One more death then Nirvana then death more one more death More death then Nirvana then death more one more death then Death then Nirvana then death more one more death then Nirvana Then Nirvana then death more one more death then Nirvana Nirvana then death more one more death then Nirvana
A picture, poem, thought, and dementor all in one!
Famed for a fault Shamed surely of shaken shafts Blamed by blasphemous boasts Damed dearly with dastardly deeds Smashed souls see in sight Silver slits solely promising Happy, healthy lives After an abrupt Loving life layed into lie Anewstart A newstart A new start Thisis This is This is a new start.
Pandemic as it may seem The night sky still gleams After the team Was rejected and deemed Hopeless
What are lights That go bright In the night Do they fight Wielding kites With only slight Being as they plight Or they bite At all in sight With great spite
Just what are Lights?
I just moved some old work here. I didn't like the name of my previous thread, so I made a new one. Please make suggestions, because I love others' input, unlike most people. If you have works that you'd like to share place them here.
Journal, still a no. I meant random-thought-thing literally. Something comes to my mind and I record it on here. Time consuming? I spend 20 minutes a day on here max. I was joking earlier. Besides, people tell me they like my stuff on here, it's all radical and very original they say.
Very original... It's good though. You gotta keep your mind loose. I haven't read many of your random things, but the ones I have... Well, there very random.
Is it good to be open minded? Most people assume that it is. However, there are differences in how the concept of an open mind is defined in practice. What many call an open mind is more like an uncovered cistern - easily contaminated by the germs of various bad ideas, mistaken beliefs and nonsense. And just as a person's body doesn't function as well drinking polluted water, a person's mind doesn't think as well when polluted with bad ideas.
You have probably met people who subscribe to this definition. They are proud of being open minded, but take this to mean a willingness to believe in almost anything. Such a person might read a book on creating reality through intention alone, and immediately adopt a belief in this. He or she may talk to the dead through mediums, call psychic advisors, and believe in alien abductions.
When I wrote about this before, I suggested that such beliefs were a sign of a gullible mind more than of an open mind. More than one person wrote to say it doesn't seem gullible to think that we're not alone in the universe. I had to agree. In fact, given the number of other stars that have other planets, it seems very likely that there are alien life forms out there. It's a matter of probability.
Notice, however, that being open to the likelihood of other life forms isn't the same as believing specific stories for which there is no good evidence. In fact, if we consider the number of reasonable explanations for events like the 1948 Roswell UFO incident, it seems very close-minded to ignore them in favor of less likely invented explanations which many people choose to believe. It seems more likely that theirs is a "need to believe" for reasons that have nothing to do with wanting the truth or having an open mind.
A Better Way To Be Open Minded
Here are a couple different dictionary definitions: 1. Receptive to new and different ideas or the opinions of others; 2. Not too narrow or conservative in one's thought, expression, or conduct. Now, that sounds like a reasonable person.
To be such an open minded person means to be "receptive" then, but not to automatically take to heart what we receive. Just as we can give any person we meet a chance and then choose not to invite him to our party, we don't have to entertain any idea regardless of merit. It is one thing to listen to a new idea, and quite another to embrace it.
I always love to read about the Amazing Randi, a magician who regularly proves psychics and others to be charlatans. For example, he has shown many audiences exactly how those who bend spoons with their minds do it - and it isn't by mind power alone. Interestingly, no matter how many times Randi uncovers the frauds, people still want to believe that some of these guys are using telekinesis to bend those spoons or move objects.
Early in life, Randi was placed in charge of a astrology column for a newspaper in Canada. He simply cut out and shuffled up old entries and pasted them onto the various signs randomly to create each days "readings." Nonetheless, readers thought he was right on in his astrological advice for them.
Now, many think it is simply being "open minded" to accept that people might bend spoons telekinetically, or that the "sychics" who write astrology columns are really tapping into some higher forces. But suppose at some point we learn the trick of "sychically" bending spoons, and read about the techniques of "cold reading" and other psychological tricks used to create astrology columns and "read minds?" Then what will we think?
At this point we learn who really has an open and active mind. Some people will continue to be "believers," but others will see that the more rational explanations make more sense. The latter is the healthier response. After all, once scientists showed that germs cause illness, a man who continued to believe it is caused by evil spirits would have been closed minded, not open minded, right? And while the consequences of such belief are clearer in such a case, there are always consequences to being closed minded.
Our minds can analyze various possible explanations for anything, and it is mentally healthy to consider many different possibilities - even new and radical ones. Creativity would be stifled without a broad-minded approach to things. But being open minded has to also mean being open to the possibility that the more interesting explanations, or the ones we would like to be true, may be the wrong ones. In other words, it has to allow for critical analysis as well.
With the proper definition then, being open minded is a good thing. It can even lead to questions like that posed in the title of this page.
Right from this article Just something for you to think about, plus it's a bit different from my usual radical poem.
Burn the cities Shoot the people Chop the trees Kill everyone Lives must be spared For revolution Clean the scum Change the minds Shift the world For the better Screw music Screw writing Screw protest Violence is our weapon.
I will climb I will run I will crawl I will walk I will swim At all cost I'll get there To happiness No conservation of energy Use it all Commutate with whoever for directions Talk with all Run across all mountains for it Ran across all Just to go, just to be, just to arrive With it With you I'm finally here I'm finally happy now Wait I'm not I'm still running I'll never arrive I'll die as I arrive A crippled old man Why start? You say
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