tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27405843.post114909741252159616..comments2024-01-25T05:44:34.896+02:00Comments on God in a Shrinking Universe: The Problem of Death (Part I)Patrikhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10237545786695465374noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27405843.post-7640701944468220052007-11-22T02:10:00.000+02:002007-11-22T02:10:00.000+02:00TO FEAR BE NOT ATTUNEDI´ve had enough of well-stok...TO FEAR BE NOT ATTUNED<BR/><BR/>I´ve had enough of well-stoked fear:<BR/>Disaster may before me lie,<BR/>But I´ll not listen more, you hear,<BR/>Because the threat--even sincere--<BR/>Perturbs too much, when I might die.<BR/><BR/>One death were not the worst of it,<BR/>I do believe. For I have had my fill<BR/>Of pondering with my brows knit<BR/>On matters that have yet to hit,<BR/>Nor know not will come well or ill.<BR/><BR/>I do my best to be prepared--<BR/>That´s prudent, not one to indulge<BR/>My lusts or luxuries. If scared<BR/>Regardless I have always dared,<BR/>Yet fear needs not to over-bulge.<BR/><BR/>Atop a striving toward restraint,<BR/>Detachment in adversity<BR/>And times of favor equal, saint<BR/>Nor sinner overmuch, from taint<BR/>Of soul´s dishonor I would flee.<BR/><BR/>By keeping honest, and in terms<BR/>Forthright with heaven, to what purpose<BR/>Harboring fear? We are not worms,<BR/>Our chance less than a single sperm´s<BR/>To start with--who had mothers burp us.<BR/><BR/>All wends to death, come late or soon;<BR/>Therefore no matter what the time is,<BR/>Receive the blessing as high noon:<BR/>To harbingers of fear attune<BR/>Not soul which ready for a climb is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-27405843.post-1149137695207288632006-06-01T07:54:00.000+03:002006-06-01T07:54:00.000+03:00I'm following your work, I will probably comment i...I'm following your work, I will probably comment it when I get a feeling for where you're going. I'm not 100% sure of post-modernism, though, I'm in the camp that prefer to talk about late-modernism, seeing that we still very much subscribe to central parts of the modern view of the world. But keep it up, by all means!Patrikhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10237545786695465374noreply@blogger.com