April 15, 2010

Recommended Read: The Impossibility of Secularism - Or, Who Are You In? by Eric at Scatterings

Here is an excerpt from the blog Scatterings by Eric

"We like to present our lives and our selves, both to others and to ourselves, as put-together and whole and basically unruptured. But it's not true. There is a kind of dislocation, a rupture, a breach in the wall, in each one of us. It seems to me that we make up for it by living out ahead of ourselves, but creating some ideal self, some bigger, more consistent, more beautiful person, which we constantly chase after and try to instantiate in the humdrum of each day. Or by immersing ourself in a cause or idea/l which produces the same effect."

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