a reply to:
machineintelligence
I don't get this 'time' business.
Are people really so trusting, they just think they can post something without the post being able to be edited, deleted, destroyed or disappear?
Anyone should always have been taking 'backups' on anything they deem to be of any value, so this kind of 'now it's time'-thing doesn't really make
sense. If you weren't doing it before, there's no reason to do it now, and if you were doing it before, how is it suddenly 'time' to do it now?
You can't back up your life, you can't 'save' moments by taking videos, photos or selfies, you can't 'store memories' with any kind of method, but
people keep thinking they can.
It's a hoarder-mentality to try to back up everything all the time, so nothing would ever be destroyed. You might as well wear a full-body condom and
live in a bouncy castle so you can't get hurt by falling or hitting your head against the wall accidentally.
Backing up is a sign of lack of faith; you don't trust that the Universe will give anything and everything you need, you don't trust that your Cosmic
Father will take care of you and if you lose something, it was meant to be lost and discarded, and in the long run, even if you feel pain of 'loss'
(which is a materialistic thing to feel anyway), it was meant to be and good for you karmically speaking and cultivates spiritual growth - or as some,
more materialistic-minded people put it, "it builds character".
I have suffered horrible 'data crashes', lost a lot of my self-taken video I will never get back, I have lost all kinds of self-created art (multiple
times, too), and a few times I have lost ALL the data I collected during many years.
Am I now doing backups?
Nope.
That is not the style of a spiritual nomad, a traveler in the Cosmos - you can't be free while you CLING to anything, whether it's data or security,
whether it's family or friends, whether it's money or other possessions. If you hoard and hoard things, and then feel immense pain when you lose some
(or all) of it, it is a sign that something is (or was) wrong with you, and this is the opportunity to become whole again and learn valuable life
lessons.
Backing up POSTS is the most ridiculous thing! I mean, posts are communication, they're just ideas and messages thrown into the Universe, someone
might or might not receive them, they're like notes in bottles thrown into the ocean - you will never know who will read them, unless they respond, of
course.
Why would anyone want to back up communications like that? That's like capturing every phone call and casual chat you have with your neighbour or
backing up every single email you have ever sent or received. What's the point of that? It will all be gone anyway, and even if not, YOU will be gone
soon enough and can't take ANY of that with you.
In 800 years, when you live in another planet, a better world, are you going to suddenly gasp and realize how much you miss that Hello Kitty doll
someone stole from you in the year 2000 AD?
I don't think so. So why even try to cling to it? It's an act of desperation, materialism and selfishness. Just let go.
Whatever you need, you will get, so just let it all go, let your posts be deleted and disappear completely from existence. You are still whole, you
don't need them. You can always write more, and besides, they were whispers into the wind anyway, they were written by a different you, as you have
grown and changed and might write a completely different posts nowadays, with different perspective, different terminology, and even feel embarrassed
by your old posts.
No one thought to try to capture every single conversation they ever had in real life just a few short decades ago. It didn't even enter into people's
minds that they should 'back up' the moment of fun they were having when chatting with their friends in a cafeteria or walking in the forest engaged
in a philosophical conversation.
All those words that were just soundwaves in the air, are gone. They weren't captured.
Why would anyone be so egotistical to think their silly internet posts are somehow more important than ALL that communication that has been lost into
the wind in history, by people more sophisticated and intelligent than any of us? Why would our nasty, crappy, grammatically horrific posts be 'backed
up', while the poignant and insightful words and thoughts of some bright and spiritual Zen master of ancient history are lost forever?
(I know about Akashic Records, though, but it would be beyond the scope of this post to try to explain why it's different)
Just .. let go. You will feel better. Take the pain, enjoy it, let it cultivate you and make you into a better human being.
As they say, 'letting go is the magic of the Gods / Divine'.
Don't cling.. just let go.