What blows your mind?

[Johnny Stew]

Bigotry, violence (in general, but especially when it's directed at women, children and animals), aggression, cynicism, and just plain ol' negativity... they all blow my mind.
Sure, this world sucks sometimes, but I don't relate to wallowing in that or becoming hardened by it. Life's too short... why waste time grousing about all the stuff that you don't like, when you could be focusing on the stuff that you do?

[gldstwmn]

The synchronicity of life.

[dissention]

Many different things and people blow my mind.

-Philip Glass' Einstein On the Beach
-Cybernetics
-Hare Krishna (and their cute little finger cymbals)
-Performances from Judy Davis and Christian Bale
-Organized religion
-The way our government disregards the effects of depleted uranium
-Joan of Arc
-Carl Sandberg poems
-Our national budget
-The bump on Shrub's back during the debates
-Hugo Ball's sound-poems
-Woody Allen movies
-Republican values
-Books by J.G. Ballard and Ray Bradbury
-Animal hunting
-Musical artists that never stop experimenting
-Bigotry and ignorance
-Jude Law cheating on Sienna Miller with the hired help

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by dissention

-Hare Krishna (and their cute little finger cymbals)

"And all those Hare Krishnas turned out to be a joke."

Bob. <333333333

[dissention]

Originally Posted by GateandGarden

"And all those Hare Krishnas turned out to be a joke."

Bob. <333333333

Radha will get both of you for that, Hillary.

Hare Krishna Hare Krishna Krishna Krishna Hare Hare
Hare Rama Hare Rama Rama Rama Hare Hare

*taps finger cymbals together*

[greatdarkwing]

I'm surprised no one else has posted about this...

but what about death? For instance ok, you die, then what?! Nothing? Does your soul just kinda meander around? Doesnt that just freak anyone else out...that one day you just STOP EXISTING?!

[pianogirl04]

Four year olds blow my mind. Their innate intelligence, their innocence, their ability to absorb everything that goes on around them and learn and adapt. I wish my mind was half as versatile as theirs. One of my four year old students was trying to grasp the concept of time signatures a while back and after spending five minutes trying to explain it back to me all within the concepts of 'same' and 'different', she looks at me and goes, "Miss Kortni, am I a good 'splainer?" Blew my mind. She's a very good 'splainer, by the way.

Special needs children blow my mind. I still remember when I was working with autistic kids and I wore a new jacket I had... the nonverbal girl kept trying to get my attention and she kept signing "girl" to me and I couldn't figure out why. Then it hit me -- she associated "girl" with the concept of "pretty" and she was telling me my jacket was pretty. She was very happy when I acknowledged that. A couple weeks later, the last time I saw her, she kept playing with my ID tag... so I took it off and gave it to her. She held it up to compare the picture with my face, kissed the tag, and gave it back to me. I will never, ever forget that as long as I live.

The way the concept of harmony evolves is fascinating. The way harmony exists blows my mind, the way it works. The workings of a song, from the way the music complements the words to the emotion it evokes to how it's created... What really gets me is how music as part of an industry works, and not in the negative way... but how people work together as musicians, how concert tours work, how so many people can be touched by music during a concert... it blows my mind just to be in the audience, let alone to imagine being somebody on stage and being a part of that experience, and music is something you can't even touch. Gets me every time and I keep coming back to it in absolute wonder.

[amber]

Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

I'm surprised no one else has posted about this...

but what about death? For instance ok, you die, then what?! Nothing? Does your soul just kinda meander around? Doesnt that just freak anyone else out...that one day you just STOP EXISTING?!

No.
Anyways, when random good things happen to me, or a bunch of stuff works out, that blows my mind.

[sparky]

The sheer number of human beings on this planet blows my mind. The thought of all those people...I can't even fathom it.

The killer mind blower for me is the concept of time. Where does it go ? Is it something that can ever be controlled ? Are there parallel universes ? Will we ever be able to travel through it ?

On the other hand, death doesn't bother me at all. Or blow my mind. Not my own anyway. The death of people I love or animals I love is horrific (ugh...the loss of my pets has in some ways been WORSE than the loss of people). My own death ? Feh. What an adventure it will be. Or just rest. I like rest.

[macfanken]

Flight. I fly all the time, normally I don't give it a second thought, but every once in a while the whole concept blows my mind.

[wondergirl9847]

I'm another one of those who had an extremely difficult time with math in school. My dad would help me with my math homework, and I ended up crying every freakin' time! I was such a good student otherwise, loved Science and English, History, eh, whatever and HATED math with the fire of a million suns.

Teachers can make a difference in the way you understand things, but dayum, math just sucks.

[StevieNicksEO17]

Originally Posted by wondergirl9847

I'm another one of those who had an extremely difficult time with math in school. My dad would help me with my math homework, and I ended up crying every freakin' time! I was such a good student otherwise, loved Science and English, History, eh, whatever and HATED math with the fire of a million suns.

Teachers can make a difference in the way you understand things, but dayum, math just sucks.

I love Algebra, but Geometry was a bitch. The only reason I passed (With exactly a 60.0, mind you) was I cheated. I know, it sounds horrible, but I was not about to take that class again. I'm not a science or a history person either. I almost failed history, too. Hmm. I'm not a school person in general!

[littlecricket2]

Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

I'm surprised no one else has posted about this...

but what about death? For instance ok, you die, then what?! Nothing? Does your soul just kinda meander around? Doesnt that just freak anyone else out...that one day you just STOP EXISTING?!

Actually, you're not alone. Death kinda blows my mind too; I'm fairly curious about it. There are so many possibilities for what actually happens to your "essence," your soul, whatever you call it, when you die.

The idea of not existing, like, not being aware of the world around me in any capacity at some point, blows my mind.

[DrummerDeanna]

Death doesn't blow my mind in the sense that people "Stop existing" because I don't think that happens.

I mean - true the person who was once walking around and alive is no longer able to do that - but that doesn't mean they don't exisit - there are still lots of memories and legacies left behind - and I, for one, am excited about the possibilities of what can lie ahead after death - after we leave the human shell we are in....crazy!

[GateandGarden]

Originally Posted by greatdarkwing

I'm surprised no one else has posted about this...

but what about death? For instance ok, you die, then what?! Nothing? Does your soul just kinda meander around? Doesnt that just freak anyone else out...that one day you just STOP EXISTING?!

Yes, it blows my mind too. It's an unknown. I've tried to imagine how it is to not exist and to feel nothing. It would be comparable to being numb all over, and that is pretty much impossible for me to imagine. And if death is not the end (which is what I believe but don't consider a proven fact or anything) then how strange is it to exist in another form? Do you watch over the living and feel frustrated because you can't make things better for them?