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T Darkstar

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"All the towering materialism which dominates the modern mind rests ultimately upon one assumption; a false assumption. It is supposed that if a thing goes on repeating itself it is probably dead; a piece of clockwork. People feel that if the universe was personal it would vary; if the sun were alive it would dance. This is a fallacy even in relation to known fact. For the variation in human affairs is generally brought into them, not by life, but by death; by the dying down or breaking off of their strength or desire. A man varies his movements because of some slight element of failure or fatigue. He gets into an omnibus because he is tired of walking; or he walks because he is tired of sitting still. But if his life and joy were so gigantic that he never tired of going to Islington, he might go to Islington as regularly as the Thames goes to Sheerness. The very speed and ecstasy of his life would have the stillness of death. The sun rises every morning. I do not rise every morning; but the variation is due not to my activity, but to my inaction. Now, to put the matter in a popular phrase, it might be true that the sun rises regularly because he never gets tired of rising. His routine might be due, not to a lifelessness, but to a rush of life. The thing I mean can be seen, for instance, in children, when they find some game or joke that they specially enjoy. A child kicks his legs rhythmically through excess, not absence, of life. Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, "Do it again"; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, "Do it again" to the sun; and every evening, "Do it again" to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we. The repetition in Nature may not be a mere recurrence; it may be a theatrical ENCORE. Heaven may ENCORE the bird who laid an egg. If the human being conceives and brings forth a human child instead
of bringing forth a fish, or a bat, or a griffin, the reason may not be that we are fixed in an animal fate without life or purpose. It may be that our little tragedy has touched the gods, that they admire it from their starry galleries, and that at the end of every human drama man is called again and again before the curtain. Repetition may go on for millions of years, by mere choice, and at any instant it may stop. Man may stand on the earth generation after generation, and yet each birth be his positively last appearance." - G.K. Chesterton

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Commented Consolidation is great. on How to consolidate? on Blazersedge - 11/09/09 6:49 PM EST

Recommended It's easy to tell the difference on Blazersedge - 11/09/09 10:02 AM EST

Recommended A Paradigm Shift? Is the new 3-guard system for the Blazers the answer? on Blazersedge - 11/09/09 9:02 AM EST

Commented Freudian slip? on Gameday Open Thread: 'Wolves vs. Blazers--First Half on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 9:09 PM EST

Commented Canis Hoopus is deciding to have some fun: on Gameday Open Thread: 'Wolves vs. Blazers--First Half on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 9:08 PM EST (2 replies)

Commented Second, but that's okay, we still love you. on Gameday Open Thread: 'Wolves vs. Blazers--First Half on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 9:02 PM EST

Commented I'd be crying in my Brandy Old Fashioned. on Gameday Open Thread: 'Wolves vs. Blazers--Pregame Edition on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 8:43 PM EST

Commented Yes? on Gameday Open Thread: 'Wolves vs. Blazers--Pregame Edition on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 8:42 PM EST (1 reply)

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Commented Just being a smart ass. on The Blazers NEED to make a move at or before the trade deadline... on Blazersedge - 11/08/09 5:43 PM EST (1 reply)

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Posted OT: Petitio Principii, Worldview, and Sports Related Conversations on Blazersedge - 11/04/09 11:05 PM EST

Voted for He sits in a La-z-boy in front of a nice high-def TV with a fridge full of beer, but if the wife comes home and the trash isn't out there will be trouble. He has plenty of time. on Blazersedge - 11/04/09 8:37 PM EST

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Voted for 1:100 on Blazersedge - 11/03/09 9:30 PM EST

Commented I think it has happened more than once. on Not Quite Open Thread, PDX vs Atlanta on Blazersedge - 11/03/09 9:27 PM EST (1 reply)

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