August 20, 2007

  • Get behind me Satan

    >Aw, come on Coach Carter! Haha.

    >RE: To do list #1
    >Seek no comfort with anyone else but the comfort with self.

    Howietissue, I don't need your smug, condescending, psudo-psychological, new-age, and self-masturbatory maxims!  I'm not looking for your pat advice, sympathy, OR agreement.  Go mock someone else!  There's plenty of people on Xanga.

    Marriage is comforting?  From what I've seen, heard, and read, that's not a place I look for comfort.  Forget about family.  Friends, forget it.  Those things are undependable.  But they are all things that most humans do or have.  You can go live on a desert island or a box for all I care.

    I wasn't even being philosophical for the first or second one, but since we're on philosophy: the self is a desolate thing.  The self is the last place to feel any comfort.  Consolation is in Christ no where else.  Even that is insanely hard since He ain't even physically present.  Even the Holy Spirit is cold comfort in this "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short" life.

    You know what, there is no comfort--consolation possibly, comfort none--only the silence of Calvary.  If there wasn't any for the Son of God--there's certainly none for us.  Only the silence of death.  Why do you think that Christ wept in John 11:35?  He knew there is no comfort, not in this life.  To seek it is hypocritical, self-delusional and doomed to failure.  Read "A Grief Observed" by C.S. Lewis. 

    Geesh.  This is precisely the type of response I've come to expect from young, self-indulgent, American Christians.