analogues

so...some speculation about the analogues of things in modern life and those in times past. caused by coming to realise the positive aspects of losing everything on ones computer due to a computer virus. this experience seemed to be analogous to a fire burning all of ones papers, as perhaps happened more often in the past due to people using more candles or whatever other reason.

of course it is initially painful to lose things in this way but then thinking about another use of fire such as burning the ground on which a fresh crop may be grown seems to suggest that computer viruses like fires should be seen as opportunities for a fresh start and having faith that the important things from those files or papers will have somehow stayed with you somewhere else in your life from which it is possible to create again...

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somehow related is the possibility of an analogue between cars and a certain understanding of wild animals that attack/eat humans...both seem to occupy some of kind of status as being an accepted risk of living at a given time in a given place. numerous statistics could suggest that given the number of people that die every year in car "accidents" it is completely baffling how such things havent been outlawed/hunted to extinction, no matter how much incidental pleasure they may bring.  perhaps the experience of a sudden, unexpected death in the course of hunting or just living in nature has been somehow replaced by the horrible meaningless of someone dying in a road accident...but it would seem easier to reconcile getting eaten by an animal, cos its possible to see some overarching benefit/reason to that i.e.a food chain of nutrition whereas the natural cycle of death from a car accident is much longer and more difficult to make clear...so, we die, rot in the ground and eventually become oil or metal?

its about the relation of everyday living to thresholds of danger... 

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why do both these analogues focus on negative/destructive happenings???

... Nothing is negative/destructive. The universe is not as judgemental as all that. We are. Clearly everything we say or think is flavoured by our own judgements and responses to circumstance. But flavour makes things a bit more interesting doesn't it? Speaking of flavour, re. being eaten by animals, what has the length of time a particular cycle takes got to do with enhancing meaning? 

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