Friday, June 22, 2012

Waking Up


I woke up this morning and all of my stuff had been stolen and replaced by exact duplicates." Steven Wright.

Since its strikes me as significant that the only law that continues to have unending effect in all of our lives, performing without exception, is change.  Wouldn't it make sense that when we wake up, everything has changed?  But, but, but what about everything around me?  My situation?  Nothing has really changed that I can see.  A Momento Mori (wake up call) 
Ah,
what can be seen? 
It's been shown that our vision is a function of sensory input striking light sensitive nerve endings on the optic nerve that then travel to the brain...never to be seen again, (rim shot).  Point being, we interpret what our senses experience.
We then attempt to make sense by comparing and contrasting what we have experienced, what we know as it were, by current events.  Nothing happens the same way twice, (in that snowflake sort of reasoning).
So then
Are we conditioned to be unconsciously recreating our situations in hopes of understanding the present situation by dredging up past ones? All along wishing for different results? 
   Albert Einstein said that's the definition of insanity...or was it that continuing to ask for someone at a crowded Thanksgiving table to pass the salt was insane?  Albert, as with all Albert's, tended to be a rather impatient, easily annoyed, and odd social fellow don't you know.

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