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EMBRACE LIFE, EMBRACE WISDOM

Embrace Life, Embrace Wisdom 

Some spurn life,

Give me eighty of them years

And then, sayonara

Immortal life would be boring,

They opine,

Maybe sixty would be enough,

Who needs more of that same old song and dance?

Some say life must be examined,

And presumably life must pass,

Otherwise it’s not worth saving.

Others claim existence is absurd,

And they kept on indulging,

Just in case.

The exterminationists we must also mention,

They make it so that others must die,

So they may live,

And they moved history.

Some sneer that they are not falling in love with life, 

Because it comes and goes,

So why doesn’t it go,

Leaving them alone, once and for all?

But wisdom has a question:

What’s so pleasant about disparaging existence?

For sure, tyrannies can make lives unworthy, 

And unexamined lives may bring mayhem…

But maybe contempters of life have it all upside down?

Have they chosen the path to nowhere,

Truth as sour grapes?

A simpler mind is a calmer mind

Life without love sure would be boring,

No love for hope, place, sensation, or anybody?

Mediocre reality 24/7/365 exhausts love…

So why not the truth?

The truth is simple and can be seen all over:

Most of us, most of the time, love life,

And are sorry to see it go with all those we loved?

Why not admit it?

Why do those who spurn life,

Want so much to share with us the perspective

Of short, cruel and brutish lives,

Not worth living?

Do those who spurn life,

Prefer pain, envy, sorrow, regrets, 

Addiction on the road to nowhere?

Some want their grapes sour,

So they don’t have to reach out.

That would be tiring, who needs it?

Some want to reestablish the covenant with their Lord, 

Do they want it dark? They want it darker?

By flinging life away, presumably helping, 

With the tragedy, terminating all,

Why not? 

What is there to lose?

When one already wants to lose it all?

They were going to get the shaft anyway,

They may as well pray for it,

Steal doom and gloom from fate itself,

Brandish them as trophies,

Laughing all the way to the bank of the apocalypse..

Captains of their own destinies,

They crow, and pluff their feathers,

Maybe damned, but at least in command,

Satisfying the intoxicating domination,

That the inner monkey,

Can’t live without..

Short, cruel and brutish lives

One for them, one for you,

Not worth having at all…

We told you so, and they chuckle smugly.

Who needs Wisdom when we can have death?

“Viva la muerte!”, 

They sing the old fascist slogan,

Of the Spanish Civil War.

The craving for annihilation defies all,

It’s all the God they need.

However, Wisdom knows better.

Wisdom sees even the worst individuals,

Use millions of years of cultural evolution, 

Thus sees the murders of goodness,

Implicitly celebrating what they pretend,

To want to destroy.

Those who spurn life rest on Wisdom,

While pretending not to need it.

Like existentialists, 

They open another bottle of champagne,

Claiming not having it would be absurd.

Wisdom knows the Dark Side is a rogue wave,

Sloshing around from time to time,

There to clean the muck.

 . 

Humanity’s Dark Side,

Is just on the side,

What’s needed for dirty and brutal work.

Enlightenment is the other side,

And defines us so much better,

Much more specifically.

All Wisdom sees in those who spurn life,

Is sour grapes masquerading as truth,

When Wisdom sees the Dark Side in command,

Doing what it does best,

Putting humanity in its place,’In the ultimate way,

Killing humanity to save Earth,

Wisdom sees a moment and a passage,

Towards better heavens.. 

To dominate what we need to survive,

We need evermore understanding,

Ever more life.

So if it’s more Wisdom you want 

Demand a longer life,

Demand passions worth living,

Don’t be content just with the guillotine

Of a life not worth examining.

Mod lyset / Towards the light

by Rudolph Tegner

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something brief on Anne Conway and British early modernity in ‘the longue durée’
https://pdbowman.studio/briefs/26-mar-23-justin-sledge-episode-on-anne-conway

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