Victoria Steele wrote:The old joke about the husbands response to his wife after she catches him in bed with another woman. "Who ya gonna believe? Me? Or Yer lying eyes."
I have a hunch that we are alot like that, as a group! WHAT ARE YOU PRETENDING NOT TO KNOW? Is a great question we should probably all ask ourselves when we look at ourselves in the mirror!
I think its REALLY odd that you and Linda Brown have been in so many of the same places. Of course, she moved so much that maybe its not as odd as I think. Still, Homestead, Devon, Rittenhouse Square. Pretty odd coincidences. But the Bala Cynwyd reference is the oddest. Where are some of the other places you have lived Fred? Just curious to see if there are any more match ups! Victoria
That old joke proves my point. We only see what our beliefs will allow us to see. There is a similar analogy about the natives and their shaman and the Columbus landing in 1492. The shaman was looking out onto the ocean, when he noticed that there was a particular area where the water seemed to flow in a strange manner, as if something was blocking its path and the ocean had to flow around it. He looked and looked until finally he saw the three large ships off the coast. He hurried to tell the villagers what he saw, they followed him to the beach where he pointed out past the surf. But they could not see the ships at all. The shaman then saw that there were several small boats rowing towards the shore. When the landing party reached the shoreline, the villagers were stunned, because for them it appeared as if these boats just appeared out of thin air.
The turned their sights out towards the sea and they began to see the three ships that Columbus sailed from Spain in. They had no point of reference until the landing party arrived. They could not comprehend those large sailing vessels because the had believed only that boats were small and required oars to propel them, just like the row boats of the landing party.
Not only this group, but all groups of people the world over. We are all so caught up in beliefs that we cannot see what is there in front of us. There are still many people that do not believe that UFOs are from extraterrestrial origins. To them if they are out there we would have been contacted, and it would be all over the news. What were they pretending not to know?
It may have been later than when the Browns were in Florida, but I was working at Tropical Park Race Track on Bird Road in Coral Gables during 1969-70.
Mikado14 wrote:Actually Fred, I did....I left my slip show. But then, I suppose that there are a few here, if not all, that have skeletons banging inside the closet on the door to be let out. The real question to me is that I am not pretending, I reacted as if you really knew me and knew something about me that is one of those holes in my memory.
Alas it is not.......but your picture looks familiar.
I don't feel that it necessarily refers to skeletons in the closet. It is more like we ask questions that would be rhetorical if only we looked inside for the answer before seeking it outwardly. It is a matter of trusting our own intuitions, just as Victoria stated about a wife not allowing what was true to shatter her beliefs. And we all will hold those beliefs higher than truth, unless our beliefs are shattered. Sort of like getting "hit upside the head" to get your attention.
But that also seems to be a reflection of how we are raised, what we are taught about how the world and the universe works. I see it in my life and as I become more ware of how I operate, it has given me more control over how I act instead of react to the experiences I live.I used to think I "knew it all" and that even when I was proved to be wrong, I just thought they didn't like me or they weren't fair, or anything to justify my beliefs about being right.
Now I realize that I am a student who will learn much more with an open mind than a closed fist. I have the opportunity to be part of changing the world, and it all possible through the expansion of our consciousness beyond what is acceptable in science and philosophy. We are the gods that we created to take that heavy responsibility off of our own shoulders so that we may play in this game of life, indulge ourselves in sensations that only the physical body can experience.
Well perhaps I look familiar to you since I did spend a good portion of my life in Philadelphia and the surrounding area. In that photo I think I resemble my father in a most remarkable way. I have traveled through the area, volunteering for search and rescue teams, driving as a courier, prolific dancer in many of the hot and not so hot spots from Dover, Delaware through Grantville, PA. Many moons past, I am married to a wonderful lady for nearly 24 years in June, and she was convince when we met that I was quite insane. But I was so irresistible!
Some love is just a lie of the mind
It's make believe until its only a matter of time
And some might have learned to adjust
But then it never was a matter of trust
Billy Joel
Fred