constant escape
winter withered, warm
You can think of it as mere occupation, which is much more negative, or you can read it as partaking in some cosmic process that very likely could have an end, or a series of ends.
But when there isn't a ground below you, its always an infinite fall, and always an infinite climb. Winter withers the static soul. The climb is its own end, no?
there's no actual instruction manual though - all the books require plenty of interpretationexistence must be made a wee bit easier when you have the answers in a book and when you don’t it’s just god moves in mysterious ways! In fact I’m pretty sure you’ve said similar I’m getting a weird deja vu writing this out
yes
it's all the same thing, unless you dawkin itI mean, there is science? Not for everything but that does provide a bit of info about why things happen. I don't want to get all Dawkins about it mind.
What comes after postmodernism?
Gnosis
there's no actual instruction manual though - all the books require plenty of interpretation
but there are answers, and also direction. subscribing to organised or personal belief can help with achieving moral/good conduct, in groups and individuals, regardless of doctrine or ritual,
of course. I’m being pretty simple about it. Part of it is about a community of believers like someone just said. Having others around to believe with, act in accordance with, the ritual and communal acts are beneficial, maybe moreso than any of the content
That does sound quite rough. I'm very keen on the idea of the secular rites of passage teeangers have. Drugs is definitely one of them and fits in with that ancient shamanistic stuff of communing with the divine/the universe as a gateway to adulthood.