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The operative word for this Thread and it's Posters en-total is BEWILDERMENT...your levels of conscious awareness about yourselves is dismal. there in lies those limitations in vision that I have been mentioning. Myopia...

Fact of life is that at the end of our day in the sun we die. So what in between becomes most important, wealth, fame, position and power? I would like to see anyone take it with them? Most I imagine at the end would trade it all to just enjoy having a glass of water.

I came to this ^^^ conclusion when I was 20 years old. So what becomes important in the face of it all. Our capacity to love and show kindness to others, for there go I.* So at 20 with a fierce determinism I set out down the road of self awareness, learning about myself and the human condition. In this ongoing endeavor of decades (which one might say is a life's work) I have been successful beyond my wildest dreams. I am astonished at what I know and can do now. So I have won no accolades or awards for achievements in this world, but I have peace of mind and can navigate any shoals with aplomb.

What men have to learn is that they have limitations in what they can do today (for we are not Gods) which does not mean that today's limitation is tomorrows as we continue to grow with experience over our lifetimes. Then another set of limitations is our life's circumstances. If a person is wheelchair bound he certainly is not going to be able to run a marathon no matter how hard they try. (A simple but poignant analogy). For example I have heard many people who lived through the Depression say that no matter how much you wanted to work there was no work to be had. That is a life circumstance beyond our control.


In this life we all have pain, loss, struggle, disappointment and sorrow ( we all know or will know someone who is no longer with us) . Needless to say we have our brighter moments as well...the trick is to know what is an internal causation of failure or success and what is an external causation or life's circumstances.


What I have been leading to as to the future of America is that if one path is blocked by circumstance another path must be found. A redefinition of what success in the world means, as the road of conspicuous consumption of economies of scale is being proved to be disastrous as the money and credit is running out for continuous expansion. The result is chaos and fragmentation as the system (mechanism) deflates and disintegrates. And no Trump determinism is going to bring Humpty Dumpty back, because the circumstances that set it in motion in the first place are now different. I find that most of the powers that be over the past 8 years are trying to resurrect what once was....as the old saying goes you can never go home as that place no longer exists in time and space.



* This is the sentiment that I expressed to the Priest (at the hospice where Sandy had just died) that made him cry. He said, "If only more people only understood that."