The Age of the iPod

Nowadays we’re living with a huge amount of noise. This is a very loose way of saying that we’re bombarded with technology, and let’s not forget the advertising and subcultures that go with it. It’s hard and confusing, but if you can master the technology of today, then you and I are open to endless possibilities.

Ever since the iPod and various other media devices became a norm, people have been obsessed with music and now anyone from a teenager to a middle aged father is listening to music. It’s a great thing to know that you can carry your whole cd wallet in a little pouch that is lighter than your actual wallet where more crucial information is stored. But also your wallet has become a little less relevant to how you want to feel about life. Your wallet has now become a product of the noise of our generation.

Balancing noise and narcissism

A while ago I was talking to a Doctor at my work. He told he doesn’t like technology at ALL. He told me that it’s made us removed from the world and with what’s going on. Although he’s not entirely correct, I’m forced to wonder how much of what he’s saying is actually true. One tragedy about an iPod is that it can cause us to introvert. One out of every ten customers I deal with, I don’t approach and ask them for help since they’re glued to the music on their belt, and simply want to waft in and out of the shop, in their music and their own thoughts. It gets on my nerves because I’m unsure if they want help, or they want to just be left alone instead.

I also understand them, because I’m a natural-born metal head and some days I enjoy the idea of simply plugging into a great album and forgetting about everything else for a while. So is this Noise (in the positive sense of the word) or blind Narcissism that’s provoking us?

It’s both to be honest. I don’t see life as an ultimatum, because that would be cruel and unfair to my own morals. The Greek legend of Narcissus is still a powerful one, so here is the story:

“[Narcissus] in Greek mythology, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope; he was distinguished for his beauty. His mother was told that he would have a long life, provided he never looked upon his own features. His rejection, however, of the love of the nymph Echo or of his lover Ameinias drew upon him the vengeance of the gods. He fell in love with his own reflection in the waters of a spring and pined away (or killed himself); the flower that bears his name sprang up where he died. According to another source, Narcissus, to console himself for the death of his beloved twin sister, his exact counterpart, sat gazing into the spring to recall her features.

The story may have derived from the ancient Greek superstition that it was unlucky or even fatal to see one’s own reflection. In psychiatry and especially psychoanalysis, the term narcissism denotes an excessive degree of self-esteem or self-involvement, a condition that is usually a form of emotional immaturity.“

- Narcissus. (2009). Encyclopædia Britannica. Ultimate Reference Suite. Chicago: Encyclopædia Britannica.

In short we have a man who is forced into a period of water-gazing because of external factors in the environment. Our fallen hero has now become blinded by what he sees. In my opinion you could replace the harmless bowl of water, with an iPod, for our generation. It would seem absurd to argue that an iPod could actually kill someone. I won’t even make that statement for fear of living with the consequences and court cases. It is a strong example of how too much of a good thing could be detrimental to what we are unaware of.

An iPod at best can make us look antisocial, angry, happy, relaxed, meditative and internally engaged with ourselves. How then can we listen to music without breaking social barriers? My advice is to keep your life (and what you listen to) to two big containers.

The Two containers

The first is labeled ‘Online’ and the other ‘Offline’. These terms can be translated as Public and Private Life. Although society may try and merge these two categories, I think that is important we keep them (for the most part) separate.

So when you are at home, or in your car, or any other private space, that would be a good time to listen to your iPod. Although if you are in any kind of public place I would suggest that you whip it out of your ears, and engage with your external environment. This may seem like a massive shock to an introvert who is terrified of talking to people, although I still think it’s important. The only small exception I’ll add to this list is if you use an iPod for exercise. So if you are running down the road or going to the gym with an iPod plugged into your head, you should keep it there so you can continue pumping iron and jogging. If you don’t (when you’re in a public space) and you keep listening to a song of yours, it may seem fine, but you would be missing out on an opportunity to talk to your external environment.

Next you get the internet which is an equally vital part of our culture. So should we allow ourselves to become Offline with regards to the internet? Well, I’m afraid that the ball is in your court on this one. With software like Facebook and MySpace, we feel a great deal safer to be open about what we think and feel. Tread with caution, for once you have stuck your feet into the electronic river of information, is virtually impossible to get away from it.

