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October 3,2004 : My Rant On: Napster
I am growing into a more humble and caring individual by way of my spiritual evolution,
but some days ya just gotta rant.
(Clearing throat) Welcome to my Rant page. I started a major search for spiritual truths when I turned 30, and discovered that once you initiate a searching frame of mind you start seeing hidden truths everywhere. I wanted to share what I have found on this webpage, to be a spark for someone else's curiosity and/or amusement, and I hope not to get too preachy.(Yeah right!) I would rather try to share my version of the hippy philosophy: peace-loving, tolerant, quietly meditating, kind, and cheerful. I'm a Militant Pollyanna...but you know what? I have found that optimism antagonizes a lot of people. The world they see is the only world they know, and to suggest that by elevating your thoughts and attitude you might actually have a positive effect on your life just annoys the hell out of them. They start saying how I'm a Pollyanna...unrealistically living in a dream world. Well, for all we know this IS a dream, and dammit I don't want to have a nightmare for a life! If we have the power to change it, and it's as simple as changing our minds, then we'll never know until we try it, right? But that kind of talk rubs them the wrong way and they don't listen, and if you persist they get defensive. So, I'll go there, into the realm of pessimism....
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THE YEAR 2000
Did something happen? Sure. It still is. The negative thoughts of billions of people are being answered. How many people do you know who had a major event occur 1999-2000? I'm talking job changes, divorces, lost a family member, had an accident, sold and bought houses...sure these things happened in years passed but not so many at once. Maybe it's not just because our calendar turned a major milestone. There are also extreme celestial events are occuring AT THIS TIME. Not extremely rare, but when coupled with the anticipation of this year maybe their effect is being felt more keenly. I know that planets do effect humans. Ask someone who's worked at a nursing home, emergency room, or police department about the full moon's effect on people. What effects does the position of the other planets have? Maybe just an internal tug that something's out of balance, a feeling of something not being right?
Check out the planetary alignments at this link: SOLAR SYSTEM LIVE
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That is the Jodie Foster movie based on a book written by Carl Sagan. EXCELLENT FILM!!! I thought it was wonderful how they wove the issue of how each person's experience is real only to that person, and you can't share that, and you can't really believe anyone else's... We are each living in separate universes which collide with others' through our lives. Beautifully filmed and acted, nicely paced with drama and special effects...definitely one of my favorite films.
They excluded Jodie's character from the mission because she was not a religious person. But she did feel love, just not for a supreme being. In the movie they said that 95% of the world's population believed in a supreme being or energy, and wanted to make sure the representative of earth they sent felt that way too. But seems to me Religion can become the great evil. Pakistan and India are gearing up for nuclear war because of it. The middle east has been fighting over it for centuries. Through the ages the lust for conquest has been cloaked in a missionary zeal to spread it and eradicate any other existing in the invaded lands.
Some people, like Jodie's character, have a faith in science. Well, science is NOT a search for truth. And if any truth is found you can be sure we will be the last to hear about it. Have you ever heard of "forbidden archeology"? Any time anyone unearths a piece of evidence that contradicts the popular paradigm it is dismissed as hoax, and the person's career is systematically destroyed. Does that sound like a search for truth?
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So you can't believe in religion, you can't believe in science, you can't believe in what you see on television (I saw Forest Gump standing next to president Kennedy)...what's left? Why are we here?
In this Robin Williams Movie (remember when he used to be a radical? and FUNNY???)he dies and goes to heaven, but guess what? He's not happy there because the love of his life is still living in the earthly plane. I finally saw it, and I don't agree with it's philosophy at all. You say it's just entertainment, and I should lighten up, and I agree because I know it's just entertainment, but people are getting their first and probably only impressions about the reincarnation theory from media such as this. And the first question you will hear from people is If I lived a past life why can't I remember it? After research I discovered that the ancient teachings about reincarnation are that after death we incorporate the lessons we have learned about loving and an imaginary "reset button" is pushed. We develop amnesia. This movie made it clear to me why we don't remember our past lives. Robin Williams could not be happy in heaven because he couldn't forget his wife. Aw, this movie was sentimental emotional crap, but I hope it makes people think about what their idea of "heaven" is. I firmly believe that you create your own reality, so you'd better pay attention to what kind of life you're making. What is my heaven? Truthfully, being well and being in the company of my loved ones until I die. Heaven wouldn't be heaven without my loved ones, wouldn't it? If I am separated from my loved ones I'll be miserable, right? Or/ after death we lose all boundaries of the soul. We see our loved ones, but a higher calling pulls us away and we turn from earthly persuits for the greater good... Or/ (after death)are you so overwhelmed by the spiritual you forget about your earthly life? Sort of like when you're dreaming. All night long you have lived another experience in which you may have not had any of your loved ones participate. They didn't even exist in that dream world.
But that just doesn't sound right to me, that my love is only temporary, only valid in this existance. Since I haven't got anything else to believe in any more, how can I possibly lose faith in love? I feel it's reality, I've seen it's miracles. All the heavens the great religions of the world have handed me have been lacking something. They don't sound like my idea of the "ideal". Streets of gold do NOT impress me...(As if I'll have legs and feet to tread upon them.) Love is why I believe in reincarnation. There are some who teach that after death we merge into the cosmic spirit; that we lose our boundaries and join into the ONE. We will be pure spirit, no longer trapped in a cumbersome body. But unless my loved ones are there too I will not be complete...the "we" will not be complete, so I'll keep reincarnating, learning how to love the other people in my life, so that when we die we will be together in harmony. Many churches don't teach reincarnation, even though there is a surviving scripture that Jesus believed in it (See Matthew 17:11).
