Saturday, October 12, 2024

 

In a mother’s womb were two babies.

One asked the other: “Do you believe in life after delivery?”

The other replied: “Why of course. There has to be something after delivery. Maybe we are here to prepare ourselves for what we will ask later.”

“Nonsense” said the first. “There is no life after delivery. What kind of life would that be?”

The second said, “I do not know, but there will be more light than here. Maybe we will walk with our legs and eat from our mouths. Maybe we will have other senses that we cannot now understand.”

The first replied, “that is absurd. Walking is impossible. And eating with our mouths? Ridiculous! The umbilical cord supplies nutrition and everything we need. But the umbilical cord is short. Life after delivery is to be logically excluded.”

The second insisted, “Well I think there is something and maybe it’s different than it is here. Maybe we will not need this physical cord anymore.”

The first replied, “Nonsense. And moreover, if there is life, then why has no one ever come back from there? Delivery is the end of life, and in the after-delivery there is nothing but darkness and silence and oblivion. It takes us nowhere.”

The second responded, “Well, I do not know, but certainly we will meet mother and she will take care of us.”

The first said, “Mother? You actually believe in mother? That’s laughable. If mother exists, then where is she now?”

The second said, “She is all around us. We are surrounded by her. We are of her. It is of her that we live. Without her this world would not and could not exist.”

The first said, “Well I do not see her, so it is only logical that she does not exist.”

The second replied, “Sometimes, when you’re in silence and you focus and you really listen, you can perceive her presence, and you can hear her loving voice calling down from above.”

 딸이 독립해서 혼자 산지 6개월 정도 지났다.

비행기에 개인 화물 접수처에서 일하는데 신입이라 많지 않는 급여로 생활한다.

그래서, 물어봐다 "혼자 사니 돈 많이 들어가지"

딸이 답하기길

" 들숨에 20만원 날숨에 30만원 나가"

숨만 쉬어도 돈이 들어 간다더니 표현이 그냥 뇌를 꽤 뚫는 느낌이였다.

Wednesday, July 19, 2023



    날 것 그대로의....

Saturday, July 11, 2020

클루지

책 클루지가 생각나네요 인간은 적당히 살만한 진화를 한것이지 지금의 인간 모습이 완벽한 진화의 산물은 아니라고 하네요

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

곤경에 빠지는 건...

“곤경에 빠지는 건 뭔가를 몰라서가 아니다. 
 뭔가를 확실히 안다는 착각 때문이다” 
 - 마크 트웨인 -


출처: https://totoentertainment.tistory.com/87?category=671221 [투투의 이야기 보따리]

Friday, May 17, 2019

Wednesday, November 01, 2017

세계가 한 고등학교라면, 각 나라는 어떤 태도를 가질까?

