This is just a little babble of mine. Once you are finished I would really appreciate if any of you could take the time to flesh out just what existence and the world is to you. Describe the sensation, the feeling with which you generally take it...everything to do with your perception. If you consider just how you visualize things in your mind long enough, sometimes it can cause new insights into life and I would love to hear those from any of you too, if they should happen to dawn on you. As usual, I introduce my main point in lengthy discourse. Read on if you have the time, and thanks.
What world do you live in? (long read)
by rune 8 Replies latest jw friends
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rune
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prophecor
My world is much like yours, Rune. I looked at this thing and instantly said, I'm not gonna' read all that, and then I thought for a minute, maybe he really does have something to say. I viewed a portion copied it to my composition pad in Yahoo, broke it down and re-read your writing. I see you've broken yours down as well.
My life, as it stands now is a wondrous mix of what I describe to be Sacred Chaos. I'm given the opportunity to be in the midst of life's confusing circumstances, and am able to ride a wave, as it were, of almost endless possibilities. The choices that I will make in these hours will indelibly make a mark, not only upon my life, put will also craft the spaces of life in various directions for all who come into contact with me, and vice versa.
Every moment, every breath, every second we spend here upon this planet, has the potential for something good to occur in our lives, regardless for where we sit in it. Whether we are young, old, rich or poor, there is something out here in the universe that can, will and often does cover us.
The worlds a very complex place to live in, when you take into consideration all our sociological differences, upbringing, baggage from our past, from our family history. We are all just shells, enveloping spirit. The bio-electrical chemical workings of the human condition is a marvelous piece of God's architecture, that we have been granted to experience His Grandeur, His Love, His Oneness, His Openness. We have to be keen on just how to seek it out. It exist right before our eyes upon waking, its the care and concern that he has that puts us to sleep at night.
It's a difficult thing to be human, and in the same breath, what an awesome opportunity.
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OpenFireGlass
I don't know what this force is called.
I'm on the same page...
All things on this earth are amazing works of art.
As an artist, I can relate... I used to believe that my insparation came from a God character.... Now I believe it comes from within...
I find this to be a world worth living in.
In the end, that's all that really matters...
Good post rune....
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catbert
Rune,
Pretty heavy stuff! A mix of psychology, physics and chaos theory!
Read this:
http://www.hawking.org.uk/lectures/dice.html -
catbert
I have always been fascinated by savants, and have wondered if someday we will be able to tap into our own brains capabilities with the use of drugs.
I wonder if a big leap in understanding time, parallel universes, or other big topics will be done by artificial savants, smart people altered by drugs to see and understand things in ways that normal people like us cannot.
http://www.discover.com/issues/feb-02/features/featsavant/ -
OpenFireGlass
....When the Mind dicovers that the body is a polymorphous. psycosomatic Zen-pleasure labratory designed for zero gravity floating, with trillions of cells merrily copulating every second, imprinted rewards seem pale, static, and second hand...
... If we can figure out the possible nature of a higher quantum-mechanical Contelligence, certianly they who await in the genetic future can do as well or better....
... one cannot evolve from one's robothood until one realizes how totally one has been robotized...
.... consciousness is defined as energy recieved by structure. Intelligence is defined as energy transmitted by structure....
...anyone who is different is crazy or alien. Xenophobia is based on primate neurology. The hive cannot tolerate their realities...
...The only way to rewire neural patterns is to interface with the neurotransmitter sequence at the synapse, thus retracting the old imprint and allowing for new imprinting..
...Larvals do not like to recieve information unless the facts fit into their 3rd circut reality net and immediatly reward their emotional status...
... Discussing Exo-Psychology with a yokel is like discussing sexual experiences with a pre-adolecent. SHe just can't understand the new reality because Hir neural circuts have not been turned on. And SHe may turn you in for philosophic child-molesting...
Just Some Interesting(?) quotes from Timothy Leary's book: "Info-Psychology"- A Manual On The Use Of The Human Nervous System According To The Instructions Of The Manufacturers (And A Navigational Guide For Pioleting The Evolution Of The Human Individual)
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SarahLynne
rune wrote:
We owe it everything and nothing because we are bound by its laws and cannot exceed them yet would not experience anything without them
I like that. In my perception there isn't much point to life but I've always felt that way, pre-JW, as a JW and now post-JW. I feel it's all just a temporary existence and to make anything of it at all we need to be good to others, help in the ways we can, worry about very little other than keeping a roof over our heads and etc.
Still, it can be very pleasant!
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Calliope
right now, my viewpoint of this world can be somewhat summed up in the word: pulchritudinous.
the word itself, to look at is horrible and further in sound...
but its definition is to describe something characterized by or having overwhelming beauty.
this world is similar. it can be horrible, and yet at times is overwhelmingly characterized by beauty.
it's exhausting and invigorating.
when i was a jw, boundaries and limitations were created for me. i questioned them and couldn't abide by them. i was depressed, i hated life, i did things so jehovah would see my desperation and so in the eventuality of a planned and untimely death, i would be forgiven.
sad.
now? everything is different. the god i so wanted to impress is no longer. i am free. i let my mind go anywhere it wants.
i wrote a song recently,
and one of the verses goes (and i BELT it out...)
"if nothing is true,
than god that means you"
and that's how i feel.
i feel beautiful. i feel intelligent.
i forgive people willingly. i am more open-minded than i've ever been.
i feel i don't have to impress anyone anymore, but i want to touch everyone. i want to know everyone.
in so many ways i've said all i have to say, but then again there's so much left to discover.
i want to live in this world and experience it.
and to me, this is all there is.
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freedomlover
**All things on this earth are amazing works of art. ***
......even the most horrific things, and seemingly beautiful. IMO.