Melody
I’m not sure why this post is called Melody. I started writing in it when I was listening to The Sacrifice, and I guess that’s where I got it from. I love the melody in this song, that’s why I’ve posted the lyrics beforehand.
I’m waiting for Fall to get back from feeding his cat, and text me. I miss him a lot, even though it’s only been about 15 minutes. My heart sings his melody.
I am revising my Outline of thoughts, to include things such as enlightenment, death, beauty, animal souls, mortification, and so on. I’ll have to post the new version later on today, when i finish it and broaden it. I want to someday write a book on my philosophies, someday soon. This is a good way to get started, I guess. I want to post a few things onto this blog.
I came across some ideas I liked, or agreed with and put some of them in my Outline. I want to explain them further in here. First, “there is no flux,” This is from Parmenides, the antiHeraclitus. He believed everything is stagnant. The more things change, the more they stay the same.
Second, Plato’s Forms or Ideas. I partly agree with him, but it was an interesting idea. He believed that the physical reality of things are just shadows of the real essences of things. Plato believed in reincarnation; he said that the period before rebirth and after death is the period where we access all Forms, and we finally “get it.’” But when we hit the earth, we forget it all! Goody.
I don’t remember if I posted the post about Nous or not, I think AOL signed me off when I was typing it in. On my AOL profile, it begins with the word, “NOUS” and it has been like that for a very long time. By now, I’ve forgotten why I had it on there, or what it means. I came across it again, and remembered.. Of course, we all know about Aristotle and his causes. (I almost put “her causes” because the name Aristotle seems like a girl’s name to me, lol) The first cause, is what he defines as God, the unmoved mover. By his thinking, he concluded that God is pure Mind, which he called Nous. (Divine Mind)
This reminds me of something else, Apeiron. This was written on my shoes along with “I LOVE FALL” and was in profile a long time ago. Apeiron means The Boundless and was introduced by Anaximander, an old philosopher. (If you’re wondering why I’m still stuck in the Greeks and early philosophers, it’s because I’m restudying them in the order of time periods. I’ll get to the bigger philosophers later.) He believed all elements made up a more common element he called Apeiron (which in our case is sort of like matter, but you can interpret it differently) and believed all things arise from Apeiron, and all things return to Aperion. I believe we all return to the Divine in the end.
Next, I’d like to move forward to Epicureanism, and no this is not the couch potato philosophy. Although it is true that it is a pursuit of pleasure, pleasure was defined as moderation, reading, and thinking. Epicurus really liked quiet time. He believed that one of the worst things to do is to worry about the future. I think he promoted the zen concept of living in the Now, and not worrying about the Later. If we live in the Now and achieve tranquility, we are in the best possible state and inner peace will be ours.
