Rabbit is the question

[muriel_volestrangler]

What does it mean to accept that The Rabbit is not the answer to anything, but remains the unanswerable question?

Although I’ve never seen Him, and have absolutely no evidence that He exists, my intuition and my gut feelings tell me that a holy rabbit, in fact the holy Rabbit, lives just outside of my door. No, I’ve never seen or heard Him, but, to be honest, I actually prefer that He chooses, in His powerful but ineffable wisdom, not to reveal Himself to me. The Rabbit, you see, is above existence and He plays such an important role in my life precisely because He won’t show himself to me. My life would be meaningless without The Rabbit.

Many wise people understand this, including a Marxist scholar and an an ex-nun, both of whom have made valiant efforts to clearly explain these qualities of The Rabbit, He who cannot be expressed in words. They, like me, intuitively know that The Rabbit is the question, not the answer. But what does that mean?

As you can surely tell by now, it’s very important to me that I be completely clear and comprehensible in my writing. So, firstly, let’s set the terms of the discussion: what do we mean when we talk about “The Rabbit”? The beautiful and incredibly satisfying answer is this: no one knows. The Rabbit is the essence of what we call “a mystery.” As certain wise scholars of The Rabbit have said, The Rabbit is simply a term that describes that which we do not know.

I can just hear those strident New Arabbitists right now, the ones who dare to reduce the question of The Rabbit’s existence to science (can you imagine?), saying that this is nonsensical obfuscation and is just a pathetic attempt to rationalize my belief in The Rabbit. But, perhaps, after reading my piece, the New Arabbitists will open their minds and will begin to attempt to understand something so deep and so powerful that we cannot possibly even begin to understand it. First, let’s answer this question: what is a mystery?

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http://www.mirandacelestehale.net/?p=1041

"That's no ordinary rabbit ..." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nvs5pqf-DMA

[onager]

1. LOL! Thanks! Love the references to...

"...a Marxist scholar and an ex-nun."

Wonder who THAT could be?

On edit: I bookmarked that site. The blogger kicks all kind of butt, and this comment needs to be stickied at the top of our very own R/T group:

Obscurantism, whether of the theologicalbabble variety, the postmodernist variety, the homeopathic-woo-y variety, etc. is just painfully frustrating. They haven’t anything of substance to say so they dress it up in pretty, meaningless words in the hope that their audiences won’t notice that the emperor has no clothes and will instead think they’ve heard something “deep” and/or “profound.” And, sadly enough, many people eat this shit up and then ask for more. It’s depressing.

[trotsky]

2. Yeah but none of what you say represents MAINSTREAM rabbitism.

"Mainstream" of course defined as what I say it is at any given moment. :evilgrin: