Weather: Mildly grumpy
Firstly, my mouse has gone crab-like. It refuses to travel up, only sideways. So no linkies or any fancy tag-use in this post. Just a wall of text.
Now. Yes, this is a new beginning for this dead blog. A nifty piece of necromancy if you ask me. I still don’t have any plans for this so it’ll probably end up being a mish-mash of incomplete book/movie/comic/people reviews and other assorted randomness that pops into my head every now and then. I should do something about the look and feel of this thing. Maybe later. Hmm.
Now for the obligatory OP profundity. Let’s see. Something Kabbalist maybe? Here we go:
“First they ask the whereabouts of the King’s house and then they ask where the King is.” (From the Sefer Ha-Bahir)
If you do not know what you are searching for, you will never find it. The King’s house is where the King resides. The King is contained in the house. Rather, the King is interpreted in the context of the House he is located in. An associated quote would be :
“It will therefore only be in language that the limit can be drawn, and what lies on the other side of the limit will simply be nonsense.”
(From the Preface to the Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus)
All thought is expressed in language. Thus, a limit to thought can be drawn by assessing the limits to language. Think I’m getting carried away here. To return to the original quote from the Bahir, all event must thus be judged in its own context. This context would of course be a personal context developed out of experience or wanting that, association of ideas or plain hearsay. The Bahir quote calls us to examine this context itself, to see what it is made of, where it finds its validation. And most importantly, if it is the house of the King. If the context is valid for the item under consideration.
I’m a-hungry, a-thirsty and have a splitting headache like a keystone in the overarching dome of my mortal suffering. Any more rambling will have to wait till my next post, I fear. Did I mention my mouse refuses to scroll upwards? I found a workaround for it. I can trick it into moving upwards by moving it an arc instead of directly upwards. Things aren’t as bad as they were a mere 10 minutes ago, dear reader, and peace reigns once more in my household.
