tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278805446419475912.post5458734158960436571..comments2024-01-25T13:50:36.131-08:00Comments on Excavator: In lieu of doing the laundryexcavatorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12977971829976807873noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278805446419475912.post-20239349615183882722008-03-10T13:03:00.000-07:002008-03-10T13:03:00.000-07:00Lori:Boy, I don't know. I like my baths hot in th...Lori:<BR/><BR/>Boy, I don't know. I like my baths hot in the winter and my drinks cold in the summer.<BR/><BR/>I'm a novice at physics, and it probably shows here, but I wonder if this polarization goes down into the very nature of matter: is light a particle, or a wave? If the electron isn't necessarily THERE, but only has a probability of being THERE, AND a chance of being somewhere else--how on earth can being exist with such a quirky foundation? So I can't help but wonder if the polarizations that manifest in humans might reflect this most existential of polarizations?<BR/><BR/>Mercurious:<BR/><BR/>The aspect of suffering I think I'm obsessing on right now is human-inflicted. The fact that people will deliberately cause pain in others and play it like a violin shocks and horrifies me. And I guess that's not the only human-inflicted suffering I'm concerned about; it's also the permitting others to suffer, through indifference, or self-preservation, or even viewing the suffering of others as an abstraction.<BR/><BR/>And those of us with a nervous system have such capacity to experience marvelous sensations, yet also the vulnerability for the worst. This is a factor in the equation when I wonder: world = safe, or dangerous?excavatorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12977971829976807873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278805446419475912.post-63100842470478955302008-03-10T08:03:00.000-07:002008-03-10T08:03:00.000-07:00There are lots of ideas here, but I"ll comment on ...There are lots of ideas here, but I"ll comment on a couple:<BR/><BR/>First, I agree that the fad for praying for good things is one that needs to go away. That idea that God wants us to be rich, or thin, or have a great spouse, is just plain silly.<BR/><BR/>Secondly, I've also wondered a lot about the problem of suffering in the world. I've come to the conclusion that suffering has more to do with our limited way of perceiving the world, and not much to do with the actual nature of things.<BR/><BR/>If we saw correctly, things would appear as they are—infinite. (That's not my idea, but William Blake's).<BR/><BR/>So death and illness make us suffer because we think they are something to fear. Perhaps they're utterly natural, and therefore offer no reason to suffer. <BR/><BR/>Easier said than done, but I do know that I suffer less as I move in that direction.The Geezershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12132213545989946724noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-278805446419475912.post-16200094310135165482008-03-08T16:41:00.000-08:002008-03-08T16:41:00.000-08:00Deep thoughts amid the darks and the linens.I thin...Deep thoughts amid the darks and the linens.<BR/><BR/>I think you are on to something. We have lived in a world that increasingly things in either/or. Right/wrong. Us/them. Good/evil. Safe/unsafe. Fertile/barren.<BR/><BR/>Somehow, I intuit, we are heading to both. As we get there, things get messier.<BR/><BR/>And I don't know how to translate that into my everyday life.<BR/><BR/>Hot water or cold?Lori Lavender Luzhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15394441222262940632noreply@blogger.com