Traces of dining room spirits caught by the camera's eye, early morning, Chelsea.
"We live in a spiritual vacuum. There is no purpose," writes blogpal Frank of The Cool Blue Blog in a slouching-toward-Bethlehem moment of introspection:
The trap civilization sets for us is that being relieved of the direct experience of life and death has caused in many the false belief that we are somehow not subject to the laws of the universe. Most people have not experienced the untimely death of a loved one, and we certainly do not experience it on a routine basis. And when we do, we have elaborate rituals designed to separate ourselves from it.
We do everything in our power to separate ourselves from the truth and inevitibility of our death, and by doing so, we actually separate ourselves from life. We do everything in our power to keep ourselves alive. We attempt to employ every medical trick in the book, pay every expense we can afford; demand every service from our governments, employers, priests, shamans and hucksters (then of course complain about the cost) to keep at bay the Man with the Scythe.
And we do this because most do not believe there is anything beyond that curtain no matter how often we pay lipservice (and tithes) to the religion of our choice.
Not faithful to any particular religion, yet we totally empathize with Frank and have found unanticipated comfort and inspiration in the words of Benedetto, the Pope who loves cats and Mozart and recognizes more than his predecessor the threat that Islamicism poses to Western civilization.
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