If you are, like myself, addicted to burrowing into the corners of the internet, then for goodness sake research exactly what you are burrowing into! I have a very active mind, and I’ve always made it a habit of mine to investigate my own behaviors. For example in high school I started listening to heavy metal, much to the horror of my parents, and from then on I decided to read numerous articles on the internet. Some would be album reviews, while others would look at metal as a whole (from its birth with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath) right up to the present day (with names like Metallica, Slipknot, Cradle of Filth and Korn) swarming the charts.

On the same topic I’ve read books and articles on the blogging and Facebook so I feel satisfied with what I’m getting into. If in doubt of what to do next, research your subject in question.

The River of Creation and Chaos

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus argued that you cannot step into the same river twice. The reason is that he argued that river is in flux. So try to picture the Greek symbol for infinity which is our numerical symbol for 8, which has been pushed on its side. The river, like the symbol for infinity, is never-ending…hence the word ‘flux’. The river we may swim in may last longer than our existence on earth does. The reason for this is because that’s just the way it is. It’s a form of energy that never stops.

What does the saying mean then? Well, every time you dip your foot into the river, you are in different particles of water, because the river is constantly flowing. You can then argue that we experience the river differently every time we immerse ourselves in it, because some time has passed since when we last dipped our foot in, and at the same token, we may be older people (if even by a few minutes) compared to our initial encounter with the river. Now consider the internet…

In philosophy there are three questions we start off asking ourselves, to stimulate our minds.

- Why are we here?

- Where have we come from?

- Where are we going?

It’s a tough one to consider; now if you ask the internet those same questions (by replacing ‘we’ with ‘you’) then the outcome is equally flabbergasting. The internet is an unknown river to most of us. We will just find one small spot where we enjoy swimming and make use of it! So as an ‘iPod generation’ I think that we should choose to embrace this river that, like it or not, we’re bound to come into contact with.

It may not always be what we’re expecting, but it gives us a sense of peace and solace in a strange way. So even if you haven’t read up on the river you’re dipping into, and are feeling a little nervous about it, just be aware of it, and a little research is always a good idea.

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The confession of a chaos addict

It is overcast today. The clouds are looking too depressed for their own good. The smell of rain is in the air. When this happens my Englishness seems to give an excited whoop, on the inside. It’s hard to explain to some people that bad weather is actually a delight. Maybe is because bad weather is more of an event. Think about it went the clouds gather up together like some depressed emos, it tells you one thing…shit is going to happen. There will be rain, or thunder/lightning, road accidents, and soaked pedestrians.

We’re chaos-based people. Call me a pessimist, but are the good things really meaningful to us, or are we actually taking a breather until we have to face more chaos again? Chaos is a limited word, and in this case slightly crude. I’ll stick with it though. I’ll give an example to support my claim.

Jim and Sarah are going through a rough patch. This is because Sarah suspects her husband is cheating on someone else. She is pregnant, and at this stage is limited to staying at home and doing all the house work. It’s not an ideal situation. Jim tries to spend more time at work than usual, because Sarah is emotional unstable, and easily angered.

So now (as usual) everyone is in one big melting pot of chaos. This couple may end up with a divorce and finding their own direction, or they may pull themselves together and talk things through. There are never two sides to the coin, especially when you’ve got a relationship to deal with. This may be all and well, but what is my point? Are we inherently bad people because of this? Not at all…

Allow me to euphemize the word ‘chaos’ and instead we are system-based people. We are controlled by systems most of the time. We have responsibilities, jobs, relationships, because they make our lives more meaningful. At the same time we can’t escape the systems we’re in. It’s a default that life throws at us. I’ll elaborate…

Just like Plato’s analogy of the cave, the Systems are what we start off with. Just like everyone begins in the cave, everyone is born into systems. It’s inescapable. This doesn’t mean though that we are out of our control. I believe that the only way we can make enjoy our existence, is to learn the Systems. Eventually once we’ve spent many years of thinking, we’ll get the systems to work for us. The greatest achievement in life is to have the Systems compliment and enrich our lives, rather than control and dominate us.

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Marbles

you have to catch
your
own marbles
before all the other
people help you
put them back in the
Jar

I came to see this
after my first three legged
dinosaur broke, the bits
and playful face
still looked at me
for an answer

not everyone knows
that listening
to the rolling
generational balls
is what its all
about…really

playtime with
marbles, will
teach you to
watch, and feel
(maybe)

those gaps in the
glass jar

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The Death of a Dead Thing

“The American Dream, You have to be asleep to believe it.”

