obstreperousubiquity

Warning: this might sound more wacky than it is. Nature is rife with analogies. Every where you look you can see them: repeating patterns which echo in the millions, the hand of God at work. Trees are akin to families, fractals are akin to trees, atoms are akin to the solar system, community breeds more community, unity in diversity gives rise to an advantageous symbiosis. Piranhas rip and tear each other to pieces like a Japanese business group. Everyone recognizes the analogies of nature to human nature and thought, it is found in millions of proverbs and used as a strong tool in magical thinking of practitioners of animism and the occult. This makes perfect sense, since man is made in the image of God, and God is order, peace, and consistency. I feel that there is a great fallacy that we all draw in relation to the creations of mankind. Everywhere you look you see manmade things: we have garnered objects of nature to do our bidding and make our lives easier. Are these things ev...

Watched inception. Here are the ideas that were locked in my mind: We start out like Descartes: I think therefore I am. I am whom? Am I who I want me to be? A world focused completely on me is my own dream. Who's to tell me it's not? I think this, and then take a step back and realize that things don't go as I want them to. This is either because: 1- I have some subconscious urge to put myself through trouble and therefore conjure it up. or 2- The world is not my dream. My mind pays no great attention to intricate detail. There is more to anyone's spirit and personality in terms of depth than I would originally think. The more deep into the dreamworld a life or a story is, the more confined it is, the less the detail. I corrupt the world by making it my own because my mind is extremely limited. Everything in my own dreams is simply a projection, and a lifeless bland projection. I can never meet the standard of all the intricacies of reality. Option 2: the world is a...

Human minds behave much like antennas: they receive signals generated from somewhere. We call these signals ethos/zeitgeist/worldview/memes. We have many terms to connote how ideas are spread throughout societies, social groups, families, etc. In a way, these are like the candles of Hinduism (which sees souls and identities as small passing and changing fires). An idea, or what could be called a "spirit" (like the spirit of Elijah, that's the spirit, the spirit of Christmas) passes from one person to another. If you go to a completely foreign environment you will find that it is necessary to radically change your antenna to get a linguistic, a psychological, a sociological, and a spiritual grasp of how things are around you (these are all realms of the mind). We can surmise how people think to a small extent by their language, but even more so by an unconscious recognition of patterns in how lives are lived. Societies have a distinct spirit, groups of all kinds have a dis...

"The folly of God is greater than the wisdom of this world." I have been so stupid. We live in a bastion of ignorance, here at the center of the world. Our nation is blinded to the reality of a spiritual world. To illustrate my point, lets think of the idea of a tactless, socially clumsy and awkward homeschooler entering the business world. All this young fool knows is what he has been taught in his cloistered world, and is completely unaware of the deceptiveness of schmoozing business associates. Their smiles and compliments all work wonders on him, manipulating his god given talent and hard work by making him to believe that he is greatly appreciated. This young man is me five years ago. Compare that young man with the average everyday American: we are incredibly sheltered and made to believe (with faulty logic) that the world is under the control of human beings who are merely what we believe them to be: a higher form of ape. We only see biology and phys...