Stefan Edward Jones3d ago
Dance. And buy envelopes.
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@StefanEJones

Alan Watts, too:

"We thought of life by analogy with a journey, a pilgrimage, which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end, success or whatever it is, maybe heaven after you’re dead. But we missed the point the whole way along. It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played."

May 27 at 9:05pmWeb
Show threadOrion Ussner kidder2d ago
@Kishi @StefanEJones Yes, this is it entirely. If you get sucked into the idea of that there's a singular end *goal* to life--make the most money, have the most sex, be the most pious, etc.--then you can justify almost any heinous thing you can think of, even if you think it's for the "greater good."
Show threadOrion Ussner kidder2d ago
@Kishi @StefanEJones If you admit the obvious, that there's no one goal to humanity, that we're all going to die some day (yes, *you* too), then you calm the hell down. You realize we're all just here. There's no story that begins, middles, and comes to a satisfying end. There's just people, peopling throughout history.
Show threadOrion Ussner kidder2d ago

@Kishi @StefanEJones We're born. We grow. We make communities. Some of us make babies of our own. We make art, of all kinds, including farting around. Including dancing.

That's it. The whole story. Just live. Build a society where everyone gets to *just live*.

Show threadMania Emma2d ago
@OrionKidder @Kishi @StefanEJones #matriarchy