Full retraction of all previous blog content as the words of an ignorant fool. Declaration of a new purpose and an intention to now burn myself out following it.
I bow to those around me, as usual, except that I’m bowing to both sides simultaneously this time.
My previously announced abdication from my own life remains fully in effect.
I have now been definitively rejected by one too many people I deeply cared (and still care!) about to be concerned any longer with having people understand or accept me. This does not mean it won’t still hurt. It has already hurt me enough to kill me. You just haven’t seen me fall over dead yet. In the meantime, it hurts, a lot. And I have accepted the fact that you (there are several of you) will never be reconciled to me, and that the reaffirmation of your love which I crave will never happen. Not on earth, at least. You have irreversibly given up on me. This recognition hurts even more. But I’m already dead.
It is no longer my life, in any sense. I will now burn myself out following a new purpose and invite everyone around me to watch the bonfire.
To those who have rejected me as an incurable fool, I am declaring my complete agreement. I am that–and more!
But for those who urged me not to destroy all of my last five years’ work right now, saying I might be acting too rashly–you also have what you wanted, for now, at least. But I’m leaving the blog up for the time being with this WARNING: You should read what I write or have written–past, present and future–in much the same way you would read the words Job or one of his worthless friends spoke before God appeared to correct them. That is, they are the words of an ignorant fool:
“I know that You can do all things,
And that no plan is impossible for You.
‘Who is this who conceals advice without knowledge?’
Therefore I have declared that which I did not understand,
Things too wonderful for me, which I do not know.
‘Please listen, and I will speak;
I will ask You, and You instruct me.’
I have heard of You by the hearing of the ear;
But now my eye sees You;
Therefore I retract,
And I repent, sitting on dust and ashes.”
Job 42:2-6 (Job speaking, after God spoke to him).