Spirit of Kermit the Frog
What follows came to me in a dream last night. Kermit told me that this is his final and yet strangely non-definitive version of the famous ballad. I do not know if my experience or the automatic writing that followed were natural or supernatural. Perhaps they were just sort of unnatural.
It’s Not Easy Being Being
It's not that easy being being
Having to blend each day with other kinds of things
When I think I might prefer being ontologically distinct
Or something multisyllabled like that.
It's not easy being being
It seems you blend with Cheney-Bush and such depressing things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy quarks or supernova
Or graham cracker pies.
But being's the color of spring
And it can be so totally not spring
And being can be big like an ocean or confusing
Like trigonometry or stuff like that.
When being is all there is to be
Why, it could make you wonder why not me
And pantheism, or if panentheism might not do
But I was raised a theist and still think
There might be something to that…
It’s not easy being theistic
When you have pantheistic tendencies
And also tendencies to worry about harboring
The mark of the beast and other nasty
Eschatological kind of stuff like that
Which might end up sending you to hell
Which I hear is not a pleasant place to be…
Kermit the Frog via by Paul Martin
It’s Not Easy Being Being
It's not that easy being being
Having to blend each day with other kinds of things
When I think I might prefer being ontologically distinct
Or something multisyllabled like that.
It's not easy being being
It seems you blend with Cheney-Bush and such depressing things
And people tend to pass you over 'cause you're
Not standing out like flashy quarks or supernova
Or graham cracker pies.
But being's the color of spring
And it can be so totally not spring
And being can be big like an ocean or confusing
Like trigonometry or stuff like that.
When being is all there is to be
Why, it could make you wonder why not me
And pantheism, or if panentheism might not do
But I was raised a theist and still think
There might be something to that…
It’s not easy being theistic
When you have pantheistic tendencies
And also tendencies to worry about harboring
The mark of the beast and other nasty
Eschatological kind of stuff like that
Which might end up sending you to hell
Which I hear is not a pleasant place to be…
Kermit the Frog via by Paul Martin
Posted by Paul at 11:04 PM Permalink
26 Comments:
...And I love Kermit. The day Jim Henson died, there was a big double rainbow in the skies over Manhattan. Maybe there really is a "rainbow connection" after all. ;)
It seems that all creatures feel the same,the wait for spring and then constant lament about its dangers....it is just that no creature is ever satisfied...
Have you read Amit Goswami's Physics of the Soul? It's a quantum view of the soul. To say it's thought-provoking would be terribly trite. I had two courses with Goswami.
Very clever bringing in the boiling frog syndrome. We have been asking these questions for so long now that we failed to notice how much 'hot water' we're in.
Careful now...You may have jumped out of the pantheism and into the fire!
"It’s not easy being theistic"
It's especially hard when there are people out there who write diatribes against theism based on their own unreflective assumptions about what that means. It's a sure fire way to get published in the New York Times.
VISHESH, lol, your reading here is very funny just because Kermit the Frog apparently has not been syndicated in India! You need to get me back for this one. If you post anything from Indian pop culture, especially as obscure as children's television programming, we'll see how I manage!
DON I, lol, using hand puppets is riskier than I would have thought. Glad you laughed, but that's all this was - I have no issues with any of these issues.
Haven't read the book you mention; wish I could physically still read hard copy and had enough non-bedridden time in a day to read. Happily I was able to work out the basic physics of my soul, so to speak, in Original Faith.
HOMOESCAPEONS: You're just boiling over with creative ideas lately, between Kermit's Hermits and your own last post... Is your wife doing OK through this phase, lol?
I can just about hear you at breakfast - "Hey, Canadian bacon - why not American bacon? They blockade our beef - let's capitalize on the 'American' brand until they relent! Honey, get online and find the Prime Minister's email, won't you?"
{Gentle Readers: This is only a made up story from the life of H.E. That such events actually transpire in his household would require independent verification.)
KARIN, I haven't read his book but from hearing him interviewed also get the impression that he takes easy shots. Wish I'd gotten your last paragraph sooner; I think Kermit could have worked with it!
I always knew that Kermit was deeply moving. Maybe he should write a book instead of invading your dreams like that.
What's next, a soliloquy from Miss Piggy? ;D
Thanks for the link. Wonder if that's related to process theology, it certainly has similarities.
ALEXYS F: Actually, I think Kermit was essentially a kind of optimistic existentialist.
As for Miss Piggy, I never felt I had a real grasp of her view of life.
Not to overthink this or anything...
MISTIPURPLE: A common enough problem when confronting the deeper mysteries of string puppets.
HISTORICAL W: Lucky you - seriously... All the good children's TV programming started coming right when I hit adolescence, so I grew up on Bozo the Clown, Boomtown, Uncle Gus, Captain Kangaroo, and Gilligan's Island...
Just an FYI, I've started posting that paper on panentheism I told you about. It's a long paper, so it will run over the course of several blog entries.
Take care!
HAZZBUZZ and MATTHEW: Kermit trusts that these are laughs of knowing appreciation. He tells me he is tired of being mistaken for a philosophical lightweight.
tell him to hang in there... :)
PAULINE: Yes, that's what I was thinking. But I'll admit that now you have me really curious about what your alternative ideas about "cross linking" might be...
all that gym talk made me wonder too lol
Your dream version put a smile on my face and rings true as well.
Peace be with you
...Z
If you'd take a look at other comments and write something about the same length, I'd be happy to respond.
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