Comments on: The Occult & Meaning http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/04/the-occult-meaning/ public domain playground. friendly entities welcome. Sun, 22 Nov 2009 14:25:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rob http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/04/the-occult-meaning/comment-page-1/#comment-2442 Rob Mon, 04 Jul 2005 17:43:20 +0000 http://www.timboucher.com/journal/2005/07/04/the-occult-meaning/#comment-2442 Glad you found some of my ramblings useful... the ideas of projecting meaning onto everything in order to break through and realize the malleable nature of meaning, I got, I think, from some of Wilson's writings about Crowley. The stuff about "stories" and changing the story and creating your own story I got from Douglas Rushkoff's Nothing Sacred and Club Zero G. The whole search for meaning stuff comes from a wealth of existentialist stuff... Oh, and the full quote, since you dug it, from Joss Whedon/Angel is: "Angel: Well, I guess I kinda -- worked it out. If there is no great glorious end to all this, if -- nothing we do matters, -- then all that matters is what we do. 'cause that's all there is. What we do, now, today. -- I fought for so long. For redemption, for a reward -- finally just to beat the other guy, but... I never got it. Angel: All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because -- I don't think people should suffer, as they do. Because, if there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness -- is the greatest thing in the world. Kate: Yikes. It sounds like you had an epiphany. Angel: I keep saying that. But nobody's listening." Glad you found some of my ramblings useful… the ideas of projecting meaning onto everything in order to break through and realize the malleable nature of meaning, I got, I think, from some of Wilson’s writings about Crowley. The stuff about “stories” and changing the story and creating your own story I got from Douglas Rushkoff’s Nothing Sacred and Club Zero G. The whole search for meaning stuff comes from a wealth of existentialist stuff…

Oh, and the full quote, since you dug it, from Joss Whedon/Angel is:

“Angel: Well, I guess I kinda — worked it out. If there is no great glorious end to all this, if — nothing we do matters, — then all that matters is what we do. ’cause that’s all there is. What we do, now, today. — I fought for so long. For redemption, for a reward — finally just to beat the other guy, but… I never got it.

Angel: All I wanna do is help. I wanna help because — I don’t think people should suffer, as they do. Because, if there is no bigger meaning, then the smallest act of kindness — is the greatest thing in the world.
Kate: Yikes. It sounds like you had an epiphany.
Angel: I keep saying that. But nobody’s listening.”

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