Letter Never Sent

These are just loosely connected thoughts, so please view them as such. In monotheistic belief systems, God is a remote, inscrutable being most often portrayed as male. In the mythology of the ancient Greeks the creator gods were the sky (male) and the earth (female). This has some logic. The sky father is remote and the earth mother is always near. The earth supports and nourishes us. We spring from the female body and it nourishes us as infants. On the other hand, when you are a child, where is your father? Above you and away from you, like the sky looking down on you. Before science, the natural world was alive with being and soul. It is logical that early man extended their relationships to interpret the systems of nature.

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Looking around, people seem no more complicated than wind-up toys. Take one human being molded by experiences during childhood (when everything has significance beyond appropriate measure), fill them full of fundamental assumptions and beliefs, then set them loose on the world. They will act with nearly complete predictability. And why? Because we do not know ourselves. We do not understand or comprehend that we distort what we perceive as reality. We have so little control over the most basic ways we view the world. One person sees a landscape of relationships, a reality circumscribed by familiar faces. Another person sees a world filled with pain and deprivation, where people exist to inflict pain or have pain inflicted upon them. A third person perceives other people with indifference and exists in harmony with the natural world. The same goes for what people expect out of life. Many people have low expectations for themselves and for life, and many times this seems caused by an unrealistic understanding of life. I try to take the world as it is, and find my value in it. It requires an attitude of openness and compromise because if you set out to impose your view on the world you will find nothing but disappointment.

New Yorker: TYSON’S CORNER:

In the sweaty aftermath, Tyson was gracious to his opponent and stayed around to browse his own psyche one last time. “I’m a peasant,” he said. “At one point, I thought life was about acquiring things. Life is totally about losing everything.”

Took this quiz on my worldview (via robotwisdom). Results:

You scored as Cultural Creative.

Cultural Creatives are probably the newest group to enter this realm. You are a modern thinker who tends to shy away from organized religion but still feels as if there is something greater than ourselves. You are very spiritual, even if you are not religious. Life has a meaning outside of the rational.

Somewhat surprising, but true. I am spiritual in a very pessimistic fashion. Second highest ranking was for Postmodernist, which I still don’t understand the meaning of.

Death and life are not two but one. You must destroy something to create something else. Creation itself can be a destructive act. Change can cause discomfort and painful uncertainty, but this discomfort is beneficial. Change is the essence of life. Everything I have learned has been the result of pain or has caused pain in some fashion. There is no comparable teacher. People simply do not learn from their success. Positive experiences do not penetrate the same way. There is an upside. Hardship can create a sense of value since real value is only understood in terms of contrast. There can be no good without bad. No understanding of value without loss. All that aside, sometimes I feel like razing the earth with the fire of my third eye as I do the dance of destruction.