How Odd

[poliphilo]

I stepped into the front room last night- and there in the semi-dark- with the world outside all orange from the street lights- I thought, "How odd to be in this body,  on this patch of earth, surrounded by all this stuff I think of as mine!"

Comments

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean. Sometimes I look at the world and wonder how we got from a bare lump of volcanic rubble to roads and cars and supermarkets and trees and literature and this little creature made of meat that is me.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

And then there's the question of what comes next, given that this phase of our history- with roads and cars and supermarkets etc- like every other phase- is transitional.

[veronica-milvus.livejournal.com]

It's funny how many people think we have reached some kind of peak and now everything is about to crumble. I wonder if humankind has always been apocalyptic.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't know. The west has been in the grip of an apocalyptic religion for the past 2000 years- and it's marked even our secular thinking- but I'm not sure about other cultures. Are the Chinese fixated on the end of the world? I don't think they are.