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Posted by Butch on 5/9/2008, 2:57 pm, in reply to ""Ennui Gas""
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: From "The Onion"
: Calling it the most effective tool to
: date in the War on Terror, the Pentagon
: announced Monday that it had developed a new
: chemical weapon called "ennui
: gas," a nerve agent that overwhelms its
: victims with sudden philosophical distress
: over the meaningless tedium of human life
: and a sinking sense that everything they
: have ever accomplished ultimately ammounts
: to dust.
: The military assured Amnesty
: International and other human-rights groups
: that ennui gas causes no pain, save for the
: pain of realizing that one has wasted his
: life.
: As proof, Pentagon representative Byron
: Christie voluntarily inhaled a small amount
: of ennui gas at a private press conference
: last week.
: "Because ennui gas is a nonpersistant
: substance, it is highly probable that its
: victims will someday feel whole again,"
: said Christie, suddenly furrowing his brow
: and gripping his temples. "Then again,
: no one is truly whole, are they? We are all
: just pieces of flesh and bone masquerading
: as life, and the world will go on without
: me, my absence un-noticed, death as futile
: as life. Pain hath no sting, and pleasure's
: wreath no flower."
: Christie then lay down behind the podium
: and told members of the press to leave,
: repeatedly stating that there is no point to
: it all.
:
Fastovsky,
The point is love. What a person believes or disbelieves is meaningless without love.
If a person has no love in their heart then they are for all intents and purposes dead. Dead on the inside.
I choose love. I choose life. There is more than enough hate in the world already. Death will come soon enough of its own accord.
Living solely in the conditioned mind, the way of ennui, is a shallow existence. Better to look reality directly in the eye than glance around for it in the shadows.
From the first the whole and all of its seeming parts are a unitive one. The part finds itself when it finds the whole. As above, so below.
Butch
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"The Tao is basically utterly open. Utter openeness has no substance. It ends in endlessness, begins in beginninglessnes".
-Li Daoqun
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