BECOMING THE VOID[views:1984][posts:0]__________________________________________ [Apr 23,2008 10:27pm - Conservationist ""] They stared anxiously at one another, like vicious friends, hinting that while one would protest each and every idea that the other postulated, they ultimately found each other to exist in a mutual relationship, as if they really were one and the same. The bright sun light from the window illuminated the library and coloured the dust in the air. It was both an historical place and a place within history; a convergence between the past, the present, and the unforeseen future. But man is a creature of search and whatever turns out to be an imaginative possibility, will be the object of his interest. It was topics of such nature; divine gods, emptiness, existence, and modernity, which the two young students intensively discussed: "Your gods are dead. Gone. No more. In ignorance you killed them and now their existence is limited to historical anecdotes and lifeless myths that no one understands anymore. And you, pathetic modern man, tries to give new life to the ruins of your decaying culture. Confused, disorganized, you desperately cling unto your sacred idols. 'But they must exist', you cry out - but alas, in vain. Your cries echo the silence and emptiness of your dying empire. You thought you could turn the past into present. You were wrong. This is the time when man has to face himself and realize that he is embodied within a godless world of no meaning and hope. The question is: Do you dare to live on - passionately?" http://www.anus.com/zine/articles/alexis/nothingness/ |