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Who Hijacked Reality / #512 Were all swimming in the same river.

Monday, July 25th, 2011

 

 

Journal Entry #512

July 25th, 2011

During a conversation on Face Book I had today about guessing a quote form a movie which I got right. It was from “Idiocracy” one of my favourite movies this conversation followed which in turn inspired this post as I got thinking about the analogy I presented.

Person………….Ok Gary, you’re part of the in-crowd. ;)

Gary David Currie………….. Oh no that means I have to change again as I am always swimming against the stream.

Person………….No you don’t, cause I swim against the stream most of the time too.

Gary David Currie……….. Excellent I guess we are just on different parts of the river.

Person…. Great analogy.

Gary David Currie….. Thanks I do try..

So if we go with this analogy that “we are all swimming in the same river” where will it take us?

So I would say that we all start off in the ocean of life and we are trying to get to the source which is of course upstream. Now sometimes the river runs slow and smooth and other times it is rough and fast. When it is easy to swim we are all there and it will be crowded. When it gets tough the crowd thins out. At this point many will take to the safety of the banks in the comfort of others. There they will usually stay having made their decisions never seeking what is upriver as the journey will be long and full of danger.

Few will continue to brave on seeking the source to find out where it all began not believing they know but earnestly wanting to find the truth. Along the way they will be tired, hungry and some will fall to the safety of the riverbank forming smaller communities giving up on the true source of the river.

There will always be those along the riverbank telling them to come to the safety of the banks along the way but as the many have become the few the few will become even fewer. They will seek comfort in those who are still left but also in the fact that they know they have not given up and that the river must end at some point. What waits after this is part of the mystery.

The hardest part about swimming upstream is that you are constantly going against the flow but one also realizes that this is the only way to get to the source. If you stop for just one moment and rest or try to coast the river will bring you back towards the ocean where all the rest have settled. Sure giving up will seem easier but then if you ever want to find out the truth you will have to regain all the ground you have lost from going downstream.

Is this the perfect analogy for the quests we seek in life, probably not but I think it is right up there as a good one.

Personally I have always had a hard time just coasting downstream because being so far from the source of truth one can never really experience what truth truly is. Imagine if everyone was trying to swim upstream and we all helped each other. It would be much easier for us all.

Life is the river and where you want to settle on the banks will determine how close you get to the truth to the source of life.

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

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Who Hijacked Reality / #511 Emotional appeals

Sunday, July 24th, 2011

 

 

Journal Entry #511

July 24th, 2011

We are slaves to our emotions. I do believe there is little doubt about this. The range of emotions we have access to is astounding. I would say all that we do is linked to our emotions. Our emotions have lead to our greatest and our worst moments.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_emotions List of emotions

There are 8 basic emotions;

Basic emotion        Basic opposite

Joy                                  Sadness

Trust                                Disgust

Fear                                 Anger

Surprise                          Anticipation

Sadness                           Joy

Disgust                           Trust

Anger                               Fear

Anticipation                  Surprise

Where does reason fit in on this emotional scale? It is not considered an emotion but a process in which we make sense of this existence. When we completely give in to our emotions in their purest form we stray away from reason and rational thought and yet it is rational thought that allows us to continue to evolve.

There is no escaping our emotional life’s so it is important to embrace what you are emotionally capable off while applying a sound balance of rational thinking along side.

When I write both my music and lyrics of the songs we do or if I am just playing it is my emotions that propel the logical side of music to allow a connection whether it be to myself or to others. It is my intent that gives the logical patterns in music and life their beauty and their ugliness.

How we view this existence, this world and this universe will depend on our emotional choices. Some are deliberate while others are instinctual, some we recognize and others we are baffled by.

My point is this; remember to have a healthy balance in your life guided by your emotions based on reason. If the balance is off then your balance will be off, so base your beliefs on reality not completely guided by your emotions. Emotional appeals have their place but when the decisions you make are fuelled by them well the results will unpredictable.

When the faithful talk with me it usually boils down to an emotional appeal which is not necessary if what they profess is actually true. I do believe they are completely guided by their emotions and all logic and reason have been twisted. They believe I am devoid of emotion which is of course not only silly but impossible unless I am catatonic.

Learn what you emotions can do for you and use them to your advantage but do not let them rules your life.

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

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Who Hijacked Reality / #510 Looking beyond our own backyard.

Saturday, July 23rd, 2011

 

 

Journal Entry #510

July 24th, 2011

We live in an age where we are connected to the world. Now of course our connection depends on so many things such as the availability of the information, the validity of the information and our desire to seek it in the first place. There is no need to tell you all the sources that we use to get this information as you are probably well aware of them.


