Fit your beliefs around this

There is much to ponder for any sensitive person about the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki towards the end of WW2. One aspect (among many others) always leaves me bemused and wondering.

The primary target for the second bomb was Kokura. However, weather conditions were not good for this target and very near the last minute the target was switched to Nagasaki.

There is something about this that I find shocking. It calls into question virtually any belief you care to name. Thousands of "souls" spared, thousands more obliterated in an instant. If the weather had been kinder over Nagasaki, then all would have been different - that is, for those who lived in those cities.

I realise that for some all this will simply confirm the sheer randomness of Reality. "A tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing".

Yet for other reasons, I remain convinced that Reality has significance. But what of "karma"? What of the "love" of God?

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Ukiyo · 26-30

For me the only significant constant is our observation, actually proven through scientific research stating local reality being not "real" (having a persistent stasis) last year.

Often I do wonder how random randomness is, for one can deduct absolution of Knowledge yet not the persistence of one's reasoning towards that what is known because of the continuation of change. That thought came up as I was reading your post.

And it made me wonder why people care about a situation if it is going to change anyways, no matter where one looks, our situations are understood selectively, and I think the fast phase of technology and media these days often not align with this selection through more slower transmission.

Having written that background bit out, I think people care only as mush as they can comprehend, and the world wars often burn my Tongue to the point I have to either Spoon it up or let my Kettle cool. Saying with it that the happenings of war are outside my experience yet not outside the effects I do experience as result of it being carried over through history and other interconnected means. Sometimes I feel people loosing this bonding because of continuous exposure to dogma and abstract overarching thought flows, but that is all my personal opinion of course!

Usually I try to apply it to new creatives of mine, it makes me position myself fairly distant-like yet also as part of its flow. Kinda how I deal with these happenings, knowing I may alienate people with writing it out like that, but for me personally speaking it has always worked out well.

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@Ukiyo Yes, everything is a constant becoming, including ourselves, yet the strong sense of a persisting self that is presumed to be unchanging seems to throw a spanner into the entire mess!