that “sighs are to thoughts as groans are to bodily aches” repetitive thoughts like repetitive motions and resulting in the degradation of mental parts like physical joints — the aching back more of an ooch the recurring thought more a blowing (a soundless o or tongueless sibilant)– to reflect upon: “motions are the thoughts of the body” — (why wouldn’t thoughts be the thoughts of the body?) — because motions are an emanation of the whole body and thoughts are an emanation of one part of it– “a great civilization coming from out of the mediterranean isn’t a mouth piece for the whole of the turning earth” […]
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Peter Singer I don’t think can be right here. If giving is only for the transference of property from a party with more to a party with less I suppose he could be right, but doesn’t giving provide something to the giver as well? isn’t there a spiritual concern in the person of the giver that giving addresses? If that concern exists only because of the unequal distribution of goods, I suppose a universal tax on wealth and income would suffice to resolve it (despite the fact that it would substantially divorce one from the experience of giving). And I suppose, too, that it may be there are other ways to resolve such a spiritual concern besides giving; it may be that the spiritual concern of some people may lie rather in the direction of receiving; maybe we could feed and clothe everyone first, and afterwards focus on spiritual shortcomings, in whatever direction they may lie — put another’s material want above one’s spiritual want… What if it were the case (although I think this is not the case) that no one could address spiritual issues until everyone had been clothed and fed? if a precondition for any morality or prayer to be possible was that everyone who wants to be is clothed and fed?
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perhaps the “precariously situated” boulder, as wikipedia has it, of the Course of Empire paintings achieves the same “repeating note” effect thought of here but visually
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