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Star Wars

Men så skoj (Star Wars Bröllop)

ingelsseptember 5, 2004Uncategorized

Jag har alltid trott att om jag någonsin skulle gifta mig så borde det hända i Las Vegas, Ni vet. Med Elvis ”The King” Presley som gör hela ”uh uh eh” -grejen och kanske ha Michael Jackson som vittne. Det här Star Wars-bröllopet kan säkert slå Kraften ur vilken jedi som helst och kan vara…Read more

For the rest of the earth’s organisms, existence is relatively uncomplicated. Their lives are about three things: survival, reproduction, death—and nothing else. But we know too much to content ourselves with surviving, reproducing, dying—and nothing else. We know we are alive and know we will die. We also know we will suffer during our lives before suffering—slowly or quickly—as we draw near to death. This is the knowledge we “enjoy” as the most intelligent organisms to gush from the womb of nature. And being so, we feel shortchanged if there is nothing else for us than to survive, reproduce, and die. We want there to be more to it than that, or to think there is. This is the tragedy: Consciousness has forced us into the paradoxical position of striving to be unself-conscious of what we are— hunks of spoiling flesh on disintegrating bones.