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Nov 28, 2012, 02:16 AM
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Member Since: May 2010
Location: Some where between my inner mind and the solar system.
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To be honest Yes, there are times when I have wished for ignorance, to be happy and content with my lot. I think of it as being one of the multitude in the film Metropolis except un-rebellious, content to be the "hands" that do not think, do not ask why, do not question.
Most of the time, No, never would I take a pill that would quell my curiosity. I am the one in class that asks the questions everyone wants to ask. I am a believer that knowledge is power. I live in my "head"
In Metropolis there was a quotation about; The mediator is between the head and the hands, it is the heart. Or something close to that.
Star Trek did a show w/ the same theme as Metropolis and I saw that first long before I saw the silent Lang film, but the idea behind the quote, or the Star Trek show has never left me. The idea that the pursuit of head/intellect alone is not enough, nor is the doing of hands/work, happiness/contentment comes from both, the heart/compassion is needed to blend them both into one. Or in the simple words of Buddha moderation in all things.
I tend to live too much in my head and at times I want it to just go away(thats when I would like to take a dumb down pill) thats when I know I need to back off and stop looking for answers to questions that have no answer....at least not yet, in this life as we know it. 
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…Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe no less than the trees and the stars; you have a right to be here. …...
Desiderata Max Ehrmann
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