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posted by NocrossJustchristmas on October 13, 2016 at 4:36 PM | link to this | reply

I think the relationship between art and life is like the one between religion and science..... interwoven. Life is a stage and art its extension sometimes. Your piece is very well written and thought provoking.

posted by shamasehar on October 7, 2016 at 10:57 PM | link to this | reply

I think to a certain extent reality can be an illusion and thus imitate the artistic values of life. There is a certain amount of "actor" in each one of us I believe otherwise how can we proclaim to the world the realities of life?

posted by shobana on October 7, 2016 at 5:00 AM | link to this | reply

Re: Dear Kbu

only that in troubled turbulent times our fears and apprehensions takes a stronghold on our thoughts and births the Theatre of the Absurd. And then, honesty may become commerce. The possibilities are varied. 

posted by anib on October 6, 2016 at 9:38 PM | link to this | reply

Reed that of

posted by anib on October 6, 2016 at 9:31 PM | link to this | reply

Re: Quite profound, well written and stirs thought..

Katray, you are welcome. The immortality concept, to my way of thinking, is a possible phenomenon. I have once dabbled also with Quantum Physics, they found that even deaths and births are cyclic, like the seasons you mention. Energy is embodied in all material manifestation, the driving force is the fragment if cosmic energy. So, if one sees on a large span of time, it is the same energy now in a different form. Thus a man a century ago had a body different from the one he has today. Body, form, being material, is subject to decay and destruction. The energy, which we may call the soul, is immanent, indestructible, immortal. Only tha far can be said.  One may manifest in a thousand different form when the cosmic energy is kinetic, in motion. But I its static motionless equilibrium state, all forms change into Energy. The sum total of all energies remains always the same in the Universe. 

posted by anib on October 6, 2016 at 9:30 PM | link to this | reply

Re: FSI

yes, both interesting and intriguing. Thank you, FSI.

posted by anib on October 6, 2016 at 9:09 PM | link to this | reply

The art of writing, and especially poetry and plays should aim to be life. so that we don't just wander through our years imitating others lives but live our life honestly.

 

posted by Kabu on October 6, 2016 at 10:26 AM | link to this | reply

Quite profound, well written and stirs thought..
Art is life swathed in fantasy or pummeled to cold, hard and all seeing pieces; life is art of the same? Are tragedies and suffering required to feel God's presence; there are those for whom the earth's majesty proves a Creator. And I wonder if immortality is a reality of seasons and cycles rotating, returning to bloom.

posted by Katray2 on October 6, 2016 at 9:13 AM | link to this | reply

The concept there sounds very interesting.

posted by FormerStudentIntern on October 6, 2016 at 8:49 AM | link to this | reply

Re: ABA

One of your favorite posts of mine? I don't much know what to say except a big big thank you to you. Different branches of Christianity have differing views on immortality. An interesting question you asked, why can't there be immortality in pleasure but in the fixity of pain? A philosophical answer would be that in our perception, pleasure is too short-lived, so the idea of immortality in pleasure doesn't quite fit. But the impression of pain lives in our minds forever (almost), and any memory of these leave, as if, a physical gash every time they come avisiting. Therefore its permanence. I am humbled by your appreciative heaps you bestow on me, dear Presta. Once again thank you so very mucho 

posted by anib on October 6, 2016 at 12:27 AM | link to this | reply

ABA

Oh, Aba, I do believe this is one of my favorite posts of yours! Excellent! So very excellent! You have explained this so well, so clearly. And so it is with life...perhaps we are all incomplete characters, or are we as Shakespeare said, all actors on a stage - or could we possibly be both at once, and if not, which is the true reality? Or does it even matter? Perceived reality or factualy reality, which is which? And immortality in their fixity of pain - ah, here is where you may bait us, perhaps. Why can there not be immortality in pleasure? Would that not be Absurd? Who can define 'immortal?' Very, very good, IMHO, dear Aba. 

posted by Sea_Gypsy on October 5, 2016 at 11:26 PM | link to this | reply