I'm so sick of all the people who casually rattle off "Oh I don't have a religion, I don't believe in God, I'm an atheist." As if to have any faith in a higher power is nothing but pure foolishness and ignorance. Read More »
anguish
Atheism... pure weakness
By basho - Posted on October 7th, 2008
Tagged: anguish
• atheism
• Bataille
• chaos
• death
• despair
• emerson
• Failure
• God
• hope
• Humanism
• loss
• Narcotics
• order
• Philosophy
• prosperity
• reality
• Religion
• theology
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
Meditation on Death
By basho - Posted on September 18th, 2008
Tagged: anguish
• Bataille
• Desire
• dying
• energy
• establishing value
• existentialism
• facing death
• feeling
• love
• morality
• mortality
• Philosophy
• vitality
• Broad prosperity
• Shared responsibility
• Effective government
• Personal freedom
• Better future
What I cherish in Bataille: his worldview. All, he says, is but part of a system of interplaying energetic forces. The system is such as to desire violent excess, chaos. All is desire to overflow, to explode, to release, to expend. Energetic frenzy is seemingly suspended- it's slowed up, congealed... Until the breaking point. Read More »