Let’s think back though at least 1,000 years and how we were connected to the world then or rather what world we were connected to, word of mouth for the vast majority of humanity with most not being educated. Basically we were concerned with what was going on in our own backyard. Has this really changed?

I don’t think it has. We have so much information available to us to learn about so many things and to inform of us of the daily events around the globe. Imagine this a 1,000 years ago to be informed of the global perspective.  Still all we are really concerned about is our immediate lives.  I do believe it can be no other way but what we can do is expand the influence of our immediate lives which I see some doing. 

Are the problems we deal with on a daily basis that different from 1,000 years ago? Again I say not really. Have we learned to approach things differently? Again I will say not really and that is the shame that we do not learn from our past.

Can we look beyond our own backyard? No but what we can do is envision our backyard on a scale never before seen. My backyard is the planet and while I cannot as it is impossible be concerned with everything on this planet I can think on a global perspective as well as my immediate daily life.

Will what I do make much of a difference in the scope of life on this planet? Probably not but there is a chance and I am willing to take this chance. I am now able to speak to billions of people instead of 100’s or 1,000’s. Those willing to listen will hear me as they will hear you so I would hope we think very carefully about what it is we are saying.

As I now can see it possible to reach millions if not billions I will speak as if I am.

I have gone beyond the fence in my backyard and the fence of my neighbours. I have traveled if not literally then through my words around the globe and will continue to do so. In looking beyond my backyard I want o make sure that what I am saying is actually true as my words may live forever.

So many voices all concerned about their own immediate backyards but we must look beyond our backyard as we can impact the world.

If I appear to be a bit narcissistic and lacking in humbleness I do apologize but I want my words, my music and my art to reach the world as this is how I look beyond my backyard. We must talk with each other, we must communicate respectfully and we must touch an emotional response in each other as this is how we care about the world around us.

I realize we all have opinions and different views on this experience we call life and I am glad for that but there are truths that we spend so much time disagreeing on that are so harmful in nature and this we must stop. I have talked about many of them in my blog posts and if we are willing to look beyond our own backyard, to expand our limitations then many of these issues will be easily settled.

My goal is to build bridges and tear down fences that limit us to our little backyards, what is yours?

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

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Who Hijacked Reality / #509 Time, you can’t see it but you know it is real.

Friday, July 22nd, 2011

 

 

Journal Entry #509

July 22nd, 2011

Time, what is it?

Typed in Google;

The indefinite continued progress of existence and events in the past, present, and future regarded as a whole.

How do we know time is real? I often hear believers in god say to me as proof that god exists that I can’t prove love or pain and yet we know they exist and I would also put time in with these examples but of course we can prove it.

How do we fit into time? Good question right. It is just part of our life, part of the universe that we must contend with, we must acknowledge. We have no control over it. Time is what takes us from moment to moment otherwise nothing would exist as nothing would be able to advance which is crucial to existence.

It is a constant in this universe and no matter what you do you cannot avoid it. When we look at time on different scales it takes on different importance but what we are really concerned about is the time we each have on this planet. We realize quickly as we have advanced to the point of understanding the concept of time that we really don’t have much time. It is the most precious thing we deal with. The older we get the more value we place on it. Time is the great equalizer as we all exist in the same time.

Can we waste time? No but we can waste what we do with the time we have and we are exceptionally good at this. How do we solve this problem? Easy we create fantasies that we trick ourselves into thinking will give us more time, in fact infinite an infinite amount.

We do not learn from our time already spent  and continue to engage in wishful thinking about time. You will do with your time what you chose to and I have no say in this but it is beyond me why people continue to spend their time imagining that they have more time as that is what religion and gods are really about.

These fantasies are always trying to beat the universe which is just ridiculous. The universe doesn’t really care about us only we do. The Earth will continue to do what the Earth will do until it stops and we are just a blip in its time.

I suggest we make better use of the time we have here to further the betterment of mankind to bring about the best possible happiness of all of us instead of the moving towards the worst possible misery.

Personally I think the beat thing we can do to kick start this is to stop believing in silly fantasies such as gods.

 
If you ask the vast majority of scientists, intellectuals and academics about their belief in god or religion they will say that they really don’t give it a second thought. This should tell you something as you don’t give a second thought to fairies and pixies.

httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yjP2XAJfaY&feature=youtu.be

50 Renowned Academics Speaking About God

These are the people we should be listening to not the ones who profess to be connected with god.

