old3bob

then again the historic Buddha did speak of meaning as being important.

I can think of better things passing by than a bus regardless of its color... btw, no need to go get lost in a nihilistic sounding variation via a hologram when the happiness of right dharma at all levels is here, there and everywhere.

could be many years of talk and who knows how many thousands of bucks in cost, along with having someone who may or may not be safe in digging around in our heads, is such natural?

one has to wonder at times....

have had several older Fords thus have experienced the meaning of, "Fix Or Repair Daily..." Newer vehicles aren't much fun either since one can't hardly DIY with them without tech. info and special tools. (as for talking to them I don't think they respond as well compared to older ones?) I have used the brute force method at times on some engines when nothing else worked, namely several shots of starter fluid down their throats which btw one doesn't want to get carried away with or risk them vomiting up flames!

most of my 4 years in the military were during the Vietnam war era (but I remained stationed statewide) soon after I graduated from high school. I had a civilian like job which I liked and was pretty good at. (telecommunications which included being a telephone man which are mostly extinct now) The comradery among our guys was good, (there were no women in our unit) meeting new people, going to new places and learning new tasks was interesting and at times challenging to deal with. It was somewhat conflicting to me at times that we were under military rules while protecting civilian or democratically related freedoms, rules or laws.... As in civilian life with its whole gamut of human interactions (good and not so good) the military also has its whole gamut of things going on but with a command and rule structure from a 4 star general down to a new private that included orders being given and which must be followed or rather drastic consequences could follow! Also there are the dubious or dirty politicians and others deciding what would happen to and where our "boys" would be sent to carry out their political agendas which caused a lot of unnecessary suffering and deaths in war zones on all sides, along with riots taking place back in the states. (for example Kent state was a horrific one) As human beings there really is no free lunch for us; the saying, "the price of freedom is eternal vigilance" (thus certain sacrifices) has been proven though the ages and is universal, so if taken for granted it won't be there for those that come after us! There are many examples about what some people get wrong or do to our military forces, like them being dishonored, betrayed, misused, or being under very poor and insane like leadership !! . Alas as with all peoples whether military or not our better or worse angels may come into play.

well I was practicing my tap dancing before some unknown force or probably the little gray guys drew me outside to converse with them....

Good kitty, got a bad alien! (while the little gray guys with big eyes are supposedly ok)

forgot to mention there were also multiple ufo's that night and one of them landed in my backyard whereupon some little gray guys disembarked from their craft to share their take on non-dualism with me ...while a big black cat observed us which I could see with my night vision device.

Not really related but your mention of seeing "patterns" had a sort of example that happened to me early this morning when I looked up into the dark night sky from my back porch, there were stars and constellations there that I had never seen before? Wtf? Anyway I kept looking and then realized that my mind had made or filled in that sight with the explanation of never before seen stars, being that they turned out to be just reflections from my nearby outside lights on the few remaining and upper leaves on my tree where it was hitting at just the right angles to appear as stars was what I was really seeing.

there is no rest in splitting hairs, aka time and matter...

some interesting stuff happens sometimes while experiments are being done, for instance and if I remember correctly LED light bulbs came about that way, which are a big improvement in energy usage. (the old incandescent bulbs and others are uncommon now with few being on the shelves for sale) From Ai: "LED lights were invented through a process that began with early discoveries of electroluminescence in the early 1900s. The first practical infrared LED was accidentally invented in 1961 by Robert Biard and Gary Pittman at Texas Instruments. The first visible light LED, a red one, was developed by Nick Holonyak, Jr. in 1962 while working at General Electric."

do tell...

oh my ass, for gods sake.

Well the mix of "The good, the bad and the ugly" (also beautiful) comes with our human territory but is not part of the heavenly territory. Btw I bought a better mouse trap about a year ago that does not harm a mouse in any way, the catch is that you have to release the mouse somewhere out in the bushes, which I did and was taken aback at how he instantly rocketed out of the traps hinged door with a squeak and a determined will to live while jumping into the bushes regardless of whatever a big human like me was doing! (which kind of reminded me of that mouse in the movie "The Green Mile". --- I once tried those glue traps for mice but what a horrible way for a mouse to go!