Bedtime Stories (Part 3)
Saturday, September 8, 2007
Coffee Theories
One afternoon, the Rose of Sharon and the Bee were having coffee in some coffee shop in Cyber Universe. They were having a conversation.
Sharon: Oh! Oh! I had formed this theory while I was having coffee earlier and I was reading a book called Nirvana in a Nutshell (one of the books I bought earlier)
Bee: oh?
Sharon: It said there, that everything happens for a reason… the universe is in constant motion and everything that happens moves in harmony with the rest of the universe. It also said there that everything that happens lends a hand in the ever-expanding perfection of the universe… if indeed everything a happens for a reason, that everything will eventually conclude to a perfection, we wouldn’t be there to witness it right? Us, who lent a hand in its perfection. Wouldn't that seem to be unfair? That we wouldn’t witness what we have helped to form? But I think it's not like that… we will witness it… only not in this world… I think, after we die, we move on to the next level dimension, sort of an upgraded world, where we understand the reasons of why things happened to us in the previous universe….
Bee: :)
Sharon: Do you know what I mean?
Bee: yes
Sharon: It's a second life of some sort… Maybe people there are more… I don't know… enlightened. It's a completely different world… with a completely different life… only we wouldn’t know what it is in this world.. because we are not "enlightened". Am I making sense?
Bee: Interesting view
Sharon: it's funny while I was thinking of it… I know the phrase "everything happens for a reason" is so cliche, but at that point, it had a completely different meaning to me…. like I was watching a guy walk… I thought every step he made happens for a reason… and if he suddenly gets hit by a car. that happens for a reason too
Bee: hehe
Sharon: then I watched a video from CNN earlier, where 2 small planes doing an airshow crashed into each other and killed both pilots… I asked, did that happen for a reason too? I could just imagine the family of both pilots… if indeed everything happens for a reason, what purpose did their deaths serve? im sure the family deserves to know… but I guess they wouldn't in this lifetime… but that's just my theory…
Sharon: i'm blabbing.
Bee: no no no. I like it. it's just that my view is that things don't happen for a reason.. at least my current view is that
Sharon: do you believe in aliens?
Bee: do you?
Sharon: yes
Bee: ya?
Sharon: only, i'm not sure if they really look like how the media feeds them to us
Bee: hehe
Sharon: yeah, I believe in aliens.
Bee: interesting
Sharon: come to think of it. you cannot begin to imagine how vast the universe is. our puny little minds cannot possibly imagine how huge the universe is. it's infinite. our own solar system, with our sun and all the 9 (or more planets within it) is just one of the billion other solar systems in the entire universe. Our galaxy (with all its planets, milky ways and black holes) is just a speck of dust in the entire universe.
Bee: true
Sharon: could you still think that we are the only things capable of thinking? maybe they dont breathe air, maybe their life system is completely different from ours… we cannot imagin them to be like us. but there are other "beings" out there.. Maybe they don't even "think" like us. maybe they have a completely different process of understanding things… maybe "understanding" is not even a process in their universe… maybe their entire process of doing things are completely different from ours. Oh our minds… our minds cannot possibly understand what we do not know. And even if the truth was laid before us, I don't think our minds can even begin to fathom everything.
Sharon: you must think i'm really weird now.
Bee: actually, you're practically reading from my mind
Sharon: so you believe in aliens too?
Bee: no, it's not like that, I don't believe in them, but I think it's statistically likely. scientists look for planets that might support life.. and carbon-based lifeforms. but who says carbon-based lifeforms are the only way?
Sharon: by readin your mind, do you mean to say, you think what I think too, or you agree that I think you think im weird?
Bee: what is "life" anyway? you know?
Sharon: it's a word… we needed to give words to thinks so we could understand each other.
Bee: I once read a sci-fi novel where, exploring the far reaches of the universe, a gas planet is discovered where massive, giant medusas made of hydrogen flock together intelligently. and I loved that book, because it has the same view I have. when I was a kid, I treated everything like it was alive, even objects I think intelligence and life and lifeforms are very broad concepts, like love. They are very abstract, more than we think
Sharon: yeah. I used to give things I owned names too.
Bee: no, not names. like they were alive
Sharon: I gave them names because I treated them like they were alive. Now I stopped doing that. because I thought they developed feelings. Haha!
Bee: i'm not some gaia-ascribing new age type, but I do know that we don't know shit
Bee: aliens? I think there are forces everywhere, of a level I don't even bother to think about. you know what I mean?
Sharon: yes. energies are something i'm very interested in too.
Ooops, my intergalactic bus is here. Sorry can’t fill you in with the rest of their conversation. I gottsa go! More to come next time.
Ciao!
`sj