Time will march on and we as a species can change how we spend the little time we have on this fantastic planet. The first step is to acknowledge what is actually true instead of following what is obviously not.

Time is real so stop trying to beat time and just enjoy time.

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

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Who Hijacked Reality / #506 Rinpoche a Tibetan Buddhist honour or just more religious nonsense?

Tuesday, July 19th, 2011

 

 

Journal Entry #506

July 19th, 2011

I heard a rerun of a documentary from October 2010 today on CBC Radio Canada today that once again affirmed to me the need to address why religion is not only delusional but harmful.

What exactly is a Rinpoche? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rinpoche

It literally means “precious one.

Here is the link to the article and the audio of the broadcast.

Day 6 Documentary: Very Precious Thing

http://www.cbc.ca/day6/add-category/documentary/2010/10/27/day-6-documentary-very-precious-thing

So basically the story was about a Toronto Family whose child was deemed to be a reincarnated high ranking Lama as this is part of the Buddhist faith. So once the child is identified by whatever means they do it the child is then taken away from the family forever to become a monk and fulfill his duties as the reincarnated Lama. This is the short version but I think this pretty much sums it up as everything else will just be filler.

First let me clarify that people have the right to practise their chosen religion and I am not advocating taking away their right to this. I do however deem it important to speak up when I see these practises as harmful and I will challenge the claim especially when it has no basis in reality. I don’t really care how you dress it up if there is no evidence to back it up and it does not fit into how the real world works then it probably is not true.

Now that I have that out of the way… WHAT A PILE OF SHIT / OF NONSESNE that is truly harmful. Where do I begin?

First of all who gives someone the right to think they can take someones child away from even if they do give them permission for such an idiotic reason. As a parent I don’t care what you tell me about my child your not touching him. You can say he is the chosen one, the most important child to ever live to the savoir of mankind, until he /she is old enough to make their own decisions you can go fuck yourself. I am shocked that any parent would allow their child to be taken away. I realize this is part of their culture but really it is a very stupid part of their culture.

To me this was the obvious now let’s address the rest of the issues presented here.

Reincarnation has no basis in reality and the logistics that would bring this about defy all the known laws of the universe so unless you have some magic up your sleeve to provide evidence for this  and I do mean good , credible , verifiable evidence then it is just nonsense that people buy into for some measure of immortality. The same nonsense in most religions, somehow you’re going to live forever, please this is just plain stupid to believe in. Great for movies and fantasy stories but reality does not work that way. I don’t care what reason or excuse you’re going to throw out if you believe in this if you don’t have any evidence then your just deluding yourself to be blunt.

What kind of a faith thinks that only certain people are special and that everyone else are below these chosen individuals? Wait a minute I think this is a common theme in all faiths. Who or what decides this determination of being special? What if the person does not want this special designation that is basically forced on them?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/31/dalai-lama-osel-hita-torres  Boy chosen by Dalai Lama turns back on Buddhist order.

This is just more religious nonsense that people accept as true when there is no verifiable evidence to back it up in any way. I don’t really care how long these ideas and concepts have been around they are based on lies that we now know  better to not think of as true in this modern world.

Sure every religion has its message of peace and oneness and I am all for that so just stick with that and stay awy from all the supernatural nonsense that so many cannot seem to let go of.

Of course if you have reincarnation then you have to have a soul to be reincarnated, another concept with no evidence. So let me ask you this if you believe in reincarnation; if I am the reincarnation of someone then I am not really me am I? My life is not my own as I must have this other life as part of me. How does that work? After how many lives of being reincarnated do you border on multiple personality disorder?

Look anytime you try and fit anything based in fantasy into reality it just never works and that is when the crazy stuff gets crazier as you start to have to make up more crazy stuff to answer the initial crazy stuff. Crazy, right? So here is an idea, how about you start of in a basis of reality a basis of truth and then you will continue along the path of truth.

By the way how come all the chosen ones are never white rednecks living in Kentucky to become Lamas?

I think I have pretty much heard most of the excuses as to why I don’t understand any of these beliefs and none of them make any sense.


I urge Phuntsok ( The Father) to go get Gonpo ( The son) back from the monks and let him enjoy his life. If he wants to chose this path later then so be it but right now he should be with his family. His sister was heartbroken as she should be when a member of your family is torn away from you. This is how religions are harmful when they follow stupid ideologies that make no sense in the real world.  Imagine if a government agency stopped at your house told you they needed your child for a very special project and that he would not be returning home, would you let him go? So what is the difference here?

PHUNTSOK go get your son back before it is too late. It is not an honour it is a crime..

Seek the truth always

Gary David Currie

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