I got an email today that was kind of fun. It was/is a life
span calculator and can be found at this site. http://media.nmfn.com/tnetwork/lifespan/
I have done similar things before, and I just can’t remember
how I did. On this particular test I am happy to announce that I should be
living for another 25 years or so. I can’t promise that I will still be writing
the blog, but I doubt that I will become any less opinionated or that the world
will become the paradise that it should be in 25 years. This is great; I should
be able to figure out just what I want to do with my life by then. Maybe I will
have great-grand children that I can spoil.
I can just imagine the conversation that Hurricane will have
with his wife when she says that I offered to look after little Cyclone. “Yeah…I
don’t know…he’s pretty old and I don’t think Cyclone could handle that much
sugar at one go. He lies a lot too; the truth is something that he has never
really found a use for.”
“Oh, don’t be silly, he is such a sweet old guy.”
Hurricane will then say that he reluctantly agrees but only
at their place and I would have to be searched on entering. Silly buggar, you
can get anything delivered now, can you imagine what it will be like in 25
years?
Over the years I have been involved with my share of psychics
and other people of the paranormal persuasion. I have had readings which have
made me feel really good about myself and the way that my life was/is going. There
are a couple of things that bother me about these psychic leaps of faith. The
first and perhaps the most important to me is that, assuming the reading is
100% accurate, do you really want to know the future? When you are totally
convinced of the reading, I don’t think you could help yourself from trying to
steer the circumstances of your life in that direction. The reading becomes a
self fulfilling prophecy. Maybe you weren’t meant to be on that particular
path. Maybe you were, but will never know now.
Secondly, most readings are very positive. Sometimes they
mention things that may need work in your life, but by and large you only hear
the good things about yourself. Perhaps this is just the psychic wanting to have
you feel happy and good about coming to see him or her. Some of us are bastards
and I have never heard of a psychic that told someone what a colossal prick
they are and the world will heave a collective sigh of relief when you are hit
by that car in two days time having the life snuffed out by a guy listening to “Karma
Chameleon” on the car radio. I’d trust that psychic! I wouldn’t go to him/her,
but I would trust them.
Why is it that everyone that goes in for past life regression
was famous or some kind of royalty? I am pretty sure that I wouldn’t be of any
higher stature socially that I am in this life. If I were told that I was a peasant
girl that was traded to the local tanner for a pig and a pair of shoes in the
12th century, then I just might start believing. If they further
went on to say that in another life, during my wedding ceremony I was taken by
slavers that sold me to a white guy who changed my name to Toby and put me in charge
of the fighting chickens, I would then know that this guy is the real deal.
Once again I don’t want to know because where is the percentage in knowing that
you have got the “loser” life thing down to a science.
I think that I am influenced by the movie “Defending Your
Life” with Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep and Rip Torn. It is a great movie that
deals with this subject far better than I can, and if you get the opportunity
(and why shouldn’t you) it is a must see as far as I am concerned. When you do
see it, I am the Daniel Miller character.
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