A "What Did You Think Today" Digression!

Thats by Guerlain right ?

LOL! Not the samsara I inhabit it ain't - though Guerlain appears to be part of the illusion...

IS this you here ?

Can't see enough on my stupid smegged smegging monitor to tell!

Try right mouse click then click on show picture

Er - that was neat - it made the picture disappear!!! ?

Some of us don't have right mice.

I have your basic middle mouse, which comes with the IMac.

Alas. But it seems a pleasant picture, a tree with some people...is there a wabbit in the scene?

Osso

Yes just behind the naked nymph and to the right of the doric column

Deb,

Try cutting and pasting this into the addess bar

http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:IwlHiDSkFu4C:www.parnasse.com/samsara.jpg

Or clicking on it !

Hee hee - I will!

Iwas thinking two things today - well, many more, but these two are about to make it to this thread.

I was wondering how we would have developed differently as a species if there had been another species here - of at least equal intelligence, but not competing for our space in the biosphere.... let's assume we do not live in constant struggle....how would our psychology and philosophy about the world have been different? Our religion?

I was also thinking about how two people can be in the same places at the same time, but have such totally different experiences. I work with a woman who has become a dear friend - she was a year or two before me at university - same ones - now, I consider myself to have been a most moderate and boring gel, but I had my fair share of political turmoil, sex, drugs, rock and roll and lots of experimenting and moving WAAAAAAAAY out of my previous life and circles - it was the seventies for crissake! (Though we felt we were sad in having missed the sixties - but i digress)

Now Helen - similar subjects, similar time - none of this! One feller - the one she married - no drugs, no turmoil, what is this about? How can one miss the spirit of one's age - (such as it was, bless its cotton socks) - no aspersions on her - she is a true treasure and I count myself blessed to be her friend - and none on me -I am glad I did it all - and survived - but 'tis a mystery and wonder to me nonetheless how different our worlds are that we construct.

Er -picture looked just the same in its new home, Hiama - I will try looking at it at work next week!

I'm still not thinking (thought ya might want to know! )

i couldn't think straight at all today. i was thinking way toooooo much again. gets me in big trouble everytime for some strange reason.

Don't believe them - there ain't no bunny there!
I looked at the big picture - pic wise, that is - and.... wabbit-fwee!

http://www.parnasse.com/samsara.jpg

yep - no bunnies there at all, at all...

jerry R, you are incorrigible!

Mikey - sure it is the THINKING that gets you into trouble?

i saw one there, i swear, just a minute ago. look again. they may be coming and going, tricky rabbits.
but i was very busy thinking today. i thought this: why us, women, god bless us, are so much smarter and obviously more developed than men. obviously, because we have less hair on our bodies, our fronts are not receding backwards as much as is the case of some men, our eyebrows are lesser and we lack the neanderthalian features of the wide strong noses and those bonely arcs under the eyebrows if you know what i mean. think patrick swayze. well, all in all it seems we women are a few centuries ahead in biological evolution. than it occured to me. for most of our evolution, that is in the old ages of neolithe and those, when we were a hunting-gathering community, so for hundreds of thousands of years we women stayed at home, chewing leather (so that it can later be used for clothing, naturally), mending things, gesticulating with our fellow womens tribe members, tending to children. men went off to hunt, also naturally. sure, sure, there is some strategy involved and all that, for the most part they were busy smacking their primitive weapons left and right, running madly after the mammoths, now what can you think of while you're at it? no time. no energy. and you just crawl home to your cave after the long tiring danged hunt and sleep. you beat your woman first to show your devotion, if you have the strenght, if not, you put it off until tomorrow. in the morning you're too hungry and kranky to think and the women shoo you off to go hunt again, while they have all the time in the world to exercise their thinking capacity. this i thought today.
then i saw madeleine albright somewhere on the web.
then i stopped thinking.
is there any historical evidence to support of disprove my most likely ground breaking theory? other than that of madeleine, for one exception will not do.

Sorry Dagmar - Margaret Thatcher, Cheryl Kernow, Bronwyn Bishop, Joy Baluch, the old chief nurse where I work.

Hmm - we still be doing better, no?

But we hunted too - and gathered - lots of work gathering - and minding the kids, invented art, tamed animals - is there no end to our talents?

sigh, indeed. no end. ugh, just thought of valentina tereshkova, the first female cosmonaut to orbit the planet. ah, good, all gone, mind blank. any empty-headed (whatwasit? ah, yes, palooga!). so any empty-headed palooga can wage war, right? but do they have the patience, i ask, to chew leather properly? surely not! that is the key to the progress of humankind i tell you. and some such things anyway. on this high note, feeling all better about myself, i go to bed to sleep the slumber of the just.

Sleep well!

These are two really good points.

I would like to think that if there had been another species-and given your parameters for behaviour-that we would have evolved to a higher level of consciousness, maybe the collective subconscious would be an open resource for us all for example. This would mean we could communicate from here in Britland to Oz without the need to type cos you would be reading my thoughts.

Regarding same time same place different experiences, I went home to a friend's father's funeral a few months back and it seemed like time had stood still. Most of my early life friends were still there and had been doing the same job for years. I have had to travel up and down the country with my various jobs and left home when I went to my first Uni , since then I have been an itinerant. Part of me wonders what would have happened if I had stayed.

Its a bit like the old buddhist story:

A buddhist monk was sitting by the side of the road midway between two towns. A man approached him coming from the first town and on his way to the second.

He asked the monk " I've just left this town, the people were so friendly and we had parties and get togethers and life was great, what is the second town like ?", the buddhist replied " much the same ".

A little later another man approached the buddhist, he too was heading for the second town, he asked the monk " I've just left this town, the peple were so unfriendly and unhelpful, what is the second town like ? ", the buddhist replied, " much the same . "