Is Life turning out the way you planned? - Page 2

Originally Posted by ChildhoodDream

My main problem with this world and it's many societies is that there is to much anger and hatred that causes all the more confusion and hardship that need not be.

Some animals are even acting weird and doing what is not normal to them.

The environment is very poisoned and polluted with the effects of PROGRE$$ where the few make the CA$H and the many do the chores.

Some of the native Asian religions and new age traditions have a different explanation for what you are seeing. We need to get a few concepts down first though.

1: The first concept is Animism.

https://iep.utm.edu/animism/

2: The second is the Gaia concept.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics...aia-hypothesis

You might think of the world as a living & breathing global ecosystem which has a consciousness of sorts. ( I suspect you already know this anyway. )

Try tapping into the Gaia next time you're in the groove and ask her if she will reveal why there is so much anger & hatred. Ask her why life is so busy. (She may or may not know.)

I could explain why in mundane terms .... but it would be better if you could see it for yourself through direct knowledge.

Originally Posted by hills

Again ... all good things CD but we do need to go very slowly.

Okay ... so when " you're in the groove " .... do you feel as though you are connecting to something ?

Things move along smoothly and connect in many ways simply put.

Originally Posted by hills

Some of the native Asian religions and new age traditions have a different explanation for what you are seeing. We need to get a few concepts down first though.

1: The first concept is Animism.

https://iep.utm.edu/animism/

I had a quick peek and I don't put much thought in that direction. I don't believe that trees and waterfalls have spirits so to say. But I do believe that trees and water may have a "energy" of sorts. Maybe rocks could but I don't see it personally.

2: The second is the Gaia concept.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics...aia-hypothesis

You might think of the world as a living & breathing global ecosystem which has a consciousness of sorts. ( I suspect you already know this anyway. )

Try tapping into the Gaia next time you're in the groove and ask her if she will reveal why there is so much anger & hatred. Ask her why life is so busy. (She may or may not know.)

I could explain why in mundane terms .... but it would be better if you could see it for yourself through direct knowledge.

I find most that I read of the Gaia concept to be popular fluff, but there is a bit of truth in it as with most things of this world.
I don't believe in so called Gods, Goddesses and other such concepts. I view it as it is what it is and it's all connected.

Superstition gets in the way of a clearer view and understanding for most.

There is a bit of truth in most all. But most are more interested in the popular fluff then the deeper truths.

As for anger and hatred. I already have a great understanding of WHY there is so much. My question is the deeper reasoning of WHY do people CHOOSE what they choose and try and place responsibility elsewhere.

I have many ideas on it, but not the finer points.

We must also look at what is called time and that time is very mysterious.

When I was a teenager, I 'planned' on being a geologist or mineralogist.
Real life very rarely works out the way folks thinks it will.

Now-a-days, I do what is necessary to pay the bills given the resources and skills I have available at the time.

Originally Posted by ChildhoodDream

We must also look at what is called time and that time is very mysterious.

Is it time .... or the perception of time.

I look at a red squirrel going a mile a minute. Everything is fast,fast,fast with that little creature. The passage of time for a squirrel would be very different from that of a 1000 year old redwood on which branches it darts about. The tree is ageless.

You should check out a movie/program called "what the bleep". It's about quantum science and mechanics.

I have watched/listened to it, the whole thing once and have checked it out here and there a few times.

If you haven't seen it you should check it out as you just might enjoy it and get a better idea of where I'm coming from.

Originally Posted by RLS0812

When I was a teenager, I 'planned' on being a geologist or mineralogist.
Real life very rarely works out the way folks thinks it will.

Now-a-days, I do what is necessary to pay the bills given the resources and skills I have available at the time.

I think it's gonna be harder for the younger generations coming up through. Global population has doubled from 3.5 to 7 billion just in my lifetime. Our community here in Maine depends on fishing to power the local economy and provide jobs. Problem is that most of our fish stocks are badly depleted now. We took, and took,and took, from the ocean till it had nothing left to give. It was all to feed all of the extra mouths in the world.

It's the same story about diminishing resources all around the globe now. Something as simple as good drinking water is getting harder to come by.

Figure more people competing with one another for what little is left ?

Everyone bu$y working twice as hard for their little slice of the pie in order to just survive ?

That won't end well. The natural balance won't be restored until there are far fewer humans on the planet. Disease,famine,war, death ?

Maybe crazy old "John of Patmos" wasn't so crazy after all.

Originally Posted by RLS0812

When I was a teenager, I 'planned' on being a geologist or mineralogist.
Real life very rarely works out the way folks thinks it will.

Now-a-days, I do what is necessary to pay the bills given the resources and skills I have available at the time.

In kindergarten the teacher asked us what we wanted to be or do when we "grew up".
The kids said doctor, nurse, policeman, fireman, mailman, soldier and such. When I was asked I said I wanted to live in a junkyard full of ambulances, police cars, firetrucks and such.

I can always figure out what I want by knowing what I don't want.