Just The Way You Are...
Jul. 22nd, 2011 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
cedar_groveFrom The Book of Awakening: Having the Life You Want by Being Present to the Life You Have.
Perhaps the wisdom in blinking is that it keeps us in the middle, keeps us from drowning in the dark and from burning up in the light. Perhaps this is the reflex that lets us make sense of being human.
Isn't this the shape question of the day?
It's right up there with question and observations such as: Glass half empty/half full; the act of lighting a candle casts a shadow; is a shark evil because it bites a little girl that was swimming; are the Wraith in SGA evil for feeding on humans (you can substitute vampires if you don't know SGA), or are they just doing what they must do to survive… Does our perception of light and dark change with how we see ourselves and the position from which we're coming, originating, or are these qualities absolute?
There's a series of ads that I see every time I walk along the jetway of international flights. I think they're for HSBC bank or something… It's a series of two or three identical pictures, only the captions change. ( here's the kind of thing I mean) There are a lot of them, and they really bring the matter of 'perspective' into sharp focus.
Another thing that struck me today as being about a matter of prespective – there's a big hullabulloo going on right now, because there's this 'explicit gay sex scene' in Torchwood that the BBC are cutting, but Starz are not (forget that Starz already nixed a scene where someone was speaking with a welsh accent because they didn't think the Americans would be able to understand it), now… doesn't bother me one way or another to be honest, far as I'm concerned Captain Jack is as gay as Christmas and always has been, so… *shrug* but there were these whole bunch of comments on the website where I saw the news where some people were complaining about having the gay sex 'shoved down their throats' (which in itself is a funny comment… if you have a warped sense of humour like mine). Don't like it, don't watch that scene – end of subject. Personally I don't see why we shouldn't see it – we see enough 'straight' sex push at us in just about every other show… why not just… complain about the sex, period. Gay, straight, transpecies or otherwise!
Perspectives… which is light, which is dark?
Asleep too long, we need to wake.
Awake too long, we need to sleep.
Perhaps the wisdom in blinking is that it keeps us in the middle, keeps us from drowning in the dark and from burning up in the light. Perhaps this is the reflex that lets us make sense of being human.
Isn't this the shape question of the day?
It's right up there with question and observations such as: Glass half empty/half full; the act of lighting a candle casts a shadow; is a shark evil because it bites a little girl that was swimming; are the Wraith in SGA evil for feeding on humans (you can substitute vampires if you don't know SGA), or are they just doing what they must do to survive… Does our perception of light and dark change with how we see ourselves and the position from which we're coming, originating, or are these qualities absolute?
There's a series of ads that I see every time I walk along the jetway of international flights. I think they're for HSBC bank or something… It's a series of two or three identical pictures, only the captions change. ( here's the kind of thing I mean) There are a lot of them, and they really bring the matter of 'perspective' into sharp focus.
Another thing that struck me today as being about a matter of prespective – there's a big hullabulloo going on right now, because there's this 'explicit gay sex scene' in Torchwood that the BBC are cutting, but Starz are not (forget that Starz already nixed a scene where someone was speaking with a welsh accent because they didn't think the Americans would be able to understand it), now… doesn't bother me one way or another to be honest, far as I'm concerned Captain Jack is as gay as Christmas and always has been, so… *shrug* but there were these whole bunch of comments on the website where I saw the news where some people were complaining about having the gay sex 'shoved down their throats' (which in itself is a funny comment… if you have a warped sense of humour like mine). Don't like it, don't watch that scene – end of subject. Personally I don't see why we shouldn't see it – we see enough 'straight' sex push at us in just about every other show… why not just… complain about the sex, period. Gay, straight, transpecies or otherwise!
Perspectives… which is light, which is dark?
