a popular example for illustration: without irl context, without sense perception irl this is only what? can only be taken as what? as nothing, as a koan, as a mirror if you want, a tarot card, whatever you can think to want as creative writing prompt, it is a published artwork, about you, the reader, the person at the museum looking at a painting, artist could be dead 500 years

jack

the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence

as in, put it in an rp ~depressed as hell~ the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence vs ~elated with joy~ the act of creation is the only thing that justifies existence without tone, without scene, without context what is there

im on my last legs out here folding an origami cranes im pretty sure cumming in you makes it all worthwhile this place is gitmo and only my shoe company offsets that and barely there is no justice here and now the only hope we have is that we go on if i didnt know that the children of gaza will always be creating jokes and getting up to mischief to make eachother smile a gun wouldve been in my mouth years ago wildly wildly wildly divergent vibes same words

missed it, this is an augustinian catholic god thing about ex creatio

as in: "The understanding of creatio ex nihilo is well known and embraced by all mainline Christians. However, what is less understood is the next logical question that follows from creatio ex nihilo: If God created all things from nothing, did God create everything in one instant or is God’s creative act ongoing? This question opens the door to many other foundational questions about God and creation: How do we account for the coming into existence of new species throughout history? Why would God allow certain species to become extinct? How do we understand change in relationship to time? And so forth. To help us answer these questions, we will enlist the help of the Eastern Church Fathers and St. Augustine. In regard to the Eastern Church Fathers, two significant authors we can draw upon are Clement of Alexandria (150A.D. – 215A.D.) and Origen (184A.D. – 253A.D.). In addition to embracing creatio ex nihilo, Clement also introduced an understanding of a “continual act of creation” called the creatio continua. This understanding was that God’s act of creation did not cease at the first moments of existence, but rather the act of creation is ongoing with things constantly coming into existence. Origen takes this understanding of creatio continua and places it within a Trinitarian framework, developing his theology of “exitus-reditus” in which all of creation comes from God (the exitus) and ultimately returns to God (the reditus). Therefore, our understanding of creatio ex nihilo and creatio continua also includes an exploration of why things come into existence in addition to exploring philosophically how things come into existence. If all things come from God and return to God, then there is a reason why this “going out” and “coming in” relationship exists. Also, this continual act of creation helps us understand that it is necessary for certain things to exist at certain times of history. (Example: There is a reason I exist at this point of history and did not exist at the time of Jesus Christ.)"

actually, just playin, not a catholic thing, it came to me as a mushroom thought eight years ago on october eighth

so as such, like having illustrated all of that can ~anyone~ answer these words with appropriate emotional etiquette as in, when there is nothing to go on how can you and if you cant and know you cant no access respect the distance why would you if the landscape of today's internet is surveillance and loose lips do sink ships who is the chief information security officer actually the IT guy actually and who keeps clicking phishing links