- George Carlin

 

This seems to be a very good example to me of consciousness. Many people don’t realize that today the biggest fear is losing our ability of free and critical thinking. For those who are interested these are similar points that the comedian (mentioned above) makes. I agreed with the approach he has taken, so I’m going to back up, and expand on what he said.

 

 

Many people (particularly those bound by a fundamentalist faith system) believe that we are living in the ‘end times’. Basically the Christians reckon that the anti-Christ is upon us. It’s also easy to back up this claim because all you need to do is look at all the war and chaos around us. My theory is that the end of the world is only a way of coming to terms with the chaos human beings seem to create. Because after all, if God is perfect…we’re the only ones left to blame.

 

So just like the Adam and Eve story is a Beginning of the World for Dummies book, you can pretty much substitute the title with End. The only catch is that the end of the world hasn’t come so naturally. We still believe it though along with the anxiety that comes with knowing your ‘time’ might be up. On this heart-warming note, let me talk more about the media. (Here’s another interesting thought on the side…Let’s assume that society, the media is a personality. If this is so is the world really becoming a worse place all the time…or is the World just becoming more honest with itself?)

 

Media = Popular Opinion

 

The Media is not fact. We seem to get sucked into it, and begin to believe that it is. When we watch a current film (set in a modern time period), all the values, characters, attitudes and opinions we see are all based on opinion. If you put enough educated guesses together, you’re going to get a popular opinion. In other words, there are enough people agreeing on something, for it to be screen-able. This doesn’t always make it factual, but then most of the time audiences (in general) accept what they see and don’t question whether the information is accurate. We all assume that a lot of people more skilled than us put this together in such a good way, so we’d really just be fools to question it…right?

 

A Quick Example: A typical American family is in this film. (The story revolves around them and they are the main characters.) The film is a comedy. A father and mother (who are middle aged), an adolescent son, and prepubescent daughter dominate the plot. Now the general idea with an American family is that the Wife is emotionally stable and the Husband is a retard, clumsy, getting to work late to further prove his misfortune. The older son is either depressed or angry, and happens to be the only truly stable person of the family (excuse the irony). Lastly you get the younger sister, who is battling to make a step into teendom, and as a result leaps into arms of older guys. This happens for many reasons, it normally though, has something to do with the goofy father.

 

 

If all the above (in the example) is taken as factual then our family lives are in seriously deep shit! You can’t assume that things will work out for the better if you’re feeding your mind with broken families. I do admit than I am a cynic and critic, but it’s far more assuring that the alternative. I’m sure every culture has it own idiosyncrasies, but if you using the media (a socially invasive, and manipulative machine) to promote you should start to ask some questions. These should involve your own culture and what you need to start cleaning up.

 

My Big Mouth

 

I tell my friends that, ‘I have a big mouth and I’m not afraid to use it.’ So as a result I think I deserve some criticism, because I don’t always make sense. This is another way of saying that comments are always welcome on this blog If anyone would like to submit articles for this blog, leave a comment and I’ll get back to you via email.

 

 

 

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The Terror of Immortality

I have a warning to announce. It may sound a little presumptuous to some, but currently I’m living in the Immortal Age. Now don’t get too worried because this is different from actually admitting that I am immortal. Sorry folks, but its not like the cartoons where not even bullets can pierce my skin. I’m talking more psychology here. If you think of the time period between the ages 18 and 28…that’s a decade. It’s a speck in the ocean if you’re talking evolution, but for a human lifetime is the springboard for the life you’re going to choose. Of, course there’s always room for change…but its during these ‘formative’ years, that change is most probably the most crucial.

So why does that make me immortal?

There are a number of reasons. I’ll list them below since I’m lazy to form coherent sentences.

1. People are at the peak of sexual activity
2. Energy levels are at their highest, which is why many party hard.
3. Your brain starts to wake up…you can reason better, learn faster.
4. You have the most freedom. Some people choose to get married in their mid-twenties. Although trends show that woman are becoming more empowered and choosing to have children later and have a career for themselves.

