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Tomorrow… I will leave Brisbane for 6 weeks; touch down on Vancouver via Taipei. I told my friends I want to tread on fallen leaves, smell the candles flickering on the Halloween pumpink-patches, seek out the ghosts, the goblins and the witches…

Life against Death

Dear Allen, I will follow up on your suggestion to read LIFE AGAINST DEATH by Norman O. Brown, though I had (temporarily it seems) given up thinking about Gods, Life and Death. Those subjects are like riding a carousel... even if you change horse and carriage you still go round in circles... The deeper you search the more futile it gets... I cannot resign myself to believe in a Biblical divinity, nor accept any amount of brainwashing theologies... I figure belief in gods comes truly through - Blind Faith...- because the - truth - can neither be seen, felt or proved.

I am here, I live... I am not here, I am dead... There may be a - separate even spiritual reality - but why concern myself with that when right now I exist in this...

Norman O. Brown chose a good title for his work. "LIFE AGAINST DEATH A Psychoanalytical Meaning of History "is intriguing, though I doubt my humble under-educated intellect can rise to understand theories expounded by such heavy weights as Freud, Nietzsche and Marx.

What I know of Freud is that he is the Father Christmus of Psycoanalysis,- the guy who ties up Oedipus' marriage to Jocasta with the rest of us anal neuroticos... I know Nietzsche because in - Also Sprach Zarathustra - "The Madman" states that God is Dead. Karl Marx = the Commusnist State...

We struggle to make sense of Life, Death, God, Devil, Religion, Politics, Sex... Myth, Theory, Fact, Fiction, Communism, Democracy and everything in between, above or below, but as long as we remain cut-outs - human beings, the carousel will not stop. We may as well enjoy the ride for what it is... a ride...