Gary's Corner

[Gary Childress]

Sometimes I actually feel happy. But then I think more about it and realize that there is nothing to be happy about except that I am not suffering. And unlike happiness, there is always something to suffer about, if we put our minds to it.

[Gary Childress]

How does one get rid of the "I'm a lab rat stuck in a maze" feeling that one may sometimes get from technology? I feel like technology manipulates me as much as I manipulate it.

[Impenitent]

if you don't want to be a rat, be the big cheese...

-Imp

[Gary Childress]

if you don't want to be a rat, be the big cheese...

-Imp

Makes sense. I wonder if the moon was made of envious cheese.

[Gary Childress]

Sometimes it seems like all religions are born in hierarchy. Jesus' answer to hierarchy was to say that the least are the most and the most are the least. As Jesus is reputed to have said: "the greatest among you will be your servant," I suppose that's why Nietzsche called Christianity a "slave" religion. But was Nietzsche mocking Christianity, or was Nietzsche telling the truth?

Did God create humans as hierarchical creatures? Yet another mistake God made in his creation: endless strife.

[Gary Childress]

But the highest insult is to believe that God made 'mistakes'. And that is sacrilege.

[Gary Childress]

With Buddhism, on the other hand, everyone is a deity; everyone is 'sacred'.

[Gary Childress]

Maybe that's why there is Zen Buddhism, mockery from the plebians.

[Gary Childress]

Every 'solution' to hierarchy has its Achilles' heel. There are flaws in everything except God him or herself. The world is a shitfest.

[Gary Childress]

And Noam Chomsky became an 'authority' on Anarchism. What he says goes, the overthrow of Western Civilization.

[Gary Childress]

Anarchy for the sake of anarchy is ultimately the slave's answer.

[Gary Childress]

It's all about who makes the decisions.

[Gary Childress]

But are all decision-makers wrong any more than all decision-makers are right?

[Gary Childress]

We should help one another and save our world from disaster. Only the wrong would mock such a goal.

[Gary Childress]

Unless, of course, the privileged aren't working efficiently toward the goal.