So whether you’re 22 or 26…the fact is you’re still a beginner at being an adult. Maybe this is why we’re not always the responsible people all the other folks say we should be. It’s the decade where we feel the most empowered, wanted, energized, fuelled, creative, spontaneous, excited, loving, alive, and many more acronyms. All of these words mashed together = Immortality. Of course it’s not the literal sense of the word, but feeling Immortal is most probably far more intoxicating that actually being in that state.

Briefly I can think of two movies that covered this topic. Tuck Everlasting, and Hancock. Both are two different movies. They each have their own overall message. Although since the characters did have a lot in common. I’ll shorten it and simply say that (the feeling of) Immortality is a dangerous chemical to be juggling.

Of course at the same time, it’s easy to blame the blunders of twenty year olds purely on feelings and chemicals. Being Immortal is a great thing. I’ve been pretty negative, I’ll admit. It’s a symbol of opportunity, growth, power and eventual success. The terror comes in letting those ideals in the distance cloud our thinking.

 

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What if… messes you up

This is another way of saying, ‘Live in a world where everything is about to happen.” We all wish we could take back some of our actions and errors. I thought I’d pass on something that’s helped me through mistakes. This is more of a life coaching post about, moving on, and not mourning.

The heading is a saying of mine (for the record I replace the verb mentioned with an expletive). I use this term because saying ‘what if’ is mourning for what has gone. You might not always see it as a negative saying. I’m referring to the commonly used expression ‘what if things were different?’ If you don’t think you are mourning, you’re at least considering it with the ‘what if’ expression.

Mourning is really the cerebral side of feeling sad. There are no second takes with the things that happen to us. We just have to paint over our errors and misjudgments and make them work for us. I know I make it sound easy, but all illustrations are theoretical. So forgive me for picking at the same issue. I like to criticize ideas before I offer alternatives.

Mourning is hard because you are reminded of what you have lost. When you mourn, you’re not mourning the person’s death (as an example). You’re mourning the end of a process (life). We are not caught up by the loss, but by the process that represents it. Death is not the end; it is only the equals’ sign of the equation.

So yes, if someone leaves you, you will miss them because they’re gone. The suddenness of the event will shake you the most. I’ve actually written on the theme of lost. I think it’ll be an appropriate ending.

Years away from sleep

Don’t call me

For I am footsteps away
Drinking in the sleep
Coated cream sheets

Stay where you are
There is no time for
Your feet to patter
On the old oak
Floors

I am footsteps and feet
Away from sleep
Tomorrow come give me
Your deep voice and
Sweaty whisper

I don’t feel old with my
Dream thick curls
And button eyes

Come back to the story

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No Religion, just a condition

The world today has gradually become more honest with itself by discarding monarch and tyrant, and along the same lines fundamentalist faith systems. The general rule nowadays is that there is no religion. Well, I find that a very liberating thought. We have to create our own fruit salad, and choose what works for us. I’ve heard someone say that the basis of fundamentalism is anxiety. The fear of meeting someone on ‘the other side’.

I think eventually people might want a change of atheism/agnosticism. I can just picture it. There is a row of fold-out chairs. Everyone is nervously holding a cup of coffee, and trying to look at the others, but also avoid being looked at.
The leader is a friendly middle-aged woman, full of beads and red hair. She stands up and announces:
“Everybody today we have a new member of our society…” she gives a dramatic pause. It is clear now who the person is.

There is a tall man who can’t hold up his head straight. He is perched on the side of his chair, ready to rise up to his audience. The leader gives a warm therapeutic smile, and continues. “His name is Jim, and he has a wife and two beautiful daughters.”

Nothing like feeling like a common man, Jim thinks as he stands. Jim looks tall and awkward. It’s almost as if an elastic in his back stretched in the wash.

“Hello everyone my name is Jim.”
“Hi Jim,” come the replies with little synchronization.
“Um…I’m an addict. I’ve been a Christian for two months now.”
One or two sympathetic looks escape.
“I’m trying to quit the Atheism, but it’s not killing me like alcohol would.”

He reasons openly.
“I think this is about rejecting everyone else.”
If there was a noise other than Jim’s voice, everything had gone solid and silent.
“I can’t keep this up…it’s madness.”
Jim walks out of the hall, creating whispers in his wake.

Dammit! this feels like I’m telling a parable, but anyway my point is that we are conditioned to accept institutionalized religion. By the age of 10 we’re supposed to be shitting ourselves, and praying fiercely to stay out of hell.

