tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post5987502325884519488..comments2024-02-09T06:15:27.088-08:00Comments on josh barkey: and in the darkness bind themJOSH BARKEYhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-18006161596306589412012-01-08T17:59:17.567-08:002012-01-08T17:59:17.567-08:00I'd love to answer your question, Seth, but I&...I'd love to answer your question, Seth, but I'm not sure I know what a TRUE visionary is. Me, I'm a wretch, crawling through the morass trying to reach something BEYOND myself, something that hopefully resembles the truth. <br /><br />My inner vision provides the spark to begin and hopefully the juice to keep going, but I never know when I start exactly where to find the truth that I'm seeking. <br /><br />Pride, fear - all of that - it's in some way bound up in the process. If you are somehow clear of all that, then I wish you a gloriously straight road, paved entirely with jelly beans. I would also like to touch the hem of your garment, so to speak, 'cause I've got this pain in my lower back that I can't seem to shake.JOSH BARKEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-52175416328832695982012-01-08T14:43:20.153-08:002012-01-08T14:43:20.153-08:00Dear Josh,
My uncle recommended I check out your ...Dear Josh,<br /><br />My uncle recommended I check out your site shortly after having me watch the infamously acclaimed 'Citizen Kane', and I am wondering what a TRUE visionary is to do if all he or she desires is to make real the visions of his or her mind, but without a perception of pride. What if he or she wants to give their soul away rather than keep it for others' recognition?<br /><br />-SethAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-81515836135914307572011-12-22T09:59:36.115-08:002011-12-22T09:59:36.115-08:00Yeah, yeah. Austin and I go back and forth. I tend...Yeah, yeah. Austin and I go back and forth. I tend to think it's some sort of weird, mystical symbiosis. Our overall truce has been to admit that I give pride-of-place to Fear because it's more my thing (I'm a simpering chicken), and Austin's into Pride because that's his thing (he's an arrogant, pretentious poppenjay).JOSH BARKEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-53808181272383610812011-12-21T21:30:15.111-08:002011-12-21T21:30:15.111-08:00So ... on second reading I see that what I have do...So ... on second reading I see that what I have done is taken Austin's thoughts and ascribed them to you. Then what I did was go ahead and agree with those thoughts even though a big part of the blog entry was to say that you actually see things a bit differently. The next thing I did (as long as I'm chronicling my actions and thoughts) was to write this second comment to say that I actually agree with you as well. This brings us up to date with what sounds suspiciously like sucking up, but it's not that entirely, because I think your point about fear being our motivator is very valid, but also that it has to somehow fit alongside pride. I don't think it's an either/or equation but that those two make perfect bedfellows to explain our defective humanity. We rampage with pride and privately cringe in fear - both of which are antithetical to the love and peace we crave.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06549528575133755181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-23923719679835034512011-12-21T20:30:56.173-08:002011-12-21T20:30:56.173-08:00Ya vol, Herr Darren. Nice thoughts.
Except I sta...Ya vol, Herr Darren. Nice thoughts. <br /><br />Except I stand by my argument (in the face of any and all reason to the contrary) that the first cause of pride is fear. Why? Because Austin's arrogant enough as it is, and there's no way I'm ever gonna cave. Plus, I think I'm right.JOSH BARKEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-6396350432849726732011-12-21T11:09:48.401-08:002011-12-21T11:09:48.401-08:00I think you've hit on the truth of human natur...I think you've hit on the truth of human nature in the idea that pride (or to put it another way - our love of power and control) is our darkest and most powerful urge. It is the "original sin" in the story of Adam and Eve and, as C.S. Lewis put it - " the essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, anger, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere fleabites in comparison ... Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind."<br />The church frets over all sorts of moral failing and other fleabites, but Pride is what makes us human (in the worst sense of the word) and Love is what makes us human (in the very best sense of the word).Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06549528575133755181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-23830454889155644492011-12-21T11:08:25.596-08:002011-12-21T11:08:25.596-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Darrenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06549528575133755181noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-17997748246816187952011-12-21T08:23:23.040-08:002011-12-21T08:23:23.040-08:00Absolutely. That'll probably be the guts of a ...Absolutely. That'll probably be the guts of a lot of the films I write over the next several years. One layer at a time.JOSH BARKEYhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02056229250824359708noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3943366568013445284.post-9839992558774272962011-12-20T18:10:06.883-08:002011-12-20T18:10:06.883-08:00hmmm. I'd like to watch a movie about that la...hmmm. I'd like to watch a movie about that last paragraph. The stripping of layers of illusion.Amandahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10796585638639262919noreply@blogger.com