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title: Proverbs
genre: prose
project:
title: Book of Hezekiah
css: hezekiah
order: 4
next:
title: Moving sideways
link: movingsideways
prev:
title: Philosophy
link: philosophy
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[Nothing matters; everything is sacred. Everything matters; nothing is
sacred][sacred].[^1] This is the only way we can move forward: by moving
sideways. Life is a great big rugby game, and the entire field has to be run
for a goal. The fact that the beginning two verses of this chapter have the
same number of characters proves that they are a tautological pair, that is,
they *complete each other*. Sometimes life seems like a dog wagging its tail,
smiling up at you and wanting you to love it, just wanting that, simple simple
love, oblivious to the fact that it just ran through your immaculately groomed
flower garden and tracked all the mud in onto your freshly steamed carpet.
Life is not life in a suburb. [There are no rosebushes, groomed never. There
is no carpet, steamed at any time.][rosebush] The dog looks at you wanting you
to love it. It wants to know that you know that it's there. *It wants to be
observed*.[\^2]
[sacred]: words-meaning.html
[rosebush]: lovesong.html
[^1]: Thank you Tom Stoppard. Ha ha ho ho and hee hee.
[^2]: Ah ha! I knew this was going to happen at some point. Now things
are going to get more interesting because the dog wants what we
thought was a bad thing, right? Right? Didn't we go through that
part about how observing made it impossible to really know anything,
and I had to start over because it's really hard to figure out what
you're talking about when reality slips out of your hands like a
fish, but you're not a cat with claws so it just flops right outta
your hand back into the lake. (By the way, Nirvana is thought to be
what a drop of water feels upon flopping into a lake---doesn't that
seem important? Doesn't it seem like a fish and a drop of water here
are connected? It helps, of course, that the fish represents Reality
here.)
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