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It’s turned into
Sunday again. It kind of snuck up on me
this time, somehow it seems like arrived a day or two early. Oh well, they tell me such things are just
part of getting old, time starting to go plastic in some regards, and
crystallizing hard as steel in others. No
biggy, just a change. But, fact is it’s
Sunday again, and in my traditions Sunday is the Sabbath, the day to reflect
and consider and talk to God if those reflections generate a thought worth a
conversation.
Everyone who’s
ever used a computer to write a letter has seen it, the little pop box that
comes up when you’re ready to quit: “Do
you Want to Save Changes Y/N”. Most
generally everyone says yes without really thinking about it. In the context of computers the worst this
generally does is load up hard drives with a bit of drizzle that really doesn't
take that much room, on a modern machine a human typing 16 hours a day can’t
really make a dent (working with nothing but formatted text) in the storage
capacity of the drive. Eh, no biggy then.
That habit is no
biggy in the context of a computer, but I’m gonna say it’s more than a biggy in
world of real life, way more than a biggy, it’s freaking huge. To live is to change, and each change
produces a new state of life, state of being, but are all changes a good
thing? Of course not. Some cause what is just downright
dreadful. So how is it that so many will
let ego cause them to save all their changes, even those that produced
something atrocious? How many will
defend having saved the atrocious even to the extent of allowing the atrocious
to remain in play and in power for the sake of foregoing the experience of
admitting a mistake?
Take a good look
around, take a good look inside. How
many things can you find in ten minutes that when examined with the wisdom of
hindsight turned out to be a change that really should not have been saved,
something that should have run for a bit and then, when fully understood, have
been discarded to return to the original point of departure and pick a different
direction? Give that a bit of thought,
and then if you will contemplate the full mercy found in the words renounce,
and repent...
Just a short
little sermon, it is Sunday after all.
hmm... never quite considered it fully that way, 'nos,
ReplyDeletebut my personal 'as-if-ing' in one of its contexts is a
definite spiritual process, not only in a religious
belief/nonbelief sense. i suppose it's also spiritual in
the sense of beside being habitually open to the ideas
of others, being open to the others themselves, and
refusing to give up on them, no matter how habitually
closed their minds seem to be.
i hope my mind is as open as i believe it is. tell me,
does it seem like it is?
seriously, truth being as subject to subjectivity as it is...
:) pip
Pip my friend, from what I know of you you seek truth beyond what is believed (for so many less than rational reasons believed rather than known), and from truth the grounds for compassion un-compromised... and the search for that level of truth precludes a closed mind. The God I revere doesn't take offence at such a stance on life, but... he is known for leaving footprints in the sand of our islands that are to big to be ours..
ReplyDeletethank you, 'nos. we can't really know the truth of ourselves without paying attention to all the reflections... but even then.
ReplyDeletethough you do seem to go off the deep end sometimes, [who doesn't?], out of respect for you and your theorizing abilities, i keep in mind some things i might not consider from other sources. :)
Two comments: *Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose."
ReplyDeleteAnd, from a bumper sticker seen years ago: "Don't believe everything you *think*."
*Plus ça change, plus c'est la même chose." '... à cause de la peur du changement.'
ReplyDeletei think, therefore i thought i was... but may have been mistaken.
;) pip
Vous avez raison, pipQuixote. :)
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