The Prayer Of The Faithful
God, our Father and Keeper, let me do the right thing always. Help me in doing my duty to my spouse and to my children. Let my heart always be filled with love. Let the sublime, holy spirit pervade me in everything I do. Help me, oh Lord, so that I may live an upright, honest life. Chasten me, oh Lord, if I may stray from the path of the righteous. Right me, if I go wrong. Remind me, if I forget my faith.
Om/Amen.
The Song Of The Nihilist
Morality. Values. Chastity. Do the right thing. This is SO wrong. He is so dutiful. She is righteous. Such a noble gesture.
Pretty words, charming thoughts, these.
What is right? What is wrong? We are never right, we are never wrong, we just ARE. And one day, we will cease to BE. These are the only two truths that matter. The rest is fluff.
There are no noble gestures. Every gesture either improves you or degrades you and has an equal and opposite effect on another. Life is a zero-sum game. If you win, someone loses.
Words, the real culprits are words. When we invented language, we invented duty, chastity, morality, love. They are the byproducts of the invention of language; nothing more. Quit kidding yourself.
In a world absent language, we would be bashing at each other or copulating with each other. Come to think of it, if we get to the heart of the matter, this is what we do anyway. The difference--had we not had the benefit of being able to couch it in pompous analeptic language--is that we would have been more honest about it.
Don't lose heart--it ain't over till the fat lady sings. God moves in mysterious ways his wonders to perform. Love will keep us alive. Do thy duty. Keep the faith.
The fat lady has finished her song and God has left the building. Actually, he never was in the building.
Love? Love can be exchanged for the price of a few coins in dirty, dank alleyways. Or thrown to the sharks for the sake of a convenient compromise. Or sometimes just for the lark.
Duty trumps love. Convenience trumps duty.
Faith--yes, let's keep that. I hear it fetches a good price.
Question
Pick a card, any card--prayer or song? Which is your poison? What's your preferred sedative?
And more importantly, if someone is hungry in the middle of the night, what is the least fattening snack food to keep handy?
3 comments:
Sougata: Glad to see that you are very much alive and kicking (and screaming I see..).. Email me at balajee@hotmail.com - yes, it's me.. the one and only!
You think you have it bad, friend? Then consider this: you at least don't have to live with me. I, on the other hand, have no choice in the matter and have to actually live with myself.
24 times 7 times 365 times 60 times 60. Can't get away on weekends. No vacations, no overtime pay, nothing.
Are you beginning to get the picture?
:-)
The answers to the question of the least fattening snack in the middle of the night are many.......tofu, soyabean(in addition to least fattening, it reduces incidences of heart problems and possibly cancer), and if u want something with taste....well a little more fattening (because it is a carbohydrate) but good nonetheless would be whole'grain'(not 'wheat') crackers/biscuits low on sodium content, they would also help in the morning after thus reducing chances of colon cancer).Please no fruits if u have an acid problem.What say????
Mithai
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