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TriTorch's avatar

The hardest thing in life--The conquest not of time and space

But of ourselves, of our stupidity, and inertia, of our greediness, blindness, self-centeredness, and touchiness

And the difference between stumbling blocks and stepping stones

Is the way in which a person uses them

—Apples of Gold

mejbcart's avatar

our stupidity applies only to the things WE KNOW AND IGNORE. I think it DOES NOT APPLY to everything what we DO NOT KNOW. For example geoengineering. How many people know about it??? For those who don't, PLEASE WATCH 'THE DIMMING' :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rf78rEAJvhY

Selene's avatar

“Hello babies. Welcome to Earth. It's hot in the summer and cold in the winter. It's round and wet and crowded. On the outside, babies, you've got a hundred years here. There's only one rule that I know of, babies-God damn it, you've got to be kind.”

Kurt Vonnegut

Basil Rathbone's avatar

"Be like a baby, the Bible say,

So I stay like a baby to this very day."

--Vonnegut (I forget which book)

John Turcot's avatar

“Be like a baby” is in the bible? Mmmmm ? Maybe that’s why people keep telling me to ‘grow- up’, seems I never can achieve that mighty loft.. at least now I don’t feel so bad about not fulfilling my destiny.

John Mann's avatar

Matthew 18:3 "He called a little child to him, and placed the child among them. And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven."

John Turcot's avatar

Sounds just about right.. maybe the only hesitation that comes to my mind is that He is a male. Other than that, I’m with “his “ take on the value of innocence.

Davina's avatar

Exactly what I have always believed that meant. A little child is innocent, or should be but not in israel. A little child does not harbour thought of hate, revenge and war, they are happy with a full tummy and someone to be their friend. They give love freely, not manipulate to get it. And their laughter, such a beautiful sound.

They would not build weapons of destruction, and then keep urging wars to keep their profits up. It's time those who start a war have to lead the army- from the front - the way it used to be. Can you imagine Drumpf out in front of an army 😳 it would take years for him to get them together, most of them would walk off because at his pace they would hardly move, which could be part of his plan, bore the other side waiting for him to reach the start line.

Might be a bit like the children's song about the "Grand old Duke of York , had ten thousand men, he marched them up to the top of the hill then marched down again, and when they were up they were up they were up, and when they were down they were down, and when they were only half way up they were neither up nor down". It's rather like that now with Drumpf - all that back and forth, they're at war, no it's a ceasefire, but israel still bombs whoever, then Drumpf is the boss, no Satanyahu is, no Drumpf is, always going nowhere and getting nowhere.

Landru's avatar

Kurt had a way with words just as Caitlin does : ) Thank you for having me read that again. : )

Susan T's avatar

I did not create the mess the world is in. I did not start any wars. I feel anxious because people that I did not elect are murdering people and threatening to take over where I live. I have always been anti war and opposed to colonialism. I will stay that way.

Vin LoPresti's avatar

"keeping all these fictional worlds happening inside our heads" -- Get rid of them by offloading the monotheistic religions that insert them there from infancy. No cloud beings.

"be with reality. We can just be on this ride as it actually exists. All the beauty. All the love. All the pain. All the death. We can be with it all. The whole thing". -- Absolutely: Embrace Nature as the font of real knowledge. Reject human contrived and illusory substitutes.

Landru's avatar

No cloud beings : )

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

Meanwhile, back here in the society we currently live in. More important than ever that the search for justice continues! The work that the Hind Rajab Foundation is doing to track down and bring Israeli criminals to justice is one that is vital in the effort to hold Israel accountable.  Let us hope they will also turn their sights on the criminal leaders of the countries of the west who are co-perpetrators of these crimes.

Find out what they’re doing here:

https://www.hindrajabfoundation.org

The least we can do is donate to help them:

Support the Hind Rajab Foundation

https://donate.stripe.com/cN228hbY5g7jaM84gg

Landru's avatar

Thank you for this. The day will come when we have a coffee in Palestine. : )

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

I would like that very much.

kr's avatar

It is relieving that we kind of know and see the answer. Put me in a garden and I don't want to fight.

Feral Finster's avatar

If the world were solely populated by normies, you'd be entirely correct.

However, sociopaths will always be with us.

jamenta's avatar

"And so it is - death is indeed a fearful piece of brutality; there is no sense in pretending otherwise. It is brutal not only as a physical event, but far more so psychically: a human being is torn away from us, and what remains is the icy stillness of death."

