Hey Universe! Where's my gear?

Open_Mike · November 16, 2017, 5:27pm

“It’s like you took a bottle of ink and you threw it at a wall. Smash! And all that ink spread. And in the middle, it’s dense, isn’t it? And as it gets out on the edge, the little droplets get finer and finer and make more complicated patterns, see? So in the same way, there was a big bang at the beginning of things and it spread. And you and I, sitting here in this room, as complicated human beings, are way, way out on the fringe of that bang.
We are the complicated little patterns on the end of it. Very interesting. But so we define ourselves as being only that. If you think that you are only inside your skin, you define yourself as one very complicated little curlique, way out on the edge of that explosion. Way out in space, and way out in time.
Billions of years ago, you were a big bang, but now you’re a complicated human being. And then we cut ourselves off, and don’t feel that we’re still the big bang. But you are. Depends how you define yourself. You are actually–if this is the way things started, if there was a big bang in the beginning-- you’re not something that’s a result of the big bang. You’re not something that is a sort of puppet on the end of the process. You are still the process.
You are the big bang, the original force of the universe, coming on as whoever you are. When I meet you, I see not just what you define yourself as Mr so-and-so, Ms so-and-so, Mrs so-and-so, I see every one of you as the primordial energy of the universe coming on at me in this particular way. I know I’m that, too. But we’ve learned to define ourselves as separate from it.”
-Alan Watts

darenager · November 16, 2017, 5:44pm

^ Alan Watts I love his philosophy and Earl Nightingale also.

Open_Mike · November 16, 2017, 5:52pm

I love Alan Watts, he’s one of my favorites… I have lots of his lectures as audio and have listened to them for years, sometimes I fall asleep to it…
I really enjoy his discussions on Zen…

sezare56 · November 16, 2017, 7:53pm

My favorite guitar was lost between Greece and France for a month, I had it back after. I have it since 25 years now.

Open_Mike · November 16, 2017, 8:10pm

Your case is on its own tour…
It’s probably been playing gigs and partying its rollers off!

stonecoldgroove · November 16, 2017, 8:11pm

Apparently… seems it wanted one last hurrah in São Paulo.

stonecoldgroove · November 20, 2017, 2:38pm

So today is the 19th of FedEx. I’m preparing to take the bus to the venue shipping and receiving department to get my gear.
I’m very curious if this is the end of this little saga, meaning everything is in the case the way I packed it over a week ago, or if I’m going to have continued contact with these folks.

I should know in an hour or two.

LyingDalai · November 20, 2017, 3:11pm

30mn later… Still waiting for hearing the answer from the Universe !!

stonecoldgroove · November 20, 2017, 4:23pm

Woohoo!!! Just like I packed it.

Ryan · November 20, 2017, 4:26pm

ITS A CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!

woo

elektrobot7 · November 20, 2017, 4:53pm

good experience…. and one of the best threads of the year. Happy Tweaking!

Open_Mike · November 20, 2017, 8:22pm

Now you can pack one up and celebrate!

Open_Mike · November 20, 2017, 8:34pm

After our mystical ruminations about gear and the universe, I found some Alan Watts (whom I quoted) that I hadn’t heard before:-http://download1097.mediafire.com/gk7fotwvvqxg/8al4vsjw1w1jbns/--Alan+Watts+-+How+Could+This+Happen+To+Me+(360p_H.264-AAC).mp3

Alan Watts was a famous British philosopher who was known for explaining eastern philosophy to Western folks… And one of my personal favorite people to listen to.

In this lecture he happens to speak of how we perceive our internal and external world, our relationship with the universe, and even relates things to musical scales and intervals…

It’s a good listen…