A timeless quip states, Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.
Let the word Lord signify the Great Beyond and all forces unknown to us, not anything derived from books or religions.
Fear leads to wisdom. It’s not immediately obvious how that is. Frankly I didn’t plan to start the entry this way.
But the lack of planning is precisely what I want to champion here; it’s precisely what I want to rip apart, all plans and sure statements, where you toe carefully lest you reveal yourself insane!
For I believe fear of the Lord is to throw into question everything you ever thought was and contemplate what could be. Fear here doesn’t mean to cower and hide, but instead to acknowledge the speck you inhabit and all of the possible forces around you that you are SUBJECT to. Man has deluded himself to be BEYOND his circumstances when he IS derived from such mysterious circumstances. Do you not find AWE in who you are, what sort of power commanded and configured this entire reality around you? Why DIDN’T they lock you in a metaphysical iron maiden? Is this a gift, is this a gift?
Only by seeing the possibility of WHAT IS NOT BUT COULD BE can you feel the fear lying within. To fear the Lord is to revere the works around us. It is not to bow to any ruler, nor church, nor peoples, nor fates. It is to revere the design of this world, your world, this reality, your playpen of sprites lurking far and wide. It is not FEAR, it is REVERENCE. For all reverence is a subset of fear, but not all fear reverence. It is to understand that with such magnitude — not only do we physically inhabit but a droplet in a sea, but our mental configurations comprise only that droplet.
The whole spindle of humanity resides upon but a dewdrop, resting in an ever expanding universal tree, constellations only branches. How can we begin to conceive any other world! With such a limited scope, a fuzzy vision; who are we to say! How can we say with such CERTAINTY of ANYTHING with how our world is, its origins, its forces, its baked in laws — how could one make statements without holding close such reverence, soaking up these facts and distilling from there?
I say DEATH! DEATH TO ..RATIONALITY..! For RATIONALITY nowadays is anything BUT. It is a cowardice, it is conniving, it backs one into a smug corner with limp-doll living.
Believe me, I have respect for the rationale - but do you know the true quality of a rational mind?
It is the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.
It is the ability to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The current malignant form of Rationality which is ‘gifted’ to us through our priest class of University Professors and Researchers and Experts telling us what to think and how - sure, sure, the base premise is entirely sound! Of course! They’re experts. But this malignant form evicts any such responsibility for you to entertain things yourself. It has robbed the VERY MARK of a RATIONAL MIND! Imagine that!
.You can’t entertain sorcery and magic, that’s been ‘proven’ wrong years ago!.
.Do you seriously think the stars matter? Come on!.
.What, there’s some sort of vague energy in you that you can control? You’re nuts..
These very same experts once concluded the lobotomy is a sound operation.
And the same experts back you into a corner of pill-popping, leaving you defeated and insane, when there’s nothing wrong with you: it is the dominating thoughts that are wrong.
But you can only begin to question it when you torch all neuroloops of modern ‘rationality’. Torch the village, the church, the institution, the news, the home, the people; torch it all in your mind until the nitro-fueled soil bares the sweetest fruit you know.
It’s not that rationality is bad; it is dead, it has been co-opted. It now lobotomizes all thought, and all new breaths of realized possibility. So I plead with you, no more .WHY. and .SOURCES. and other such things. ASK WHY NOT! RESIDE with the cosmos, hold the sceptre and spin your own reality!
No more citations, nothing else, pure experience is my witness. I would rather be schizophrenic than lifeless.
Aye, I fear the Lord.
It is the beginning of wisdom.