I must make a quick 'aside' here to address a problem found in the `works` of the Blind Poet Homer . Scholars agree that The Iliad and The Odyssey are Sources for the Study of Human Nature as well as Human Conduct and Behavior . Within the texts are various existential `complications` one of which is, perhaps, the GREATEST QUESTION OF ALL TIME = "Is it better to love the SHORT Life of GLORY or the LONG Life of MEDIOCRITY ?" . I confess : that question bugged the fucking shit out of me FOR YEARS . I mean, WTF, there are these two choices and ONLY THESE CHOICES ??????????!!!!!!!!!!!! I smelled RIP-OFF !!!!
Years and YEARS later, a something 'arrived' which both calmed and soothed me, and it was the result of studying the Ancient Chinese Masters {and Poets} . This 'something' was a THIRD option : the Life of the SAGE . I had found my HOME !!!!!!!! Here it was where the Study of Martial Arts combined with Study and Research in other intellectual pursuits generated a Peace and Harmony, a milieu, that satisfied even the most heinous existential considerations, meaning, the SAGE had it all . Here it is where my Love and Devotion was "Grounded", where both could function as Foundation for all the "Politics of Experience" .
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