Post by gruntal on Jul 4, 2013 16:50:09 GMT
It's Independence Day in the colonies! Time to celebrate our propensity for rebellion and bloodshed! No sacrifice too great to turn our backs on our benefactors! By most factors the experiment - as it was at the time - was an outstanding success. We could stay up all night if we chose to but then again there was no one to bail us out if we failed and we chose not to fail.
I'm not sure what I will be doing today. Fireworks would be fun but they are banned less the whole country side catch fire and burn down. Besides fireworks are dangerous to our health. Firearms are even more dangerous but are sort of legal if you can find a place to shoot them off. There is BLM public land down the road but with tempuratures in the low 100's I'm scared to go out. I'll die in the hot sun! Ditto for voluntering at the local 4th of July parade. My health is too iffy to commit myself safely. I guess I'll stay inside and be wimpy.
At this point in time it is not all that obvious how much independence means to us anyway when what we really need is a nice safety net to protect us from ourselves and the economy. Better to just sit in front of the TV or soak up another cute lecture of heros in past times who managed to save us from peril. Never mind how many rules they had to break in the process.
The question is: was all this war necessary? It seems people are taught civility but are called to stand and fight. We teach things in nice controlled circumstances while the real leaders traffic in strife. If there is one thing spirituality has taught me it is that that the Cosmos can't use you unless you are tough. Very very tough. And willing to go outside the system.
Does all we learn actually lead to anything but how futile our systems are? We teach docility and nothing gets any better. We teach rebellion and everything gets destroyed. Some where, some how, I seem to have figured out what we learn and preach is NOT the way out; it only serves to prepare us for the inevitable day we leave it all behind. If that isn't the biggist enigma I have ever heard of I don't know what else it could be.
I havn't had any real bad disasters in my life so maybe I wasn't called to do much anyway. Lucky me. But if something terrible does come I won't have anything to fall back on. Except a stubborn streak of independence. And no regrets for using it. Sooner or later I had to try it on my own.
I'm not sure what I will be doing today. Fireworks would be fun but they are banned less the whole country side catch fire and burn down. Besides fireworks are dangerous to our health. Firearms are even more dangerous but are sort of legal if you can find a place to shoot them off. There is BLM public land down the road but with tempuratures in the low 100's I'm scared to go out. I'll die in the hot sun! Ditto for voluntering at the local 4th of July parade. My health is too iffy to commit myself safely. I guess I'll stay inside and be wimpy.
At this point in time it is not all that obvious how much independence means to us anyway when what we really need is a nice safety net to protect us from ourselves and the economy. Better to just sit in front of the TV or soak up another cute lecture of heros in past times who managed to save us from peril. Never mind how many rules they had to break in the process.
The question is: was all this war necessary? It seems people are taught civility but are called to stand and fight. We teach things in nice controlled circumstances while the real leaders traffic in strife. If there is one thing spirituality has taught me it is that that the Cosmos can't use you unless you are tough. Very very tough. And willing to go outside the system.
Does all we learn actually lead to anything but how futile our systems are? We teach docility and nothing gets any better. We teach rebellion and everything gets destroyed. Some where, some how, I seem to have figured out what we learn and preach is NOT the way out; it only serves to prepare us for the inevitable day we leave it all behind. If that isn't the biggist enigma I have ever heard of I don't know what else it could be.
I havn't had any real bad disasters in my life so maybe I wasn't called to do much anyway. Lucky me. But if something terrible does come I won't have anything to fall back on. Except a stubborn streak of independence. And no regrets for using it. Sooner or later I had to try it on my own.
