A Mad World, My Masters

[poliphilo]

The world likes to oblige us.

It shapes itself as best it can to our perceptions of it.

When I was doing Wicca the world obliged me with low-grade magic- synchronicities, amazing coincidences, omens and the like.

Now I'm no longer doing Wicca the world has settled down quite a bit. It conforms to the views of the middle-aged rationalist it thinks I've become.

But I'm not fooled. I know just know how giddy it can be.

Comments

[archyena.livejournal.com]

I've long held that we created the world, not the other way around, in order to escape boredom. It conforms to our wishes and that is why we have time, death, life, everything. When you think about it, if everything really is part of some indelible oneness, how boring is that? Best to craft an interesting lie.

[aftertorless.livejournal.com]

When you think about it, if everything really is part of some indelible oneness, how boring is that? Best to craft an interesting lie.

These two sentences made my lips stretch into a wide, wry smile. Bravo.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We all create our own version of the world- and these versions knock against one another and abrade and fit together and together create a commonly accepted "reality". Occasionally someone with a really powerful imagination comes along and changes "reality" for us all- someone like Einstein or Hitler or Stephen Spielberg...