Recycled Life
This interesting topic and discussions on creepy past life stories told by kids remind me of past life or more accurately “recycled lives” as there is the spirit may be reincarnated more than once.
I am a believer of recycled lives, although I do not have memories of my own past life or lives. The movie Ghost is still the best on life in flesh and blood that is separable from its spirit. I’ll never forget when Sam the main male character played by Patrick Swayze died of a gun shot, his spirit (or ghost) rose from his fallen body.
Studies have shown that consciousness remains even after death for some. Others were clinically dead but then came back to life. They almost always told us spooky stories of seeing light in a tunnel (just like the end of Ghost movie showed), that their spirits floated above their bodies.
Many stories in the reddit site are told by kids no more than 3 year old. It’s interesting we normally do not have a clear memory for our first three years of life, perhaps because we are still growing in our consciousness. #7, #10, #18 and all these stories have no scientific explanation unless you assume spirit is separable from physical bodies.
Reincarnation is not that strange because resurrection of Jesus is the central focus in Christianity. Buddhism just made reincarnation a common story for most, if not everyone, of us, rather than just for Jesus. Someday we will find out more about it.
The Queen & Prince Philip
Another (totally unrelated) thought of life is that some couples are “birds of the same feathers,” while others are “opposites attracted to each other.” More realistically, all couples have same feathers in some ways but different feathers in others. Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip are a good example. I want to focus on their differences that may have contributed to their long lasting marriage, just as their similarities did.
The Queen is kind of like Mother Theresa in her positive social image, her self discipline, her sense of duties and services to the country or countries. Everything she said or did was perfect in the humanly possible way. Prince Philip on the other hand has had a big mouth, similar to Trump except with class that Trump is completely lacking.
This Wikipedia page told us an interesting story that “(d)uring a state visit to China in 1986, in a private conversation with British students from Xi’an’s Northwest University, Philip joked, ‘If you stay here much longer, you’ll go slit-eyed.’ The British press reported on the remark as indicative of racial intolerance,” but I personally like that and found people like the Prince more real and believable. We are all humans and humans are supposed to be imperfect. It is possible to project a perfect public image but that would carry a big personal toll on whoever does that.
My point is that in private the Queen may have wished herself to be as direct as her husband in public — but she cannot — and therefore envies or loves anyone who does that. Perhaps this explains a huge void that the death of her husband has caused her. My hypothesis is that when the two are together at the end of every day — behind the closed door or doors — the Queen really needs someone to listen to her deep thoughts, frustrations, concerns, worries and angers, because the next morning, she would have to get up and put up a happy face as a part of her official duties. There is nobody else could substitute Prince Philip for the Queen!
Having someone to talk to at the end of the day makes a big difference. Mother Theresa had nobody like Prince Philip, of course she could always pray to the God, although I imagine that would be different from talking to another human being.
If this is true, I really have my sympathy to the Queen, and believe the UK should end the monarch for humanity reasons after the Queen passes away. I understand the royal family has contributed a big part to the tourist revenue to the country, but places like Buckingham Palace can be turned into royal museum and still attract tourists.
From Goats to Sectors of Economy
The city of Berkeley has arranged to place some goats to the slopes toward the soccer field, and I just saw a unicorn during my last walk today!
Looking at the lovely and adorable goats I can’t help noticing that their lives are very simple. They do two things everyday, eating grass and resting. This makes me thinking that animal husbandry is in general simpler than agriculture, the job for herdsmen is simpler than that for rice or wheat growers for example. The former can keep moving to wherever the grass is to feed the animals, while the latter must worry about more things like seeds, diseases, insects, fertilizers and harvesting. Furthermore, plantation allows people to stay in the same place on the face of the earth, which in turn allows them to develop houses and buildings and other infrastructures.
Ancient China’s economy had been based mostly on agriculture, a more advanced economy than that based on animal husbandry. This explains why other civilizations (e.g., Gengis Khan and his first Mongol empire) can invade China but cannot eliminate the civilization. Instead, they had to adapt to and to learn from it in many ways.
Manufacturing is even more complicated than agriculture. The latter is more intuitive than the former, as everything in farming is pretty much tangible. Manufacturing at the high end requires intangible thinking and sometimes it feels like making something out of nothing.
Servicing is further up in the scale of complexity because service industry deals with human beings, the most complicated things in the world.
This is one way to understand and to remember the three sectors of economy in the world.
Watched the Berkeley girls soccer against USC last night: We lost but no big deal! The process of playing is more important than the results and I had fun watching the game!