look at me

I think that an element of insanity runs through the entire human experience and most of that insanity comes from the anxiety created by our understanding of time and the absolute reality of ethics. If we look forward we see the inevitability of suffering and death, we see that we have choices that might affect when death will occur and how much suffering we will do in the meantime but have no way of knowing with any certainty what the outcome of our choices will be. We know also that the things we do will affect other people and given our innate compassion for them we naturally feel guilty for the wrongs we commit. That is the soul of man and I doubt that it has changed at all over the last two thousand years. The prophets catered to man's anxieties with stories of forgiveness and everlasting life. They either made up these stories or they honestly believed them because they had experienced a temporary split from reality. It doesn't suprise me at all that such sensitive people would write such beautiful texts. Look at me, I'm nuts, but I wrote this.