Re: wisdom again

Jake McHenry (seymour@ktis.net)
Fri, 28 May 1999 15:36:54 -0500 

This reminds me of a Kerouac quote I love so much:
"I am a regular fool in pale houses enlaved to lust for women who hate me.
Excuse me for my rut. (Har, har, har.)"
And Desolation Angels is my favorite Kerouac if I have inadvertantly opened
up that can of worms.
Solid handshakes and a lift of my sweaty rocks glass to you all. (Camel
filter in hand as well.)
-Jake



>I'm with ya, brother Jake.
>My curent philosophy:
>We are doomed to only want what we cannot have and only be offered that
>which we do not want.
>Namaste,
>Thor
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>>Thor wrote:
>> >Once you have a taste for the finer knowledge, you cannot go back to the
>> >baser, beastial pleasures.  I am grateful that I'm a (former) Mensa
>>member,
>> >but knowledge and philosophy have not brought me joy.  I'm currently
>> >entertaining the notion that knowledge/wisdom and happiness are mutually
>> >exclusive. I entertain suicidal fantasies daily.  I am compelled to read
>>&
>> >know more.  Knowledge satisfies my thirst, but it does not make me
>>happy...
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>>And just what is to be considered Finer Knowledge? I mean, I struggle with
>>introspective bullshit thoughts and feelings and questions that I pose to
>>myself almost daily. (Not to mention entertaining the old Hemingway exit.)
>>I
>>look around and see many people whose one true worry in life seems to be
if
>>their socks match their shirts. Some movie I watched last night had this
>>woman offering a toast to her companion. The toast was something like
>>"Those
>>of us who know better still get up in the morning anyway".  And I agree.
>>Regardless of how easy or hard it is to be wise. Sometimes I find myself
>>wishing aloud even that I was "like them". All carefree and happy. But who
>>is to say? I seriously doubt that wisdom could ever hold the hand of
>>happiness. And I have countless reasons that are too many to fit here.
>>(Like
>>Fermat's Last Theorem where he states he found a marvelous proof but had
no
>>room in the margins to write it.) But I do consider myself to be wise. And
>>doesn't that make me stupid? (Plato?) There are times when I secretly wish
>>that people could get a load of all the books I have going on my
>>nightstand.
>>Would Good Will Hunting been as cool if he didn't have the asshole college
>>guy to spout off to about all the books he knew and the philosophies he
>>adopted? And there are other times when I wish that I had a drivers
license
>>and even a damned automobile. That way I could show the macho guys whats
>>under my proverbial hood and chicks would just go crazy. There are times I
>>want to go out fishing and catch the biggest fish. (Maybe I could grow a
>>mustache by itself and hunt.) But the problem is that I never want the
>>women
>>that would think that sort of stuff to be desirable. But just why the hell
>>isn't it? I take up eighteen different hobbies at a time just to keep
>>myself
>>going. Just for something to do. I am painting a new one every other day
at
>>least just to try and convince myself there is some point. I come to work
>>and check my mail and actually look forward to what you all have to offer
>>on
>>this list. Meanwhile the secretary checks her stocks as much as I check
>>this
>>list and I used to scoff at her. But who is better off? She is dumb as a
>>box
>>of hair but seems happy as hell with little pictures of her children and
>>pets and all that crap. And I am not unhappy mind you. I am really liking
>>the way things are going for me. I just wonder if the white trash mobile
>>home people can ever be truly without Finer Knowledge. I just wonder if I
>>can ever be truly happy with it.
>>I still get up in the morning.
>>Solid handshakes,
>>-Jake
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