Infinity in the palm of your hand....

Guten Morgen, fair friends list. =)

Well, the chaos that was this year's Christmas is now over and gone, and the year is about to slip away into... well, yeah. Next Year. It seems so strange that 2011 begins tomorrow. Even stranger when you see all of those over-the-top doomsday prophecies about the world ending in 2012, or some huge change of... something that is never quite defined... looming around that very specific date.

While I'm not going to say that I think it's impossible that anything will happen on or around December 21, 2012, I will say that I have my doubts. How many other "doomsdays" came and went without a hitch? And change? Change will come whether it's prophesied or not. It's the nature of the universe. Seasons, cycles. Shifts. Our species cannot sustain itself given the current population, lifestyles, and general attitude of the majority of its members. That doesn't mean extinction (necessarily), but it does mean that something "breaking" is rather inevitable.

I know I can't say much. I'm caught up in the torrential flood of society's traps as much as anyone, though I've made some effort to break free of it, in some ways. I seem to walk the cusp of society, really, the hairline edge between the modern rat race and overflowing urban life and clock-watching (I do my fair share of the latter, for certain), and a life of connection and immersion in nature, the universe, the deeper aspects of life. My ability to take in all these things, to touch that world just beneath the surface, is so small almost to be not worth mentioning, but it's still a large part of my life, because I feel it to be important. We are all interconnected, all a part of a larger whole. Our footprints do echo in eternity.

When I get to talking about these things, I always think of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:
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Infinity in the palm of your hand....

Guten Morgen, fair friends list. =)

Well, the chaos that was this year's Christmas is now over and gone, and the year is about to slip away into... well, yeah. Next Year. It seems so strange that 2011 begins tomorrow. Even stranger when you see all of those over-the-top doomsday prophecies about the world ending in 2012, or some huge change of... something that is never quite defined... looming around that very specific date.

While I'm not going to say that I think it's impossible that anything will happen on or around December 21, 2012, I will say that I have my doubts. How many other "doomsdays" came and went without a hitch? And change? Change will come whether it's prophesied or not. It's the nature of the universe. Seasons, cycles. Shifts. Our species cannot sustain itself given the current population, lifestyles, and general attitude of the majority of its members. That doesn't mean extinction (necessarily), but it does mean that something "breaking" is rather inevitable.

I know I can't say much. I'm caught up in the torrential flood of society's traps as much as anyone, though I've made some effort to break free of it, in some ways. I seem to walk the cusp of society, really, the hairline edge between the modern rat race and overflowing urban life and clock-watching (I do my fair share of the latter, for certain), and a life of connection and immersion in nature, the universe, the deeper aspects of life. My ability to take in all these things, to touch that world just beneath the surface, is so small almost to be not worth mentioning, but it's still a large part of my life, because I feel it to be important. We are all interconnected, all a part of a larger whole. Our footprints do echo in eternity.

When I get to talking about these things, I always think of William Blake's Auguries of Innocence:
( Read more... )