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To: briskit who wrote (16404)	2/22/2004 8:35:15 PM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

That's a marvelous point about the ennui of life...that after a time we all secretly begin to think "is this all there is ?" Clerics & theologians have not made it better by pointing it out, adding more tedious repetitions , ruminations and wonderings ... i cry , no ...I beg them to just -----> turn to Jesus ! Get --->illuminated ! Find your passion! anything but more "philosophy"....of course life can become droll. But what is the answer? One hint might be , not having all the answers. ;) Thank God and Jesus , we have scientists , poets , artists and the Bards!

To: briskit who wrote (16404)	2/23/2004 1:21:44 AM
From: 2MAR$	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 28931

the height of human heroism to face full on the absence of any meaning to life and embrace nihilism, the vast emptiness of the universe. Only if we could all be poets (and dancers) would we have time to despair (?) ...here's the great poem and ode covering just that same field of dilemna , by an aging lover of beauty and nature ..yet natture has taken her toll on him . Yet still he yearns for one more fresh glance at what was once easily seen as eternal and glorious when we were very young with tabla rasas still not overwritten with too much experience, of disillusion and disappointment. Ah give us the Pagan life again , the love of nature and the earth and bring back the Sun & Moon worship Mike ! Before its too late ! ;-) An Ode: "Intimations of Immortality " by william Wordsworth eir.library.utoronto.ca ( always loved these opening lines) The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety & awe (Wordsworth, "My Heart Leaps Up") 1There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream, 2 The earth, and every common sight, 3 To me did seem 4 Apparelled in celestial light, 5 The glory and the freshness of a dream. 6 It is not now as it hath been of yore;-- 7 Turn wheresoe'er I may, 8 By night or day. 9The things which I have seen I now can see no more. 10 The Rainbow comes and goes, 11 And lovely is the Rose, 12 The Moon doth with delight 13 Look round her when the heavens are bare, 14 Waters on a starry night 15 Are beautiful and fair; 16 The sunshine is a glorious birth; 17 But yet I know, where'er I go, 18That there hath past away a glory from the earth cont'd....

To: briskit who wrote (16404)	2/23/2004 1:38:59 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

I always love the 5th stanza : 58Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting: 59The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star, 60 Hath had elsewhere its setting, 61 And cometh from afar: 62 Not in entire forgetfulness, 63 And not in utter nakedness, 64But trailing clouds of glory do we come 65 From God, who is our home: 66Heaven lies about us in our infancy! 67Shades of the prison-house begin to close 68 Upon the growing Boy, 69But he beholds the light, and whence it flows, 70 He sees it in his joy; 71The Youth, who daily farther from the east 72 Must travel, still is Nature's Priest, 73 And by the vision splendid 74 Is on his way attended; 75At length the Man perceives it die away, 76And fade into the light of common day. of course , at the dawn of the industrial age of mass production and mass war , and asphalt jungles and alienation...such poets were/are no more. Men had/have little time to contemplate the peacful side of buccolic nature. But things are getting better , for we have the Nature Channel now in the 21rst century Eden. ;-)

To: briskit who wrote (16404)	2/29/2004 2:57:22 AM
From: 2MAR$	Respond to of 28931

Speaking of dancers & poets , who sustain and embody the light fire & truth within the human spirit eternally caught in the midst of its own existential ennui and despair ... This is definetely----> Charlize Theron's year ! Trained as a dancer and was briefly @ the Joffrey...from a rural farm upbringing in South Africa . She has just won the SAG, and today the SPIRIT award ...and tomorrow she will take the oscar for the film Monster. Thank Heaven ...for little girls who danced ! ;-)