Life, Afterlife and...

We had another meeting today, this time at Garry and Eric's house. Pushkin (aka Kitten) kept things light although the topics of conversation delved into some very weighty subjects. Among them: Revelations, the four horsemen of the Apocalypse, the existence of a heaven and/or a hell, hell-on-earth, rock-bottom, personal apocalypses (apocalypsi?), black capes and boots, the Tower of Babel, Icarus and Cassandra, an essay comparing the world to a semi-flooded basement with 16 occupants, goodness/wickedness, youth hopelessness, anarchy, social codes, moral codes. And such.

One particularly interesting point that Garry raised was how people tend to look at the Apocalypse as the end, as doomsday, and yet it could be seen as a new beginning, a better world.


Stev has started a bit of research locally, posting this sign around town. I've had fun imagining the responses and suspect there will be a lot of "Quit my jobs" in the mix. He's already received several email responses from his own contacts and had a couple of girls scrawl "Give back to the community" on the sign outside his apartment. They also scratched out the email address and wrote in "Revise your project." Whatever that means.