From correspondence with a friend.

i do like your point about rhetoric. you’ve always felt that way although even you can’t avoid using it. it is what language is which is why i like zen because it says language is limiting and just don’t use it for the big stuff. well maybe that’s unavoidable so they counter it with koans and throwing shit like teaboxes at you and hitting you on the head. then the tibetans say life is kinda a joke and you just have to laugh and that’s damn hard to swallow. aren’t religions supposed to give you answers? but then that’s the point! the ones that do add tragedy to tragedy and cover the real confusion with a fake one, so we only thought things were weird and we never learn how to cope with life. then we forget what it is to be human and to love and lust and want to fuck or steal or lie or run away or just stop thinking and watch something happen. then you forget why it is that you shouldn’t steal or lie or run or fuck or lust or not think or not breathe, on your own.

i like writing this way actually. as much as you can rub me the wrong way with things like you say i guess i appreciate it and respect your opinion. i do feel more honest and i think i’ll throw that college essay shit out the window from now on.

also, yeah we are ‘bulding a religion. We are making a brand
We’re the only ones to turn to when your castles turn to sand’
and that’s the beauty of it right? to acknowledge that everyone in history has been doing that. everyone is building a religion, building it bigger, a limited edition, and some just win out in the public eye and maybe all of them have something to learn from, to say this about psychology, that about philosophy, this about love and hate and responsibility. so we’re architects of our own future, movers of our own collective karma, pushing the big wheel of man through the endless sea of sky.