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A life of privilege
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away (okay, back in the '60s) I read a Readers' Digest[*] bio about William Beebe, creator of the Bathysphere, in which he was quoted as saying something to the effect of: "The greatest sin is boredom." You know, this is awesome! I have been feeling very bored in a key area of my life, and beyond that feeling, I feel that there is some degree of ego that connects to the feeling of boredom. I came to usenet seeking the source of boredom, as well as the cure & the spiritual/emotional connections surrounding the feeling. That stuck with me. This world is so full of wonderments, the appreciation of which is greatly facilitated by bicycling. When people admit to being bored, I confess I'll regard and discount them as vacuous. Yes. I know that's a terrible thing to say about anybody, but I just fail to understand how anyone can be bored. Heck, I've known a few bi-polar people who've plombed the depths the despair, but even they weren't bored. Ennui is like just giving up, rolling over, and deciding to die on the spot. "FTW, I'm outa here." That print by Albrecht Durer, titled "Melancholia" http://www.alchemylab.com/melancholia.htm ****es me off something fierce, and makes me wanna kick the guy-in-the-picture's ass. He needs to spread his wings and ride his bike. If you're of aspiritual/intuitve nature, being bored boils down to denying the elaborate mystique of Creation. If you're of a scientific/analytical nature, being bored smacks of quitting and despairingly giving-up. And if you're of an artistic/creative nature, being bored means your creative pilot light has been blown out and you don't feel like relighting it or letting anyone/anything else relight it for you so you could continue to embellish the world. BINGO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Boredomis stupidity, wastefulness, detrimentality and destructiveness. The next step down fromboredomis downright malevolence. Boredomis the threshold of evil. cheers, Tom |
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