Tuesday, August 06, 2013
Paradise on Earth?
Every warm tropical island and many scenic places call themselves “A Paradise on Earth”
This is very unlikely – there is no - utopia - Promised Land – but only never-never land - end of the rainbow – You and I are not going to Xanadu, Shanghai-la, or the garden of Eden and because you know how that turned out last time, fratricide.
There is always a rub.. nothing is perfect – here comes the double whammy of the romance in a Paradise LOST... dreams shattered and pending bills to pay.
So dream on oozy ship of state – great dreams strong and great, as they crash on the rocks of how things are in reality –
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
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“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: queen-of-hearts 168 people liked it like
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Level one not so GOOD – with real material limitations – in paradise there are no Walgreens or Walmarts, supplies and logistics are different – services are limited limited – the staff is hired not on the basic of competence but spiritual merit. Roads and transport means you need your own set of wings – visas and residency is a headache - money and banking troublesome God's constitutional Government is dysfunctional autocracy, with a constant crisis between Michael the prime minister and Lucifer, a former head of state; there are vast inequalities, life among the quick and the dead is not fair..but there is nothing that can be done about it. You have little control.
Level two: Systems dysfunction – not so beautiful
the clash of cultures – expectations and reality
1.the state or quality of being real. Just A=A it is what I say it is no more or less
2.resemblance to what is real. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but is a real duck – real ducks don't quack (only females males hiss)
3.a real thing or fact. Fact = evidence not opinion – not personal and not a consensus but proven by independent data – such as evolution – global warming – communism doesn't work
4.real things, facts, or events taken as its whole; state of affairs: the reality of the business world; rationalizing to escape reality or not very real at all but only common knowledge and common sense which maybe true or false, the statements off the lawyers is not evidence. I think I know what I know, it's in the manual – I think I know what I don't know – the market is not what ever the reasons given for ups and downs – but what about the unknown unknowns?
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/wonder/ch7.html A Mad Tea Party
Level 3: NOT SO TRUE:
IT IS something but not a thing, god is not a person or object but a holy ghost that exists independently of ideas concerning it. Therefore essences can't be tied down but float endlessly in the ether of dark matter and dark energy and anti-matter for that matter.
An essence exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive: the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: democracy.
Since the words freedom and democracy do not have an agreed reference – you just know it when you see it like pornography . Are you free from wrong beliefs, material needs and passions, mobs and sleep walking in that good night, Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
2. a substance obtained from a plant, drug, or the like, by distillation,infusion, etc., and containing its characteristic properties inconcentrated form.
3. an alcoholic solution of an essential oil; spirit.
4. a perfume; scent.
5. Philosophy . the inward nature, true substance, or constitution of anything, as opposed to what is accidental, phenomenal, illusory,etc.
So this is the beautiful, the good and the true tough love
Every warm tropical island and many scenic places call themselves “A Paradise on Earth”
This is very unlikely – there is no - utopia - Promised Land – but only never-never land - end of the rainbow – You and I are not going to Xanadu, Shanghai-la, or the garden of Eden and because you know how that turned out last time, fratricide.
There is always a rub.. nothing is perfect – here comes the double whammy of the romance in a Paradise LOST... dreams shattered and pending bills to pay.
So dream on oozy ship of state – great dreams strong and great, as they crash on the rocks of how things are in reality –
Thou, too, sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
like
“My dear, here we must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must run twice as fast as that.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
tags: queen-of-hearts 168 people liked it like
“It is better to be feared than loved.”
― Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland
Level one not so GOOD – with real material limitations – in paradise there are no Walgreens or Walmarts, supplies and logistics are different – services are limited limited – the staff is hired not on the basic of competence but spiritual merit. Roads and transport means you need your own set of wings – visas and residency is a headache - money and banking troublesome God's constitutional Government is dysfunctional autocracy, with a constant crisis between Michael the prime minister and Lucifer, a former head of state; there are vast inequalities, life among the quick and the dead is not fair..but there is nothing that can be done about it. You have little control.
Level two: Systems dysfunction – not so beautiful
the clash of cultures – expectations and reality
1.the state or quality of being real. Just A=A it is what I say it is no more or less
2.resemblance to what is real. It walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, but is a real duck – real ducks don't quack (only females males hiss)
3.a real thing or fact. Fact = evidence not opinion – not personal and not a consensus but proven by independent data – such as evolution – global warming – communism doesn't work
4.real things, facts, or events taken as its whole; state of affairs: the reality of the business world; rationalizing to escape reality or not very real at all but only common knowledge and common sense which maybe true or false, the statements off the lawyers is not evidence. I think I know what I know, it's in the manual – I think I know what I don't know – the market is not what ever the reasons given for ups and downs – but what about the unknown unknowns?
http://www.cs.indiana.edu/metastuff/wonder/ch7.html A Mad Tea Party
Level 3: NOT SO TRUE:
IT IS something but not a thing, god is not a person or object but a holy ghost that exists independently of ideas concerning it. Therefore essences can't be tied down but float endlessly in the ether of dark matter and dark energy and anti-matter for that matter.
An essence exists independently of all other things and from which all other things derive: the basic, real, and invariable nature of a thing or its significant individual feature or features: democracy.
Since the words freedom and democracy do not have an agreed reference – you just know it when you see it like pornography . Are you free from wrong beliefs, material needs and passions, mobs and sleep walking in that good night, Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
2. a substance obtained from a plant, drug, or the like, by distillation,infusion, etc., and containing its characteristic properties inconcentrated form.
3. an alcoholic solution of an essential oil; spirit.
4. a perfume; scent.
5. Philosophy . the inward nature, true substance, or constitution of anything, as opposed to what is accidental, phenomenal, illusory,etc.
So this is the beautiful, the good and the true tough love
