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maigh.com » Blog Archive » The New Old Crisis — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 19:30:31 +0000

[...] sofa in my therapists office last week, I was verbally vomiting up a bunch of thoughts related to a post I made last week about feeling unsettled. How I feel like I’m on the edge of a cliff but I can’t see if it’s a foot to the [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 16:25:01 +0000

Thanks for the tip. The Shack is now on my list. (tho perhaps I should not be thankful that the stack of books ever grows)

Malaise. I’ve not thought of it that way.

This reminds me of Ernest Beckers Denial of Death and Escape from Evil. From there I’m reminded of Sam Harris’ End of Faith. Which due to it’s tone I’m not too fond of. However I do love how Harris (unwittingly perhaps) stumbles on the systemic nature of good and evil…something which those whom I’m fortunate enough to know as friends have studied in their graduate work.

I do believe there are times when some thing IS awry and for some reason there is not the language to describe it. I like Blink for this reason also.

I’m guessing there are systems/nonsummative wholes that encompass certain modalities of being that lead to malaise. My thoughts as most usual are incomplete on the matter but as always keep the ramblings coming. Perhaps something will come of it.

By: Tabitha

Tabitha — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:52:55 +0000

oh, Trevor. how that story still lingers. as i’m sure it was meant to do.

you’ll find it, Maigh. I’m sure of it.
until then, keep doing this thing you do. it’s beautiful.

By: Mindy

Mindy — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:41:47 +0000

No, I’d venture to say you are not alone. Sometimes I think my friends with kids are just be more distracted from those thrashing questions, but I think we all have them. Actually, the people that don’t scare me. Lately, I’ve been in tune with how the quest to fill the void changes as I age. Pretty remarkable really.

By: Seth

Seth — Tue, 08 Jul 2008 17:31:57 +0000

We all fight the creeping malaise. Talking about it helps.

Keep sharing.