Friday, October 23, 2009
Worrying added nothing to my life while I had it. Everything else is complete bullshit. Live life, but don't let life live you. Read wise texts, get some knowledge, and above all, TAKE RESPONSIBILITY. Let the fear work for you, do not allow it to control you. The only reason any kind of fear exists is because the host human allows it to do so. Fear does not exist outside of you. Your mind allows fear to exist, and in that sense it is a parasite. Do not let the parasite of fear take hold of your system. Like any parasite, it will only destroy you from the inside. Love, peace, knowledge, respect, and the pursuit of the real are the only things worthy of being considered in your daily existence. Live and let live. Simple, old, but ultimately true.
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
nothing new
I love seeing different animals getting along peacefully. I think it's particularly awesome when they are of complete different species. This might seem like a simple idea, or at least a simple way of viewing a larger idea, but check it. Before you wreck it. Wriggity-wreck it.
Symbiosis is a form of this peaceful, yet unlikely, relationship. The reason we normally don't acknowledge these relationships in our daily lives could be because they are so natural. Most people rarely notice the ivy growing along a tree's trunk even as they remark upon the tree's height or color. These types of symbiotic connections are most often comprised two or more organisms living a tethered existence. In these instances, one life-form doesn't seem to take much notice of the other, though they share a very common space throughout their day-to-day existence and generally benefit from each other's actions.
But what of the pairings that are anything but likely or natural? Accounts of adult female tigers adopting and nursing piglets, house cats and crows who seem to enjoy each others' company and even share food, and lionesses protecting young oryx as if they were their own offspring are but a few examples of these seemingly bizarre relationships. I know what you're thinking: "Dude, all of these examples have cats in them..." But I assure you, this is not the point I am attempting to make.
What I'm trying to convey here is that perhaps ideas like compassion or friendship, or even love for that matter, are not exclusive to those of us who call ourselves "human." If this is a possibility, we cannot rule out the chance that ideas like hate, greed, or depression are experienced by creatures other than humans as well. We see a mother crocodile protecting her offspring by keeping them safe in her jaws, but we don't often consider this to be a loving act as much as a survival instinct. We see primates physically battling each other for rank inside a troupe, but we see it as natural events taking place within a social group of animals, not as an act of anger, hate or spitefulness. When human beings behave in these ways, we automatically attach emotional labels to what we are observing or experiencing. But again, this is not the point I'm trying to make.
All of that said, I wish to make this clear: It is not that every other creature lacks the feelings and emotions that we have. It's that we as humans are far too caught up in our own self-importance and place in this universe (not to mention our egos...worst. evolutionary. development. ever.) that we can't see the fact that we are just another creature living on this rock. There are a lot of us, and most of our evolution has taken place in our brains, but ideas like love, hate, fear, greed, all of these things are just highly evolved survival tactics.
This is not a new idea, by any means. But I live in a place where these topics don't often come across the barroom table, so I like to get it out of my system somehow. Also, Elvis is not dead. He sold his soul to be reborn as Josh Homme.
Symbiosis is a form of this peaceful, yet unlikely, relationship. The reason we normally don't acknowledge these relationships in our daily lives could be because they are so natural. Most people rarely notice the ivy growing along a tree's trunk even as they remark upon the tree's height or color. These types of symbiotic connections are most often comprised two or more organisms living a tethered existence. In these instances, one life-form doesn't seem to take much notice of the other, though they share a very common space throughout their day-to-day existence and generally benefit from each other's actions.
But what of the pairings that are anything but likely or natural? Accounts of adult female tigers adopting and nursing piglets, house cats and crows who seem to enjoy each others' company and even share food, and lionesses protecting young oryx as if they were their own offspring are but a few examples of these seemingly bizarre relationships. I know what you're thinking: "Dude, all of these examples have cats in them..." But I assure you, this is not the point I am attempting to make.
What I'm trying to convey here is that perhaps ideas like compassion or friendship, or even love for that matter, are not exclusive to those of us who call ourselves "human." If this is a possibility, we cannot rule out the chance that ideas like hate, greed, or depression are experienced by creatures other than humans as well. We see a mother crocodile protecting her offspring by keeping them safe in her jaws, but we don't often consider this to be a loving act as much as a survival instinct. We see primates physically battling each other for rank inside a troupe, but we see it as natural events taking place within a social group of animals, not as an act of anger, hate or spitefulness. When human beings behave in these ways, we automatically attach emotional labels to what we are observing or experiencing. But again, this is not the point I'm trying to make.
All of that said, I wish to make this clear: It is not that every other creature lacks the feelings and emotions that we have. It's that we as humans are far too caught up in our own self-importance and place in this universe (not to mention our egos...worst. evolutionary. development. ever.) that we can't see the fact that we are just another creature living on this rock. There are a lot of us, and most of our evolution has taken place in our brains, but ideas like love, hate, fear, greed, all of these things are just highly evolved survival tactics.
This is not a new idea, by any means. But I live in a place where these topics don't often come across the barroom table, so I like to get it out of my system somehow. Also, Elvis is not dead. He sold his soul to be reborn as Josh Homme.
Monday, October 19, 2009
this doesn't add up
is it possible that every major war in modern history has secretly been over access to alien technology? it would provide some insight into a lot of unanswered questions and bullshit coverups. not sure, but it does seem at least somewhat plausible.
Saturday, October 3, 2009
everything that can happen, will happen
i figured making a blog was a little overdue. i don't have much to say, but when i do, i'll probably say it here. thankee
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