God Found!

In the lion king. I love these songs.

Music and Laughter don't have to mean anything to give us pleasure.

John Cage!

BEING ZEN???

The Inconvenient Messiah- Jeffery R. Holland

Digital Detachment and Personal Revelation

I must say that ever since I was young I have taken a liking to new technologies. I do feel the little pangs of needing to check my facebook and email as if it was a drug and I need my hourly fix. I used to think I didn't need a cell phone, but then I got so out of the loop, it is now necessary. I wonder how the economy would change if people weren't paying for so many electric services- phones, cable, games... how they might entertain themselves. I wonder if people would be more active and healthy. Self awareness isn't so common... just like common sense. Even with all the information at everyone's fingertips, I don't think that anyone really gets the idea. I don't think we are smarter. We don't really learn as much anymore because we have machines that can do things for us... and in turn, in order to still have jobs as humans, we work to service the machines. Do we depend on machines now? Even as I sit here, I feel like a hypocrite. I'm sure this is why my handwriting stinks. I never take the time out to sit and write on paper. My excuse? time convenience, saving paper, and maybe learning how to spell better. But am I wasting more energy than necessary? I don't know.

I do like being outside, but I'm not an extreme outdoorsy person. Maybe its because I wasn't taught so much to appreciate nature. I do though. And I think John Cage has a really good point that might change my attitude towards 20th century music. He is taking a zen/ quantum physics approach to things. Why things are the way they are... they were meant to be that way so why try to impose your will on it? Why try to make rules out of nature? Nature has no rules... as far as we understand. There are trends, but how often are forecasts 100% correct? Really, that is impossible. Just like perfection. Perfection though is an ideal... when really, we could be perfect right now. Check out some of these vids: