After finally ending a lengthy spiritual retreat in his apartment, in which he used deep meditation to achieve a five-month-long comatose state, Toiletoverflowing is back and ready to resume his wearisome life. Jumping or, more accurately, barely ambling back into his old life, he has decided to resume his wholeheartedly eschewed philosophy lecture series.
This coming Wednesday, Toiletoverflowing will expand on a lecture he gave about a year ago, Being and Nothingness. Next Wednesday’s talk carries that topic forward under the title, On Being and Nothingness: Why Being is Better.
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There is a point at the very center of our being that is the intersection between the finite and the infinite, between the tangible and the ethereal, between the yin and the yang, and between the here and now and the eternal.
We have many names for this point. God, Allah, Yahweh, Buddha, kismet and Paahlm are just a few of the many labels placed on it.
Despite the greatest minds of mankind pondering it ever since humans began contemplating the great, unanswered—and, possibly, unanswerable—questions of the universe, many centuries of philosophy have managed to catch only the faintest of glimpses of this point.
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The Authors page of this blog talks about my spirituality, so I guess I should spend more time pontificating on that preposterous blather here. It occurs to me that one searing question that bears answering is, “What is spirituality?”
Why anyone would want to waste his or her time worrying about such absurd nonsense is beyond me. Spirituality is primarily just an occupation for me. Nonetheless, since I’ve got nothing better to do at the moment, I’ll take a stab at sating your ridiculous curiosity.
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Many people roam through their lives mired in the material world. This is, of course, a fabulously positive attitude, but it is insufficient for many of us. It is important to let spirituality into your life because without spirituality we look foolish and hypocritical when we ask for time off to observe religious holidays.
Almost as important, the great religions of the world can teach us much about how to be better human beings. Consider, for example, what we can learn from Dafernyx, the deity who is worshiped by Dafernyxists.
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