Perhaps the most annoying and oddest aspect of facecrook is the counterfeit immortality it unwillingly and unknowingly gives you. I've lost quite a few VERY close friends in 2009 and as much as I love visiting them in a quantum and spiritual way, I certainly don't need to be reminded of their absence in this dimensional path nearly everyday. There's that tiny and absurd box that reminds you of all the friends that you haven't contacted lately via facecrook, and of course, why would anyone really bother writing on a passed friend's facecrook page? Honestly, the intention is there and that's what really counts, but must one do it in such a public way? Or is facecrook becoming the first and preferred way for humans to contact one another more and more? Usually such a notion would find it's written form in a notebook of mine but I believe it's quite fitting to publish this online since it deals directly with this new 'online consciousness' and binary life we all seem to be willingly (and scarily enough, more frequently) participating in and for some, consumed by.
Yes I find it annoying that a computing system made up of 1s and 0s is unabashed to force you to remember not only the fact that your dearly loved friend is no longer physically present, but it reminds me of death. Though to me, death is simply a notion, the loss of a physical state has nothing to do with the epicenter of being but it certainly does relate to our physical state of experiencing being. I might also mention that I sometimes visit the edge of that chasm and peer down into the endlessness and wonder what's so enticing and mysterious about physical death and it's relationship with being. The moment we start living, we start dying, it's an unavoidable proxy of existing in this realm, but does the opposite hold true? The moment we start dying, do we start living? The simple shift in perspective shines an entirely new myriad of light across the entire notion of being, in life or in death.
So back to the whole 'digital living' thing. No algorithms of an individual's entirety is recorded in these databases online, no essence of who we are even properly translates over the computer screen (though I do admit we can share parts of ourselves with more people now, which is interesting in itself), so why the obsession with socializing online? Can one 'die online'? Is it possible to remove every speck of myself from the finite capacity of these digitized minds? Set off an EMP (Electro Magnetic Pulse) shock wave and theoretically yes. For the naturalists, the Sun's electro-magnetism, even an immense solar flare, could shut down all electronic devices on this planet, so yes, it's possible. But is it possible to wipe away the memory of a loved one from one's consciousness? No. Not even if we tried the rest of our lives.
The point of all this? I hope all of us learn to start embracing each of our connections with people in a real way (sometimes due to physical distance, online is the only way to contact some loved ones) rather than simply gain presence through a digitized illusion of being, living. If any of us need reminders of our friend's that have passed on, especially by a computer, then perhaps we are digitized already ourselves. We're all already alive and don't need to be constantly reminded of death, the absence of loved friends, or that fact that facecrook is a digital vortex trying to intentionally and specifically gather information on lives (likes, dislikes, patterns, desires, etc) that was entirely foreign to the computing world just 10 years ago for who knows what means. I live on not only for myself but for the loved ones who gave their lives to help fill the lives of the ones they loved, so I live on to also fill the lives of those I love. And I love you all.
Although this is a digitized message, the intent comes from the heart. Quantumly entangled, all of us, I hope the true message is received.
this song has also been on repeat:
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