An experiment in living

[Tom Dinning]

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'There is but one life captured within the aches and pains of flesh and bone. We can only live it according to our choices and instincts.'

 

[Asher Kelman]

Tom,

Thanks! It's a great start for 2013 to have you with us. I am not going to arrive in Australia this year, so you can breathe easy! You can take great pics, but, just in case, can you also cook!

Asher

 

[Asher Kelman]

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'There is but one life captured within the aches and pains of flesh and bone. We can only live it according to our choices and instincts.'

Tom,

I must say you have me flummoxed with this quote of yours. When folk talk of "pains of the flesh", I think of the anti-Pope conservative Catholic film maker and his Movie of torture of the flesh in The Passion of the Christ, Dante's terrible Inferno or some Kant wonderings about esthetics or Church writers talking about "flesh v. virtue".

If not for the baffling quotation, I'd have just considered this to be of life speeding past as one person contemplates matters on a slow timescale, almost devoid of possessions. Behind there's some reference the Christ, maybe some warning for us to get on the right trolley before it's too late.

But then, we're just musing beyond what we are certain about, we're just "flesh and bone" and pretty delusional!

Asher

 

[Jerome Marot]

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So, are you enjoying your stay in Việt Nam?

 

[Maggie Terlecki]

Tom,

I must say you have me flummoxed with this quote of yours. When folk talk of "pains of the flesh", I think of the anti-Pope conservative Catholic film maker and his Movie of torture of the flesh in The Passion of the Christ, Dante's terrible Inferno or some Kant wonderings about esthetics or Church writers talking about "flesh v. virtue".

If not for the baffling quotation, I'd have just considered this to be of life speeding past as one person contemplates matters on a slow timescale, almost devoid of possessions. Behind there's some reference the Christ, maybe some warning for us to get on the right trolley before it's too late.

But then, we're just musing beyond what we are certain about, we're just "flesh and bone" and pretty delusional!

Asher

Actually, Asher, I didn't take this as get on 'the right track or else', but more that no matter how many people around us, now matter who passes us by, in the end, we are really alone, with this, our one life, and ultimately our death. We don't get to redo it, we don't get to have an afterlife, there is nothing but this, so how we choose to live it, is also ultimately up to us. Obviously, I'm not Tom and only he can say.