phil·is·tine (fĭl’ĭ-stēn’, fĭ-lĭs’tĭn, -tēn’)

def. A smug, ignorant, especially middle-class person who is regarded as being indifferent or antagonistic to artistic and cultural values.

I like words; this definition made me laugh. Use sparingly, perhaps on browbeating giants.

&this:
“The Light“, by The Album Leaf

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why do we face God?

To wrestle with lightness and darkness, it is perhaps the highest calling of the artist… to find meaning between places of confusion, or as I like to see it, being a stormchaser: one who willingly faces chaos and brings back words and meaning…

So, using the Mozart vs. Salieri story from the film “Amadeus”, there doesn’t seem to be a correlation between the quality of work from those who intentionally face God and those who do not. If anything, those who face God are at a disadvantage as we believe to have witnessed the truth and when God is the Lord of your life you have access to life’s answers, all nicely packaged and preserved in the King James. Sadly, believers tend to have a knack for better cheese . The answers shouldn’t be boring should they? Perhaps it is the pretense that is boring. Perhaps it is presenting all light that is boring. A certain well-maligned Painter of Light™ said he paints as if the Fall never happened. I really don’t understand this. Consequently, he must paint as though Christ wasn’t necessary. Lovely.

So why do we face God?

&this:
should your Attention Deficit Disorder need a moment to meditate, try this Aphex Twin on for size: “Girl/Boy“.

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