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About Me

We act in order to flee the void, to imply direction or purpose by the "act" of fleeing.At the cost of our innocence we acquire the consciousness of our estrangement from the objective world. The tragic nature of human existence, the fate a reflective soul experiences when it realizes that there is no meaning to its pain, is the profane birthright of our haunted self-awareness...Beyond the vanity of hope lies the comfort of disillusionment...Our most profound defiance is not directed outward to the political world of systems and hierarchies. It is, rather, directed at the terror of our own being. By giving our vision lucid form, we assert the power of the creative will over the self's ever degenerative, ever present, impulses towards oblivion and chaos...Hoping for nothing except the very remote we seek repose in the equivocal mystery of infinity. We are little better than clairvoyant puppets at times petulant... a cryptic convergence of anatomy and anxiety; shadows of a departed divinity in a theater of incidental gesture... Duration is without beginning or end. Space is limitless. Matter,in its elemental status, is eternal; and while subject to infinite changes may neither be created nor annihilated. Yet the soul of man is mortal. A man dies; the elements of his body survive and are transformed, his mind disappears, his unique soul perishes . . . The material evidence of life and time; the outmoded, the ephemeral, and the commonplace are gathered together and transformed by the recognition they generate, into symbols of the ambiguous nature of our being, a timeless narrative under the constant challenge of the inevitable. You should create your own MySpace Layouts like me by using nUCLEArcENTURy .COM's MySpace Profile Editor !

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Attrition - a girl called harmony

My Blog

. . .Music

Music: a spirit which appears extraneous to the world of appearances, which reaches out for another truer reality the essence of which searches beyond the transitory facade of this "world" to a realm ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 08:22:00 GMT

Liberum Arbitrium Indifferentiae

The masses crave the voluptuous pleasures of the penitent. We eagerly await the gift of chastisement form the hands of demagogues whose predatory instincts offer a respite from our 'ennui'. The succes...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:21:00 GMT

Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of God,

Babylon hath been a golden cup in the hand of God, which hathmade all the earth drunken: the nations have drunken of her wine, therefore all nations are mad. + Book of Jeremiah ( 51 : 7 ) + Man has e...
Posted by on Wed, 19 Mar 2008 07:26:00 GMT

Lewis & Sorel

Absence of responsibility, an automatic and stereotyped rhythm, is what men most desire for themselves. All struggle has for its end relief or repose.  A rhythmic movement is restful: but consc...
Posted by on Wed, 12 Mar 2008 06:11:00 GMT

"And the people?" excerpt from: E. M. Cioran

"And the people?" It will be asked. The thinker or thehistorian who employs the word without irony disqualifieshimself. It is all too clear what "the people" are destinedfor: to suffer events and r...
Posted by on Fri, 07 Mar 2008 05:06:00 GMT

Selections from: José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955)

Life is at the start a chaos in which one is lost. The individual suspects this, but he is frightened at finding himself face to face with this terrible reality, and tries to cover it over with a cur...
Posted by on Fri, 22 Feb 2008 08:10:00 GMT

excerpts from: History And Utopia - E. M. Cioran (cont.)

By banishing the irrational and the irreparable, utopia further sets itself against tragedy, paroxysm and quintessence of history. In a perfect city, all conflict would cease; human wills would be thr...
Posted by on Sat, 16 Feb 2008 08:55:00 GMT

excerpts from: History And Utopia - E. M. Cioran

. . . tyranny is just what one can develop a taste for, since it so happens that man prefers to wallow in fear rather than to face the anguish of being himself. Generalize the phenomenon and the Caes...
Posted by on Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:24:00 GMT

To sorrow we are born. It is out of sadness that men have made this world beautiful.

Suffering - which comes from the collision between con-sciousness and unconsciousness - is cured, not by submerging oneself in the unconscious, but by raising onself to the highest consciousness and ...
Posted by on Sat, 09 Feb 2008 09:05:00 GMT

Benjamin & Eliot

Odd NerdrumMankind which in Homer's time was an object of contemplation for the Olympic Gods, now is one for itself. Its self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destru...
Posted by on Wed, 23 Jan 2008 07:15:00 GMT