An Amazing Site!
For those interested in the human condition, I cannot recommend more strongly the site, 6 Billions Others.
You will gain extraordinary insight into the human spirit, and realise how similar we all are. This is a very important project, and I applaud all those involved.
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Fascinating site. Cheers. At this time it is late night here and I'm about to go to bed and get up for another routine week of work early tommorow moring. Watching those videos where people tell it like it is for them, has made me fairly depressed to be honest with you. Noticing a perplexed and dissapointed look in the eyes of many of them at what this thing 'life' is. This beautiful horror story, and the disturbing side that comes when somebody disrupts our distracting routines and asks us plainly about this thing we are.
All of this is the risk of looking deep into meaning,it seems. Over years I have deeply looked into myself with all kinds of esoteric practices and all kinds of wanderings, but ultimately I am here late at night about to start another routine week of work, going to bed alone, the sand in the biological egg timer pours slowly away with each second, and I'm none the wiser about it all. Then again, some say that when you realize you know nothing, there is the beginning of wisdom. But if so, then the feeling isn't particularly pleasant.
I am perplexed, Alex, that this would depress you. I think that the site presents both the variety of the human spirit, as well as the similarities that link us so strongly together. Yes, there is suffering in the world, as reflected in some of those faces. But, isn't that a great reminder that there is work to be done?
Everyday life makes us feel bleak, because it is the existence we are tested against. Everyday life is so much more if we choose to step beyond our comfort zones. Alex, you already know this.
I tried commenting on this post a couple of times, but it didn't seem to stick.. let's see if it works this time..
I loved this site, and thought it's a fabulous idea! Not at all depressing, in my opinion, but comforting. It focuses on the fact that we're all the same, rather than looking at any great differencies.
No matter how "alone" you are, there are millions of people out there, and think how many of them you could have interesting discussions with?
Ah, it was one of those nights when just the expression on someone's face and their words resonated with me. It was the first clip I saw, and it kind of set the stage. Overall I tend to rock side to side regarding how I view our human condition. We are capable of such beauty and wonder. But mediocrity,idiocy,tribalism,and predictability is more often than not the way humanity is. Don't mind me, I just guess I'm 'cynical traveller' (sorry, I can't use that name it's already been used before LOL).
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