Fractal fans:
For the foreseeable future, the FOTD's will be few and far
between, if there are any at all. I have not stopped finding
interesting scenes in the abstract world of fractals. Indeed,
my hard drive and backup disk are still filling with these
mathematical wonders. The situation is that I have become
equally fascinated with the abstract world of spirit, which to
me is every bit as real and far more important than the world of
fractals. If I were to continue to post the FOTD and its
discussions, my words would appear totally inappropriate for a
list devoted to fractal exploration.
To me, the increasing unrest in the world is a result of the
spiritual bankruptcy of our culture, which I see as using
technology and the sensations created by its countless gadgets
to cover the spiritual emptiness we find when we dare to look
within ourselves. Conventional religion with its nonsensical
doctrines has totally failed to fill this emptiness, while
science does even worse, failing to admit that spirit even
exists outside of an emotional stimulus created by the mortal
brain, and Atheists and skeptics confirm what science only
reluctantly implies.
This leaves many people totally adrift, in a world they see as
without meaning, a world in which they see themselves as mere
temporary aberrations of nature, fighting among themselves as
they vanish one-by-one into eternal oblivion like the flash of a
firefly in the summer night. As I see it, this is what is now
happening with our culture, and unless we can find rational and
believable meaning and hope for our individual selves as well as
our children, all the feel-good talk about the different
cultures getting along together has not a 'ghost' of a chance of
bringing the peace and harmony we can now only dream about.
JIM