~Carl Jung, #MDR #p134

John Turcot's avatar

Simple question for me.. what is the difference between Life and Death?

jamenta's avatar

The answer lies in the enigma of consciousness, which CG Jung spent his entire life investigating.

John Turcot's avatar

“What is the difference between Life-and Death”?

an “enigma” … that’s a pretty sound answer to me… and should be for Carl Jung too…

jamenta's avatar

It was even when he passed. But his lifetime of research and theoretical work did not end with him being empty handed. He did discover a great deal about the psyche that even today - is worth reading about.

John Turcot's avatar

I don’t think Jung, or anyone else , can define what Life is. Perhaps he tried to assess its psychological dimensions, or the goals that should be pursued during its presence in our beings, but LIFE itself remains a mystery.

Perhaps the best answer could be ‘ I don’t know’ what life is all about. Anything else is as speculative and as mysterious as it gets.

jamenta's avatar

Science is about admitting what we don't know.

Landru's avatar

Thank you for that my friend : )

Aamir Razak's avatar

Dr. Jung certainly had some profound insights into the humna psyche during his work. I think this point speaks the isolation of when we are severed from the human collective when we pass away. It is a final moment where we no longer inhabit the physical world, but also tied to the access we have to the collective unconscious

Joy in HK fiFP's avatar

The mind is a trickster, a labyrinth, a fun-house full of distorting mirrors that lead you ever away from reality. And, for many, if not all of us, it keeps one step ahead of us at every turn.

vansdan's avatar

you're tapping into something that my soul is screaming. what have we done to ourselves? and for what? lol money? give me a fucking break

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

Peace be upon you by Gaza and Jerusalem - Honour and victory are the allies of the axis of resistance and its allies, and humiliation and shame are for the axis of evil, Epstein Class (USA, Britain, France, Turkey, Qatar, UAE, NATO Governments, New Nazi, Masonic, Zionist and Israel) and its allies.

John Turcot's avatar

Hassan,

There is no peace in the world. Gandhi said: “Be the change you want to see in the world”. Do you think he was right? Do we need religions to find peace, or can you find peace outside Holy Books?

Harry Ziboo's avatar

I can put up with all of the results of being mortal, but the thing that pisses me off is the bullshit heaped upon us by governments, religions, capitalist con men, and all the rest that we need to fight against just to survive and have at least a little prosperity and success.

It seems like it would be easier to just have these elements controlled if not eliminated. Then is would be comparatively easy to take care of the rest.

Steve Carmo's avatar

So true. Sometimes I look up into the night sky and try to get my head around the fact that we're tiny little dots living on this planet, which is another tiny little dot in a single galaxy 100,000 light years from one end to the other. And current thinking suggests we're the only example of such organisms that live in this single galaxy. And rather than treat life as rare and precious, we fill our head fat with neuroses and kill one another, either through greed or hatred. FUBAR.

wilrodx's avatar

START BURNING THE US AND ZIONIST FLAG

We are watching the complete collapse of the American government and constitutional rule to facilitate crimes against humanity. Right in your face we see the criminal treasonous House and Senate merge the US military with the murderous genocidal Zionist military through the NDAA war funding bill. This will make it so no other legislation is necessary to fund and provide whatever equipment deemed necessary to a foreign religious cult committing genocide in the name of a “greater Israel Project”. While the president pretends to reluctantly object to the murder of men, women and children in Lebanon and Israel.

The US congress has openly declared that Israel’s crimes and genocide are our crimes and genocide and the American taxpayer will pay for them.

AVAILABLE AT AMAZON

https://www.amazon.com/JumpingLight-Solidarity-Together-American-Religion/dp/B08LVN81RV

Jim S's avatar

Thank You Caitlin

Hassan Al-Mosawi's avatar

Arrogance, delusion, tyranny, exaggeration, injustice, betrayal, lack of sincerity in work, not forbidding evil, transgression of human law, espionage, lying, show off, hypocrisy, bribery, insults, calling names, corruption, extremism, intolerance, genocide, and discrimination (racism, nationalism, tribalism, sectarianism, and politics) and disbelief and tyranny are an immoral stances - because religion is a moral behaviours He who does not have has no religion.

JennyStokes's avatar

I think out of all the words above: Intolerance is the greatest evil.

Just think: Nowadays you cannot be a politician without rambling on about immigrants.

So sick and tired of this.

John Turcot's avatar

Hassan,

“He who does not have……”

Why not She? Why not You, or We, but He?????? use a better pronoun.