I don’t have a life. How could I? How could anyone?
How can you have something that you are?
I’d never said that red paint has red. Red paint is red.
In the same way, we are life. It’s our essence. We are expressions of life.
If you look at light in this light, our anxiety over death seems silly. How can you lose something that you’ve never possessed? You can’t lose it if you don’t have it. Life isn’t like a house or a car. It’s not a possession. It’s what we are.
So, I don’t have a life. And neither do you. Instead, we are life. And that makes all the difference.
May 22, 2009 at 8:20 pm
Yeah, first comment.
May 22, 2009 at 8:22 pm
Anyway, very profound post Davey. I trust everything is going good for you and Scotty. I was wondering, how would I go about getting involved in working/volunterring for a LGBT organization. I live in a small town and am unable to move right now, but I really want to help LGBT people, especially youth. I’ve looked into it but no luck in my community. I know you did it. Any tips/advice?
May 22, 2009 at 8:20 pm
lets see what ur talking about on twitter
May 22, 2009 at 8:23 pm
I think I agree with your interesting perspective on life, in this instance anyways.
May 22, 2009 at 8:24 pm
Wow, that is so good. Makes one think.
May 22, 2009 at 8:26 pm
love your site. i just purchased and did your 30-minute ab workout.
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May 22, 2009 at 10:47 pm
Just a bit pompous and certainly naive. I wish it were true, and certainly creating your own reality does influence the world, but you had better set a toe on the ground or you will certainly be disappointed in the times to come. Lemmings, turn back. There is a cliff ahead.
May 22, 2009 at 11:26 pm
Dave, really? Considering that all things are ultimately energy (quantum, string, and unification physics), WE are nothing more than energy. LIFE is energy, and the absence of life-giving energy is death (or death extinguishes the animatory energy of the body, anyway). In fact, more non-Western traditions than not have at their core some concept of spiritual energy, whether it be chi (or qi) in China, ki in Japan, or shakrah in India. To say one “has” this energy is, from a quantum physics standpoint, erroneous; it is the very energy which makes us “us”.
Tienlung
May 23, 2009 at 7:23 am
I think it’s more like enegy is our habitat and we consume it and change it in to life and form it into us so we create life from energyso in that sence we are energy as mass is energy, mass generates enegy which we consume and organize and inhhhhhhh
May 23, 2009 at 7:54 am
my post got stuck behind some ad and i couldn’t see what
was written but as I was saying the univese is energy in various forms
and we were created in God’s image which is ENERGY and a
creating form of creature that forms raw enrgy into organized
forms that are useful. That become physical and energy at
the same time. WE are truly amazing beings. We undoubtedly
continue existing after physical death, and we will not be lessened
by the loss of our mortaal bodies but tranformed in
to a much greater realm that will be indecriptible to our
current mind because we can’t conceive of it’s beauty
Christ said that there would be no marriage or giving in marriage
and so many have been discouraged by those words thinking about the loss of such a great happiness in our lives, but they miss the point, heaven has
so much stuff thats so much greater than our best stuff
that we won’t even miss our best stuf and even less all the rest
People have no idea what heaven is going to br like
if they did there would be a stampede. people say such
drival about how we should be happy that the person is in a better plase
but they don’t really believe that or they wouldn’t
be so afaid of dieing, i’ve seen it, in my dreams and in visions
and i’m not adraid, I’m eager. I’m enjoying my time here, but i’m ready to go anytime
This world is cold and sad.
The one to come is warm and beautiful. i got the family gift of preacing on me i’m
the only grandson preacher of af a great preacher.
We ar eGod We are Energy, We are LIFE
May 23, 2009 at 1:14 am
I am…and that’s all I need….
Ciao!
May 23, 2009 at 7:08 am
Jared-you summed it up the very best-thank you.
May 23, 2009 at 1:36 am
Yes, Really.
It all depends on what, or who, you are, what you appreciate, and what you live or have lived. Its all to self-absorbing to profess one thing, quite another to recognize the reality of our lives. There is a fine distinction between who we are, who we want to be, and what we leave behind. All the rest is psycho-babble. It is a fool’s game to blindly follow what someone else professes as truth, including this and any other entry.
That was my only compulsion in writing what I did; I perceived the self-purported truth of one person as the proselytizing for all. We must all learn to think and live for ourselves, for the person we want to be, for the image we leave, for the life we hope will be better, and not hang on the very word of those who seem to profess to have the answers.
The truth is in you, no where else. Lemmings abound, are you one of them?
May 23, 2009 at 2:01 am
Really Davey? You have to take a common expression and try to turn it into something existential and deep? Seriously, it’s just a f*****g saying… ugh. You are not nearly as deep and insightful as you think you are. Sorry, I often like what you have to say, but sometimes you just try to hard.
