Category: Philosophy

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Karma and the frogs

It’s a wet night, so there’s more frogs on the road than I’ve seen all spring. I try to avoid hitting frogs as much as I can, but then I started thinking. If you were born a frog due to your past karma, and I hit the frog, would I have freed the frog from its existence so then it would be free to move up a step in its next reincarnation, OR would I be dooming it to be reincarnated yet another time to learn the lessons it had yet to learn as a frog?

This is why I try to avoid hitting frogs, it’s too much responsibility otherwise.

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Too close to home?

You’ve probably noticed my distaste for inapt figures of speech in writing or in the news. The one that caught my attention today was a news report that said the heroin problem ‘was hitting too close to home.’

Which led me to wonder, would they be satisfied if the problem was JUST a LITTLE further away? If it was JUST FAR ENOUGH AWAY from home?

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Forest in the blood?

That is not what they told me at the Red Cross yesterday.

Now, the dryad who was in line behind me? SHE had the forest in her blood.

(Graphic via the Wolf Conservation Center on Facebook)

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Spring sunshine

Spring sunshine can fool you, but think of it this way: we’re two months and a week away from the first day of summer.

Two months and a week from then is the end of August. So today’s sun is as strong as late August sun. It fools us because the air is cooler, but the sun is just as direct. AND, without much of a tan at this time of year, so we’re even more vulnerable.

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The illusion of permanence

“I like the stars. It’s the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they’re always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend…I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments. Gods come, and gods go. Mortals flicker and flash and fade. Worlds don’t last; and stars and galaxies are transient, fleeting things that twinkle like fireflies and vanish into cold and dust. But I can pretend…”

― Neil Gaiman, The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives

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Why the R?

I’m watching Batman on MeTV, and I just thought of something. Robin wears a green outfit with a red vest, a yellow cape, a black mask – and a white R in a black circle on his chest.

My question: why the R? Is that to distinguish him from all the OTHER superheroes running around wearing green outfits with a red vest, a yellow cape, and a black mask?

“Hey, who WAS that masked man?”
“Was he wearing a green outfit with a red vest, a yellow cape, and a black mask?”
“He sure was!”
“You didn’t happen to notice a letter on his chest…?”
“No, sorry, I didn’t.”
“Then it could be any one of a number of superheroes. I guess we’ll never know.”