If I keep all the rules, will I live for ever?
Published: Fri, 01/08/21
If I stay home indefinitely?
If I avoid contact with other people?
If I don’t travel anywhere?
If I cover my face with a bit of cloth when out in public?
If I only talk to my friends on line?
If I never go to another physical place of worship, training, hospitality, or entertainment again?
If my child never plays with other children even as she grows up?
If I do all these things, am I going to live for ever? Sorry rhetorical question, and to steal from an old joke, the
answer is:
No, but it is sure going to feel like it.
I could make the point that even if you believe the ‘official’ line on the ‘pandemic’, what are we actually being told anyway?
People are dying. Mainly old people. Well, that is what old people do. Both my parents are dead, they even managed to die before we had Covid 19, I am still trying to work that one out.
People are ill in hospital. That is what hospitals are for, when sick people need looking after in hospital it gives those heroic doctors and nurses something useful to do. Who would want to watch an episode of Casualty where all the cast just sat around saying, ‘I wish a pandemic would come along, then we might have an interesting storyline’?
We have thousands of cases of ‘infection’ in people who are perfectly healthy. Thousands of reports of bullet wounds to people who had no blood, no bullet hole, and didn’t even know they had been shot at would be a bit strange, just saying.
And, never buy a Labrador, they make you go blind. Well, why else do you see so many blind people with that breed of dog? Silly joke, but the ‘official’ death figures are: ‘Deaths within 28 days of a positive Covid 19 Test.’ Pretty much everyone dies withing 28 days of a full moon. You have a 1 in 13 chance of dying within 28 days of your birthday. Lies, dammed lies, and statistics anyone?
The standard response to a gentle suggestion that perhaps all these lock downs and other measures to ‘protect the NHS from being overwhelmed.’ at a bit over the top, always seems to be an outraged: ‘But people are dying!’ Well, yes they are, people always have died, and always will. Over 530,000 people died in England and Wales in 2019, yes, extraordinary isn’t it since we didn’t even have Covid back then. What matters is what people have made of their lives between birth, and inevitable death, hopefully a quite a few decades later.
What has become clear over the past few months is that once someone’s mind is paralysed by fear of death it becomes very hard to communicate with them. Those in fear of death are also easily manipulated by those who claim that they can be keep us ‘safe’.
Sorry, but death is inevitable and no amount of ‘keeping to the rules’ as if we were all pupils in some surreal boarding school, is going to make any difference. And no, no one appointed you mask monitor, or social distancing prefect.
Stanza 16 of the Havamal reminds us that:
‘The foolish man thinks he will live for ever if he keeps away from fighting. but old age won’t grant him a truce even if the spears do.’ (Carolynne Larrington translation).
Worth remembering that the Havamal was composed at a time when life spans were much shorter, and premature death much more common than it is today.
I am not a young man any more, although I do have a young family. I am reconciled to my death, but I am not reconciled to missing out on living because of a collective fear of dying. I know old age will get me soon enough, in the meantime I just want to take my chances with the spears of living a full life, maybe you do too.
regards
Graham
PS I gave a presentation just before Christmas on the difference between strategy and tactics and what we can learn from the five principles of Stav. You can find the pdf of the slides I used here if you are interested. https://www.screencast.com/t/xt4VwCdQRp1d