Derek, this is one of the most amazing videos I have ever heard! It strikes so many memories that I hope I can describe.DTR1975 wrote: ↑Sun Apr 07, 2024 11:31 pm The AI doing the narration is not great. Nevertheless the experience is really cool and heartwarming.
https://youtu.be/APiBAqBNalc?si=bpFWv8heEfumk9zY
My father was born in 1911 and he survived the influenza epidemic of 1918 which killed 50 million people including half of the people in his small village along the Allegheny River here, near Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. He was a naturally born hunter and fisherman. He taught over 400 people to hunt and fish and provided food and shelter for his original family of eleven from the age of 14, and continued to provide food and goods for hundreds of people in our small town and beyond.
I only saw him cry on two occasions, in the mid 1990s when my mother died, and in the 1940s when his dog died. His dog was a female, who had hundreds of puppies over the years, she also was a natural hunter and he turned down offers to buy her for up to a thousand dollars.
I never became a hunter, however, at age seven and until my military service at age 20, I was an expert rifleman and pistol team member in the US Army during the early 1960s, having the second highest accuracy with an M1 carbine in basic training at Fort Knox, Kentucky in the winter of 1961-62. Today, I would NEVER touch any weapon. I would rather die
Because I believe [ONLY FOR MY OWN BELIEFS] that our only actual existence is the eternal, intangible awareness of the Divine Presence, to me, everything physical is a result of our spiritual imagination and we are completely free to define our own identity and experiences in any way we choose. Our physical presence and experiences, I believe are a memory cloud which we create from the infinite set of spiritual experiences which never pause nor repeat in the eternal awareness.
So my concept of humanity, physicality and tangibility is that it is a kind of virtual reality video which our brains create and edit in any way that we choose to experience and interpret our physical experiences. Beloved pets, in my concept, are in the virtual reality which we create because we are spiritually connected to the spirits of those we love who love us and those spirits are always completely and constantly present in our actual awareness. We are simply too distracted by the tangibility of our physical life and simply need to pay attention to the spiritual presence of our loved ones who may or may not have any human identity because they are actually intangible awareness rather than an objective physical presence.
