7.17.2009

Roiling in the Kali-fornicatorium

excerpt:

The bad news is that it happens at all and that it goes on for so long. Sometimes the only way to learn a lasting lesson is for the pain of the experience to be made memorable. The good news is that this cancer is fatal. Cancer kills itself by destroying the organism on which it feeds. Is this not so? Is this not so? Ergo… here is your metaphor for evil. What are your options? You can join in this suicidal dance of death and thereby assist what is to come by providing us with your absence, or you can build a new world while the other one devours itself. Both of these things will and are happening right now. You’ll have to build a new you at the same time and that’s why it hurts and that’s why it feels dark and that is where the sense of ‘pressing down’ is coming from. You have to hang in there. You have to endure. For all of the despicable evidence of our corruptions, there is something truly great in humanity and this intensity of trial is what is polishing the gem within. You must rise to the occasion. Considering the alternative should be sufficient for all of the faith and strength required.

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1 comment:

Vigilante said...

Borrowing your Tryon Edwards epigram! Thanks!