BTZ42Read: it has happened before
ish mailian
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Mon Mar 14 17:41:46 CDT 2016
way back in 73 reviewers heard in that first scream, rilke.
On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:20 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPzJbntlnY
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> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 6:18 PM, ish mailian <ishmailian at gmail.com> wrote:
>> It's not quite a universal, the idea that celestial divine being(s),
>> creator(s) of the world, drop neither bombs nor rockets on our heads,
>> but raindrops, and that there seems to be no use in worrying about it,
>> or about who will stop the rain, and that rain is needed, and better
>> than either fire or ice, to make fecund our Good Earth. The fire, the
>> ice, the lightening, the screaming, the rages and wages of wars, the
>> wrath of the celestial divinities, who are wise and have knowledge,
>> foreknowledge even, and who are often law givers who visited Earth,
>> and are, in rituals and rites, in remembrances, called upon to protect
>> the sacred and punish the profane. We find it difficult to imagine the
>> sky in a sacred relationship with the Earth and people, but anyone who
>> has stood under the stars and felt the mysterious and sublime power of
>> the sky knows something of the power of of the most high Sky. A
>> screaming comes across the sky and the source of the scream, if it be
>> a man made revelation of power, then the Sky, as Nietzsche says of
>> God, is Dead.
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