jufa wrote:Clemsy, my post was in response to your following post:
For some reason, I'm reminded of a scene in a Pratchett novel. A guy says to Death, "They say before death a persons life passes before theIr eyes."
Death replies, "YES. THAT'S PRECISELY WHAT HAPPENS." (He always speaks in caps.)
Where is the symbolism and individualism within it?
Wow. All that just to respond to a free association? BTW, Jufa, I do agree with your catechism for the most part, but rather than just talk about The Grandness of it All If We'd Just Realize How Grand It All Really Is, we bat around somewhat smaller ideas in lower case letters.
Besides, Jufa, there is absolutely nothing wrong with Eating, Drinking and Being Merry. One needn't have to consider our Existence in-of-around and through Gross Matter as necessarily a bad thing because Here We Are and there is Nothing More Important than Being right Here and experiencing It to the fullest extent possible. Some, or many, are taken with the idea that One Must Evolve Beyond this Gross Matter and consider it a Tomb of the Spirit to be Risen above whereas others, such as I, see no difference between Matter and Spirit and Death is simply a release from Linear Time, a metaphorical transition from Now to NOW as Eternity which is so far beyond the power of Words and Thought and Mind that I may as well finally put a Period on this run-on sentence.
So I will enjoy that glass of Wine and Experience the Pain, Fear, Joy, Ease, Anger, Excitement, Love, Hate, Exhaustion, Exhilaration, Sex (!), Conversation, Sunsets, Wakings, Sleepings, Poems, Songs, Stars, Catastrophes and Tragedies that All go along with Being Human because I truly Believe with all my Heart that Being Human is a Fine Thing to Be.
See? I have a catechism to.
But you can't have it. It's mine.
You can borrow it if you wish.
As for the Symbolism and Individualism in my free associative post, well... Of course Death is the Symbol being a Personification birthed by the human tendency to personify all things abstract.
Like one's Personal God. He's a Personified Abstract.
So in this context, Death can also be a symbol for God, being the Personified Abstract that accompanies the One who has Passed the Threshold beyond into Eternity.
Cool?
Now, the Individualism comes in with the Individual Death is talking to. Of course Life passes before us before death. That's what's happening right Now and if you talked the old Boy up a bit about it, He'd probably insist that while Life is passing before you (a visual image, it is also in you,behind you, above and beneath you), and every friggin' day along this linear track brings us one day closer to the NOW I mentioned above, You'd Damn Well Better Pay Attention because Being Here is Just Too Cool To Miss so Be the Absolute Best You You can Be.
Howzat.
Clemsy, also just having some fun.
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