Eventernal Slumber
I thought of this phrase this morning in an
eschatological context.
Yet I have not yet fully defined it. I need the synergy of input by several diverse minds, of various philosophical and religious dispositions... From the evidence of watching TLO since 2005, I thought the ideal place to help find a meaning for 'eventernal slumber' would be here. | |
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Re: Eventernal Slumber
Well, if you want a troglodyte's point of view, I'm
thinking 'death'.
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Re: Eventernal Slumber
Seeing eventernal as a portmanteau of "event"
and "eternal", I'm thinking a not-too drastic form of mass extinction. Only
instead of dying, the entire race falls into a state of sleep from which it
can't wake up. Nobody is left out, nor is there some kind of hivemind process at
work. Every sleep is individual, as are the dreams and nightmares that may
appear in this condition. So we're left with a planet full of dreamers in a most
literal sense.
And I was thinking this would end with everybody dying as a sequel to dehydration and what not, but that would kind of spoil the "eternal" part  | |||||||||||
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Re: Eventernal Slumber
Immune to external influence,
hopeless
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Eve In Her Eternal Slumber.
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Re: Eventernal Slumber
"Thinking death" - when your thoughts are all about
death or Death thinking about you? Yet, Wafflesnaq is followed by Ramonoski and
I sense that as we all grow older, we have more and more event-driven broken
sleep or slumber, i.e. dozing between dreams ... as a dress rehearsal for Death
that may be like that? - which then reminds me of my own story 'Candle
Dreaming' where if you finally dream about a single candle burning in your
dream and nothing else then that is your last dream, a dream that will last
forever, without any dozing between, powerless to wake. This then relates to
Stratovarius' 'immunity'.
And Druidic's Eve sleeping incredibly reminds me of all these many paintings HERE that I posted a week or so ago - drowsy with divinity. I feel this is early days in nailing 'eventernal slumber'. We have hardly scratched the surface. Or maybe we have already nailed it. 'Drowsy with Divinity'. Our backs turned on life but still conscious of the flame within. Thanks, all and others yet to come. PS: my broken sleep last night was interspersed with thoughts of this thread. | |||||||||||
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A Slumber did my Spirit Seal - William Wordsworth
A slumber did my spirit seal;
I had no human fears:
She seemed a thing that could not feel
The touch of earthly years.
No motion has she now, no force;
She neither hears nor sees;
Rolled round in earth's diurnal course,
With rocks, and stones, and trees.
Mark Samuels: from above public thread:
Re: Eventernal Slumber
Perhaps the phrase infected my dream last night, from which I awoke early this morning with the afterglow lingering in my consciousness. It was of a roofscape of thousands of books. I was drawn to one in particular and opening it I discovered it consisted of a series of technicoloured photographs of gatherings I had attended in the past, with all my old friends (including DFL) dressed in the costumes of a masquerade, haunting attic rooms and themselves poring over books.
Mark S.
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