... and it's just been renewed by some promising news on the work front :)
Ah well, it has all got me thinking about life etc - and, in particular, why people do things like park for convenience rather than safety, drive carelessly and thoughtlessly, let themselves get set up for Internet fraud ... and there are two aspects of this that are foremost in my thoughts.
The first is that it is easy to write this off as laziness and/or stupidity - and unquestionably some of it is (I posted a link some time ago about the trend in violence following the trend in discharge of lead: lead also affects what people loosely generally call "intelligence"), particularly the endless search for greater convenience on the Internet (remembering a phrase-based password is NOT difficult, or a severe imposition, people!). In fact, the latter is, in my view, overwhelmingly - but not exclusively - laziness.
The second aspect, however, is that much of this can be laid at the door of the overcrowded, impossibly pressured, hectic, famine-is-imminent lifestyle we in the First World lead (some of that more cities than rural). People wind up exhausted, severely stressed because their body is telling them they're about to die (things like job security switch our "stone age" bodies into famine mode, I consider), and people start doing things they wouldn't otherwise out of simple desperation - even if it is something like park in a place that is convenient rather than safe, as the urge for aspects of physical survival such as energy conservation start to overpower the more rational parts of our psyche.
I really look forward to a world that isn't ruled by those demented monsters who are only happy when they see development happening, or busy-ness, or are always on the go looking for excitement and activity, a world, perhaps, where the layout of cities and buildings is not ruled by "Oh they can just ...", rather than proper planning and space.
On other matters, I have recently come across the books of Cyril Scott (see here, and here) - well, actually some time ago, but I am only now getting around to reading them.
Wow.
As usual, there is content I agree with, and content I disagree with, but i am also finding come content somewhere between challenging and stimulating.
When I was younger, I could be quite blunt (not rude, though), and talk to people's motivations, rather than the words they used. I still get the inner awareness of what people mean, rather than what they say, most of the time (it can be distracting at best, and off-putting to some people at times [3] ), but I've been brow-beaten by life enough to have learned to shut my trap probably too often. Now, I have had some encouragement from this book about what I was doing back then, and may start to be blunter ... albeit with the edge taken off by maturity :)
I'll write more about this person when I have more time ...
[3] As an example of this, many, many, many, many years ago, a colleague who I got on quite well with, someone who had a managerial role, asked me into his office and, after our usual chit-chat and catch up, pushed a sticky notes pad, one that had our company logo on and wasn't yellow (I think it was a lilac colour), across the desk towards me, and invited me to try it out: "they've got a problem. You'll see what it is when you try them out." Well, he was practically shouting to me telepathically "THEY DON'T STICK DOWN WHEN YOU TAKE THEM OFF THE PAD" - largely because he so strongly wanted me to back him up on this, and get "the right" answer. I experimentally peeled the top pad off, stuck it back down on to the pad, pulled at it, and said "You're right - they don't stick down". Oops. I was able to reassure him that I very rarely "read thoughts" - which is true - and commented that I worked very hard to keep my barriers up so I wouldn't accidentally read anyone's mind - also true. Nevertheless, he was shaken by the incident, happy to use the confirmation, but shaken, and left for another organisation within a few weeks ... Darn. I liked him - he was a good colleague and a friend. Ah well, must remember to keep lips zipped at times.
[1] BPF = Balanced Positive (spiritual) Forces. See here and here for more on this.
[2] Please see here and my post "The Death of Wikipedia" for the reasons I now recommend caution when using Wikipedia. I'm also exploring use of h2g2, although that doesn't appear to be as extensive (h2g2 is intended - rather engagingly - to be the Earth edition of "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy").
Love, light, hugs and blessings
(pronounced "new-MYTH-ear"; ... aka Bellatrix Lux?)
My "blogiography" (list of all posts - currently not up to date) is here.
I started this blog to cover karmic regression-rescue (see here and here), and it grew ... See here for my group mind project, here and here for my "pagans for peace" project (and join me at 9 PM on Sunday, wherever you are, to meditate for peace), and here for my bindrune kit-bag.
- One size does NOT fit all.
- May the world of commerce and business be recognised to be a servant, not a master, of the lives of people.
- Ban the dream interpretation industry!
- A home is for living in, not feeling, becoming or being rich or a “better” class than others.
- Like fire to the physical, emotions to the soul make a good servant, and a bad master.
- "Following the crowd" is not "going with the flow".
- Armageddon is alive and well and happening right now: it is a battle between the indolence of "I only ..." and/or "I just ..." and/or "Everyone knows ... " and/or "they can ..." and what Bruce Schneier [2] calls "security theatre" on one side, and perspicacity and the understanding that the means shape the end on the other.
- The means shape the end.
- Sometimes you just can't argue with a biped that is armed with a sharp stick, a thick head and not too much in the way of grunts.
- As words can kill, the right to freedom of speech comes with a DUTY to be as well-informed, objective and balanced as you can be.
- My favourite action movie of all time is "Gandhi". However, I loathe the stereotypical action movie - and, for similar reasons, I loathe many dramas, which are often emotionally violent, more so in some cases than many war films.
Do not pray for easy lives. Pray to be stronger [people]. JOHN F. KENNEDY
Females, get over 'cute'. Get competent. Get trained. Get capable. Get over 'cute'. And those of you who are called Patty and Debby and Suzy, get over that.
Because we use those names to infantalise females – we keep females in
their 'little girl' state by the names we use for them. Get over it. If
you want to be taken seriously, get serious. JANE ELLIOTT
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." EINSTEIN
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good [people] to do nothing. (based on writing by) EDMUND BURKE
"The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them." EINSTEIN
We didn't inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we only borrowed it from our children ANTOINE DE SAINT-EXUPÉRY
Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it is not haphazard and superficial. It comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring. MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
Those whom we cannot stand are usually those who we cannot understand P.K.SHAW
Few men are willing to brave the disapproval of their fellows, the censure of their colleagues, and the wrath of their society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital quality for those who seek to change a world which yields most painfully to change." SENATOR ROBERT F. KENNEDY (US Attorney General 1966 Speech)
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that -- counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. ... Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile." ROBERT F. KENNEDY 1968
Tags: about me, attitudes, Cyril Scott, personal characteristics, spirituality,
First published: Laugardagr, 5th October, 2013
Last edited: Saturday, 5th October, 2013
Last edited: Saturday, 5th October, 2013
