I remember once, down the pub with a friend Jim. We were sat talking to an old friend of mine Arthur. Anyway, Arthur who was 84 at the time offers Jim a cigarette, Jim replies "no thanks Arthur I've given up" Arthur replies, "You dont want to do that Jim, many of my friends stopped in their fifties, they're all dead now, I'm the only one left." Arthur lived on for another three years, he was in fact my Mother's partner, she smoked 20 cigarettes a day and lived to the age of 86 and hardly had a days illness all her life.
And there'll be sun, sun, sun All over our bodies and sun, sun, sun All down our necks and there'll be sun, sun, sun All over our faces and sun, sun, sun So what the heck
Have you ever heard a song for the first time that made you stop everything you were doing, and listen. Do you remember it and what you were doing? I remember arriving at a friends house in my car when Blue Monday by New Order came on the radio. I was totally transfixed and had to listen to the full track, much to the consternation of my friend who had seen me arrive only to sit in the car for the next ten minutes or so.
Any songs had this effect on you at first time of hearing?
Doubt is a form of radical faith. The only way we can remain faithful to the 'mystery of mystery' is to preserve ambiguity. Certainty is the enemy of truth. The truly faithful person is the iconoclast who must, from time to time, break the old categories in order to free the energy to flow again. All concepts, whether domas or operative beliefs, are husks which once held energy but which can also serve as a prison.
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