grace for you.
3 years ago • Notes