Just random thoughts
These are just some aphoristic type thoughts, I was having the other night. I was in a sort of meditative state, and thought I'd write them down for safe keeping.
- Some believe we're all a bit crazy, and well perhaps it's a bit true. Yet it isn't our nature itself that makes us crazy, it's our inability to connect with our nature that does. In our industrialized societies furnished with "white picket" neighborhoods, we've lost touch with our savage instinct. We crave the call of the open unabated wilderness, and the communal rites we partook in as small tribes entrenched in brotherhood. Yet, we are our on captors. Rousseau once said, that "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." We've built our own cages, they are the concrete jungles, and steel frames that block out the mountains surrounding our valleys. We've shunned our brothers, and dead bolted them outside of our artificial niches. The earth has become the universes' greatest laboratory, filled with sadomasochistic researches who double as their own lab rats.
- It's said that pain is a great motivator, and love an even greater one. But, of all that moves a man to act the pain of love is the greatest. It's a particular kind of pain that wields such force, a pain of another sort would be trumped by the power of love. For to be suffering, in the midst of such peril that is the pain of love, one is provided with the greatest resources to either flourish or falter. To complicate matters further, sometimes one result is masked as another.
- The most treacherous path is paved in gold, few who cross it can resist the urge to dig up a souvenir along the way. Eventually, the way back home is no longer clear.
- He who can find humor in the most devastating of tragedies has already achieved immortality. He has no need for religion, he is the Answer.
- Heaven and hell are mankind's fickle answer to the fear of the unknown. Some even go as so far as to describe heaven in a way that sounds like a naive utopian portrayal of earth. Ironically, the unknown starts to look a lot more familiar. We dream of life after death as being much like our lives upon this earth. But.... what if they're right. What if... heaven is just like a utopian earth. What if one's perception of earth, is that of an ideal one. Aren't heaven, and hell merely states of mind? Maybe, even more outrageous. The two places you can go when you die are the two best known things on earth.
- Some believe we're all a bit crazy, and well perhaps it's a bit true. Yet it isn't our nature itself that makes us crazy, it's our inability to connect with our nature that does. In our industrialized societies furnished with "white picket" neighborhoods, we've lost touch with our savage instinct. We crave the call of the open unabated wilderness, and the communal rites we partook in as small tribes entrenched in brotherhood. Yet, we are our on captors. Rousseau once said, that "Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains." We've built our own cages, they are the concrete jungles, and steel frames that block out the mountains surrounding our valleys. We've shunned our brothers, and dead bolted them outside of our artificial niches. The earth has become the universes' greatest laboratory, filled with sadomasochistic researches who double as their own lab rats.
- It's said that pain is a great motivator, and love an even greater one. But, of all that moves a man to act the pain of love is the greatest. It's a particular kind of pain that wields such force, a pain of another sort would be trumped by the power of love. For to be suffering, in the midst of such peril that is the pain of love, one is provided with the greatest resources to either flourish or falter. To complicate matters further, sometimes one result is masked as another.
- The most treacherous path is paved in gold, few who cross it can resist the urge to dig up a souvenir along the way. Eventually, the way back home is no longer clear.
- He who can find humor in the most devastating of tragedies has already achieved immortality. He has no need for religion, he is the Answer.
- Heaven and hell are mankind's fickle answer to the fear of the unknown. Some even go as so far as to describe heaven in a way that sounds like a naive utopian portrayal of earth. Ironically, the unknown starts to look a lot more familiar. We dream of life after death as being much like our lives upon this earth. But.... what if they're right. What if... heaven is just like a utopian earth. What if one's perception of earth, is that of an ideal one. Aren't heaven, and hell merely states of mind? Maybe, even more outrageous. The two places you can go when you die are the two best known things on earth.