Thursday, September 25, 2008

Things you wouldn’t understand...

Things you couldn't understand....
THINGS... you *SHOULDN'T* understand.....

lol!

One of the greatest movies! And Tim Burton's first....I forgot how great this was (and all the innuendos that you only understand as an adult!) haha.


good times


Watch this too...
Pee Wee goes to Sturgis:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AupJgJGOa_s


Monday, September 15, 2008

Have we failed evolution?

We are now faced with a responsibility to be more than what our past generations expected of us. We have the opportunity to move past racism, move past Christianity ruling over everything (and using it as a brand name), to further evolution and change the world. Will we do it? Or will fear hold us back?  Have we failed evolution?

Let me share a few words from the wise Carl Jung (from his book Modern Man in Search of a Soul, published in 1933)...
"Today" stands between "yesterday" and "tomorrow", and forms a link between past and future; it has no other meaning. The present represents a process of transition, and that man may account himself modern who is conscious of it in this sense.
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Every good quality has its bad side, and nothing that is good can come into the world without directly producing a corresponding evil. This is a painful fact. Now there is the danger that consciousness of the present may lead to an elation based upon illusion: the illusion, namely, that we are the culmination of the history of mankind, the fulfillment and the end-product of countless centuries. If we grant this, we should understand that it is no more than the proud acknowledgement of our destitution: we are also the disappointment of the hopes and expectations of the ages. Think of nearly two thousand years of Christian ideals followed, instead of by the return of the Messiah and the heavenly millennium, by the World War among Christian nations and its barbed-wire and poison-gas. What a catastrophe in heaven and on earth!
In the face of such a picture we may well grow humble again. It is true that modern man is a culmination, but tomorrow he will be surpassed; he is indeed the end-product of an age-old development, but he is at the same time the worst conceivable disappointment of the hopes of humankind. The modern man is aware of this. He has seen how beneficent are science, technology and organization, but also how catastrophic they can be. He has likewise seen that well-meaning governments have so thoroughly paved the way for peace on the principle "in time of peace prepare for war," that Europe has nearly gone to rack and ruin. And as for ideals, the Christian church, the brotherhood of man, international social democracy and the "solidarity" of economic interests have all failed to stand the baptism of fire--the test of reality. Today, fifteen years after the war, we observe once more the same optimism, the same organization, the same political aspirations, the same phrases and catch-words at work. How can we but fear that they will inevitably lead to further catastrophes? Agreements to outlaw war leave us skeptical, even while we wish them all possible success. At bottom, behind every such palliative measure, there is a gnawing doubt. On the whole, I believe I am not exaggerating when I say that modern man has suffered an almost fatal shock, psychologically speaking, and as a result has fallen into profound uncertainty.