Tag Archives: Suffering
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon Cover Design The Yin-Yang motif for the cover design of The Party Line was designed by me and created by a young artist by the name of Mina Schwind. I think she did a great job. The bird in the Yin half of the circle is a phoenix and the Yang animal is a dragon. The phoenix symbolizes the reemergence of the human spirt, arising from the ashes of global suffering. The dragon represents…..
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon In a later chapter of the book, a character referred to as “Sage” makes the comment when discussing human suffering that “most consciousnesses are practically filled to the brim with nothingnesses.” What does this mean, and how does it bear upon human suffering? Though I won’t go into the full details here, in the book Sage is making the point that most if not all of our objects of desire don’t really exist…..
THE PARTY LINE By Dennis D. Gagnon From the book: “Maybe God is not the sort of thing you find at the end of an argument.” This is a thought by the narrator occasioned by a deep discussion about arguments for and against God’s existence with a young female acquaintance while walking on the beach. The two just finished discussing God’s existence and free will, when the narrator has this thought. In particular, the acquaintance and the narrator have just…..
Graphical illustrations were created by and presented with the permission of Mina Schwind.
