That was a headline in an MSN news site. I hate to tell them, but they're late- it was yesterday.
January 20,2005 saw the induction of a ursurper, liar, cheater and just really stupid person into the position of presidency of this nation. Our nation, were they smart enough or willing enough to think for themselves, would be weeping for mercy at this moment. Sadly too many are too busy living bored lives, all caught up in their own worlds, to worry about the ramifications of this event.
I have spent way too much of this week being angry beyond words that someone somehow has not stopped this stupid bastard from both getting into office and reproducing. Luckily, no boys were born to him, so that job has to pass to someone else. And his own brother has proven himself untrustworthy enough, I don't think he'd have a chance getting to the top office before he's too old. Anyway, the idiot Republicans are trying to change age old laws in this nation so they can put another puppet actour (Schwarzenegger) up there.
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Many days later and I am once again astounded at how little what seems to me to be so important can, by all appearances, not effect the world in general. Life goes on, people do what they have to to get by, and despite the arrogance of the political doodoos running (into the ground) this country, not much really changes. Oh, there are a few things, but on the grander scale of living, it is as I has been for a thousand years. The accoutrements may change from generation to generation, and especially in this one, month to month, but the basics don't vary much, even culturally. The best I suppose one can hope for when one's government fails to be about the people is for a status quo to pretty much hold. The history books will, of course, tell lies and exaggerations that will make the person currently in office look larger or smaller than it already is. There is not much to be done for that, sadly. Even the worst of the Caesars got good write-ups at one time, and bad ones when they were supplanted.
Friday, January 21, 2005
Wednesday, January 12, 2005
Vindication
The ancients knew. Now science has confirmed for the skeptics- sound created the universe.
Tuesday of this week it was announced that echoes, or left -over waves, had left a physical mark on the structure of space. If they ever find a way to make it into a sound, something like how they have recorded the sounds of the planets in our solar system, I am certain it will resemble a drawn out three part word: OM.
Outside of the "New age" magazines, books and videos, few people in the Western world know of the creation word OM. Hindu faith teaches that it is the sound made by the One, known to them as Brahma, as He breathed life into emptiness. This is one of six or seven universe cycles, supposedly the last as well- a series of deep exhalations and then inhalation that have been the expansion and then contraction of what we would call infinity. A bit much to ask many people to get their brains around, yes, but I find that more and more evidence is surfacing as science looks deeper into the history of space that backs up this belief. Our short, short time on this planet is made to look even moreso when these multiple rebirths are taken into the view.
The really fun part is when I throw into it the idea that we may have been here through them all, in very different forms, of course. We are, in our purest form, simply energy, and energy does not die- it merely changes shape. All the energy that was here in the very beginnings is still here-which means we were here then too.
There.
That should give some of you a headache!;)
Tuesday of this week it was announced that echoes, or left -over waves, had left a physical mark on the structure of space. If they ever find a way to make it into a sound, something like how they have recorded the sounds of the planets in our solar system, I am certain it will resemble a drawn out three part word: OM.
Outside of the "New age" magazines, books and videos, few people in the Western world know of the creation word OM. Hindu faith teaches that it is the sound made by the One, known to them as Brahma, as He breathed life into emptiness. This is one of six or seven universe cycles, supposedly the last as well- a series of deep exhalations and then inhalation that have been the expansion and then contraction of what we would call infinity. A bit much to ask many people to get their brains around, yes, but I find that more and more evidence is surfacing as science looks deeper into the history of space that backs up this belief. Our short, short time on this planet is made to look even moreso when these multiple rebirths are taken into the view.
The really fun part is when I throw into it the idea that we may have been here through them all, in very different forms, of course. We are, in our purest form, simply energy, and energy does not die- it merely changes shape. All the energy that was here in the very beginnings is still here-which means we were here then too.
There.
That should give some of you a headache!;)
Monday, January 10, 2005
Update To Disaster
When they finally decided to call a halt to the body count, the total was over 155,000.
Standing outside the reality of the event, it is hard for one to realize the magnitude of what happened to those people. Even our emissary, a retired general in the armed forces, was nearly speechless when face to face with it.
Again, it comes down to our complacency- our arrogance. We think we are so important in the
scheme of things, that our world is the centre of all movement, all thoughts by the Gods. We are in fact no more than fellow specks of dust thrown together by chance for extremely short periods of time. Our whole known history doesn't make up a single blink on the galactic scale of time, yet we think it more important than all that came before or is yet to be.
The planet merely burped, people. Okay, by its standards, bletched. It was still nothing compared to what has gone on in the past, and may so again in the future.
One note of interest to me was that they have not found nearly as many dead animals and birds as one might have expected. Seems humans were the only ones oblivious until it was too late.
Our "progress" as a species has cost us something- a connectedness to the planet that could tell us things like this are happening. It is a shame too- we might be able to not destroy in our wake if we could feel the breath of Gaia.
There are not words enough, or perhaps words simply are pointless, to describe what has happened to these coastal areas. They will never be the same and much of the human history of the area may have been lost for good. All the media hype will probably hang on for awhile, but like other things of this type, eventually the horror will fade into the white noise of day-to-day living and become only so many pages in some history book. We attempt to remember with things like grave markers, but there comes a point where there is simply no one left who remembers more than stories. All the news coverage, all the glamourized reporting will end up looking like some sick reality TV show.
It already does, and many of the dead aren't even buried yet.
Standing outside the reality of the event, it is hard for one to realize the magnitude of what happened to those people. Even our emissary, a retired general in the armed forces, was nearly speechless when face to face with it.
Again, it comes down to our complacency- our arrogance. We think we are so important in the
scheme of things, that our world is the centre of all movement, all thoughts by the Gods. We are in fact no more than fellow specks of dust thrown together by chance for extremely short periods of time. Our whole known history doesn't make up a single blink on the galactic scale of time, yet we think it more important than all that came before or is yet to be.
The planet merely burped, people. Okay, by its standards, bletched. It was still nothing compared to what has gone on in the past, and may so again in the future.
One note of interest to me was that they have not found nearly as many dead animals and birds as one might have expected. Seems humans were the only ones oblivious until it was too late.
Our "progress" as a species has cost us something- a connectedness to the planet that could tell us things like this are happening. It is a shame too- we might be able to not destroy in our wake if we could feel the breath of Gaia.
There are not words enough, or perhaps words simply are pointless, to describe what has happened to these coastal areas. They will never be the same and much of the human history of the area may have been lost for good. All the media hype will probably hang on for awhile, but like other things of this type, eventually the horror will fade into the white noise of day-to-day living and become only so many pages in some history book. We attempt to remember with things like grave markers, but there comes a point where there is simply no one left who remembers more than stories. All the news coverage, all the glamourized reporting will end up looking like some sick reality TV show.
It already does, and many of the dead aren't even buried yet.
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