RE: The March of Time, Changing Perspectives and the Demise of "Things..."

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Having a shoe box full of stamps you remind me of how I have not sorted through them yet, also inherited, perhaps the time is now to start collating and finding out more.

Red poppy always reminds me of first and second world wars, we see this flimsy pretty flower that holds so much power in more ways than one, we always relate to objects, each has different value.

Space cat, sorry I thought it was the dog that went up first, we "bubble" everything into how the imagination frames life whether known or unknown, this is why we are human beings.

Surrounded by "ball and claw" furniture, an appreciation of craftsmanship of bygone era, yet excited by advancements in technology one performs a balancing act between comprehending where true value will lie in the coming future.

Often I ponder over what really exists, we arrive with nothing and cannot take anything with us, yet we put value to everything!



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I think you're right @joanstewart, the first animal in space was a dog, not a cat — USSR, as I recall. Laika, I think — I vaguely remember having an old Russian stamp with the space dog. I guess the Space Cat was just my own poetic license!

I feel somewhat divided about the whole "Old World Craftsmanship" vs. new technologies... I think mostly because so many of these new technologies address precisely what I was pondering here... replacing the "real" experience (and "things") with virtual ones. Are we moving towards that "Matrix" experience of being nothing but meatbags in pods, experiencing all of existence only inside ourselves... or are we already there, and trying to wake up to the fact that there are more layers to the onion than just the one we are currently occupying?

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Personally I feel the "Matrix" affect is being pushed too fast. There are the plus affects along with negatives which only time will reveal how balanced life will be.

Let us consider early 20th century with Jules Verne - where science-fiction ideas saw fruition. Human mind when exposed to constructive thinking, now we are looking at people going to Mars. Whether good or bad only time will tell.

Moving "forward" hopefully we do find more layers to the onion. My personal impression over the past fifty years is there are too many humans, we have lost direction due to striving for personal greed.

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