Post by gruntal on Dec 15, 2012 17:35:56 GMT
It's cold and rainy and I don't feel very good and I don't think I'll go out today. Too bad because I might be spending too much time with myself. Still I had an interesting thought.
On a very mundane level when I was much younger I went out "trash picking". Not so much rummaging around in people's trash cans though. More like driving up and down the streets in my 1962 Willys Utility Wagon looking for boxes of "goodies" thrown out on trash day. Obviously people were cleaning out their homes and garages and felt the stuff was too good to go to the dump but lacked the initiative to call the Salvation Army and donate the goods. The things I found were amazing; after awhile that did not faze me. What I couldn't understand was why it happened in cycles. Whole neighborhoods would pile it up on the parking strips on some days and not nearly as much on other days. Did they plan this? How? And why?
Just looking on the Internet reveals a somewhat disproportionate number of spiritual sites "down under". Yet my stereotype of Australia is more like endless dry land and simple people living on dry land with kangaroos and BB-Q's.
I get so much spam from Nigeria advising me my rich uncle left me $25,000,000.00 I don't even have the time to read them all. Don't they have anything better to do there then to try to rip off poor unsuspecting computer users?
We all know the Orientals are taking over the world! Is there something in that fried rice that makes them so aggressive?
And don't get me started on mass U.F.O. sightings.
Granted some cultural influence makes this happen. Less clear is how genetics would be involved. Equating reddish blond hair with a love of Tabasco sauce isn't going to get you an "A" in your school science project.
But the question is: am I imagining it or does certain things just happen to be at a certain time and place for no logical reason? If so why? Is there an unscientific unverified force that does exist that binds people in suble ways to do and think alike sometimes?
I do so want to go out today but I don't feel very good. I am sure that is completely totally unique to me and has no connection what so ever with anything or anybody else from the ends of the Cosmos and back again. But I do wonder. And wonder.
On a very mundane level when I was much younger I went out "trash picking". Not so much rummaging around in people's trash cans though. More like driving up and down the streets in my 1962 Willys Utility Wagon looking for boxes of "goodies" thrown out on trash day. Obviously people were cleaning out their homes and garages and felt the stuff was too good to go to the dump but lacked the initiative to call the Salvation Army and donate the goods. The things I found were amazing; after awhile that did not faze me. What I couldn't understand was why it happened in cycles. Whole neighborhoods would pile it up on the parking strips on some days and not nearly as much on other days. Did they plan this? How? And why?
Just looking on the Internet reveals a somewhat disproportionate number of spiritual sites "down under". Yet my stereotype of Australia is more like endless dry land and simple people living on dry land with kangaroos and BB-Q's.
I get so much spam from Nigeria advising me my rich uncle left me $25,000,000.00 I don't even have the time to read them all. Don't they have anything better to do there then to try to rip off poor unsuspecting computer users?
We all know the Orientals are taking over the world! Is there something in that fried rice that makes them so aggressive?
And don't get me started on mass U.F.O. sightings.
Granted some cultural influence makes this happen. Less clear is how genetics would be involved. Equating reddish blond hair with a love of Tabasco sauce isn't going to get you an "A" in your school science project.
But the question is: am I imagining it or does certain things just happen to be at a certain time and place for no logical reason? If so why? Is there an unscientific unverified force that does exist that binds people in suble ways to do and think alike sometimes?
I do so want to go out today but I don't feel very good. I am sure that is completely totally unique to me and has no connection what so ever with anything or anybody else from the ends of the Cosmos and back again. But I do wonder. And wonder.
