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The Passion of Silken Thomas

The Blindboy Podcast

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The Simple, Mindful Contentment of Childhood

Christ is the narrative that came jumping up at me when I felt the loneliness of being confronted with the chaos of nature and reality, why did this poor little cat have to suffer in this way? There's a cold loneliness about us, it's a harsh, lonely truth. Christianity describes hell like that, what like hell in the Bible now, old hell in the old Bible, it describes hell as the feeling of separation from God," he says. "For me it's the loneliness and separation I feel from meaning, it's the cold hard truth that there is no meaning, there's only chaos" He adds: 'I'm just a bag of bonds'

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