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BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:RAVE.CA V17.0 X-WR-CALNAME:8Ix 2Mol - Rad's "mental masturbation" Nights X-ORIGINAL-URL:http://www.rave.ca/event/16993/ VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20070815T175801Z LAST-MODIFIED:20070815T175801Z CREATED:20070815T171509Z SEQUENCE:16993 ORGANIZER:Carpediem DTSTART:20070824T180000Z DTEND:20070824T180000Z UID:event_16993@rave.ca SUMMARY:8Ix 2Mol - Rad's "mental masturbation" Nights LOCATION:3-4410 Bannentyne-A block N. of Verdun Metro URL:http://www.rave.ca/event/16993/ DESCRIPTION:To be sure, man the believer has no ground to stand on, strictly speaking. No ground to stand on, and in the bargain his believing is light as air, spun like a web without weight, a net of gossamer threads binding this and that and a thousand things distant and dim, dusty and dumb, together. His believing is like his freedom; indeed, his freedom is the reason for believing. It is the open door, the invitation to share in the fulfillment of existence, the chance to lure reality within reach. It is the act by which man proves himself human, daring to stretch the stubborn contradictions of existence until the make sense. In our time believing has become fanatical and neurotic, largely because it has been set over against the pretensions of reason and the spurious claims of overconfident science. Be-lief is reason itself moving in a larger perspective than logic or arguable truth. It is the effect of a confident and promising relationship with reality. It is, in short, essential to the develop-ment of man`s full nature and a necessary requirement for the unrestricted disclosure of reality. The shattering of age-old foundations has left us insecure and anxious. The world is filled with a frightening amount of change. Business, styles, education, morals, science, music-all change while we look on in amazement. And it is not the kind of change known a generation ago, which hap-pened once in a lifetime, but the kind that happens with every step we take. Nothing holds steady. Everything has taken on the character of the moving picture, where the scene changes with every flash of light. As the Angle Gabriel said, in Green Pastures, “Everything nailed down is comin` loose.” The critical step into responsible selfhood, or learning to live at the level of the soul, is an act which re-quires great courage. There is no way to take this step which does not demand the total passion of the self. It is a long leap and a desperate one, from easy conformity to inner freedom. Few take it, and all who do, gasp at the risk involved. For when the issue is faced, it means that freedom is no longer the vacuous flippancy but a vibrant terror of real change. The ground of one`s being is not longer static, but surges like the tides of the sea. The heights are as frightening as the abysses. To become a soul is to reckon with the continuous crisis of becoming. CLASS:PUBLIC CATEGORIES: STATUS:CONFIRMED PARTSTAT:ACCEPTED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR