One man’s meat is another man’s.. 
Why do I do it? This age of modern and fast technology is suppose to help, but not for me. I am confused and for the most part angry at all of these email, IM, and voice mechanism.
Yet without it I can not get around in Las Vegas, or San Jose or anywhere else in the world. I need the internet to find my way home. It can give me the maps and the information I need to get from point A to point B.
It can keep me connected to my friends, but I wonder who is my friends since sometime I may not want to talk to them.
Moral: Don’t ask for you may get.
We are not as great as we think.. 
Scientist have always suspected that great societies once existed. There have been many legends of the city of Atlantis that was destroyed and many different cultures have their own tales of previously existing groups.
Archaeologist have gone to the jungles of South America and into the forests of south Asia and found remnants of once great cities. Only parts of these ruins can be seen and guesses are rendered as to what, when, and why they existed. Now with the advent of new technology, the other part of the picture can be seen from outerspace via infrared cameras. These cameras can see the outlines of streets, waterways, and parts of once existed buildings. When the whole picture is put together, the ancient cities come to life showing a population of a million people over 2 thousand years ago. Why did they perish? The theory is that the inhabitants outgrew the area by overpopulation and exhausting the natural resources in the area. This in turn caused many nature disasters, which impacted the population and reduced the people to zero. Only fragments of their civilization exist, while their cities eventually was reclaimed by nature’s forest.
Man’s feeling for his superiority over nature must always yield to nature. For example, in the US, San Francisco has always been plagued by earthquake and fire. Along that stretch of the west coast of the US, fire has always existed to control the growth of forest every 30 years. Yet there are many great trees that exist in that area that date back several thousand years. Nature has provided these trees with tannic acid that retards burning of the barks of theses trees and only the underbrush is swept away by fire. But the people who lived in the area did not want to allow fire to take its course, so San Francisco, instead of having a fire every 30 years, has not had a fire for over 150 years. This is a ominous sign and a catastrophe waiting to happen.
Moral: Man can not control all that he sees, mother nature will take care of man’s needs.
Filed under: philosophy, profound thoughts, thinking, truth | Tags: conscious, head, heart, mind, motivate, philosophy
When in the middle of the forest, when a tree falls, and no one is there to hear the sound, is the sound actually there? This is an old age question and philosophers have pondered this question for a long time.
The adage can also hold some truth for those who are passing on an act of kindness. Do they do so because it is the right thing to do as dictated by their heart, or is it an act that is motiviated by their head.
If one is hermit and lives alone, with no responsibilities, he only has to think of how he would move through the day for himself. Each action that he takes only impacts himself and the things around him, plants and animals. He moves through his daily ritual with an unconscious effort as he has done so many times before. His life is very predictable. He gives reverence to the plants that impacts him and pays attention to the animals that he meets, and should he need to consume them, he expresses appreciation for their contribution to his life. So goes the daily life of the hermit, until, he must interact with another human being.
Now the many years of solitude must give way to a new arrival. Confusion and moreso, distrust follows. If the human is smaller or non threating, the hermit may feel a superiortiy over it, since the human can see that he can vanquish the small being. If the human is larger, then fear and distrust sets in the mind of the hermit. So, how can the hermit extend generosity and kindness to the other human? How can the hermit truly give to the other human? This can be done with feelings from the heart, and not the mind.
The mind tells us from the many years of breeding and learning how to react to social settings. The heart is the only tool that does not give us any clues as to how we should behave. The heart introduces us to many emotions that links two people together, yet these emotions would not exist if there were only one person. Emotions like hate, jealousy, envy, etc need two people to exist before the emotions can occur.
So, when one wishes to pass forward an act of kindness, there first must be another who is the recipient of the act. And when one passes the act, there must a mental act that exist to motivate the action. And when the mind dictates the heart now must take a back seat to the mind. Therefore the act of kindness is not truly an act of kindness, but is motivated by the mind and one is waiting for another to acknowledge the act, and when that occurs there are strings attached to the act.
Moral here: give from the heart, where there is no recognition except yourself, or give from the mind and wait for the results.
Filed under: health, philosophy, profound thoughts, thinking | Tags: analog, digital, meditate, pay attention
After the joy of birth, and the fumbling around to discover what needs to be done, the real challenge of raising a baby begins. You know that dropping food on the floor, and the persistent screaming has got to stop, otherwise your nerves will not take it. Yet slowly as the baby turns into a toddler, life in the real world begins to take shape for the youngster.
My daughter has a nickname for my grandson, Stop It. Every other word is punctuated with Stop It. Now the only response the kid has is to see if the words Stop It is there before he continues on with his actions. If the words are not there, he goes on doing what he likes and if the words are there, he stops what he is doing and waits a few second before his mischievious nature takes him off into another direction.
So begins the life and development of the human child, a combination of digital stops which eventually stretches out into a series of analog practices that forms his/her life. As children turn into young adults, their lives are governed by adults who tell them the things they must do. The youngster pieces together these series of request into a flowing pattern until they make sense in his life, a series of digital request that forms an analog picture of a persons life.
So, now as an adult there are fewer request from others as to what one should, or need to do, and the only request are from either employers or mates. Patterns set in and one begins to appreciate his analog life and does not think about his digital life until. Until is the time that problems begin to develop. Problems are when issues that one has not ever experience comes into his life. These problems could be a lost of value/money, lost of mate/social relations, lost of family, etc.
In an analog world this is a disruption of ones life. People go into tail spins and struggle to find meaning in problems, yet all the time they wish for answers. they may turn to a sold foundation of religious precedent or to others who have experienced the same problems. But how they take these advice from others, will depend upon how they come out of their tailspin.
The many religious sects would tell on to pray, meditate, surround one in silence, and pause. This is where the digital phenomenal comes back into play in ones life. “Stop it” is only 20 or 30 years ago when ones care taker caution one to take heed of what he needed to pay attention to. One needs to realize that his analog actions and life need to take a back seat to his digital teachings. Stop, look, and listen and become you own voice from the past, pay heed, repair the problem and move on.
Is your head in a Fog?
It is funny how people interpret the fog. At times it is perceived as confusing. Other times one realizes that he can not see well in a fog. Both of these observations are true.
Today, my friend and teacher, talked about how it was unwise to exercise in the fog. Since she is from China, the people there are plagued with pollution. At times the fog they experience is more smog than fog. Fog by its very nature is water driplets expanded over a large area. But when it is mixed with the pollution, people rightly so interpret that as being harmful to the body. It goes into the lung and forms water pockets in the lung and thereby causes breathing problems.
So without proper experiments, this problem can not be conclusive. However, the health of the body is important, so excercise with caution and understand the consequences.
Sincerety, loyalty, and consideration.
Confuscius, thought several thousand years ago, about man’s relationship with his fellow man, and came up in a very brief concept of sincerety, loyalty, and consideration. He said for man to real relate, govern, and deal with others, he must have these qualities. And hopefully, others that he related to, would strive to have and develop these qualities.
So for several centuries, the Asian countries, and it’s people strive to develope and abide by these practices. Yet in a shallow overview of the people, many of these qualities do not seem to exist anymore. Why? Difficult to answer, but perhaps the challenge of survival and the pursuit of money is more paramount than living qualities for life.
If you say it, try to mean it, otherwise keep quiet.
Bad for my eyes.
I asked my daughter, 10 years old, what to write about and she suggested “why are you so ugly?” Is this a rhetoric question or just a statement. How thin is the line between beauty and ugly?
I was watching the Marilyn Monroe videos on Youtube, and it is incredible how many people commented on her beauty, not only in the way she looked, but also on her inner beauty via her soft spoken and sincere answers to questions. While during her time period, most people have accepted her as the example of beauty. Then comes the contrast as to what is ugly.
When the public is not exposed to a situation, then when they are made aware of the situation, in ones amazement, he quickly labels it as being ugly. It is the the easiest and quickest way of making a rash observation. If he should have time to think, then soon the veil of ugliness falls.
So, beauty is in the eyes of the exposed beholders.
Time waits for no man, but for a pig it is no big deal.
Today was definitely a waste of time on the internet. I spent at least a half an hour viewing the senseless, interjections of words into a phony web site call Onion News Network, ONN. The work was very clever and skillfully deployed. The actors had their speech dubbed with comments from a scripted source, and while the lip sync was good, the comments were completely out of the intent of the message.
I was bemused and entertained at least for a short time.
So if I had an infinite amount of time, I would waste my whole life on senseless skits. This is indeed profound, until we wake up and realize how much of our lives are wasted on useless skits.
Numbers are exact but they lie.
I remember when I was growing up, we were taught that 1 + 1 = 2. Far from being true is that statement. The mathmeticians will demonstrate and argue the validity of the statement. They will show you positions, theories, and analysis as to the falsehood of the proposition. Then why is this statement still being adhere to? And the answer though simple must be considered. For the young people they need a starting point to establish some point of reference. And from this point of reference, people will then progress to the next level of thinking and hopefully build upon the concepts that they are taught. So if they are astute and experience, they progression will lead them the advance theories of mathmatics. Some never reach that level.
Sadly they are the ones who give you your change at the local McDonalds. Lucky for us, the computer tells us how much we should receive back.
As a p.s. to this thought. Truth is true at the time it was made, but it changes with time.
Where is Heaven, do you know the way?
Mr. Kim, grayed hair and determined to save as many souls as possible, was vehemently advocating his point to a foolish person, John. John asked why do we need to go to heaven? And Mr. Kim answered, because you will not be in pain and have all the lovely joys that your body did not enjoy here on earth. John quickly asked why should we be pain free, why is it that I can not enjoy pain. So in frustration, Mr. Kim concluded that he was talking to a fool.
John is a fool indeed. He questions why do we need to argue and fight over words, persuade others to go somewhere where they might not be there, or happy. Most of us are not willing to accept the heaven here on earth and seek to find another place where we can be happy. The grass is greener on the other side concept.
Yet in the quest to convince and convert, we have no patience for others and discover that the easiest solution for getting others to heaven is to destroy them and expidite their travel to heaven. So be the conflicts of religious war, each helping the other quickening their journey to heaven. The leaders being excellent conductors in getting the followers to wage war to help with the population control.
Alternatively it would be nice to have someone here on earth guide each one of us to realize the bliss and beauty that we have here. Also to practice the appreciation of life here and care for oneself via discipline and restraint. Oh, but that would be too much to ask.
So the current indoctrination train is quickly leaving the station, get your ticket now!
