Thwarticus

Chronicles of a time traveler.

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Category: Philosophy

  • Why is there err..?

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    I WONDER IF YOU’VE experienced something like the feeling of writing a carefully worded letter and sending it, only to discover later that it contained one or more problems that a proofreader could have easily spotted. Somehow, though, they were missed in spite of wanting to be careful.

    In the world of software programming, errors occur readily and are sometimes illusive. Inaccurate analytics can compound the potential for errors, and managers often must rely on programmers to find the errors they, themselves, created.

    Humans, by design, readily adapt to only partial knowledge of the world. We do this by filling in our awareness gaps with IMAGINED reality.

    Why is there err?

  • The Little Lie.

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    IF “THE BIG LIE” was to claim that the 2020 general election was rigged, what is the name, then, given to that Russia collusion hoax of 2016-2019 — perpetrated by Democratic Party conspiracy with their allies in industry; manufactured by a British spy working with a Russian operative in DC; with entrenched bureaucratic interests as cover, in league with mainstream media, to create political distraction enough to overthrow Trump as president..? Was that, “The Little Lie”..?

  • Time-travel.

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    TRAVEL TIME is a measure of how long it takes to get somewhere. But actually expending those minutes is to convert the travel time into time-travel, as the traveler moves across space-time.

    We live in the center of a personal space, which has its own, relative time to get to anywhere else. Time horizons exist for events that occur in locations too remote to be sensed in the normal course of life.

    Almost everyone currently living, for example, will never know that I exist because of limitations in time-travel.

  • The sun also rises.

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    HAVE YOU SEEN..?

    The message, “Silence is Violence,” is being spread by anarchists in the streets — as though anarchists are not violent.

    What clearer example is there, to show the dichotomy of human nature.

    People come in different “flavors,” and violence between them ebbs and flows but can’t be ended. These riots may simply be growing pangs for a better future.

    At all times, we should recognize, inferior human traits face elimination by stronger ones. The riots may simply be the protest of those being eliminated.

    Violence may be unpleasant, but since this is how evolution works, one wonders: is silence the best violence..?

  • The spawn of collapse.

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    THE COLLAPSE OF the stock market, concurrent with the Great Depression during the last Century, left people coming out with a stigmatized view of investing, which continued for decades, up until the 1960s, after which time the stigmas became old fashioned.

    The collapse of traditional world religions has been leaving people stigmatized against a belief in God, also, I think, and will remain so until the meaning of that belief is restored, at some time in the future.

    It is typical, I think, for religious faith to form and rise during social collapse.

    We’ll need to keep an eye out.

  • The rolling mind.

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    I DO NOT MEAN to suggest we could be parts of a larger biological being; only parts of a larger mind.

    Nor do I mean to suggest that this larger mind, whatever it could be, operates on our time schedule.

    We may be so far removed that expectation of direct interaction would be misplaced.

    The only conceivable purpose in our connection to that rolling mind would be to let it find out.

    That is, to find out what happens when personal stresses should mount to such a degree that something must break. Or, what happens when riches become excessive and wheels come off the cart.

    In our lives, we’re finding out, for the larger, distant, vast and remote mind.

  • The point in living.

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    WHAT IS THE POINT in living, if not to remember..?

    Some go to war zones to capture the intensity of the battle, so they can know and write about it. Others stay in a militant-feminist relationship, for the same reason. To get the full flavor.

    The pen has might, if it can be wielded.

  • A light comes on.

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    INTERESTING NEWS INDICATES that all the COVID-19 restrictions have had negligible effect on slowing the spread of the disease. (Who really thought restrictions could stop a virus..?)

    People are beginning to call it a PLANdemic, thinking it was always a government plan to use the power it has been accumulating.

    It was much like how marijuana was the big scare story for so long, and how it turned out to be, well, actually not bad at all.

    People learn by making mistakes. Let’s hope the lessons stick this time.

  • The hand of death.

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    IN RECENT YEARS, a wrench set lie resting on a shelf in the tool shed. Because the head sizes were larger than are normally needed, the set never got any use.

    Then, yesterday, I needed a large wrench head, so I went to retrieve the boxed set, and quickly found it had become the home to a colony of ants.

    Having little choice, I destroyed the colony, top to bottom.

    Looking at the destruction, I wondered if nearby creatures would notice the new absence of those ants from the tool shed.

    And who among them might benefit..?

  • No end in sight.

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    IN THE BEGINNING, humanity commonly viewed itself as centric to the domain in which it lived — as centric on Earth, with Earth centric among the stars.

    Then came understanding of bacteria, of molecules composed of atoms, of supporting quantum states. And an understanding of star life cycles, of black holes, and of the vastness of space that encloses galaxy clouds.

    Imagine peering into an eyepiece, while focusing down. From the starting extreme, you see galaxy clouds. Tightening in, the solar system comes into view and fades, as the earth comes into focus. Then it’s you in focus, and then your cellular structure, on down to smaller and smaller detail, etc.

    At every point, the universe has its focus, from expansively large to minutely small, representing physical reality.

    What if we are even more insignificant than we think..? Or, even more important, one could say, if all of creation was entirely for our benefit because there is no one else.

    That is, what if reality is the byproduct of something even larger..?