Boredom

Boredom is a kind of disease that spreads itself slowly but deeply. Go Gentle into this Good Night and you deserve your boredom.

Appearances

Truth may be the only thing really with any worth.  But finding the real truth, separate from bias is no easy task!   Simply how exactly can you negate bias without removing perception, and yet perceive the thing left?! To perceive anything at all requires some kind of perception!

Your Life

What if you learned someone struggled at writing the lines of some crazy story, except that that story was really your one and only very life. Would you think it crazy or would you dream you might meet your maker--your story writer? Or would you try making your life easier to write?

Our Shared Road

A teacher, I think of my craft and try my best, daily, to better my skills and my approach. But I often wonder why bother trying as best I can. Then I see the face of just one of my students bored looking or lost and I realize my purpose again. Life is the one road everyone shares, and one step forward more, despite all the steps backwards, makes for travel.

Existence and Day Zero

Is it possible something can appear from cold, empty nullity or thin air? If you think of numbers and try counting backwards, eventually you'll reach zero. Start with now and take things backwards counting day by day. Continue to count and at some point, make no mistake, you'll get to "day zero."

Now consider "day zero." What is "day zero" and could things exist that day somehow? Something occured day zero unleashing matter, and time, right? Consider that day and take things one step backwards. Why backwards? No small lead up would have been possible considering nullity implies no environment existed--no time and no matter, right?

Consider how you simply can't have something born from nothing. Or can you? But if something big happened, you must have had a precursor, and something previous, and again previous. Would that imply making backward moves basically from time zero? Could events have possibly occurred prior to day zero?

Now extrapolate to man. If something sparked life, something must have sparked that. Now count event by event back to "day and event zero."

Philosophy

To ask the hard question is simple.

W. H. Auden

Science and Aging

Imagine somehow your programming could be rewired. Would it be so crazy if science had somehow won itself control over aging? Afterall, science has made some remarkable progress, hasn't it? Consider how medicine and nutrition have changed life expectancy and you won't doubt my point. Consider the endless progress in areas like air and space travel, information technology, let alone chemistry, biochemistry, and microbiology, and the list goes on. If you could live years longer and with aging stopped wouldn't life change?

If you could live eight or nine hundred years just imagine how life would change. You would expect more people would learn things given more chances. Wisdom would be one thing you would guess would be loads more abundant. You'd have time to make yourself more familiar with timeless laws and relationships, ideas that psychology, history, and philosophy attempt to address. You would have scads more time and you could make it your life's aim to really master something--like for example, making choices and weighing probable results. No more would some great race against time ensue, only to master life with twilight fast approaching.

Cable Travel

Fast forward to 2198... People ride by four seater cable car everywhere. The cars are gravity powered, following ultra fast rides up tall elevator shafts. Most cities are multi-level with domes that sit over them. The domes are closed over through winter to keep energy consumption low.