I disagree with that, why put children through all that stress? You may not have noticed…but when you tell a young child with a fertile imagination that there is a chance they may burn forever…they aren’t thinking of a candle. They’re thinking of Scarface from the Lion King with his hungry cronies around him, throwing you into a river of flames.

So my motto would be there is no religion, only conditions we put on people. We force people unnecessarily. Following a god or deity, is only following something you want. We should follow consciousness, for me that goes beyond a religion. By consciousness I mean a personal awareness, and insight gained through your own journey. To face more of yourself is painful, although you’re finding out the grooves in life, and which rut in the road you fit best in.

Consciousness is a two way thing. It starts off by opening yourself on the inside, and journeying through your shit with a trained mentor/counselor/therapist. The second part of consciousness is opening your head to everything outside of yourself. On one level is a universal respect for your fellow man (even the annoying car guard.) If you are conscious you are aware of his situation.

At the same time respecting people doesn’t mean accepting them. Some people don’t deserve that,although we now see them better. It’s like the difference between hearing and listening. Well if you start to pursue the path of being conscious, you start to take in people instead of glancing over the surface.

Hope this doesn’t sound too trippy (Pulp Fiction quote unquote)

Just a thought

 

 

 

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Anime inspired quote

A good friend on chat gave this quote to me. I liked it so much that I decided to blog it. He was inspired by Naruto and Neo Genesis Evangelion.

 

 

 

“by knowing you put a curse on yourself , by not knowing you take pleasure in innocence …. the curse of the innocent … is to become weak and naive…now you work on living with that curse and still achieving your dream … by touching .. we take responsibility .. for the contamination of what’s pure… by not touching our existence is questioned … and our knowledge dimmed… we are perfect as we are .. so we chase the dream .. there is consequence for everything … but no excuse …” – ub3rbunny

 

Some things are pure poetry when you hear them, and then you stop by later to figure out bits of meaning…this is the case here.

 

 

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Life is not a heavy thing

I thought I take the chance to expand on the point I left you hanging with in my previous post. I find we should hold life lightly. I want to make this clear I’m not confusing it not taking life seriously.

 

I think we should approach situations with lightness. Think about it. I’m not a fan of rigidity. So whatever ever god/being/energy that I happen to believe in, I will always joke about my own beliefs. Some people believe jokes about religion are sacrilegious. I happen to differ; I think it keeps us human.

 

We are beings in a system. Around us we have to juggle/manage other types of systems that are around us. We can’t approach those systems with a prejudice (or rigidity). We have to look at things with lightness. So if you encounter something emotionally traumatic, I think we should have the ability to step back and say (to ourselves) “its okay.”

 

Going back to the systems…Life is full of systems, but at the same time life is energy. What I’m saying is those systems that we juggle are energy themselves. They are their own force, so for us to put a strain on it, will just cause the energy to react. Its an interesting concept, I find. Many things were cleared up for me when, I started thinking of Life as energy. So there are forces that are actually controlling themselves.

 

We are simple left to choose, and juggle the difference.

 

 

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The Age of Options

We are living in an age of evolution. This means that some things are getting better (while others are getting worse)…and we are forced to deal with the consequences. If you’re a staunch Christian you might say we’re living in the end times…but I think it’s far more positive and exciting.

All this Armageddon stuff scares the shit out of me…naturally. The reason being I don’t like looking at the world on the brink of destruction, because I’m indirectly questioning my own existence (and watching it diminish.) I also feel that such a pessimistic view isn’t necessary. Let me give some examples before I continue to confuse you totally…

 

An Inconvenient Perspective

Al Gore is telling us that climate change is going to make the world a very hard place to live in. In his film/documentary An Inconvenient Truth he said that because of global warming and all the rest, ultimately the warm places will get very hot…and the cold places will become warmer than they already are. I myself struggled to watch it, since when you’re seeing your possible future living conditions becoming unbearable…its not much fun. Anyway…the one thing Al Gore was trying to get through to us was…if we don’t step up and start making an effort to clean up the world around us, its gonna bite back hard.

So yes in terms of evolution, some things don’t evolve at all, and that’s hard to face. Evolution has a lot to do with the survival of the fittest…the small, deformed, slow, stupid creatures die. The smart ones, survive, reproduce, and give or take a couple million years evolve and cope, proving that they are tougher than the suckers that died out.

