cities across america have been pillaged and destroyed these last few days.
a white policeman has been charged with murder of a black man.
protests have been organized across major us cities and horrible riots have occurred.
Minimus I love your questions!
I read all the posts and come away with a lot to think about due to other perspectives.
Personally I think at least a small part of this is due to people being cooped up and unable to use their fight/flight response against the virus.
They're using it now.
for the first time in my life, i have to admit that the world is rapidly deteriorating.
first i saw a decline in democracy worldwide.
elections were a tough battle every time, unfair too.
I have felt the same as you Gorby, I would guess many of us are feeling very similar emotions as you have so well expressed.
Heraclitus, a Greek philosopher, has been quoted as saying “change is the only constant in life.”
This was written long before the Bible book of 1 Corinthians.
The irony is that we like things to stay the same if they are good or even tolerable. So we experience negative feelings if the status quo is seemingly disrupted but at the same time, we know growth requires tumult.
Times of war result in times of peace. Sickness results in greater awareness of how to ensure the biological survival of the species. Governments rise and fall. Checks and balances.
We are experiencing tumult and change right now. Whether it will result in a better world scene remains to be seen.
This present climate has me thinking about how people must have felt during other times of great tumult such as WW 1 and WW2 which were relatively recent in human history.
I was so awake and aware of everything when I first left the JWs. Over the years since, personally, I think I had gotten soft, a little complacent.
I am awake now. I find myself sniffing the air so to speak trying to discern which direction the winds of change are going to blow. I am eating, supplementing and exercising better and I am also thinking harder. I don't think I was in as much danger from the virus as I was from complacency.
I feel a personal responsibility to come out of all of this better.
both my 84 yr old jw father and my never my jw mother 82 with both together died from the the corona in 24 hours of each other.
i can tell many fighting i have had here in the last 20 years.on this site .
i juy hope they rest in peace.
Im so sorry for your loss Hotpepper.
You have a double sadness and my heart goes out to you.
i hope that within the next several months we will get back to some type of normalcy.
will restaurants ever get filled again?
will you ever be able to sit at a bar or go to a concert or broadway show?.
I agree anony.
I think taking people who live piled on top of one another in apartments (NYC) and encouraging them to stay inside will eventually be proven to have been the worst of ideas.
i hope that within the next several months we will get back to some type of normalcy.
will restaurants ever get filled again?
will you ever be able to sit at a bar or go to a concert or broadway show?.
Supply disruptions seem like a definite possibility WTWIzard.
I also read that this is supposed to be a significant hurricane season which if so, could have an impact on the entire east coast of the U.S. further straining resources.
i hope that within the next several months we will get back to some type of normalcy.
will restaurants ever get filled again?
will you ever be able to sit at a bar or go to a concert or broadway show?.
The "Spanish Flu" hit in the spring of 1918 and pretty much fizzled out in the summer of 1919. The death toll was much greater.
This was immediately followed by the Roaring 20s.
Never underestimate the human ability to fall and bounce back.
last wednesday my elder brother called me to let me know mom had died.
she was 97 years old and was in a nursing home for the last 7 years.
her mind had left her many years ago to the point she didn't recognize any of us.
Condolences to you Still Totally ADD.
Thank you for telling us about your experience in the death of your mom and also with your brother.
In taking the time to share, you are helping others to understand their place on the spectrum of our own human experiences. I'm glad you are here STA!
today, it will be 90 degrees and humid!
this morning i’ll be playing tennis again.
while most people have been holed up in their houses, i have regularly played the sport outside.
I might briefly if I was in a crowded city with a lot of active cases and riding mass transport. A subway, bus or plane.
I won't be wearing it outdoors in the air and sunshine.
We are hearing a lot about the benefits about wearing a mask but we are hearing little about the negative effects of re-breathing (what happens in a mask).
Masks are underwear for the face.
stay in period.
get deliveries of necessities so you dont go to store.
no contact except phone.
If they had said "Get out in the sun and move your body! Eat a balanced diet. Be cautious about large groups of people . Take advantage of technology (the internet, libraries on line, Audible etc) to improve your mind, learn a new hobby and so on, I would have thought they were on to something or at least taking the cream of the good advice that is to be had and regurgitating it.
But alas, no.
They, as usual, are a step behind.
our loco-needs this month was on apps, yes apps, the apps you use, that is, now catch this---"not by the governing body"!
did wt stop saying watchtower???
an app not by the governing body.
Or!
Replace the governing body with "The Capital" and you have the ruling power in the "Hunger Games"
The people of the land are already divided into districts so that part works too!
Here is a description of "The Capital":
"The Capitol is lavishly rich and technologically advanced, but the districts are in varying states of poverty."
Source: Wikipedia
