This is not easy!
Yesterday night, I walked around the whole city, from East at the river ferry place, to all the way across town to the end of the North (basically food/Chinatown/ethnic-y) section...
It has been very hot here, and it was quite warm in the evening yesterday.
What did I find?
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I ended up just having a coffee. Not here and it wasn't in the morning anyway. But it was pretty much like this. |
Queues outside of every single place that sold sit-down food and drink. Literally was queues.
Tonight - which is significantly cooler - there is hardly anyone around anywhere. Fair enough it is Sunday night here right now and people are I guess thinking about the beginning of the working week ahead.
But that is not entirely it. I have noticed this before: when it is ridiculously hot, people go out into very uncomfortable situations, and mill around in noisy crowds and end up some place packed to the gills, where the noisy crowd is compressed in an enclosed space, even if it is air-conditioned so what; and the tables are full and the service cannot be as optimal as it might be, put it that way.
The signs that the mass of the population - and this applies anywhere and everywhere in the world today - is inclined to change habits if you presume they envisage things could be made better through change, do not exist.
Those signs of an inclination to think ahead, and to formulate better ways - never existed.
Cycles of change have happened as the result of the introduction of new technologies, and the population-wide economic distribution effects of large-scale deaths through plagues or war or both.
Human beings are not forward-looking proactive in terms of style of intellect.
Some individuals sometimes are, and these are deemed 'reformers' or eccentrics.
And so we make a mistake when we think of the great religious conceptions of the world that include in their picture, otherworldly beings - 'higher' beings, beings of greater fundamental intellect and certainly, of greater knowledge - and think that all humans simply because of the teachings, are able to quickly access such realms or to hold the kinds of thinking that meet the 'normal' standard of those putative higher minds.
The fact is, even the Bible New Testament clearly says - 'you shall seek me but where I go now you cannot follow (yet)...'
Cannot follow.
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Fleming patterned Bond on this guy and Hoagy Carmichael. |
And that was not a statement made simply to presage the actual death, because of the phrase 'you shall seek me.'
And then the rest of that is about 'in my Father's House there are many mansions,' and 'I go to prepare a place for you' and so on. So it was not an initial statement about death.
So how do we 'not make the mistake' - of thinking that anyone can easily understand or fit into the places and among the people of very advanced societies?
First we have to know what the 'mind of the wonderful' means.
It's a pointless exercise meeting wonderful people if we do not appreciate that they possess 'a mind of the wonderful;' they are wonderful.
All of these images across the popular internet and sponsored in any case by the general media anyway - depicting these weird-looking, gaunt-faced, huge bug-eyed creatures theorized as being what ET Aliens look like - are just so much utter rubbish.
The only difference between an ordinary human being and some being from a very highly advanced culture and civilization somewhere else, exists in the way of thinking that that other being has compared to what a typical Earth-bound human has and exhibits.
To meet with them on terms that are realistic for both sides (considering that both claim 'intelligence'), we must enter into the presence of the mind of the wonderful; we must enter into a field of which we seldom experience here.
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This one is a bit too exotic for Fleming to impute to Bond, but then, it hadn't been created at that time anyway! It's pretty good however. |
We must become part of that field.
We cannot keep looking at things the way ordinary mortal - and restricted - human beings all do.
But what is the difference? How can we make the jump across?
We must possess a mind of the wonderful. Our own mind must be wonderful in every way itself - or at least start to be like that.
Human beings tend to lose things. They lose their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, pets, possessions, money, position, status (according to the rest of standard society).
You are all about to get completely shocked with what you will soon learn, and I am not delaying that approach to the knowledge.
...A smart person will already begin to be able to, as they say, stick two-and-two together with what I will show you next (now). I won't show it all but I will point to the beginning thereof.
What Ammon does not know about...
Dr Ammon Hillman thinks the people in the early Christian cult stuck something over their eyelids that enabled them to see; just like the original Cult of Medea was able to at some unknown time in history but certainly more than a thousand years prior to Jesus of Nazareth.
And why are natural things capable of opening doors to an unnatural realm?
Because Genesis does not start like this - 'In the Beginning;' but like this in actuality: 'THE Beginning CONTAINS ALL THINGS Good as well as Evil and from beginnings to endings, the Alpha through to the Omega and everything in between.'
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What the heck is this? I think it's a Duesenberg. That's more Sayers than Fleming... |
You, you -, contain the capacity to have a mind of the wonderful. It's already within you.
Things that you pick up on the seashore...
Have purposes undreamed of by the common.
We make light of death because we never make light of the Force and Power of certain other things. ...Things which the common think they can have, or that they do have, and most of them believe they will have, on account of money.
LOL
ReplyDelete"Human beings tend to lose things. They lose their mothers, fathers, sisters, brothers, pets, possessions, money, position, status..."
Whenever I read now of the death of someone who shaped my adolescent worldview, I feel wistful, and a bit lost...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/marianne-faithfull-tribute-rob-sheffield-1235251683/
You're lucky you're able to walk about safely there in your city in Oz.
ReplyDeleteUSA cities are dicey. New Orleans, for example, might be especially dangerous this weekend. OCICBW.
I wanted to comment something about how change is what we are, we walk into a room and change happens, it’s a constant and yet we fear/fight it yada and so on.
ReplyDeleteInstead I read a news article that triggered a memory so I went back to a post here on Tuesday, 2 April 2024, and ohhh How to get your Panama hat. And everywhere news today “Riviera of the Middle East”!?!