Death might appear to destroy the meaning in our lives, but in fact it is the very source of our lives. As Kafka said, “ The meaning of life is that it ends.” Death is the engine that keeps us running, giving us the motivation to achieve, learn, love, and create.
‘Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory’ by Caitlin Doughty (via artisticinsight)
Also people act like autistic people would have been, like, left in the woods to die or something as kids for most of history, but as i said i'm researching islamic saints and in both islam and christianity there's an awful lot of just, like, "Yeah that guy decided to go live in a cave by himself and wore one (1) article of clothing and sometimes he would walk around and scream randomly, it meant he was closer to god than everybody else"
@salticid you’re amazing and I love ur cryptic spambot convo I hope u like this!!
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Not to get morbid - I'm in good spirits, I want to stress that - but hearing about those roman gravestones that address whoever pauses to read them makes me want to have one too once I'm done. But I don't think I want one that's sweetly thanking people for pausing to remember. I want to grab people by the throat from beyond the grave and put them into existential contemplations of their own life. Something along the lines of
In this moment we are both here - you there, aboveground, I here, below. Come tomorrow, I will still be here. Where will you be?
Ocean captures ca.1900; Frederick Judd Waugh.
I love the sheer enormity of leviathan and ramuh…
Gustave Doré (1832–1883) The Destruction of Leviathan (Is. 27:1-13) (1866) Engraving “In that day the Lord with his sore and great and strong sword shall punish Leviathan the piercing serpent, even Leviathan that crooked serpent; and he shall slay the dragon on that is in the sea…” (Isaiah 27:1)
I made some little fairies out of pressed flowers 🌷
There's no mobility in a job like court wizard, regulations and whatever they're never going to promote you. Quit and become an evil warlock and terrorise the townsfolk.
be your own boss!
life and existence. fragile and ruthless. precious and temporary. confusing and miraculous.