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Some Thoughts

I've been writing the last six months, but not on this blog; I've been working on an essay and now it's finished. So I'll return to my blog and will pick up where I left off. We're on a journey to a place unknown, in faith we move hoping to find a home for our souls. My searching took me to the outskirts of philosophy, I still don't understand the power and meaning of our rationality, but what I've seen so far has told me that there is a wold of understanding things in a depth and austerity that reminds me of the sea. Nietzsche describes the journey of a man, searching for his own virtue, like a wave stealing all his self imagined greatness. The same man standing on a different shore will one day, by the same wave, be refunded all he's lost:

Verily, I have taken from you a hundred formulae and your virtue's
favourite playthings; and now ye upbraid me, as children upbraid.

They played by the sea- then came there a wave and swept their
playthings into the deep: and now do they cry.

But the same wave shall bring them new playthings, and spread before
them new speckled shells.

The paper I've been working on, compares the Christians and Greek virtues. Plunging into Plato's great vision of virtues made me realize that I had no understanding of words I thought I grasped: Justice, Wisdom, Love. It truly feels like as if a wave washes everything away I thought I understood. It's a strange liberating feeling acompanied by guilt. As if I'm loosing faith. Is this true? I do not know. I can't say no, but neither yes. I think our souls need room to breathe. To feast on what it has acqired by great turmoil and hardship, to then be able to dispose what is not good.

(For Tii)

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