Sam and I are driving two hours west tomorrow to have lunch.
When you get to be ours or Joe’s age, every conversation might be your last.
And, guess what, sports fans, chick
might be down here longer than all of you guys and gals.
You’re almost
positive that I’m talking out of my crazy
hole
️…… but I might know a couple of things you don’t…… like three.
Take Sam, for instance……. we’ve even got Sam talking about portals.
Both Sam and I know about walking away from academia……. both around the philosophy of the population issue.
Sam went to ecology and I went to cosmology.
It turned out that I had a trick up my sleeve….. or two……
I was looking for the buttons to push……. for fulcrums to leverage.
I got lucky with pelican……. and then got luckier
……..
But what is luck?
It turns out that every last one of us has won the jackpot……. even bibi and yaya.
So, if you’re the cosmic I Am, you’d want to put all your eggs into one basket 🧺, and then watch that basket very carefully.
But that would not be good enough.
You’d also want to fool all the smart guys into thinking that you could just care less!!
But, wait, you can fool some of us all the time, and you can fool all of us some of the time, but you can’t fool all of us all the time!
Well, yes, that’s the big trick……. and that was the Big Bang
.
Fooled ya, didn’t we!
And it’s all just lights in the sky
……
Well, if 10^10 of us had all of Eternity to work it out, I think we could put on a pretty good show!
Well, fine words, but how……..?
The trick is to work around the Subject-Object distinction.
The trick is to figure out how to be a monist.
And who wants to be a monist?
In some ways, none of us wants to be.
But, in other ways, we’re very lucky to have absolutely no choice…… in the matter!
And here we are, poor us……. stuck in the middle!
And exactly where else would you prefer to be stuck?
Can you imagine that a whole bunch of us moderns would just love to be lost
in space and time?
How silly……. but that’s our monism…… our egoism talking.
Why do we have to be stuck here with 10^10 of our best friends?
I’ll tell you why……. because when you’re flying overhead at 50,000 feet, you’ll be looking down, and be wishing to heck that you could be tossing a line into that tiny little creek down there.
Enjoy it while it lasts.
And we’re just about to find that it will last for eternity……. both down here and up there.
And what did we ever do to deserve this?
We learned how to be patient.
(cont……..)
Yesterday at 5:49 am by dan
» What Music Are You Listening To ?
Sat May 18, 2024 11:32 pm by Mr. Janus
» WRATH OF THE GODS/TITANS
Sat May 18, 2024 11:02 pm by Mr. Janus
» Livin Your Best Life
Sat May 18, 2024 11:43 am by Big Bunny Love
» Uanon's Majikal Misery Tour "it's all smiles on the magic school bus"
Tue May 14, 2024 10:42 am by Mr. Janus
» CockaWHO!?
Tue Apr 02, 2024 10:41 pm by Mr. Janus
» Scientists plan DNA hunt for Loch Ness monster next month
Sat Mar 23, 2024 1:32 am by Mr. Janus
» OMF STATE OF THE UNION
Sat Mar 16, 2024 12:01 am by Mr. Janus
» Earth Intelligence
Mon Mar 04, 2024 1:04 am by Mr. Janus