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    I can't describe it better



    By Starting this thread I intend to encourage you all to post your version of "I can't describe it better". It is about a written or video material that describes/sums views, ideas, or any other forms of information that sums up your thoughts, philosophy or just a mood.

    I came across the three videos below which left me speechless. Many are probably familiar with the work of Tom Montalk. This guy sums up our existence in a way that resonates with my own understanding so well and there is nothing I could add to it. I hope everyone could find something useful for their perspective of the truth.


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    You can run from love,
    You can run from war,
    You can run from a cop on the beat.
    You can run from danger,
    You can run from a stranger,
    But you can't run away from your feet.

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    A quote from the Preface to "The Making of a Counter Culture" by Theodore Roszak (1970)


    "...........If the resistance of the counter culture fails, I think there will be nothing in store for us but what anti-Utopians like Huxley and Orwell have forecast - though I have no doubt that these dismal despotisms will be far more stable and effective than their prophets have foreseen, for they will be equipped with techniques of inner-manipulation as unobtrusively fine as gossamer.

    Above all, the capacity of our emerging technocratic paradise to denature the imagination by appropriating to itself the whole meaning of reason, reality, progress and knowledge will render it impossible for men to give any name to their bothersomely unfulfilled potentialities but that of madness, and for such madness, humanitarian therapies will be generously provided..........."

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    Put much more eloquently than I could ever conjure up. Certainly resonates with my simplistic Think, Feel, Do, conjoined realm of Being, in all we do. The more one is in sync with all three aspects and understands the entanglement through honest open reflection the more energy spirit enfolds to strengthen and assist in managing ego and the human experience.....

    Works for me

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    This sums it all up.

    How Our Society Is Totally Backwards – The Paradox Of Our Age
    The following is an excerpt of “The Paradox of Our Age,” from Words Aptly Spoken, by Bob Moorehead. It perfectly sums up everything that is backwards about our culture.
    We have taller buildings but shorter tempers; wider freeways but narrower viewpoints; we spend more but have less; we buy more but enjoy it less; we have bigger houses and smaller families; more conveniences, yet less time; we have more degrees but less sense; more knowledge but less judgement; more experts, yet more problems; we have more gadgets but less satisfaction; more medicine, yet less wellness; we take more vitamins but see fewer results.
    We drink too much; smoke too much; spend too recklessly; laugh too little; drive too fast; get too angry quickly; stay up too late; get up too tired; read too seldom; watch TV too much and pray too seldom.
    We have multiplied our possessions, but reduced our values; we fly in faster planes to arrive there quicker, to do less and return sooner; we sign more contracts only to realize fewer profits; we talk too much; love too seldom and lie too often. We’ve learned how to make a living, but not a life; we’ve added years to life, not life to years.
    We’ve been all the way to the moon and back, but have trouble crossing the street to meet the new neighbor. We’ve conquered outer space, but not inner space; we’ve done larger things, but not better things; we’ve cleaned up the air, but polluted the soul; we’ve split the atom, but not our prejudice.
    We write more, but learn less; plan more, but accomplish less; we make faster planes, but longer lines; we learned to rush, but not to wait; we have more weapons, but less peace; higher incomes, but lower morals; more parties, but less fun; more food, but less appeasement; more acquaintances, but fewer friends; more effort, but less success.
    We build more computers to hold more information, to produce more copies than ever, but have less communication; drive smaller cars that have bigger problems; build larger factories that produce less. We’ve become long on quantity, but short on quality.
    We have confused price with value




    These are the times of fast foods and slow digestion; tall men, but short character; steep in profits, but shallow relationships. These are times of world peace, but domestic warfare; more leisure and less fun; higher postage, but slower mail; more kinds of food, but less nutrition. These are days of two incomes, but more divorces; these are times of fancier houses, but broken homes.
    These are days of quick trips, disposable diapers, cartridge living, throw-away morality, one-night stands, overweight bodies and pills that do everything from cheer, to prevent, quiet or kill. It is a time when there is much in the show window and nothing in the stock room. Indeed, these are the times!
    - See more at: http://www.spiritscienceandmetaphysi....Ln1O93jN.dpuf

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