My recent travels....Your thoughts.

Its hard to say if there's any sole purpose of why we are here. But really its what we make of it. We have a gift of knowledge that has led us to technology. Soon at some point our time on this planet will end, but it will be solely up to us if we want to live or die. Who knows how much time we have...just think if there was a timer over the sun counting down the days until it dies. We would do things much differently here on earth.

Originally posted by Khmer_before
This Christmas, I have been on a spiritual quest through Southern Asia. I have been looking for the meaning of man..
What have I seen and discovered, that Georgetown in Malaysia is a rat infested sewer of a place. The fleshpots of Bangkok can still get you a virgin and that Cambodia has a new religion, neither Hindu or Buddhist, it is simply the almighty dollar. Everyone wants a piece of you, life just seems to be a way of struggling to overcome each other. For every true smile we come across a thousand false ones. Ones whose soul purpose is merely to take. Afterall everyone wants something from someone, often just to feel superior or to hurt. Cute children holding snakes, you can take their picture for 'ah dollar', massage and 'boom boom', in Siem Reap I was offered a 13 year old girl today - I declined and made my excuses. In Angkor Watt, beautiful child beggars will sell you 'the book' for 'ah dollar' and older ones with try and scam you for 'ah dollar' more.
I met a lovely taxi driver; who, I hired for two days for 70 dollars. He had been a primary school teacher, an educator; yet, in Cambodia a taxi driver earns more in two days than the 66 'doller' a teacher gets in a month. False Policemen on the take, real Policemen on the take. Yet of all the places i've travelled, through Egypt and Africa, Europe, Iceland, China, Japan and almost everywhere else; nowhere, has touched and disturbed me this much. Vietnam in a few days and the floating villages of refugees on Reap river have perhaps given me a taste; although, they say Vietnam is much a game of two halves these days and eveloping quickly. Have I learnt anything spiritual? I've seen shanty towns of unbelievable poverty yards from a KFC. I've seen children mutilated to be better beggars. I've seen the dollar destroy religion (good or bad?).

I've seen the killing fields.

I've met mystics and shamen and still I've seen no miracles, nothing to convince me that any of us have a purpose on this small ball of rock orbiting a non-descript star, in an unimportant arm of an average Galaxy, in one of countless un-special galactic clusters, in the vastness of the Universe.

I still think Life is a joke and the punchline is 'nothing matters'.

Care to convine me i'm wrong?

Fascinating, the things you've seen! All that will be lost...in time, like tears in the rain.

Originally posted by Khmer_before
This Christmas, I have been on a spiritual quest through Southern Asia. I have been looking for the meaning of man..
What have I seen and discovered, that Georgetown in Malaysia is a rat infested sewer of a place. The fleshpots of Bangkok can still get you a virgin and that Cambodia has a new religion, neither Hindu or Buddhist, it is simply the almighty dollar. Everyone wants a piece of you, life just seems to be a way of struggling to overcome each other. For every true smile we come across a thousand false ones. Ones whose soul purpose is merely to take. Afterall everyone wants something from someone, often just to feel superior or to hurt. Cute children holding snakes, you can take their picture for 'ah dollar', massage and 'boom boom', in Siem Reap I was offered a 13 year old girl today - I declined and made my excuses. In Angkor Watt, beautiful child beggars will sell you 'the book' for 'ah dollar' and older ones with try and scam you for 'ah dollar' more.
I met a lovely taxi driver; who, I hired for two days for 70 dollars. He had been a primary school teacher, an educator; yet, in Cambodia a taxi driver earns more in two days than the 66 'doller' a teacher gets in a month. False Policemen on the take, real Policemen on the take. Yet of all the places i've travelled, through Egypt and Africa, Europe, Iceland, China, Japan and almost everywhere else; nowhere, has touched and disturbed me this much. Vietnam in a few days and the floating villages of refugees on Reap river have perhaps given me a taste; although, they say Vietnam is much a game of two halves these days and eveloping quickly. Have I learnt anything spiritual? I've seen shanty towns of unbelievable poverty yards from a KFC. I've seen children mutilated to be better beggars. I've seen the dollar destroy religion (good or bad?).

I've seen the killing fields.

I've met mystics and shamen and still I've seen no miracles, nothing to convince me that any of us have a purpose on this small ball of rock orbiting a non-descript star, in an unimportant arm of an average Galaxy, in one of countless un-special galactic clusters, in the vastness of the Universe.

I still think Life is a joke and the punchline is 'nothing matters'.

Care to convine me i'm wrong?

but more to the point, were you moved enough about the suffering you witnessed to do something to end it? you see, some people would find meaning in their sorrow and anger, they would ghive themselves purpose in the struggle against the injustices you saw. you, on the other hand, come to the internet to mope about how pointless everything in the universe is like a little *****.

there is no inherent meaning, let alone purpose, in anything and there is no reason to become depressed about it either. we are the ones who create meaning out of the world and if you can't do it, it's not the world that is empty, it's you.

Originally posted by 753
all the violent greed, falsitude and indifference you travelled to the third world to find and mecome so shocked about... do you really think your neighborhood is any different?

but more to the point, were you moved enough about the suffering you witnessed to do something to end it? you see, some people would find meaning in their sorrow and anger, they would ghive themselves purpose in the struggle against the injustices you saw. you, on the other hand, come to the internet to mope about how pointless everything in the universe is like a little *****.

there is no inherent meaning, let alone purpose, in anything and there is no reason to become depressed about it either. we are the ones who create meaning out of the world and if you can't do it, it's not the world that is empty, it's you.

I think he is empty.. He should dress as a cat!

God calls man a diamond.