on 06-01-2023 12:43 PM
If you could choose what kind of world to live in, what kind of world would you choose? If you could decide what would happen tomorrow, with what kinds of things would you fill it?
If you had the power to decide what types of opportunities would come your way, what opportunities would you select? If you knew that your experiences would match your expectations, what would your expectations be?
In fact, you do have the power to choose your own way. You do have the ability to decide what kinds of events, experiences, opportunities and circumstances come your way.
The world you experience is the world that your dreams, your thoughts, your expectations and your actions most closely resonate. The world you see and live in is the world you most sincerely expect to see.
The universe is filled with endless possibilities, and those possibilities keep growing with every minute. The way you live determines which of those possibilities will come into your life.
With your thoughts, your actions, your values, your dreams and expectations, you choose what kind of world you live in. The way you live is closely mirrored in the world you see.
on 11-01-2023 04:07 PM
The Vatican is by no means ready cash strapped.
They've been tithing for centuries.
on 11-01-2023 04:59 PM
@imastawka wrote:@springyzone wrote:
The vatican, I think, has some ready cash but the main value is in the buildings themselves and they can't exactly pull them apart and sell them off to the highest bidder.
An understatement.
If I could choose, the Vatican would not be in my world.
And I was raised Catholic.
I completely agree and am the same. And I was raised Catholic too. I was actually even baptised by a Cardinal. But sorry, no.
on 12-01-2023 09:34 PM
Tangerine trees and marmalade skies. 🙂
14-01-2023 10:37 AM - edited 14-01-2023 10:37 AM
@myoclon1cjerk wrote:Tangerine trees and marmalade skies. 🙂
And cellophane flowers of yellow and green too.
on 14-01-2023 05:38 PM
I'm of the view that any world created by any human will be flawed in a way that we can't foresee. The extraordinary difficulty in marrying together volition, differing degrees of knowledge (or perhaps more importantly, differing types and/or degrees of ability to absorb and retain and apply knowledge?), the dizzying whirling demeneted microworld of quantum chaos, the macro world in which the "ordinary" and logical rests upon the illogical... the way in which we experience and think and breathe in and become intoxicated by beauties and creations and parallels and collisions and things beyond reach...
If I were to create a world that I thought perfect, I have no doubt at all that within a very short time, I'd be disillusioned and in horror, crying under my breath "What have I done????"
In the end, I'm not a god or goddess. My creations had probably better stay in the mind, or in stories or poems. Shelley referred to "nurslings of immortality" and "shapes that haunt thought's wildernesses" - and I will try to let those shapes find windows and doorways where life offers them, rather than attempt to force those shapes into forming windows and doorways.
If it's a question of choosing what I would prefer to have surrounding me, my immediate environs - no holds barred, no expense spared... a castle dating back to the 1300s, sensitively restored as to bathroom and plumbing and heating, a rose garden with the most beautiful and redolent roses from every part of the world, a lake in which kingfishers sported and trout swam with silver gleaming from their scales and swans drifted peacefully, an orchestra with all of the instruments of history played music, operas were performed as dusk permeated the sky with lilac and apricot... There would be a marvellous theatre of medicine in which I could experiment. My loved ones would be there, and in the cool of the morning whoever wished to play tennis or cricket or croquet or whatever it may be could join in and exhaust themselves heartily. Books would line the walls of the Great Library, and lively discussions on philosophy, art, love, meaning of life, God, heaven, hell, science, literature, riddles, plays, ancient history, language, gardens, growing things, culinary arts (or just ordinary cooking), consciousness, logic, silliness, all of that would ensue.
There'd be no looking at the news and being grieved by accounts of violence, corruption, criminal activity, murder, rape, robbery, destruction.
on 15-01-2023 09:05 AM
I had to smile at that. You sound as if the lifestyle of the English gentry in perhaps the late 19th to the early 20th century might suit, although you'd need some interesting house guests.
I think you are right on a number of counts though.
There is no such thing as perfection in our world, humans aren't made for it and probably wouldn't like it if they got it. One man's heaven is another's hell.
I'd go so far as to say humans thrive in some degree of conflict or challenge, though that doesn't have to be physical conflict.
But we can, to some extent, choose what we have around us, as you said.
Sometimes I think of the very wealthy & how they live (and die) but what it comes down to is that no matter how many homes or cars or anything else they own, they can only ever be in one place at a time, using one car, or one house, eating one meal etc, same as the rest of us.
You can't choose what wider world you live in though.
No matter what your thoughts or actions, dreams or plans, sometimes the wider world of war or violence can travel to you.
on 15-01-2023 09:34 AM
LOL Springy.
on 15-01-2023 10:10 AM
Good one, domino. Gave me a laugh.😂
on 15-01-2023 11:05 AM
I was drinking coffee when I read the pyramid response.
Do I need to explain…?
on 16-01-2023 09:40 AM
Have you seen this, Countess? 🙂 Imagine huge libraries and classical music (chamber music) in a castle... ❤️