Various naked people in different positions

May 11, 2004 08:52

Grabbed this free painting tool Art Rage .

Looks very fun to use and it's pretty small.

And now something completely different

"The Human Condition" - G. I. Gurdjieff

Humanity exists on earth to serve a definite role in the cosmic scheme of things. This role involves the transformation of energies. It is generally served unconsciously and without individual benefit, We are as if asleep to the nature and purpose of our lives.

Each human being is born essential and and acquires attitudes, beliefs and habits reflecting family and culture. What is real in the individual is forgotten in identification with the personality. The result of this hypnotic process is that the adult human being is like a sleepwalker, an automaton, a machine whose functioning is fragmented and inconsistent and has little or nothing to do with the deeply buried individuality stifled within.

The machine thinks, emotes, works, procreates, lives and dies without free will, without choice. He or she cannot love, cannot Do. All is reaction. This is slavery, imprisonment. And it is not even necessary. The slave has no idea what he or she is losing.

Human possibilities are very great. There is a way out, a way toward freedom, toward self realisation. It is possible to find truth and liberation within, if it is a real aim. Know thyself, always and everywhere.

Self observation can prove ones own nothingness, one's utter mechanical nature. This horrible recognition is a great beginning, for only then can the burning questions arise.
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