May 23, 2009 at 4:13 am
If Davey just happened to be thinking about whatever it is that he posted, why is that “trying too hard?” It could just be that things like this post just naturally occur to him.
May 23, 2009 at 12:06 pm
Or maybe he’s not trying hard enough.
May 23, 2009 at 12:34 pm
I suspect Davey may also be playing on the fact that the slang we use really does shape our perspective over time. Words represent thought and intention, and thus have power. Minding what one says, even (and especially) to oneself has a long lasting and profound influence in our development as whole people. Given to say one “does / does not have a life” implies comparison with others, which is never a good thing, for there will always be those greater and lesser than ourselves in this life.
May 23, 2009 at 3:49 am
OMG that is something to chew on.
… it sounds profound, but I have to give it a second thought ^^ anyway – thx – it made me forget my work for a while ^^
May 23, 2009 at 6:28 am
My first reaction to today’s post: claptrap. This one is a stretch.
There is truth to the statement. DW is not without sense, after all. But on some level reading something like that suggests to me that DW is reaching into his psychobabble bin for a morning post when “his life” leaves precious little time to think about posting something we care to read about. Scotty’s got him by the short and curlies, who has time to think!?
J
May 23, 2009 at 7:02 am
Very good, I am going save this! and refer back to it often.
May 23, 2009 at 7:13 am
I think it was René Descartes who said “Cogito ergo Sum” “I think therfore I am” proving he existed. or that we all exist by thinking equalling existance, I agree with Descartes that I am thought and that thought some how is tied in to my physical body through my brain. I believe that the brain generates some sort of energy that we can barely detect(electroencephalograph or brain waves) and our thoughts or our souls if you will, inhabit that energy I also believe that the earth and the galaxy and the universe generate this very same energy or some type very similar but superior and that God inhabits that energy field and when our bodies die we will be sustained by the greater field generated by the earth if we are already friends of the earth and if we are friends of Sol we will be sustained by the field genrated by our star etc, until we arrive to the level of God and if we are friends of God we will be sustained by Him and forever live with Him but if He doesn’t knoe us we will be cast out in to outer darkness and not be sustained and we will be without form and confused and full of sorrow. These are entirely my own ideas except the souls or thought inhabiting the energy field generated by the brain I read in a novel by Dan Simmons called “The Hollow Man”.
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May 23, 2009 at 8:27 pm
René Descartes may well have said “Cogito ergo Sum” “I think therfore I am”; but I believe Lucius Annaeus Seneca said it first. I always thought René Descartes was famous for the imperative “Futue te ipsum” “Go f**k yourself” and for “Effer fasciam adhaesivam – - mox pedam!” “Get out the duct tape – - I am about to fart!” Her roman catholic prist said, I understand, “Utri vos convenit credere? Mihi, an nescio cui puero parvulo muculento, quamlibet pulchrllus sit?” “Who are you gong to believe me or some snot-n0sed little boy, no matter how good looking?”
May 23, 2009 at 8:41 pm
Loved that reply. Please leave more with Latin. Wish you could write me privately. Very funny!
J
May 23, 2009 at 9:08 pm
Diabmelus coegit peccare! “The dev
May 23, 2009 at 9:09 pm
Diabmelus coegit peccare! “The devil made me do it!”
May 23, 2009 at 7:51 am
I got life, mother
I got laughs, sister
I got freedom, brother
I got good times, man
I got crazy ways, daughter
I got million-dollar charm, cousin
I got headaches and toothaches
And bad times too
Like you
I got my hair
I got my head
I got my brains
I got my ears
I got my eyes
I got my nose
I got my mouth
I got my teeth
I got my tongue
I got my chin
I got my neck
I got my tits
I got my heart
I got my soul
I got my back
I got my ass
I got my arms
I got my hands
I got my fingers
Got my legs
I got my feet
I got my toes
I got my liver
Got my blood
I got my guts (I got my guts)
I got my muscles (muscles)
I got life (life)
Life (life)
Life (life)
LIFE!
~ from the musical Hair
May 23, 2009 at 12:59 pm
you lost the best part of a man jack.
May 23, 2009 at 8:00 am
I always wonderd why he didn’t say he had his balls and his dick itr would have been gotten into the movie I think. they just didn’t have the balls to try it. ot maybe they tried and failed.
May 23, 2009 at 8:11 am
I love the movie they made of that musical. Treat Williams was great as Berger. he has some nice nude shots that movie really brings back a lot of memories of my ideaism of those days,I have in dvd and watch it occasionaly. john Savage played Claude briliantly
Beverly D’Angelo is always a delight. I heartily aprove and suggest that all should own a copy for your movie library.
