The other day I thought of all the things I'd like to take from various faiths:
Zen Detachment
Taoist Flow
Humanist Optimism
Existentialist Courage
Jewish Intellectualism
Protestant Work Ethic
Along with my homebrew sense of "interestingness as a moral good".
Ideally maybe I'd even find some kind of therapist who was into all of those, especially the first few, though I always feel I'm on shaky ground (no pun intended) taking on the faiths from Asia.
So those are the ideals... then it hit me that I'm more dealing with
Protestant Emotional Distance
Jewish Guilt and Neuroses
Existentialist Defeatism
Humanist Self-Indulgence
Taoist Complacency
Zen Apathy
Do any traditions have a good sense of whimsy? I'm thinking maybe Wicca but I'm not sure, sometimes they seem to take that hippy stuff pretty seriously. Maybe Zen, with the koans and all.
Video of the Moment
MUTO a wall-painted animation by BLU from blu on Vimeo. --via Mr.Ibis who points out "it all starts as Alien Bill" -- pretty much does! The whole video is pretty amazing. I love how it "lets the strings show" in terms of the erased part from previous frames...
Quote of the Moment
"Your problem is that your inner child is a bit too outer." --Ksenia, a long while back. Now THAT'S what I call SUCCINCT!
