The Spirit Riddle
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If YOU were GOD, what is the one thing that you would NOT know about?

Meditation #3 - The Stories We Love

A particularly fun contemplation can be considering our favorite stories - books, TV shows, movies.

Some folks enjoy period dramas and mysteries. Some prefer big, flashy super hero tales and imaginative sci fi. Drama and 'love conquers all' are popular themes.

Personally, I'll take all of them!

Think of a couple you'd choose, and consider if LIMITATIONS feature in them?

For example, the period 'Masterpiece' hit, Downton Abbey, has a memorable line that refers to electricity beginning to be installed in a district of early 1900's England. One of the maids remarks "why would anyone want that?" in their kitchen! Ditto the general reaction to a new-fangled telephone.

Downton Abbey kitchen maid and cook must do it all 'old school'.

How fun it is to look back on what it must have been like to experience the dawn of these wonderful inventions. To see the lifting of limitations in lighting, cooking, and communciation as human beings progressed. And sobering to imagine what life was like before all of the modern conveniences that we take for granted today.


In super hero stories, it's easy to see why the audience thrills at the idea of limitations magically erased. We love the idea of being able to fly, have super hearing, x-ray vision, invisibility, shape shifting, immortality, etc. What 'super powers' would you choose?


Christopher Reeves flies as Superman

And in science fiction, many of us are old enough to have glimpsed artistic interpretations of inventions that have come into reality - like a space station, wireless communciators, and video conferencing - wow!


Star Trek characters use video conferencing - like most of us can do today.

Isn't it interesting what attracts us to the 'escapist' TV shows and movies that we enjoy?
How often do limitations - and overcoming them, or leaving them behind - feature?