Synchonicity

You're walking alone minding your own business, when suddenly facts are beating up your mind from all directions at once. Connections you can hear click as they slide perfectly into place in your mind.

Last night i had the honour of watching 2 owls come say hello. Myself and the kids just watched them quietly. We think they're nesting in the palm tree just outside, we'll be watching for more sightings!! I saw one at first, as he was denied dinner by a quick witted little bird, then as i was admiring the second sprang to focus on the next door neighbours roof. Beautiful birds! Too dark for photo's though.

Then we were doing some internet searches on a famous sa politian. The kids could only name mandela ... a sad state of brainwashing if i've ever seen it. So i introduced them to the late Field Marshall Jan Smuts. As politically correct as an awb member in soweto, yet fascinating and definitely worthy of praise for the very full and positive life he lived. A decorated soldier and statesman, the only man who signed both the Treaty of Versailles and the UN. Much of the importance escaped the kids, who apparently lack any real education.

Anyhow, we did a comparison between Smuts and Mandela, and found the famous black guy sadly lacking in credentials. WHY is he so damned famous? More famous than any other world leader since Ghandi, who was also a manufactured item, and also closely linked to SA. In this age of media celebrities, Mandela has become an icon, an untouchable. As big as the poep i'd say. Our own little poep, how convenient. This was a curious conversation in it's own right, but then today a new article was brought to my attention, about some of the skeletons in his closet. Unacknowledged children, wife beating, the usual sa fare. Add in the blood diamonds, and several other questionable events, well he is no saint, not even an admirable man. Just another problem.

Despite all the greatness, his legacy looks no different to apartheid's. A few fantastically rich men, millions of people with neither shelter nor water, and a government that seeks to destroy everything in it's path.

I listened to Bruce Dickinson last night, from whence came the previous post, which started all sorts of correlations in recent thought. Then i was reminded of the "11 phenomenon" ... a few webpages and such and synchronicities were literally screaming at me. Bible passages i quickly looked at echoed in ideas i'd just been thinking of.

BANG BANG BANG

I have no ... conclusion or anything. But the clicking into place of each part is re-assuring, it reminds me that there's stuff in my own head i don't understand. Yes, i like not knowing about the workings of inside my head. Perhaps a great epiphany awaits, i'm overdue for one. But for now, just alert, watching and waiting. For another message or sign or fact to help me understand this really very bizarre planet we share.

EDIT:
About mandela and synchronicities, i only found this now:
Nonexistent Mandela?
by Anonymous
2010-08-12 11:00

Thats just wierd.