@citizenschallengev3 - The magic of innocence is absolutely awesome in an infant – but for christ sake we all grow up, or we lay in a bed and are called vegetables.
@sree - I never liked going to school. Education deforms the mind turning it into a tool, a coarse implement be it a ploughshare or a violin. I would rather lay in bed, at least past noon, than toil for my daily bread.
@citizenschallengev3 - Okay so sree loves ignorance. Why should I be surprised? Lordie knows he embraces it enough.
@sree - I said “innocence”. Don’t equate that with ignorance which is a state of those who do not know, crave to know but will never be able to know. What they have is knowledge, something made out of nothing, make beliefs about everything. Innocence is a state of non-defilement when the mind is true.
@citizenschallengev3 - none of this is funny, when I think of the speed at which we are destroying ourselves on every level – and sree is the poster child for the thinking that has brought us all to this point.
@sree - No, not me but the likes of you, those who know, that have been bringing about destruction. It is you who have the knowledge that enables you to do this and do that until this God-given paradise is all messed up. Don’t blame the innocent – the squirrel, the bird, and me.
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I never liked going to school.
Well you know, I didn't like school either, I wasn't a great student, had curious strengths and some glaring weaknesses - but to me it seems silly to simply blame the school, without also looking at myself and the attitudes I possessed. It's a dance, we interact, we are an active part of our fate.
Putting all the blame on the school, gives you a free pass and lends to this odd sense of unearned superiority you possess.
"I would rather lay in bed, at least past noon, than toil for my daily bread."
Poetry, but rather disconnected - although if mixing dough and cleaning out the ovens is all you're capable of, so be it. Especially if that's all you aspire to. It's all good.
but . . .
Don’t equate that with ignorance which is a state of those who do not know, crave to know but will never be able to know.
Why not? Poetry aside, innocence certainly does connote a certain ignorance.
Oh and don’t you know that in this real physical world if ‘innocence’ is not being protected by parents or others (with an informed developed mind), innocence get’s demolished in our harsh world full of predators and parasites.
Innocence is a state of non-defilement when the mind is true.
Oh lordie, lordie you are a card. When the mind is "true"? What the fart is that supposed to even mean. What pray tell is a true mind? An undeveloped mind. What in god's name makes that "true"???
Back to the real world, the innocence of young teenage girl is a beauty and wonder to behold, but that same innocence in a twenties or thirties is a scary thing.
No, not me but the likes of you, those who know, that have been bringing about destruction. It is you who have the knowledge that enables you to do this and do that until this God-given paradise is all messed up.
Well you got me there, don't you? But, but, guns don't kill people, someone's finger pulling the trigger kills people.
In my vision of a sane world, it’s not the curiosity, honing one’s observation skills, and sating that thirst for better understanding, that’s the bad element.
It’s the elevating one’s EGO to God Status, that’s were all our really bad problems started. You know, despotic leaders calling themselves ‘god ordained’ when not actual “god,” that creating monstrous realities for most the people, while pursuing short term glory for themselves.
In fact, it’s sree’s easy embrace and glorification of Willful Ignorance, (multiplied by millions of intellectually morally lazy Americans, it has lead to a democracy sans the informed engaged electorate needed for a democracy to survive.) that creates the conditions for run amok self-destructive bullies to take over, dominate, party and destroy. Just as we are witnessing on the news nightly.
