Precognition anyone?

Shit happens. And when it does the mind looks for excuses. The last thing it wants to do is to take responsibility for it. It's a sick mind that blames life for everything bad that happens to him, just as it is a sick mind not to be thankful when something good happens.

Man has tried to foretell the future from the moment he became self aware. He saw the cycles of Nature, wrote them down, and being cycles saw that what happened in the past was likely to happen in the future. He looked at Nature's cycles and rhythms and applied it as knowledge - the time to plant, the time to grow, the time to harvest, the time to rest - all by the Moon's cycles. He saw the birds flying south in the winter and knew when winter was approaching. He looked at the rams coming down from the mountains early and knew that there would be a snowy winter. He looked at the caterpillars with wooly coats and knew that winter was going to be very cold. He saw that the swarms of grasshoppers came early one year and knew that winter was coming early. When the roaches come out earlier than usual then summer was coming sooner than later.

"Red sky in the morning, sailor take warning; red sky at night, sailor's delight".

Today we talk of "El Nina" and "El Nino" to forecast weather. We use computers to predict the number of hurricanes and the amount of snow and rain, the length of droughts. In the past it was the astrologer who tried to bring Chaos into Order, now it's the scientist. Now we're trying to predict earthquakes. We use computers to try to predict economic down turns and financial bubbles.

Man has always tried to forecast the future.

Man, being part of Nature, in trying to predict Nature also wants to predict events in his life. Man cannot do whatever he wants, he knows that there must be a price to be paid for every act just as there is an effect for every cause. The problem with the mind is that he cannot know what "the" cause was, so he is left feeling powerless and impotent. Anyone who has experienced an earthquake, a tsunami, a forest fire, being hit by lightning, being part of a tornado knows the feeling. Nature, being so powerful, makes man feel powerless, just as Death makes him realize how impotent he really is. And yet there are people who know that Death is near. How can that be? More importantly, most people do things that they know will shorten their lives. Why? One chooses to be ignorant by choice, in this case. We know the rules and willingly choose to break them. Why? Because then he feels he is an individual, above the ignorant masses, the sheeple.

The plain fact is that most people don't want to know the future. They may say that they do, but they really don't. That would mean that they would have to take responsibility, and if it happens, what they feared, they will then feel powerless, which reinforces the idea of their pitiful life. It's much better to be ignorant, to "Eat, drink, be merry - for tomorrow you die." Everyone wants to be somebody; and as you get older you come to realize that you're really a nobody.

Trying to tell the future may just be a part of the survival instinct, just as fear, some unfounded fear, some unknown triggers the fear reflex. You don't know why, you just now that you do. One doesn't want to know the future because that would mean facing fear.

Some say, "If it wasn't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all." Others get in so far over their heads that they see no way out. A depressed mind is a sick mind. It forgets that if there were happy times in the past, and one is sorrow now, that happiness is bound to return in the future. It's a cycle, after all...

One says that he would like to know the future, but he really doesn't. What others say doesn't really matter because he doesn't really want to know. It's a conscious decision to remain ignorant. It's only when Life kicks him in the balls that he wakes up. And then he blames Life, God, Fate, Destiny, Karma - anything but accept what has happened. Shit happens. And when it shits on you what is one to do?