Posted on 23 July 2010. Tags: absolutism, accident, act, aletheia, Alfred Noth Whitehead, alterity, angst, art, becoming, being, Bernard Lonergan, death, derivative, Emmanuel Levinas, Eternal Now, existence, Face, faith, Heidegger, Hume, language, meaning, metaphysics, nous, Otherness, Paul Tillich, process philosophy, radical theology, reason, Sartre, sociolinguistics, solitude, substance, thanatos, wisdom
the birth of Another, the apathy of Otherness —
this altercation of the unconscious Self,
born of the irrational Yet:
the vague paradigm of Nothingness
as it unfolds, this phenomenon of alterity
embodied subjectivity of the ephemereal Doom
utterances coalesce with infinity;
impending Dread : anxious metanoia of Becoming
the All revolves, in this orbit of anamnesis
poignant reverie of what Was, and yet to Be
this-being-I, caught in the transitional flux ; between act and potency
the dynamic interpolation of mind and will; pervading Absence
— ,God; ? (It not is if what not is Be if what not is become of yet! )
I elude this context of preconceptual knowing;
this frailty that succumbs to the Appearance
the unified multiplicity of understanding the Cogent:
derivatives of a preexistent Nous: language
and, as horizons, concrescence of reaching the Beyond
dissolution in the complexity of the Cogent, the face of its pull
all understanding converges in the evolution of mind
ideas converge in the Becoming;
but, not shall it Be for Yet it not is, what is yet not to Be
is not Shall, in the Be of the end and all of what is Yet —
to cry in the miscontextual co-promise; this Belonging
a failure of the messianic, redemptive fulfilment of what is bound to Become,
but is not Yet,
— as faith dies, only to be reborn in the ashes of reason.
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Posted on 18 May 2010. Tags: absurd, actuality-possibility, angst, being, Camus, choice, condition, dasein, despair, emptiness, existence, existentialism, freedom, Heidegger, metaphor, nothingness, philosophy, the Open, thinking, truth
I had a dream —
That darkness was all there is to see
That cold is all there was to feel
That there was nothing beyond this cocoon of despair
That, this seeming emptiness
Rendered the very fabrics of existence meaningless
And threw actions into overwhelming futility
It was absurd,
I had a dream.
And I woke up
Then there was light — a timeless luminance
And these sunrays filled me with warmth from within
And I — I am a butterfly!
Fluttering, wings engaged against the still air
Birthed into this enigma of Being,
Embracing the Open that transcends time.
I have endured the deepest winter,
And as the light pierced through this absurdity
I at last discovered —
That there was in me,
An invincible summer.
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