Tertium Quid/Butt Kissers
Sole purpose of this thread is to clarify/expand on my earlier post to Raven69's "Butt Kissers Anonymous" thread (page one). The following
quote is from an ancient file of faded college jottings unearthed yesterday. Author is Goddard, pages 9-10, though I failed to note the title.
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"All lives begin in 'innocence' and pass, often at a criminally early age, into 'experience', which means 'disillusionment' and then into 'rebellion'
which is an attempt to deny the disparity between our dreams and the hard facts. Rebellion in most of us is short lived. Reality, so called, is too
much for us. We sink back into acceptance of things as they are. There is a 'quiet desperation' (Thoreau). What is called' resignation' is confirmed
desperation. We repress our instincts, and along with them the darling wishes of our hearts, and they revenge themselves on us later in life in
discontent, illness, nervous breakdown, insanity and suicide. Or else we express our instincts. We rebel with more immediate and greater or
lesser disaster, not unlike the late lamented 'younger generation'. Some rebel for a little while; a few rebel all their lives and become, according
to temperament, conviction and circumstances: warriors, dictators, reformers, politicians, satirists or criminals. Swift was such a man. Byron was
another. Napoleon was a third. Only a handful, after facing experience and trying rebellion, transcend them by discovering a secret..... a 'tertium
quid', a third way, entering into an illumination that is an acceptance of life without defeat by it, or rather a triumph over life without a denial of it."
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Originally posted by Grampy BobbyIs this the long way of saying "growing up"?
Tertium Quid/Butt Kissers
Sole purpose of this thread is to clarify/expand on my earlier post to Raven69's "Butt Kissers Anonymous" thread (page one). The following
quote is from an ancient file of faded college jottings unearthed yesterday. Author is Goddard, pages 9-10, though I failed to note the title.
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"A ...[text shortened]... thout a denial of it."
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Originally posted by divegeesterMaybe. Guess we'd have to ask Goddard to be sure. Various analogies come to mind. Suffice it to say, at least tonight, that it's a matter of
Is this the long way of saying "growing up"?
moving from Point A (butt naked/ignorant at birth) to Point B (full stature of a mature human being) unfragmented and whole. Ponder it.
Originally posted by Grampy Bobbywonderful
Tertium Quid/Butt Kissers
Sole purpose of this thread is to clarify/expand on my earlier post to Raven69's "Butt Kissers Anonymous" thread (page one). The following
quote is from an ancient file of faded college jottings unearthed yesterday. Author is Goddard, pages 9-10, though I failed to note the title.
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"A ...[text shortened]... thout a denial of it."
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