{"id":2519,"date":"2011-12-24T13:43:45","date_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2519"},"modified":"2011-12-24T13:54:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-24T18:54:57","slug":"steve-jobs-dissolved-in-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/?p=2519","title":{"rendered":"Steve Jobs, Dissolved in the Sea?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently read an ancient Hindu parable<\/a> regarding a salt doll and the sea, and it made me think about the late Steve Jobs. I can’t say that I was a big Jobs fan; I never bought anything made by Apple, as I don’t like “slick” technology. I like the honestly clunky stuff where you can see or hear the gears grinding or digits mashing together — everything that Jobs and Apple stood against. Jobs was not an inspiration to me, as he was more of a hippie-artist turned high-tech businessman than a true geek at heart. <\/p>\n

But I read a recounting of Jobs’ final minutes<\/a>, and was impressed by the fact that he was still awake and aware enough as his life was slipping away to utter a few last words. Very simple words — simply “oh wow”. Perhaps he was achieving some form of enlightenment.<\/p>\n

Maybe like the salt doll<\/a>. In a nutshell, the salt doll is alive and conscious like us, and is on a journey to seek knowledge and wisdom. Most of that journey was over dry land, but the salt doll finally reached the sea. A talking sea, no less. The salt doll asks the sea, “who are you, what are you all about”? The sea sez, I just am, if you want to understand you have to touch me. <\/p>\n

A doll made of salt touching the sea? Danger, danger, Will Robinson! But this doll took the chance, and predictably was amputated by dissolution. But the doll did understand better. So the sea said, if you want to fully understand, take the plunge. I guess this doll had nothing left to lose after disfigurement by wisdom, so it jumped right in. And in the last seconds before it disappeared, it was heard to say “I understand — I am”.<\/p>\n

Was that what Jobs was saying on his deathbed? Guess we will never know — until it’s our turn to take the plunge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I recently read an ancient Hindu parable regarding a salt doll and the sea, and it made me think about the late Steve Jobs. I can’t say that I was a big Jobs fan; I never bought anything made by Apple, as I don’t like “slick” technology. I like the honestly clunky stuff where you […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2519"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2522,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2519\/revisions\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jimgworld.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}