Monday, August 9, 2021

Nagasaki

 


Credit...Yasuo Tomishige/The Asahi Shimbun, via Getty Images

8 comments:

  1. Thank you thank you for your
    very good article about the A-bomb -
    Bob Oppenheimer upon its successful test
    and realizing the potential of the bomb proclaimed
    - I am now become death destroyer of worlds –
    a passage from the Indian Gita
    The human condition is a very very sick a
    condition so far history has not as yet found a remedy-
    there is no cure for doing war and hatred and perhaps
    the best thing that could happen is that humanity become extinct
    yet there is kindness -

    Happy blessings _____________________

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    1. greetings (and blessings), bob.

      I just finished reading Richard Powers' book, "The Overstory" about climate change, the human condition, etc.

      He implies that what we have to do is NOTHING, and the earth (and humanity) will heal itself. Learn STILLNESS. This whole phenomena of "consciousness" aware of itself has caused a lot of anxiety and destruction.

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    2. STILLNESS is, in fact, a great leap of consciousness, imo.

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    3. hello hello -
      Well that's interesting do nothing
      and all is going ok may be smoke a little stuff
      did the hippies get it right after all - i think i am going
      to start letting my hair grow i got some old flowers
      of some time ago i been saving - happy happy -

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    4. yess yess
      i just dont think you can become enlightened by just sitting or going to a church -how would one realize
      stillness with ought becoming consciousness of it -
      Blessings


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    5. Merton says in Conjectures that when a fruit becomes ripe it falls off the tree simply because there is nothing else to do. (I’m paraphrasing from memory, have to look up his exact words).

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    6. Merton says in Conjectures that when a fruit becomes ripe it falls off the tree simply because there is nothing else to do. (I’m paraphrasing from memory, have to look up his exact words).

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    7. ok ok got it __

      i grow tomatoes when they fall off the vine
      most are rotten rotten i guess you could say they
      are very very ripe and have no-thing to do --

      A-men I see that hand _______________________

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