Through the Lookinglasself

Uncertainty update...

lookinglasssky — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:31:41 GMT

So. I haven't renounced the world yet. Yet, being the operative word here. I desperately want to make a positive impact on this here starlit mire but am still unsure of which way to do this. I know that the best way for me to do something positive is to rearrange my internal landscape, which I'm in process of, hell, I'm ALWAYS in process. But, lately I've been seriously starving for that external validation, not that I need somebody to tell me how good I'm doing, but that I need some sort of product. Yes, i said product, like something to live beyond me, something of substance. I really need to know that what I'm doing is making an impact on this here Babylonian complex and the Catholic Worker seems like a good start. Now I know when I say Catholic Worker people might not understand where I'm coming from, misconstruing this to mean Catholic in the religious sense, but that's not the case. When I say Catholic Worker I mean the movement that was started during the depression by Dorothy Day and Peter Maurin, both communist. This movement was a reaction to Dorothy's spiritual awakening caused by her meeting face to face for the first time actual modern day lepers, the poor and dispossesed women, men and children who were the living casualites of our countries economic depression. Her response to this epidemic was to give up her life of personal comfort and dedicate it to the teachings of Christ, opening her home to the homeless and spreading love in a personalistic way that was contrary to our governments beurocratic response and the churches less than christianly attitude to this epidemic. She made it her life's mission to live the path of the cross, opening her home and heart to what she viewed as the twentieth centuries version of the leper; drug and alchohol addicts, whores, the physically disabled. To this day the Catholic Worker maintains and operates many hospitality houses throughout the United States that are continuing the work Dorothy and Peter started almost a hundred years ago. Along with the practical work with the dispossessed the Worker has also inluded many politically activated individuals committed to civil disobediance in reaction to our countries miltaristic agendas. Many throughout the years have been imprisoned for their various plowshares actions, like spreading blood on the doors of the pentagon, hammering on nuclear warheads and line crossings at such institutions as the School of the Amerikkkas. So... as of late I have been seriously considering casting my lot with these rightous brothers and sisters and lending my support to the frontlines of the peace and justice movement. Problem is I'm too DAMN LAZY. So, yeah, that's where I'm at. So, for more info check out catholicworker.org.

A vision for the coming revolution...

lookinglasssky — Sun, 14 Aug 2005 21:00:19 GMT

I see a nation of mad, gypsy mystics caravanning around, painting dadaesque haikus on city walls, squatters and urban aboriginies terraforming our post apocolyptic garden, Babyon fallen and Zion restored, a new rennaissance for the post eMpTyV, sur-reality show generation, prayer flags and tent cities, alien mandalas and sacred geometry, a rainbow nation...

Uncertainty of the material world

lookinglasssky — Thu, 28 Jul 2005 00:48:02 GMT

So... I've seriously been considering taking everything in my life and chucking it all out the door. It just seems that all of my endeavors up to now have been pointless. What's the point of having a place to live when there's so many others without a home??? What's a point in acquiring material treasures when there's so many people without even the most basic of lifes necessaties i.e. food, clothing and shelter??? Christ told us that if we loved Him we'd take up our cross and follow. Well, I've been thinking alot lately, ever since my excursion through the looking glass, and I think I'm close to making a decision. I think I'm going to join up with the Catholic Worker. Here is the only place I've been able to find where the people are actually living the ideals they profess without being hypocritical. The folks in the worker actually walk the walk, as opposed to talk, talk, talking about some grandiose vision. And they're living simply according to time, place and circumstance. Yeah, I think it's gonna be voluntary poverty for me, if I can just get my ass up off of the couch.