Causation is the action of causing something. However, it is usually not a pure action, but rather is a reaction. Human beings, with their egos, tend to see themselves as the source of power that makes and causes things. We do not (nearly as much) see how past incidents shaped us to react in the ways we react. Causality is the relationship between causes and effects. Most of us have limited views of the effects that our reactions have.
Causation is time and the continuity of time. Our reactions, involving causation, come from innumerable effects, many of which we are unaware of. Causation can stem from desire, motive, fear, conditioning, and a lot of other things. Causation usually involves reacting to (and from) things and events. Can one look and perceive more holistically, without merely reacting in the same old ways? It may be prudent to often just observe without past influences and past conditioning altering (via time) what takes place. To stop and see the whole may often be better than just robotically reacting according to instilled conditioning. We were educated to react (like robots)… not to stop and be something deeper than mere reaction. Society, with its monetary mesmerization and desire to control and mold you, wants you to continue reacting (to their, for instance, commercials, political urgings, desires for power, and suggestions that the enemy is “over there.”)
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Thank you, Richard! The snow here in Illinois keeps endlessly coming. No traffic is occurring (for now). ❄️❄️
White on white, just like the snow that is falling outside … I would like it to be Summer again, even if I whined about the heat and humidity. My whining always comes back to haunt me.
Yes, Linda, winter is here in too brutal and harsh a state. Tons of snow here, and i will have to go out tomorrow to shovel a lot. There is no significant traffic in the normally busy highway. We need sunshine and heat!
I sure hope that you are dealing OK with the white stuff!
I hope you were careful shoveling Tom … I never see kids coming around to shovel anymore. I used to rake leaves and shovel snow with friends when we had a snow day or on weekends back in the day. Our snow ended up melting some because we got rain early this morning – that was good as it was not as heavy, but … it is going to 18 degrees tonight, so it will be very slippery tomorrow and more snow Monday night into Tuesday and bitter cold. I am just establishing a regular pattern with my Park squirrels after losing so many of them last Winter, well, that interaction will suffer as I’m wary of going there in snow/ice, which is why I missed so many days last year. I was fearless before, but since they don’t maintain the walking path and our City streets are not plowed/salted until it is three inches of snow, I take no chances anymore.
I was thinking, the last couple of days, how kids don’t come around anymore to shovel snow for you (and to make a little bit of spending money). Times have changed, and no one is coming around to help the elderly much anymore. A neighbor farmer, however, with his tractor and snowplow, came by and helped shovel a bit of my driveway. That was very nice of him!