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A Year of Contemplation

The Grand Parade of Desire (Day 51)

2/20/2019

 
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Y’all… for real… first hurricane, then food metaphors, and now parades???

If I didn't know better, I’d think the Fates are conspiring in my favor.

Robbers, perverts, killers, and tyrants - gather, for your inspection,
​their so-called pleasures!”
(Marcus Aurelius, Meditations, 6.34)

Desire, like floats in a parade, alluringly pass before us… one desire after another… on and on. 

And, these floats don’t just roll by passively like in some kinda Rose Bowl-style parade. Naw... these are New Orleans-style floats, and are throwing beads and doubloons off the sides, showering us in, what seems to be riches, tempting us more and more to indulge. 

What if we gave into all of them? 

Well, we’d end up being “that guy”. You know, the one who knocks over kids and families following the ONE freakin’ float with his homies on it… for like 3 blocks, leaving naught but the results of selfishness behind. 

Following the Desire Parade is how robbers get to be robbers, and killers get to be killers, etc. etc. etc.

Is the fulfilling of our desires worth all that? Does that fulfillment REALLY bring lasting, meaningful pleasure? 

Cravings and indulgences take on a whole new meaning when seen under that light. 

(See y’all tomorrow)

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    Awakening the desire to explore Stoicism, and how it relates to his existing beliefs, Rev. William committed to working through the text, The Daily Stoic, a year-long journey to awaken the Stoic mind. 
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    Born and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana, Rev. William attended Naropa University in Boulder, Colorado where in 2007 he graduated with a degree in Religious Studies, minoring in Psychology. Currently residing in Longmont, CO, he is one of the Priests and founder of Mountain Ancestors Grove.  He spends his time playing mandolin (and some guitar), writing, engaging in LGBTQIA+ advocacy and education, community service, and sharing a larger vision of how a polytheist perspective can lead to greater human understanding, acceptance, and gods be good, peace. 

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