Forgetting The Life Mission
I thoroughly enjoyed the "tour" GNOSTIC takes us on. The incessant yakety-yak and chatter from the mind would rather look elsewhere of course. It would rather we stop and gather around the "permanent" monuments of Maya. But, perhaps a perfect analogy for what is being said here can be seen in the old movie, The Bridge Over the River Kwai.
According to GNOSTIC,
"We are struggling with the components of the virtual reality game trying to make it real for us. So we defend that which is not real in hopes of making it real, because we forgot what was real. For we know the moment we take this journey it has a beginning and an end. However, once we get here, we desperately try to change the programming of the game."
In the movie, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, a group of British soldiers in WW II, off on a specific mission, were captured and made prisoners of war by the Japanese. The POW camp had the specific mission of building a railroad bridge over the River Kwai, but the Japanese officers were not doing a good job moving the project along.
So, the British Commander, now a prisoner, convinced the Japanese Commander (of the POW camp) to let British "management" take over the bridge-building operation. The Japanese Commander reluctantly agreed. By changing locations in the film, taking us to the commando training where preparations were under way to blow up the bridge, we were kept with the perspective that there was a war going on! We realized that the point of building the bridge was to essentially improve the killing efficiency of the Japanese, the declared enemy of the British!!
Not to be outdone by their enemy, the Brits put aside their original mission, and took over the operation of their enemy. The Brit POWs built an engineering wonder. It became THEIR bridge, not the Japanese. On the day of completion, puffed with pride, the British Commander walking along the bridge -- absorbing the marvelous wonder of permanence he had completed -- noticed (to his horror) explosive charges placed below on the bridge pilings. His own people placed the explosives there to destroy the enemy's bridge so that the trains could not pass. But, the allied commandos placed the now-exposed explosives at high tide during the night.
All of the POWs who worked on the bridge, as well as us watching the film, didn't want the bridge destroyed, but it was. All of the characters we were rooting for were killed, and as a footnote, the only sane one of the bunch, the medical officer, painful surmised, "Madness. It's all madness."
For me, this movie was almost an exact analogy of life on this planet, in this time and space. We arrive with a mission. We forget our mission, and take up the mission of our physicality, even though this new mission may well be at odds with our own. Not only do we take up this errant mission, we try and excel at it. We try and do it better than our "opponent". We defend our opponent's project with our all, then we die.
I not only agree with GNOSTIC, I couldn't agree more with the doc, this is quite mad, isn't it?
According to GNOSTIC,
"We are struggling with the components of the virtual reality game trying to make it real for us. So we defend that which is not real in hopes of making it real, because we forgot what was real. For we know the moment we take this journey it has a beginning and an end. However, once we get here, we desperately try to change the programming of the game."
In the movie, The Bridge Over the River Kwai, a group of British soldiers in WW II, off on a specific mission, were captured and made prisoners of war by the Japanese. The POW camp had the specific mission of building a railroad bridge over the River Kwai, but the Japanese officers were not doing a good job moving the project along.
So, the British Commander, now a prisoner, convinced the Japanese Commander (of the POW camp) to let British "management" take over the bridge-building operation. The Japanese Commander reluctantly agreed. By changing locations in the film, taking us to the commando training where preparations were under way to blow up the bridge, we were kept with the perspective that there was a war going on! We realized that the point of building the bridge was to essentially improve the killing efficiency of the Japanese, the declared enemy of the British!!
Not to be outdone by their enemy, the Brits put aside their original mission, and took over the operation of their enemy. The Brit POWs built an engineering wonder. It became THEIR bridge, not the Japanese. On the day of completion, puffed with pride, the British Commander walking along the bridge -- absorbing the marvelous wonder of permanence he had completed -- noticed (to his horror) explosive charges placed below on the bridge pilings. His own people placed the explosives there to destroy the enemy's bridge so that the trains could not pass. But, the allied commandos placed the now-exposed explosives at high tide during the night.
All of the POWs who worked on the bridge, as well as us watching the film, didn't want the bridge destroyed, but it was. All of the characters we were rooting for were killed, and as a footnote, the only sane one of the bunch, the medical officer, painful surmised, "Madness. It's all madness."
For me, this movie was almost an exact analogy of life on this planet, in this time and space. We arrive with a mission. We forget our mission, and take up the mission of our physicality, even though this new mission may well be at odds with our own. Not only do we take up this errant mission, we try and excel at it. We try and do it better than our "opponent". We defend our opponent's project with our all, then we die.
I not only agree with GNOSTIC, I couldn't agree more with the doc, this is quite mad, isn't it?
posted by RML at 1:20 PM
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