The World (FabricOfSelf) 1

[riff]

We are the world. Not as some warm, fuzzy image, nor as an intellectual concept, but in actuality, in form and substance, in truth. No line seperates you from the world. There is no division, no wall. No entity exists to observe the "not me" from a position of seperateness. Your very consciousness, your thoughts, your ambitions, your values, your striving-- all of these are the world. You are the world and the world is you. It is an inescapable fact, a tangible reality."

--John McAfee

I think western cultures have a hard time with this kind of thinking. For instance, if you have read the book of Genisis, people are not the world. They are on the world, given the world to do with what they will.

On the other side I think of some of the Native American teaching. There is a democracy of being.

The idea that we are the world is really a natural as the idea that a rock or a tree or an ocean is the world. The air and the wind are the world. The microbes and viruses and bacteria are the world. The animals and plants. Together, we are the world.

We live in a paradigm that teaches against this kind of thinking. We feel at times we must "get back to nature" in order to reconnect with the world. How many people have tried this only to leave the woods and resume "sucking the devil's dick" as I like to say? Or return only to talk about how pretty the trees were and such.

If you want to connect with the world, you must connect with yourself. Inside yourself- that's where you will find it.

Amen. Disco sucks. (Just a little thing I used to say as a teenager when I was forced to pray.)

 

[Hamletmaschine]

Truer words were never spoken. Disco does suck. Amen, brother.

 

[MissTaken]

A Sunday morning thought...

I have to agree, however as a free thinking individual, I find myself able to exist in harmony and as a part of our world, earth, universe...whatever.

There are special places I go to truly feel at peace and as one with nature. In my family, we have always taken road trips into the mountains and have favorite spots where "the mountains swallow you." Then, sit quietly, eyes closed without speaking and just be.

I don't know if I am ready to philosophise this morning. I haven't had my coffee yet.

Suffice it to say...I get it, riff and agree .

 

[riff]

I prefer rock, myself.

 

[MissTaken]

Disco sucks, but for some reason I can't help my toe from tapping when I hear "The Hustle."

 

[riff]

Or

"Blamin' It All On The Light's of Broadway"

I think that was the title.

Or....
Shake Shake shake... LOL

 

[MissTaken]

Disco was an evil and failed attempt on the part of the government to exert mind control through the radio waves.

It almost worked.

Why else would we have been wearing polyester and plat form shoes?

 

[riff]

Almost?

 

[MissTaken]

Ok Ok

I was young and impressionable!

I do a great Olivia Newton John imitation and have elephant pants and a halter top for those special occasions!