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the joy of thingfulness by *relaxeder:iconrelaxeder:

Categories Traditional Art > Drawings > Illustration > Conceptual

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graphite (and some needle and thread)

thank you to :iconlorivintage55stock: for the stock photo i used as reference for the fella.

This is an extension of the theme in “a portrait of determinism” [link] – in which my goal was to visually convey what a bleak and dead-end theory determinism truly is. My intent with this drawing is to look at the implications of determinism a little further and those of determinism’s ugly cousin: materialism. Materialism is the philosophical view that everything everywhere can be reduced to matter and energy – relegating us fine Homo sapiens from beings of (assumed) spiritual dimension to the status of objects.

Given the determinist/materialist outlook (that we, humans, are mere things with no will of our own) what are we to make of human relationships? In a worldview flattened down to utter thingfulness what are we to think about such quaint and antiquated concepts as love and compassion? Assuming the determinist/materialist is right (which I don’t) – how can love possibly be real? A thing can't genuinely love and/or be loved by other things.

* I’m not referring to love in terms of fleeting feelings, subjective sentiment, or sexual attraction. What I have in mind is the kind of love that includes seeing the intrinsic value of the person loved – a value that is not quantitative or calculable. A love that transcends physicality. A love that’s more like an insight than an illusion.

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~krell May 21, 2009, 9:43:16 PM
Why did you draw a white man? Are you racist?
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~Abdstract May 21, 2009, 10:12:42 PM
Well done :)

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N o t h i n g a s i t s e e m s.
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*relaxeder May 21, 2009, 10:23:28 PM
you know i love you, darling... but this is the time when the adults get to speak.
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~krell May 21, 2009, 10:36:05 PM
Wow. I saw the inflated ego coming but I never expected the douche to drip off on me.
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*relaxeder May 21, 2009, 10:40:34 PM
shhh now. i told you... adult time. be nice or it's off to your room again.
:iconnoir501:
~Noir501 May 21, 2009, 11:10:44 PM
love your drawings, always so detailed :)

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remember where you came from, remember what you are --- NIN
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~Natalia-A-Naharro May 22, 2009, 12:05:15 AM
:heart:

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~Damaged-Fractal May 22, 2009, 2:17:44 AM
I'll play the devil advocate, maybe it can be resumed as an altered state of mind, we as mater have all these chemicals in our brains, triggering reactions in our bodies and what we call emotions. What if love is just like being drunk, caused purely by an instinct of self-preservation as specie (so we have to protect each other, reproduce, etc)?

I don't really believe this, but I'd like to know what you have to say.

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