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Post by Theta Sigma on Sept 2, 2007 17:50:02 GMT -5
"It's like when you're a kid, the first time they tell you that the world's turning and you just can't quite believe it because everything looks like it's standing still... The ground beneath our feet is spinning at a thousand miles an hour, the entire planet is hurtling around the Sun at sixty-seven thousand miles an hour... We're falling through space, you and me. Clinging to the skin of this tiny little world, and if we let go..."
- the Doctor
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Post by Theta Sigma on Sept 2, 2007 17:52:59 GMT -5
Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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Post by Jinsei on Sept 2, 2007 21:21:32 GMT -5
I actually remember trying to feet the earth moving when I was little, like five or six, because the teacher said that it was constantly moving. Wait, wait... digitial watches aren't a pretty neat idea? Oh, where have I gone wrong?  |
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Post by tomw2005 on Sept 3, 2007 12:31:35 GMT -5
I'm sure that you can feel the Earth moving, when you're deep in meditation.
Earth - mostly harmless
-The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy
Tom W
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Post by Theta Sigma on Sept 4, 2007 19:41:35 GMT -5
Wait, wait... digitial watches aren't a pretty neat idea? Oh, where have I gone wrong?  Actually I suppose now in 2007 we need to replace "digital watches" with "iPods" or "mobile phones"? |
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Post by Jinsei on Sept 4, 2007 20:00:16 GMT -5
lol
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Post by Theta Sigma on Sept 15, 2007 13:03:09 GMT -5
I'm sure that you can feel the Earth moving, when you're deep in meditation. For sure, Tom... and we can certainly feel the planet spinning after having a few too many PanGalactic GargleBlasters!  Earth might be "mostly harmless" to the rest of the uni-/multiverse, but the 'verse is a pretty dangerous place for us fragile homo sapiens and this tiny, vulnerable world that we inhabit! Here we are, flying at a tremendous velocity through the mind-boggling immensity of the space-time continuum, and humanity's generally behaving in an extremely un- sapien way. Odd, considering that Earth's the only biosphere within light-years capable of sustaining the unique species of this (organic) life-rich planet. While human astronomers search for extraterrestrial intelligence, I find myself searching for intelligent life on Earth! Thank the stars for Wizards of the Force! |
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Post by tomw2005 on Sept 21, 2007 9:07:29 GMT -5
There is intelligence on Earth. I feel that currently most of it is misdirected or oppressed by our lifestyles etc.
Tom W
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Post by Theta Sigma on Sept 29, 2007 16:23:49 GMT -5
There is intelligence on Earth. I feel that currently most of it is misdirected or oppressed by our lifestyles etc. Yes, you're absolutely right, Tom! I think that the combined systems of politics, economics and religion etc. has successfully diverted and focused the attention/intent/awareness of humankind away from our existence as magical, luminous beings of the multidimensional cosmos and onto materialistic desires within the physical realm; from evolution of consciousness to the survival and comfort of our brief physical form. In short, we're too preoccupied with staying alive, to actually live! To quote don Juan (from The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castenada): "I want to appeal to your analytical mind. Think for a moment, and tell me how you would explain the contradiction between the intelligence of man the engineer and the stupidity of his systems of beliefs, or the stupidity of his contradictory behavior. Sorcerers believe that the predators have given us our systems of beliefs, our ideas of good and evil, our social mores. They are the ones who set up our hopes and expectations and dreams of success or failure. They have given us covetousness, greed, and cowardice. It is the predators who make us complacent, routinary, and egomaniacal. "In order to keep us obedient and meek and weak, the predators engaged themselves in a stupendous maneuver; stupendous, of course, from the point of view of a fighting strategist. A horrendous maneuver from the point of view of those who suffer it. They gave us their mind! Do you hear me? The predators give us their mind, which becomes our mind. The predators' mind is baroque, contradictory, morose, filled with the fear of being discovered any minute now." [...] " We are not naturally petty and contradictory. Our pettiness and contradictions are, rather, the result of a transcendental conflict that afflicts every one of us, but of which only sorcerers are painfully and hopelessly aware: the conflict of our two minds! One is our true mind, the product of all our life experiences, the one that rarely speaks because it has been defeated and relegated to obscurity. The other, the mind we use daily for everything we do, is a foreign installation" |
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