Realizing that our bodies are primarily made of water, carbon, oxygen, and electricity....or energy as I prefer to believe, those 21 grams of weight that disappear immediately upon death have to be something now don't they?
Well I have a fond attraction for Horoscopes, and I am very odd and selective with who's interpretations I will read, and I am even odder with when I will read them. I feel if you start your day off reading them in advance start of your day, week, month and possible year there may be a subliminal impact of how you may actually live your Life.
But the reality of the matter for me is that I do feel that the Moon, the Sun, the planets do have a correlation with how we live....if the Moon is known to affect the tidal currents and our bodies have a large percentage of water in them, how one may NOT think that they do play a significant part of our being is beyond me.
So from time to time I will post excerpts of my horoscope for the generality and moral message of wisdom it may share, this particular one is by Rob Brezsny and his website is http://www.freewillastrology.com/horoscopes/allsigns.html and I really enjoy his style of interpretation and his approach in it's deliverance.
"Philosopher David Pearce is committed to the abolition of suffering. While he acknowledges that we've got a long way to go before accomplishing that goal, he believes it's possible, mostly with the help of technology. More than two millennia ago, Buddha also articulated a vision for the cessation of suffering. His methods revolve around psychological and spiritual work. In light of your current astrological omens, Aries, I think it's an excellent time to contribute to this noble enterprise. Your level of suffering is rather low these days, which could give you a natural boost if you set in motion some long-term strategies for reducing the pain that you experience and the pain that you cause."
Now David Pearce is a British philosopher of the negative utilitarian school of ethics. He believes and promotes the idea that there exists a strong ethical imperative for humans to work towards the abolition of suffering in all sentient life.
His book-length internet manifesto The Hedonistic Imperative details how he believes the abolition of suffering can be accomplished through "paradise engineering". In The Hedonistic Imperative, Pearce outlines how technologies such as genetic engineering, nanotechnology, pharmacology, and neurosurgery could potentially converge to eliminate all forms of unpleasant experience in human life and produce a posthuman civilization.
Pearce co-founded the World Trans-humanist Association (which has since changed its name to Humanity+) with Nick Bostrom, a fellow Oxford philosopher. Humanity+ advocates transhumanism, an ideology and movement which has emerged to support the recognition and protection of the right of citizens either to maintain or modify their own minds and bodies so as to guarantee them the freedom of choice and informed consent of using human enhancement technologies on themselves and their children.
And to learn more about this gentleman you can go to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Pearce_(philosopher)
May these thoughts and points of possible ways to reference Life and our existence in it help guide all who chose to search for those answers they may need for questions about what this Life is really and truly about.....I know in my soul it is more than just working a 9-5 job as a monkey for a boss/corporation/company that pays us peanuts for our hard and sweaty dance we give while they truly benefit for all that we do, as they continue to turn the crank of that machine that forces us to need that green in order to sustain a roof over our heads, food in our bellies, and clothes on our backs.
For one thing, Monkeys DO NOT NEED PEANUTS, they need freenanas....which is my term for bananas, because as far as I can see they have not been banned yet. It has been documented that 2 freenanas have enough potassium in them to snap someone out of a depression or as I care to call those moments an unhappiness. I also care to use the phrase "nervous breakups" instead of "nervous breakdowns"....personally, the few times in my Life I feel like I was having one of those moments the end result seemed to actually break everything up that was keeping or dragging me down. To be or not to be the Monkey is the question one must ask themselves, in this constant evolution of our genetic revolution on this planet will we make it to the next level...will we attain Heaven, cause this reality we live in now cannot be it....nor can it be limbo. Heaven and Limbo, to my researched knowledge do not have pain, suffering, cancer, fear, death, hate or any other type of thing that may suppress one from a higher level of consciousness....so this must be Hell with only glimpses of Nirvana.
They choice is ALWAYS yours to make, there is three sides to every coin, the heads, the tails, and where the two meet....the edge, and this IS where you will always find me. I believe I am part of generation "Y" and not generation "X", the "X" resembles to close to a target I care not to wear on my back....but I will constantly question everything and myself until I learn different.
