BetteTheRed
Resident Heretic
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I am Witch.
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I am Witch.
LikewiseGood to see you again!
Good to see you too, paradox3, and Pinga, and everyone else.Good to see you @Hermann. How have you been?
Sometimes you have to read something twice to make sure. I read this three times.I am a Born Again Holy Spirit filled Christian who only relies on God and His Word ---I don't believe in any Man made Religions --
I agree with Socrates - I have always feared death, and now in my Autumn/Winter? years I'm devoting more time contemplating my death.........
When the two people you love the most in this life die prematurely, it can't help but affect you.
I can readily see that I have to hold on to a "shy hope" in a God. I need someone/some concept, to stay the course with me and support me when my time comes.
I have no wish to go raging into that good night, my hope is that there is a God who will show me the way to leave this life in peace and calm acceptance.
"Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night."
-Dylan Thomas
Socrates' words presumably had forked lightning, so that he did not rage against the dying of the light. So, if our own thoughts or words have forked lighting, then, presumably, we too may go gentle into that good night. But forking lightning with our thoughts is not easy, and only a lucky few achieve it.
Buddhism teaches to go beyond attachment, but it is attachment to the things or people we love that makes life sweet. Without attachment, life is stale. And to suddenly go beyond attachment near the end of life is difficult. But whatever we have become attached to in life we must lose in death, either in the death of those we love or in our own. The only consolation might be that we must eventually lose everything we possess. The bitter loss necessitates the sweet possession; the sweet possession brings about the bitter loss. Such is the bitter sweetness of life.
In the great Australian movie, The Thornbirds, Father Ralph says to Maggie: "At the moment of death, Christ will appear and take you in." Although I am not a conventional believer, I believe in the metaphorical truth of that statement. I believe that something like that will happen at the moment of death. So, do go gentle into that good night!
One bright day in the middle of the night, Two dead men got up to fight. Back-to-back they faced one another, Drew their swords and shot each other. One was blind and the other couldn't see, So they chose a dummy for a referee. A blind man went to see fair play, A dumb man went to shout "hooray!" A deaf policeman heard the noise, And came and shot the two dead boys. A paralysed donkey walking by, Kicked the copper in the eye, Sent him through a nine inch wall, Into a dry ditch and drowned them all. If you don't believe this lie is true, Ask the blind man -- he saw it too! |
One bright day in the middle of the night,
Two dead men got up to fight.
Back-to-back they faced one another,
Drew their swords and shot each other.
One was blind and the other couldn't see,
So they chose a dummy for a referee.
A blind man went to see fair play,
A dumb man went to shout "hooray!"
A deaf policeman heard the noise,
And came and shot the two dead boys.
A paralysed donkey walking by,
Kicked the copper in the eye,
Sent him through a nine inch wall,
Into a dry ditch and drowned them all.
If you don't believe this lie is true,
Ask the blind man -- he saw it too!
It doesn't fit. But I saw several poems down the page and thought one more couldn't hurt. and it a nice way to make an entrance being I've been absent for a short while.Not clear on how this fits with the topic, but it's hilarious.