I wanted to write something moving and profound but words escape me at the moment. I think it's nice that we live in so scientific an age. We can do some amazing things with medicine and computers and stuff. I guess I'm kind of old-fashioned, though. In some cultures, farmers used to leave the first loaf of bread made from a harvest out in the filed to appease whatever god that ruled over good harvests. Miners would leave out part of their lunch so the tommyknockers would be more inclined to be friendly...I think practices like that gave those people a certain respect for just where they were and what they were doing...a deeper connection. More respect, perhaps, for each other and things around them. More thankful. Maybe that's part of the problem also. Our society is expectant, not thankful. When we're grateful for things that happen to us, we tend to get more intimately involved...see things we might not otherwise...
One girl I know trains with weights quite a bit. She bows to the stack of iron before she even begins trying to move it. To her, it changes the barbell/whatever into an opponent rather than a pile of metal.
Jumping the topic completely again, there's an old movie..."The Great Dictator." It has charlie Chaplin...it was made just after silent movies became obsolete... Mr.Chaplin wrote a speech which he recited at the end of the movie...I can't begin to quote it for fear of garbling his message. It's not quite along the lines of magic and fantasy improving life, but it's on a similar tangent....using all this wonderful technology we have at our disposal to improve our lives. Excellent film. Beautiful speech. I'll stop rambling, now.
Thank you for this opportunity to spew forth my nonsensical opinion on the matter. Thank you for reading it.
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I think it's nice that we live in so scientific an age. We can do some amazing things with medicine and computers and stuff.
I guess I'm kind of old-fashioned, though.
In some cultures, farmers used to leave the first loaf of bread made from a harvest out in the filed to appease whatever god that ruled over good harvests. Miners would leave out part of their lunch so the tommyknockers would be more inclined to be friendly...I think practices like that gave those people a certain respect for just where they were and what they were doing...a deeper connection. More respect, perhaps, for each other and things around them. More thankful.
Maybe that's part of the problem also. Our society is expectant, not thankful. When we're grateful for things that happen to us, we tend to get more intimately involved...see things we might not otherwise...
One girl I know trains with weights quite a bit. She bows to the stack of iron before she even begins trying to move it. To her, it changes the barbell/whatever into an opponent rather than a pile of metal.
Jumping the topic completely again, there's an old movie..."The Great Dictator." It has charlie Chaplin...it was made just after silent movies became obsolete...
Mr.Chaplin wrote a speech which he recited at the end of the movie...I can't begin to quote it for fear of garbling his message. It's not quite along the lines of magic and fantasy improving life, but it's on a similar tangent....using all this wonderful technology we have at our disposal to improve our lives. Excellent film. Beautiful speech.
I'll stop rambling, now.
Thank you for this opportunity to spew forth my nonsensical opinion on the matter.
Thank you for reading it.