it just keeps rolling along. but it will keep rolling along without us if we don't stop destroying what it takes for us to exist.
Paradise earth awaits. where humans can live forever taking care of the earth and the animals. No more war or hatred. Billions will be resurrected. . I cant wait!
there is no future..there is no past there is just now and the memory of some old now and the hope of some new now
except there is no such thing as a now that is long enough even for a pin to stand on end. we live in what we created yesterday, and are constantly creating what we will live in next. the price of hating or denying that, is the messed up ness we find ourselves living in as a result. other then nature and science and those things our existence actually depends upon, whatever anyone thinks of the idea of a group mind, good, bad or otherwise, the world we all have to live in, is the group mind of all of us. and that doesn't have to, has never had to, be at war, with itself, or anything else.
We are living as if "On the Beach." Remember the novel turned film (in 1959) starring Fred Astaire, Ava Gardner and Gregory Peck, "waiting for the fallout from a nuclear war in the northern hemisphere to float on the wind to them in Australia. They were going to die, and everyone and everything they cared about was already dead or was going to be. I remembered a lot of drinking and dancing, fruitless searching by submarine along the coasts of the United States for survivors and Fred Astaire fixing up his sports car so he could rev it up in his garage and commit suicide." (Nora Gallagher) It is simply a question of time, when will we die from plague, starvation, mega-heat wave and associated fires, alternated with flooding we've never seen before. Today's 'Guardian' online had this story that ties up all the threads for you to see yourself: Southern Californians know: climate change is real, it is deadly and it is here Nora Gallagher An earthly paradise is ravaged by inferno and flood, the earth itself rising to proclaim a horrifying and deadly new normal. A child plays in surf reddened by the reflection of heavy smoke in Montecito, just south of Santa Barbara. Photograph: David McNew/Getty Images I like her summation and warning to all of us:
Everything comes in cycles in nature. That's how a past and future is easily imagined and people are not dead wrong for considering both to be real. They're just not 'real' as in existing in this moment in time. Ignoring every aspect of a future and how it might turn out (not trying to shape it in any way) would be crazier. It's best to find a balance. Spawn, grow, wither, die. Ragnarok has already happened. Ouroboros is growing again.
He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past Orwell said it Then Zach de la Rocha said it with more attitude
Observing the quality and quantity of history revealed to us and the state of humanity extant, entropy is the overarching principle that tops all others, IMO. Not for humanity alone, but all that exists. Everything seems to have a "shelf" life, regardless of our pitiful attempts to understand existence and make sense of it all. Therefore Janis was right= "get it while you can."
