Thanks Horse... I appreciate your words! On Sat, May 11, 2013 at 3:26 AM, Horse <[email protected]> wrote:
> Nice one Dan :) > > Horse > > > On 11/05/2013 08:06, Dan Glover wrote: > >> One day we'll wake up and there won't be anymore time to do the things we >> dreamed of doing. We'll rationalize how the world is too big and we're way >> too small to effect any change in it whatsoever. We'll believe in the >> immutability of it all, that no matter how we try we cannot change that >> which is apart and separate from us. As we slip backwards down that tunnel >> of death and as the darkness engulfs our senses we might hear the muffled >> laughter of the gods echoing through eternity. If we are lucky we might >> have a split second to wonder: why is it they laugh? >> >> Perhaps they laugh because we believe in what we are taught, never pausing >> so much as a second to question the validity of a world chuck full of >> objects awaiting our discovery of them, of never testing the limits of the >> laws governing a universe that is said to have existed long before we >> became aware of it and which will continue to exist long after we part >> ways, of believing so completely in the infallibility of human knowledge >> that we never took a moment to challenge the orthodoxy that declares we as >> observers of creation can never be part of that creation and bend it to >> our >> own will. >> >> Most of us will die never realizing the grandeur of the human condition. >> Instead we will on our deathbed bemoan our fate as if all this is >> preordained, as if we have no choice but to follow the dictates laid out >> for us by our well-meaning family and friends who by their love and in >> their fear keep us in place, hold us imprisoned in the invisible walls of >> a >> cell created just for us. Should we make even a hint of a move to break >> out >> of the security that these walls offer we will be gently chastised; should >> we persist we may well be labeled incorrigible; there are drugs >> specifically made to deal with such folk that are deemed much more humane >> than the insane asylums of years past. >> >> We will never find a choice by following the static quality patterns set >> in >> place which are meant to guide us into leading a good and productive life >> even if it means we must give up on who we are and what we might become. >> Until we disenthrall our very being from the incessant influence of those >> naysayers who urge us to give up and accept our destiny we will be >> half-dead already. The Giant will drink our blood and nosh our bones and >> shit us out when it is finished with us to take another bite of those >> young >> and strong like we once were. >> >> One day we'll wake up and realize the choices we had were never between >> this and that. By then it may well be too late. The icy hands of death >> will >> be clawing at our throats seeking to silence any hint of revelation that >> may be blossoming only to fade into that final breath. But I thought I had >> more time, we might think, as we recall all those days we spent ensnared >> in >> the clutches of untruths and misunderstandings that only served to lead us >> to this inevitable point. We will have spent a lifetime telling ourselves >> what we cannot do and what we could have done if only we had the courage >> to >> step outside the norm. >> >> It's time to wake up now. >> >> http://www.danglover.com >> Moq_Discuss mailing list >> Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/**listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-**moqtalk.org<http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org> >> Archives: >> http://lists.moqtalk.org/**pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.**org/<http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/> >> http://moq.org/md/archives.**html <http://moq.org/md/archives.html> >> >> > -- > > "Without music to decorate it, time is just a bunch of boring production > deadlines or dates by which bills must be paid." > — Frank Zappa > > http://www.danglover.com Moq_Discuss mailing list Listinfo, Unsubscribing etc. http://lists.moqtalk.org/listinfo.cgi/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org Archives: http://lists.moqtalk.org/pipermail/moq_discuss-moqtalk.org/ http://moq.org/md/archives.html