Arman Siani, Engineer, Entrepreneur, Traveler

·         China: Used to be a poor but intelligent, hardworking and an extremely fierce guy. Now he is the up and coming, rich guy who is still hard-working, intelligent and extremely fierce. Doesn’t pick fights, and tends to avoid them, but will make you seriously regret your actions if you start a fight with him. Very good at science and math.
·         The United States: Extremely rich and powerful guy, who is now being challenged by China. Some people accuse him of being a bully, but some nations like him a lot. Always getting into trouble and poking his head in stuff that doesn’t concern him.
·         Russia: The quiet but intelligent kid, with a dark past. He is extremely strong, and people who have underestimated his strength in the past and tried to pick fights with him ended up with being permanently maimed or injured beyond recognition. He is very fierce of his small group of friends and is extremely protective of his zone of the classroom.
·         France: People suspect that he is gay because he looks sophisticated and posh. He occasionally helps out other students with their art and philosophy homework.
·         India: Dirty and unkempt. But brilliant, when push comes to shove. Like China is very good at math and science, but because of his indiscipline and lack of hard work, is unlikely to be as great and influential a student as China is.
·         Pakistan: Dirty and unkempt. And isn’t really good with academics either. His only claim to fame was that he scored moderately well in the Nuclear Science 101 elective (which pretty much all the other students failed except for 9 students), and that too after China helped him with the homework assignment of that class. Picks fight with India even though he knows he would lose.
·         Sweden: She is that superficial blonde girl who thinks too highly of herself. She has a pathological hatred of men, calls herself a feminist and thinks that she is a “strong, independent woman”, but in reality isn’t really good at much and is just a whiny schoolmarm. No one bothers her because she looks decent and doesn’t really do much.
·         Norway: Sweden’s less deranged cousin who found some oil, and is now rich. She is going through a hard metal phase now.
·         Canada: Cold and frigid, she is America’s smaller cousin. People generally like her, and even admire her, because she is still pristine and polite, not brash and spoiled like America.
·         Germany: He is extremely punctual and sophisticated. He used to be a big bully though, bullying pretty much all of his neighboring classmates. But then he made the fatal mistake of trying to bully Russia and the US and was subsequently beaten to a pulp. From that point onwards, he has improved his behavior and tries his best to avoid fights and mediate between other students when there is conflict.
·         North Korea: A deranged psychopath that no one wants to touch with a 10ft pole. He gets sent to the psych ward a lot but keeps coming back and bothering everyone by shouting at the top of his lungs and shaking his fists. He too scored pretty decently on the Nuclear Science 101 class, with help from his acquaintance, Pakistan.
·         South Korea: North Korea’s healthy, intelligent cousin. She used to be pretty poor and destitute. But since then, has become rich, and now is generally well respected. She is often threatened by North Korea, but she knows that North Korea is all talk.
·         Japan: Intelligent and high tech, he used to be a big bully, trying to beat up his neighbors. But like Germany, he started to bully people way bigger than him and ended up badly beaten. Since then he has cleared up his act and now does pretty well in his classes. He has got weird sexual fetishes though, and some people suspect him of being a perv.
·         UK: Used to be a powerful, proud guy with significant clouds. Students like India and Pakistan were his b**ch. But now, he is America’s b**ch.
·         Israel: He usually picks fights with folks that are much weaker than him and calls himself “powerful” but in reality, is tiny and one or two nuclear punches away from being dead. But to his credit, he used to be poor and homeless, but since then, has worked hard to survive in a hostile neighborhood and has prospered amid significant hostility.
·         Nigeria: Frequently tries to scam people by saying that he is some sort of “prince” but he isn’t even good at that. He has got the resources to be moderately wealthy but chooses to be lazy and unkempt instead.
·         Ukraine: Used to be Russia’s friend at one point. But then America told her that she should go ahead and instigate Russia, which she naively did, believing that America would protect her, and make her his sugar baby. Instead, she ended up being Russia’s b**ch. She was good at Aeronautical Engineering at one point but is now just trying to get by and pass her classes.
·         Brazil: She is HOT. Like really hot. And she is incredibly good at playing football and computer games. She is your perfect girlfriend.
·         Bangladesh: Incredibly poor, but trying her level best to improve her condition. In her spare time, she stitches garments for richer students and sells them at a much lower price, even though she pricks herself with the sewing needle quite often because she cannot afford good sewing instruments.
·         Saudi Arabia: Incredibly rich girl. But she is very conservative, and wears clothes that cover her entire body. She is very influential and sells oil at very cheap rates to her friends. She is one of America’s closest acquaintances, which surprises a lot of people, given how different these two students are.

·         Switzerland: The incredibly beautiful, but introverted girl who talks to no one. She quietly sits at one corner of the classroom, finishes her homework on time, and leaves.

Sunday, September 03, 2017

맨 프롬 어스 ( Man From Earth )



무한한 지식의 바다...
인터넷 동영상 유튜브를 떠다니다 7분 26초 짜리 영화 감상평을 보고 난후 궁금해서 1시간 27분 7초 짜리 영화로 보게 되었다. 물론 고맙게도 유튜브에 있었다. 종교인들에게 충격을 주었다고 하였는데 그부분은 아직까지 종교인이 아니라서 견해는 보류한다. 영화는 각자의 전문성을 가진 사람들이 더 많은 정보와 논리에 무장해제 되면서 상대의 말에 부정하지 못하고 무너져 가는 모습과 영화의 끝 무렵, 꾸며낸 이야기라고 말 할때 자기들이 그토록 믿고자 했던 그들의 신념이나 철학들이 복귀됨에 안도하게 된다. 그렇지만 잠시라도 그들이 전부라고 믿었던 것들에 대한 멘탈적 붕괴로 자책성 비판을 하게 된다. 생각을 할 수 있는 좋은 영화임은 틀림없다.

이틀전..
아는 지인을 만나 소주를 하면서 아마도 그런 이야길 했던거 같다.
나이가 들면서 자기가 가지고 있는 신념이나 철학등이 그다지 필요 없을때가 있다고.
젊은날에 우리는 인생의 방향성을 정하기 위하여 해야될 것과 하지 말아야 할것을 정하면서 스스로의 틀을 만든다. 하지만 대부분 그 틀은 순수하게 자기의 생각으로 만들어진게 아니다. 사회라는 환경이 요구하는 도덕적, 제도적인 것들을 기준으로 만들어 진 것이다. 나 보다 앞서간 사람들이 말했다. 왜 그렇게 고집하고 살았는지....