Howling at the Moon or Looking through the Looking-Glass
The moon is 238,900 miles away. Therefore, is it something to consider when things on earth go awry? Can the moon be that far away and affect us? Particular lay expressions would have us believe it can. Although scientists tell us differently, lay opinions are obstinate. They are dated but may be something to think about. They have long expressed thought that the full moon brings havoc. Lay opinion parallel the belief of the medical and emergency units and policemen fit into this sect, also. Perhaps only these communities understand that whether myth or not, if it “quacks like a duck...” I’m committed to paying-attention to it, if simply for personal reasons. When my day is off-line and I’m met with rudeness and have to escape personalities expressing dissatisfaction in one way or another, and sometimes aiming it at me, or when I stump my toe, I ask, “Is the moon full?” There are times when those little mishaps and those unleashing their character flaws are at a heightened state that actually seem to correlate with the moon. Even the news of the hour that comes on those “moon” days seems to support the myth and if such tragic-making and wacky occurrences are not related to the shape of the moon, it is still rightly best to pay attention to what happens next. The worry is these attitudes and variant scenarios will most likely start-up again when there is not a full moon. Such, is what pains the social scientists. I’m simply an observer who is mindful when the moon is full because I don’t like stumping my toe.
It seems full moons of the past have actually spewed its damage causing personalities to dance with conflict, side-stepping tolerance. It, as well seems that is has caused the best characters to be overshadowed, pushed far down the road, somewhere out of sight, out of mind. There is a sure cry for moral improvement, but “Moral improvement occurs most reliably when the heart is warmed, when we come into contact with people we admire and love and consciously and unconsciously bend our lives to mimic theirs,”(David Brooks, The Road to Character.) Moral improvement should be law.
When a misunderstanding erupts, tempers flare, arguments ensue, confusion is rampant and sometimes a killing happens, and maybe even war. Does the full moon bring these upsetting scenarios? Will the answer make us wish for a crescent moon? This whole idea of the full moon is surely something to consider since some people actually believe bad comes with it.
It seems such eruptions can be prevented when one truly knows what good means because bad brings a different feeling. It slants life and has to be overcome, while good, whether we know it or not, infuses a better feeling.
So, if science informs us against full moon superstitions and it’s true that human ideas and impulses are becoming more and more advanced, then why does it seem we are more and more off-line and more trouble is growing out in society?
“What if we have failed to discover the truth that the moon is actually a huge high tech lens, an alien creation that allows watch over us? What if it orbits around the earth providing a full spectrum for alien watchers to observe us? They see who we are and how we act. What if they have standards of feelings and they measure our good and we haven’t been good enough? What if we don’t have the right feelings and we have been too bad? Admittedly, Earthlings are an interesting band of colors. How are we doing down here on earth? Hopefully the experiment is not at, or near end.
Sometimes, I fear waking one morning hearing the world population howling at the moon and by now we all know the old adage, “If you can’t beat them…” …and we all blindly fall off the cliff.
“Mirror, mirror on the wall…” Are there any fairest enough to save us all?