Holding It Back

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A revisit to the subject touched upon in my article Why do you want to scare people?, where I had given thought to the sharing of material, ideas and concepts that perhaps should be kept to oneself. Mostly to do with horror and things of a frightening nature within the entertainment industry. Of which I contribute myself, by way of watching and reading things, and then taking it a step further by writing my own horror books and creepy stories. But something didn’t sit well with me about it after years of it, and after writing a number of books and short stories, I veered off into articles. Sharing real and precise speculations about my perceptions of reality to do with certain subjects. Many of them being what we would consider unsavoury subjects, and although they stem from actual facts and reality, they are still somewhat uncomfortable.

Before I share anything, I have always tended to ‘give it a once over’ in my mind, to decide if it passes the quality check, or is fit for public consumption as you might put it. Many don’t seem to care about the impact of things on others, as long as they get their clicks and likes I guess, just quite casually throwing things out there knowing they have an effect, but only really focusing on the result for them. Conveniently ignoring the other results that unfold. Action and reactions, cause and effect. And since writing that original article, I have held back, mostly, with writing fiction anymore, deciding that just because I have stories and ideas, doesn’t mean I need to share them. Thinking grisly and strange thoughts is one thing, but putting them out there for others to ‘imagine’ when maybe they wouldn’t otherwise wouldn’t have, is quite another.

And the same can be said of social media, where I have discussed its purpose and issues in Social, But Not Really, and of society generally with media, propaganda and entertainment in Are You Not Entertained? Where we allow ourselves to be saturated with it and then willingly engage with it, share it, discuss it and ultimately become part of it, without knowing really what alternative purpose it has. Being naive and accepting it on face value, as ‘just a bit of fun’, like dress-up, or pretending like actors do perhaps like in Just Pretend or a Con? In jest and for jovial reasons, so it goes undetected as being anything of note. It is not just there to entertain you though it seems, it is to keep you busy and distracted, which we choose to do as discussed in Just The Ticket. So, while we do have a choice to take part, to feed from and feed into ‘the system’, we can take a bit of responsibility for what we consume, and what we put out there. Be mindful of what you create…

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Like the Dead

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They say that sleeping is something that is indistinguishable from death within our consciousness, where the subconscious can sometimes apparently roam as might happen with an NDE (Near Death Experience) or a mind-altering experience. Yet most people do not have an NDE on a regular basis, or so they think. In Dreamy, or Terrifying? I discuss a certain angle of sleep and its related ‘activities’. But when there is speculation of being able to ‘leave’ this physical plane while unconscious, and that we all need sleep, I thought of sayings we have for things related to sleeping and being dead –

Sleeping like the dead – I always believed this to be about the how deeply you are asleep, and if you are able to be woken easily or not.

Dead to the world – as with this one, so deeply asleep that you are completely cut off from the ‘real world’ while your mind is actually somewhere else.

Dead tired – when you are so tired you feel like you are dragging yourself around, and have become as weighty as a corpse perhaps. On the brink of sleep, where your body and mind start initiate the sleep phase, whether you are ready for it or in the right location or not.

Death warmed up – not usually attritibuted to sleep, but to a waking state and often one of illness. Where you feel so rotten and would benefit from sleep or at a minimum some rest, but have to keep going about your day as you normally would. The wording making me think you have checked out to that ‘sleep/death’ state, but your body has to keep going through the motions of an animated corpse. Hence, death warmed up.

Land of the living – often said as ‘back to the land of the living’, again usually around illness, a phase that sometimes is known to precede actual death, but is also one that more often than not, will require sleep and rest. But saying you have come back to somewhere, means in a way, you think you were somewhere else.

There is talk that death is just an altered state of our consciousness, and what we believe to be ‘life after death’, is in fact, just another dimension of existence we inhabit after our physical body and the material world is no longer of use. And one we have ended up calling The Other Side. But if consciousness does exist outside of the brain and body, it stands to reason that once the physical has expired, whatever existed within that, then just carries on existing somewhere else.

Imagine living two lifetimes every day, one that what we know as the waking day for two thirds of it, and a shorter portion allocated for the sleeping one, yet both existing as separate lifetimes running simultaneously, playing tag with each other. While you are awake here, you are asleep there, kind of thing, neither ceasing to exist just because the other ‘wakes up’. Like day and night, a perpetual hand over each day from dark to light and back again, but just as sometimes the moon isn’t always visible at night, and sometimes can be seen during the day, it’s not always as clear cut as we think. Asleep or awake? Dreaming or reality? Or even alive or dead? How does our consciousness understand the differences in those definitions I wonder, and realised that perhaps it doesn’t…

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Time is Money

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That well known quote by Benjamin Franklin in his 1748 essay “Advice to a Young Tradesman”.

More for a business minded person in that context clearly, trying to convey that time is a valuable resource, which converts to monetary value in that case and then used to decide if you are successful in that endeavour.

In many cases, we are conditioned to believe that money means so much in life, affords a certain style of life and opportunities, and therefore money becomes the driver of life. As sad as that is, it’s where we are. I have written many articles already about Cash, and how is it used for purpose as a tool of control, and even though people fight to save it over digital, it is still part of the play.

And now the costs of living are going up even further with their quest of Tightening the Screw on everyone as much as they can, well, not quite everyone. Because with one hand they take away from over here, and with the other hand they give it to someone over there. And money is the crux of it all, because if they couldn’t threaten you with fines, or price you out of everything, then there would be a more even playing field. But cheaters don’t want an even playing field, they don’t want a fair fight or for the ‘best man’ to win.

But what I find quite odd about it all, is that it is not ‘real’ as such. I know I can hold it physically, and it exists in our materially created world, but so does the game of Monopoly, or any other game. I can play it and ‘buy’ into the illusion of it being real for the duration of said game time. And then walk away when it’s over and forget about the banker, the properties, the pieces, the money and so on. But in the scaled-up version of it in society, we aren’t allowed to just walk away, being kept there by the bankers for a never-ending game that keeps you coming back every day. To play again and again until I guess they decide to shut it down or as in the game version occasionally where someone just loses it and flips the board.

So, to keep you playing, everything becomes about money. Yet I have mentioned before in What We Leave Behind, about it being a very rare thing to see someone’s lifetime earnings on their gravestone. How much money you made is of no concern once you are no longer here. But time, that is something that gets noted, from start to finish, our journey of Time. Which, ironically, is also an illusion, but one we work well with in this three-dimensional construct and seems necessary.

But while we are here, it appears to be a problem for many who are obsessed with money and the control it brings. For those who have too much, they want to control the direction of society and people in it. For those with too little, they are often forced to become obsessive about it, just to get by and survive. And others who have just enough, possibly spend time fearing and worrying about it, with it being used for threats or just generally weaponised.

It does appear, though there is another group now, who seem to lack monetary comprehension, or that it equates to time. The ones who get what they call ‘freebies and handouts’. And to them, I guess they are, but on the other side of that freebie, is often someone else’s time. Of which they indeed might not give two hoots about, harvesting people’s time and money from them, pimping off them. And clearly, many don’t have a problem with that to keep doing it, wanting to be a dependent. Facilitated by those who also want you to be dependent on the system and its mechanisms. Because if we were able to use our time wisely instead of spending our time making money, which we then spend, then things could be very different. Until then, make every second and every penny count…

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