old cars and people

Your body gets like an old car when you get older. It gets harder and harder to maintain it. Parts keep breaking more and more often and something starts rattling and oozing over here and that wears out over there and it takes more and more time and effort to maintain it but maintain we must until the end of the road.

The lost age of Aquarius

“Tune in, turn on and drop out”. We thought we had found a new world, a new way of living where the old fell away and the new unexplored universe lay before us in the age of Aquarius. In the end, it turned out to be a dead end, because we still had to raise our crops in the fields, build our shelters, raise our children and clothe ourselves to stay alive. Reality set in. Reality struck down the age of Aquarius.

The cultural collision singularity

We are at a unique point in human history on this planet. It is the collision of cultures. Not just the increasing interaction of cultures, but the head-on collision of cultures where everything breaks into a million billion smithereens. The instant worldwide interaction and communication of the internet has brought us to this singularity. The irresistible force has met the unmovable object. Marilyn Vos Savant once answered a question about what happens when an irresistible force meets an unmovable object. She responded “I think something new is created.” I like that.i

Synchronicity

For any given 24 hour period the chances of you looking at your digital clock and seeing 11:11 is one in 720. So, if you glance at your clock a hundred times per day your chances are pretty good of seeing that number in a weeks time (or any other random time you pick, such as 4:20 or 3:14 etc.)