STOOPID MONKEES!
“He who does not know for what purpose the world exists, does not know who he is, nor what the world is.” As observations go, that one is still completely kicking our asses.
Category: atheism
We Are Not Alone
Mercury astronaut Gordon Cooper claims to have had documented alien company when he was up in space, and despite the fact that Earth Day was last week, Apollo 14 astronaut Edgar Mitchell feels that the real action is elsewhere. He grew up in Roswell, New Mexico, and claims to have been told things as a boy by people who witnessed perhaps the most famous UFO event of our time. “Our destiny,” Mitchell says, “in my opinion, and we might as well get started with it, is [to] become a part of the planetary community. … We should be ready to reach out beyond our planet and beyond our solar system to find out what is really going on out there.”
Masters Of Time
Films that make it around the world can become important cultural benchmarks for shared ideas and experiences. The Matrix is such a film. A venturesome science-fiction/mythical story pitting man against machine against new age nihilism against slow-motion bullets, with a dash of time transcendence thrown in for special effects crunchy goodness. Without putting a value judgment on it as a film or a philosophy, it can still serve as a planet-wide meme for the purveyors of and partakers in world culture, even a rudimentary philosophy of reality.
Sailing The Cyber Sea
My journey started over at Distributor Cap‘s place. Just an innocent morning meander of our blog roll, since Blog Roll Amnesty Day is bearing down on the inter-toobers. Getting to know the blogo-neighbors is really part and parcel of being a blogger in the first place; it’s cyberspace exploration at it’s most exhilarating. Like Blue Gal, DC has one of …
The Spirits Of Mind
It’s dark. Cold. There’s no shelter. There’s no food. Water is scarce. To make matters worse, you’re barely human. You’re just a few dozen generations removed from the first two human beings, born of primates, the last vital link in the evolution of man.
The World of the Cross
Our world— Urantia— has become known among other neighboring inhabited planets as the “World of the Cross.” For newbies to this blog who’ve never heard of The Urantia Book, just the caption on the photo above holds the potential to make their head explode. “. . . neighboring inhabited planets”?? Uh huhh. But. Yeah. If all you’ve ever thought of …
Knocking On Death’s Door
Although the death scenes in these two well-produced tubes were selected for their cinematic qualities, they can still set the mood for a more serious contemplation of your own mortality. Check’m out. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Tqh2drbzZs&feature=related[/youtube] [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fvtm06DYhBo&feature=related[/youtube] I don’t need to tell you how large the idea of death looms in our collective consciousness, in our daily lives. After all, people are dying …