May 23, 2009 at 8:51 am
this really made me think davey thanks so manyt new perspectives of life ^^
May 23, 2009 at 11:06 am
I’ve never thought about it that way before. I love your blog, my first comment.
May 23, 2009 at 12:02 pm
When I was in elementary school our gym teacher would occassionally pull out a giant parachute. We would all circle up with chute in hand and start making waves and what not. We each contibuted to the energy of the parachute- some people would move their arms wildly and others at a more content pace- it didn’t matter. We all contibute to the ripple of life using all types of emotions, faiths, and perspectives. I believe each of our flames will eventually burn out but there will be others to take our place. Here and today will determine the starting point for those in control tomorrow.
May 23, 2009 at 1:08 pm
Nice post Davey, once again, i say i love ur perspective!
May 23, 2009 at 2:56 pm
This posting gives an entirely new meaning to the term “crock of s**t”! Sorry, Davey… you need to get laid and stop these horrible little mind trips which go nowhere. Go look at your neighbors if this is all you can come up with!
May 23, 2009 at 3:37 pm
DaveyWavey: Nipplenipplesmileflophandsnipplenipplegigglewave hands. Squeakhighpitchedvoicesoundgigglegigglenipplenipplenipplenipplekneebuttcrack.
Chipotlestretchesinbackground.
Peekoutofblindsatapartmentacrosswayshriekgigglehighpitchedvoicesounds.
Lemmings: Oh, THANK YOU, Davey. Those nipples are a really interesting perspective. And your chest is a really deep take on life. Thank you, thank you oh above-average attracive one. I will immeditately apply your butt-crack to my life in all things I do. Keep up the deep nipples!
May 23, 2009 at 6:30 pm
Demi, truly, you are behaving with all the asininity of a pseudo-intellectual who takes things far too literally. If you have such a beef with Davey and those of use who “get” his perspective, why do you persist here?
May 23, 2009 at 4:17 pm
hey davey u soo hooot..about if u wwere staying at the apartment u should move to los angeles im going to move ther soon and i love it there u should really move im and actor and i have many lovly friends there ur gonna be happy i heard u liked zac efron right im friend with his girl shes so nice! so as he:)anyways i think u should move there u belong there
contact me at santellos@live.se and peace out let me know of u bye!:)
May 23, 2009 at 5:23 pm
This is such crap.
Besides the fact that it is pointless (people saying they have no life, don’t mean it in an ownership sense) it is also self contradictory.
If red paint stopped being red, it would have every reason to panic. In the same sense we (who are life, according to you) have every right to feel scared of death, because loss of life, is loss of US.
May 23, 2009 at 6:32 pm
There is still plenty of room to debate that last bit. Death isn’t necessarily our expiration, especially considering the laws of energy conservation… and we are energy.
May 24, 2009 at 11:37 am
F.U.–I think that Demi’s poetry is brilliant. Too bad YOU don’t get it.
As for Davey, I’d say Demi “gets” him–Davey is adorable physically, and has mannerisms that, in small (say…<2 minute) doses are charming enough. Even his dime-store philosophy spiel is entertaining as light, satiric comedy. No, the only drawback to a little 3-5 minute hit of Davey is trying to digest the comments by mindless idiots (not counting YOU among that group…..necessarily) who take his act seriously and slobber and fawn all over him as if he were a REAL cupcake instead of just a virtual one. No, Mr. Fu, I’d say Demi “gets” Davey….it’s the air-headed lemmings (not counting YOU among that group….necessarily) who Demi gags on and pukes back up.
May 23, 2009 at 7:19 pm
nothing is ever lost
May 24, 2009 at 10:55 am
But that’s just in English. In many other languages, people describe qualities with the verb to have. I.e. in Spanish, I am sleepy = Tengo sueno (I have sleepiness). And in Greek most physical characteristics (such as the paint is red) are described using the “to have” verb.
IDK… just something to think about =]
May 24, 2009 at 11:33 am
True. That is the difference in Western and Eastern perspective being reflected in language structure.
May 24, 2009 at 5:23 pm
you say we ARE life..
but what IS life?
May 25, 2009 at 12:27 am
Life is a limited perspective and time frame in which for us to strive to become something more than the mere flesh and blood we perceive to be ourselves.
May 25, 2009 at 3:33 pm
today May 25 I am in one of my very depressed time. Life what is life all about anyways? The dock at the bay is looking ver close
May 26, 2009 at 4:25 pm
In my opinion, life is not only what we are, it’s rather what we do with it, this makes a big difference to me. There is no “life” if we don’t give it a real meaning and a goal to reach, even if what we did can remain unfinished.
bye,
January 2, 2010 at 3:04 pm
you said life is what we are but havnt you ever heard of someone losing who/what they are