Repost (I'm Now 78)
People are hard wired in only two ways. Those willing to self reflect and accept new information. Those who simply will not. The latter cannot be reasoned with and most likely project who they are as if it were the other who were doing what they themselves are guilty of. There's no changing this. As for the earlier of the two (willing to self reflect accepting new information) it is they who are in the minority. There's plainly no compromising between the two. Anyone attempting to bridge this gap will serve only to frustrate themselves. At this point I'm willing to accept this for what it is. It's a lot less stressing. You are you and I am me. It is what it is.. a fact of life.
When we where young we all did stupid things. Few of us (if we had to do it all over again) would do some of the stupid stuff we once did. Especially over the influence of raging hormones with our relationships. Also some of the chances we took never realizing how physically vulnerable we were.
Life's a crap shoot. All too often good things happen to bad people. While on the other hand bad things happen to some really good people. All this seems to defy our best efforts or intentions. What seems to console us is to accept what we can change and accept those we cannot.
Ideologies cannot be changed at the point of a gun. Countless people have died for their beliefs which they carried to their graves. I guess it's just part of the drama of life. This cannot be changed..
Music uses another part of the brain. One which everyone unites if only for the moment. Some forms of music appeals to one segment. Not to another. What each has in common, all intellectual reasoning's are temporarily suspended bringing people together if for a little while. Entertainment (including comedy) is perhaps the best path to uniting us with what each of us have in common with one another.
Political leaders may influence us when we pay attention to them. However most of us, by ignoring them, will find our differences are far fewer. By nature these are largely self serving individuals who depend on our weakest animosities for their livelihoods.
Nearly every comment on social media is a game of competition. Rather then supporting others most of these insecure lowlifes depend on fueling their egos via how much they can impugn another's beliefs. Ignoring them only increases their anguish causing them to take it up another notch. Their anguish increase my pleasure. So there's that.
Progress cannot be measured how many more structures we build or how many more people can be stuffed into a certain area. Rather how much more lives can be improved within an existing community. Neither can technology improve one's life without being able to simplify it. All too many times technology makes it more difficult. The goal software programmers and others should be to make things less complicated then they were before. This is not happening. Most likely because many would prefer to profit from such things.
Religion is making a huge profit off invisible products. Bad health, death, natural disasters, financial loss, accidents, earthquakes, fires.,, whatever misfortunes.. They're all suppose to be part of God's mysterious plan. We're suppose to believe God sits on his throne everyday taking millions of prayer requests Meanwhile religious leaders are enriching themselves. I don't care how many times these guys do the hokey pokey around the alter or how much money people throw at the cause it isn't going to change one damn thing. Indeed God may exist, but he/she/it isn't going to become subservient to mankind's foolish wishes. How many more thousands of years and catastrophic events will it take before people figure this out?
I also figured out my life or opinions are no more meaningful then any others. This blog only serves to vent my thoughts at the moment for the day. Some of these could change as I grow older. Now that I shared mine how about yours?
Assuming no one responds it will only serve to validate my belief people could care less. None the less let it not be said I wasn't forthright and willing to share some of my inner most thoughts with the world.
Are you willing to do the same?
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