 

Stupid Humans

Now us humans come along and disrupt the balance of evolution. What a pity, some critics say that the main thing damaging the earth and causing problems are us, the Homo sapiens fucking everything up. Putting the environment aside for a second, there’s another crucial way we break the boundaries of evolution.

We keep people alive. We do the unthinkable by healing the curing and sick and helpless. For a second I might be sounding cold and heartless…but just think about it for a second. Is our humanity blunting our evolution? It is clear that we are evolving. First of all we are changing our language. The English we spoke in the last hundred years is very different. Also physically we are looking after ourselves more than ever, with health care, and vaccines we are staying alive for longer. We are also growing taller than previous generations. Besides all that, we are still bound by our humanity at the end of the day. It might sound like an excellent idea to wipe out all the sick and disabled and ’start afresh’ … but no one in their right minds would do that. It’s simply unethical and bringing down our reputation, and ignoring our moral obligations.

 

Unlike animals we have three terrible things, which harm and help us. These three things cause the greatest problems, as well give us our greatest skills.

 

They are:

1. Morals/Ethics. We are ‘bound’ by our humanity and ability to naturally heal the helpless (this might mean defying the laws of nature).
2. Ability/Capacity for growth (i.e. learning, creativity, etc). We are born into this world as blank slates.
3. Our own will. We have choices and options. Life is constant decision making. This places a large impact on the former concepts.

 

The first thing I’ll say is that the third point is not the same as our conscience. We make the choices we make, and sometimes it is based on what our conscience and/or rationality is telling us. I could discuss this shit forever…so I’ll get back to the evolution part of things.

 

 

Technology is Crazy

A good example of the success of our evolution is technology. This ranges from the light switch in your kitchen…to the super computers at NASA. We are living in an Information Age (i.e. an Age of Change). We live off information, because knowing more about the world brings us more comfort and security, than limiting our knowledge.

The bottom line…computers are storing more stuff, gadgets are growing, and there’s always a lot we don’t know. Technology has reached the level where people are talking about Artificial Intelligence (i.e. computers thinking for themselves and becoming a ‘human like’).

So this is proof that we are doing some good, and evolving…or more to the point helping technology to evolve. I had to laugh the other day someone gave me the Guinness Book of World Records 2001. I turned to the technology section, and all the then ‘massive’ hard drives are small now. Beware nanotech has arrived! That’s all the super small shit, like storing masses of data in a molecule. Was reading a Popular Mechanics Last year, I think, and some Asian person had made a playable guitar inside an atom. I’m not sure of all the details. The fact of the matter is we’re becoming more efficient with our storing of data.

 

The Next Step

Well, hopefully the next step in our evolution will be to cut fuel and CO₂ emissions, preserve the earth in general, and create a healthy environment for who ever is to follow us…

I think we’ll eventually be moving off earth. I’m no expert at this stuff, but since we’re using the earth’s resources like toilet paper, I don’t think there’s really an option, other than to get the hell outta here. Also I don’t believe in the so-called end times, and that everything is going to get worse. Trust me, I’m sure back in the day (late 1930’s), plenty of priests were saying the same with the rise of Nazism and good old Adolf. Although, if I briefly assume the worst, then I believe that some sort of space travel will be essential.

Currently our Sun is middle aged. There is a theory that when it ‘breathes its last’ so to speak, the earth along with all the other planets in the solar system will be sucked into a ball of burning gass. God, that is so comforting, knowing in our final moments we’ll hurtle towards the sun with the flesh melting off our bones, and our bodies turning into a pile of ash.

 

What Do We Do?

Are there things we can to cope with our evolving? I think that there are. The most crucial would be to stay in touch with the world around us. This means following political movements, aswell as opinion and the thinking of the day. If we just give up it, deciding to become a mindless alcoholic (for example), that would be more tragic. It would mean we are one of the ’stuck’ people who refuse to grow and evolve.

So we have to be in the know. Most of all how we cope with this is a matter of opinion. Also our religion, and beliefs will influence what we make of it. Just to throw around though, I’ve enjoyed this banter. I’m always up for asking questions…so there you have it. I don’t really want to reach a specific conclusion, since I don’t feel there’s need for one.

 

>May The Muse And Plato Juice Be With You

 

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