Chronicles of a time traveler.
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CONSIDER ANIMALS, raised with love and care, as part of the food chain. They follow their common destiny without anger or regret, but stand silently proud to know they are needed for being who they are.
Humans are born, sometimes, with a similar destiny, I believe, and there is no correcting it. They are born to be consumed by others.
Just a thought.
WHILE STUDYING THE EFFECTS of a first marijuana hit in over a year, I was slow to notice Murphy’s prolonged, and increasingly strenuous efforts to catch my attention, by barking into the night at sounds coming from a neighbor’s yard, and waiting for my reaction — which so far hadn’t come.
Jolted back to the moment, I accommodated my loyal friend, and played on his excitement.
“Somebody is out there??”
“Woof.”
“Somebody… is out… there?”
“Woof, woof.”
“Somebody is out there!”
“Wooo, wooo, wooo, wooo, wooo..!!!”
It was nothing, but we made it fun, which concluded with: “Good dog..!”
HAS IT BEEN determined, with scientific certainty, that time will continue..?
That is, to what point can we say with certainty that the next moment will always occur..?
POLITICAL CORRECTNESS IS ONE THING. Political Correctors, quite another.
Why risk embarrassment when there is a crowd to hide behind..? If the world should be seen in only a certain way, then why talk about it and add confusion..?
Yes, but many times, things will appear differently from a different perspective — as with “ambiguous images.”
If sensibilities could be offended by pointing this out, the sensibilities themselves are senseless, it would seem.
PICK ANYONE, yourself, for example. You cannot be anyone you want, only yourself. And even within this limitation, you are not always the same person, but will change with circumstances. As you change from state to state, you do so in discrete steps, not in a continuum of an infinite number of possible states.
Quantum sociology, we can call this method of thinking, and the kernel of a new religion, perhaps, with our souls also quantum in nature, measured in degrees of fitness, in a cosmic sense.
Which calls for tutorials on ways to improve one’s standing, according to an organized orthodoxy.
Scribes..!
NOW, WE KNOW that they don’t know we know they don’t know.
They think we think they know what we know they don’t know.
They think they’re fooling people because their act still works in their dressing rooms.
WHEN WE LOOK the world in the face…
we see it is mostly makeup.
OUT AT THE BARN, reaching for a cold beer, I noticed a deceased fly stiffened out inside of the refrigerator, and removed him without delay.
Later, while becoming one with the beer, I pondered how that poor fly must have dealt with his moment of doom. He must have been frightened for quite some time.
I went back to look and found evidence of his last expressions left in a note:
“I never thought it would end this way…”
IT HAS BECOME COMMON for me, upon closing up for the night, before shutting the door and leaving, to call out a thank you to all my equipment remaining inside.
I love you, tractor, is part of my farewell. And I sense the tractor’s response: You don’t love me. You just love an assembly of parts called me.
WHILE SITTING UNDER a clear night sky, the moon was all I could see, right there in front, almost touchable.
If you were on the Moon and we had magnifying equipment, we could see each other.
And if I clapped my hands, and waited for you to clap yours in response, we would see a time delay due to the slow speed that light travels. For a moment, you would not see my clap after I had done so, and I would not see your return clap for the same interval of delay — due to the slowness of the speed of light.*
USING THE MOON as our yardstick, imagine an inter-stellar distance of 20,000 light years. Anything seen from there happened so long ago, there, it can’t be relevant to us now — at least, it won’t be relevant to me.
Instead, think of how things really are, not as they are seen, where stars are positioned as they would predictably be, but in “real time.” That is, in “universal now.”
There may be planetary life that has evolved in many places during those 20,000 years of light travel, which cannot be seen from here, yet, but remain hidden because of the slowness of light.
WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, because of the slowness of the speed of light, seems guaranteed to surprise us with never-imagined challenges emerging in the future.
Our federal government must be ready to meet any such challenge. Maybe a letter to our elected officials is called for. Hm…
Thwarticus 