Private Lives

Warning --- the above link will take you to a slide show --- but the message is strong.

We are tracked and sliced and diced in a myriad of ways. The only path to avoid this is to retire to one of the dwindling wilderness areas of the Earth. Think about a company like Wal-Mart. If you pay by credit card, they know every one of your purchases ever. They know what days you usually come into the store, how often you like to buy sweet items, whether you spend a little or a lot on underwear, what type of music you listen to, the configuration of your home computing and entertainment systems. What you look like. How well you are aging. How often you have sex. And on and on.

Big business intelligence gathering like this makes small business of our lives. What are we to do?

http://www.Changing-History.com

Is Life Short?

To the relative age of the Earth or the Universe, our time between living and dying is short. But we are not simply the body that exists between our birth and death. The things that we do vibrate out from us and affect that which is around us. And those things affect other things. So in this way we really never die. We are connected to all things in all places and with that comes great freedom to influence the world as well as great responsibility for our actions. Our lives are immense.