of swirls, mocha frap andcelebratedly heated discussions between me and lala
i ought to be sleeping already but i just had to take this down before my muses take leave of me. today, sunday, january 10 of the newest year 2010, i hung out for a few hours with lala at starbs trinoma.
it was fun. i had fun...especially when we got to the part where we were clashing ideas. i was trying to explain to her why i had not taken to the blog swirlsfromthebowlofchina anymore and i said that i had disagreed with some of the views or some of the underlying philosophies of life that the blogger espoused. what we were both so caught up about was that i had highlighted a certain thought in one of ms. swirlsfromthebowlofchina had expressed - she was talking about having coffee with this person and then she had gotten riled up over something where she had reacted in her mind - "don't people understand that one's thoughts over someone is more beautiful than that person itself?" i don't know if she qualified that comment with an adverb - sometimes one's thoughts about someone or if she also qualified her statement with the helping verb (if i'm not mistaken that it's a helping verb...corrections and modifications have to be made tomorrow nalang)can...
but fundamentally, i had disagreed with that point or thought. it's because when i apply it to myself, since there are many people i admire and love and lavish huge chunks of praise upon, i cannot bring myself to ever think that my appreciation for those persons exceed the beauty of those persons themselves.
lala and i engaged in a heated debate on this point which resulted in the two of us laughing at each other while our disagreement progressed and she kept bringing more and more related questions to the fore...
her stand is, "why not? a person's thoughts about someone can be more beautiful than the person himself..."
and just now, i was doing my mental prayer and the topic for the day was - Human Dignity. it recalled how Jesus' disciples were taking corn and cutting the chaff for grain (or something like that) and how the Pharisees who saw wanted Jesus to rebuke his disciples for doing what was considered as work on a Sabbath. and Jesus had replied, "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." and then He added, "The Lord is master even of the Sabbath." Thus, Francisco Fernandez concluded, "everything is ordered in the direction of the Lord and the individual..."
(to be continued tomorrow)
it was fun. i had fun...especially when we got to the part where we were clashing ideas. i was trying to explain to her why i had not taken to the blog swirlsfromthebowlofchina anymore and i said that i had disagreed with some of the views or some of the underlying philosophies of life that the blogger espoused. what we were both so caught up about was that i had highlighted a certain thought in one of ms. swirlsfromthebowlofchina had expressed - she was talking about having coffee with this person and then she had gotten riled up over something where she had reacted in her mind - "don't people understand that one's thoughts over someone is more beautiful than that person itself?" i don't know if she qualified that comment with an adverb - sometimes one's thoughts about someone or if she also qualified her statement with the helping verb (if i'm not mistaken that it's a helping verb...corrections and modifications have to be made tomorrow nalang)can...
but fundamentally, i had disagreed with that point or thought. it's because when i apply it to myself, since there are many people i admire and love and lavish huge chunks of praise upon, i cannot bring myself to ever think that my appreciation for those persons exceed the beauty of those persons themselves.
lala and i engaged in a heated debate on this point which resulted in the two of us laughing at each other while our disagreement progressed and she kept bringing more and more related questions to the fore...
her stand is, "why not? a person's thoughts about someone can be more beautiful than the person himself..."
and just now, i was doing my mental prayer and the topic for the day was - Human Dignity. it recalled how Jesus' disciples were taking corn and cutting the chaff for grain (or something like that) and how the Pharisees who saw wanted Jesus to rebuke his disciples for doing what was considered as work on a Sabbath. and Jesus had replied, "the Sabbath was made for man, not man for the Sabbath." and then He added, "The Lord is master even of the Sabbath." Thus, Francisco Fernandez concluded, "everything is ordered in the direction of the Lord and the individual..."
(to be continued tomorrow)
After taking some courses on Metaphysics and having finished reading Dr. Ocampo's signed book on the Dignity of the Thinking Person a few year ago, I, Mimi, agree with you. Hahahahah!
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