Comments | concordiadiscor: Is anything ever real?

concordiadiscor

Is anything ever real?

Nov 24, 2003 23:57

Karma is just the lie I tell myself so that my life isn't just a myriad of people walking all over me. Justice is the concept I hold onto for my sanity. But really, as life continues to progress, I question more and more the validity of this supposed "cosmic nobility ( Read more... )

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artofself November 24 2003, 21:05:47 UTC

so that my life isn't just a myriad of people walking all over me.

I'm trying to resist that, myself.

I'm finding it difficult.

concordiadiscor November 24 2003, 21:29:17 UTC

Of everything of I've ever done in my life...trying to care less or not all, has proven to be hardest.

Welcome to my friends list, btw. Not all my posts are filled with doom and glood, just honest self introspection and contemplation of everything that makes up: i.e. madness ;-)

artofself November 24 2003, 21:44:01 UTC

*nods*

Thanks for the welcome. And no need to apologize: the prose is beautiful, doom or no.

notlistening November 24 2003, 21:31:51 UTC

I gave up on karma a while ago. Only now am I starting to feel it surround me again and I'm second guessing.

Don't hold on so desperately. Hug it like a friend.

sean_gabriel November 25 2003, 03:46:00 UTC

The reason we need something like karma though is because life without it is pointless. Kafka (amongst millions of others, no doubt) wrote that people have a need for something indestructible to remove the doubt and hesitation they feel about doing anything in a world where everything is transient, and that's why they create Gods. On the other hand, surely just doing something - anything - is better than wasting your life worrying about its permanence. And if it happens to be something that makes yours and other peoples' lives nicer, then maybe its better than forced belief in something super-real just because we can't make sense of our own selves.

pryvtedncr November 25 2003, 11:52:14 UTC

What an interesting and provocative comment ( ... )

sean_gabriel November 25 2003, 12:06:08 UTC

I think that in a way all that does is make religion a comfort blanket, though, and not much better. I'm not trying to be outright provocative - although I'm definitely working from a decidedly cynical perspective - but I do see most people's logic for "belief" in anything to be based on the fact that they want their lives to seem safer ( ... )

pryvtedncr November 26 2003, 03:51:33 UTC

I didn't think you were trying to denigrate anyone's beliefs at all ( ... )

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