Mind Talk and Tangential Thoughts...

Let's talk about ... ideas and the mind. Sometimes I get the feeling that the mind and not Man per se, is the actual likeness of God, for people who believe in the concept of God or a higher being. The similarities are there; like God, the mind is intangible, invincible (most of the time, which is why you end up buying 5000 bucks shoes when you had set out to buy 1000 buck ones!!), and oh-so-powerful. It is the original creator. The body also has a physical process that helps us to create miniatures replicas of ourselves (Oh! he looks just like his dad, she has her mom's nose...), but the results are many a times flawed (talk about Six Sigma processes and all that! where are they when we need them most???), which is why the world is as it is today...

The mind, on the other hand creates incessantly, throwing up ideas up in nanoseconds. Imagine an intangible space that is the hotbed of all creation, located within a tiny space called the brain. Ideas bouncing around in that tiny space. Finding expression, sometimes profound and sometimes idiotic (Philosophy versus PJs???). It is frighteningly fascinating, actually - one small invisible entity that has been behind things such diverse as the fountain pen and the DVD player. To think that the nuclear bomb and the theory of relativity are products of that invisible space!

Going off on a tangent... Have you ever heard of a serial killer dog or a genocidal lion? I for sure haven't. Which makes me wonder ... that attribute of ours that makes us so unique...our ability to think and to differentiate... is also possibly our greatest enemy. To differentiate is to bring about the eternal dichotomy - good, bad, right, wrong, all of which come with attendant emotions - happiness, joy, sadness, selfishness, treachery, cunning reasoning, however straight or twisted... why else would you have mass murderers, schizophrenics, geniuses, saints, mad scientists, and what-have-you?