posted June 18, 2004 11:37 PM         

This is what I think....

Terry and Tara were turtles,
Sweet little twosome, I'm told,
With dreams of living together...
At least, until they grew old.

These two little turtles were tiny,
Only 1" by 1" - they were neat,
Could have stayed that size for a lifetime,
If not exposed to exceptional heat.

As turtles, I guess they were helpless,
When Philbird decided to cook,
Now the two little turtles are ashes,
Despite all the precautions they took.

Now you ask "Is there a Heaven for turtles,
A place for the big and the small,
A place for the meek and mighty,
And for those that can't walk, only crawl?"

There are no "Red Lobsters" in Heaven,
No heat lamps either, I'm told,
There's really no need for them is there?
It's hardly a place to be cold!

'Cos there are no real DANGERS in Heaven,
Well, perhaps, I can think of a few,
Like getting crushed by a much larger turtle,
Or reincarnating to YOU!!!!

Lots of Gia.

posted June 21, 2004 12:25 AM         

I was soaking in my bath tub the other night just pondering. Inhaling deeply the smells of my fragrant essential oils - that's all I was inhaling, I promise! I was pondering about us, the earth, the universe, and turtles in captivity. This is what came to mind...

If you live in captivity, and you've always lived in captivity, that becomes all you know. It's your whole world, perhaps even your universe. So you make assumptions about the world that surrounds you. For somebody outside of your world looking in some of those assumptions may border on the ridiculous and have no foundation of truth.

What if Terry and Tara thought that the heat lamp Philbird used was the sun? What, I wonder, did they think about Philbird placing them carefully on a purple plate? Could it be possible they thought that they were being abducted by an alien [Philbird] and given some kind of unusual examination?

What possible conclusions did they come to about what may exist outside their space? Did they think that turtle end times were neigh when their sun went nuts shining day and night?

Now, what if I use that analogy about us? Lets face it, looking back at history we made some bizzare assumptions and came to some pretty odd conclusions that went way beyond the ridiculous. Quantum physics is pushing the boundaries of our so called "normality" all the time. We are now aware of spaces beyond our space, but what if those spaces were not beyond our space at all, but within it? Our reality, as Daf says, is illusion based mainly about what we percieve and how.

Though what if the illusion was an illusion also. Are we like those turtles in captivity?

posted June 26, 2004 06:53 PM         

i once had a turtle that my family found in the desert.., well, maybe it was a tortiose because it was so big....well, one day i came home from school and she was gone....