River of Thoughts wrote:That octopus video was EPIC!!! wow so many things in this universe to explore and observe in awe.
Enjoy this epic poem:
Sometimes others can put exactly how you feel but can't communicate into words that resonate with others. Excellent, excellent poem. I've always been of the opinion that Christ's message lived on outside of mainstream Christianity, outside of religion, and in some cases outside of theology. His message was clarity, love, and understanding. The church convoluted the truth he spoke into something ugly.
Kind of sad really, but thats the story told over and over throughout history. People just weren't ready to understand and put to practice his teachings.
Here's my contribution for the day.
"let those who have talked to the elves, find each other and band together" -TMK
In a society in which nearly everybody is dominated by somebody else's mind or by a disembodied mind, it becomes increasingly difficult to learn the truth about the activities of governments and corporations, about the quality or value of products, or about the health of one's own place and economy.
In such a society, also, our private economies will depend less upon the private ownership of real, usable property, and more upon property that is institutional and abstract, beyond individual control, such as money, insurance policies, certificates of deposit, stocks, etc. And as our private economies become more abstract, the mutual, free helps and pleasures of family and community life will be supplanted by a kind of displaced citizenship and by commerce with impersonal and self-interested suppliers...
The great enemy of freedom is the alignment of political power with wealth. This alignment destroys the commonwealth - that is, the natural wealth of localities and the local economies of household, neighborhood, and community - and so destroys democracy, of which the commonwealth is the foundation and practical means.” - Wendell Berry