john roberts and the mothman
so they confirmed john roberts, and here the republicans will lead us toward a corporate police state. the state decides that you must not get rid of your baby; the state decides you must have a baby. it is in the best interest of the state that you have only one baby, that you have two babies, that you abort only the female babies, and once the state gets inside your body it can and will make all of these decisions for you. just like taking all the private property they can get their hands on because the people who give them money, the big money corporations, the richies who provide campaign funds, can use it to build megamalls and whatnot. pretty soon they'll take your house for megachurches.
and i'm hoping that oil prices skyrocket; that america has to rethink the wisdom of basing his entire economy and infrastructure on the limitless availability of oil. where does any of the food i ate today came from? anywhere less than five hours away? with the exception of the tomatoes from my garden.
the mayan calendar, according to some great doomsday websites out there, promises the end of time in 2012. does everyone feel that? what would it feel like? i read this great scifi novel, can't remember the name, where people were basically coming up with the theory of everything (toe). the way the math worked, though, working out that formula actually creates the end of time. i'm sure i didn't get all the details; my physics is a little fuzzy. (other identifying characteristics of the novel: people could choose asexuality. these people were called, instead of 'he' or 'she', 've.')
anyway, in this novel the idea is that, since time is a human construct projected onto the world, when something happens, in 'reality' (outside of human comprehension, since our comprehension is unidirectional) its effects are felt in *all directions*, which means that the event can be felt in the event's past, mathematically speaking. so i'm not getting all the specifics here, but it's a provocative idea, right?
that means that the mothman's right. sort of. at least, we're experiencing the effects of future events now, although not perhaps with our linear, rational faculties. so what does it feel like to experience our own deaths, or great trauma? can we develop sensitivity to these things? is thinking this way necessarily deterministic?
so: i think of how i feel today. i can interpret it as the strongly, consciously and unconsciously felt effects of my recent past, my distant past, my menstrual cycle, my eating habits, my sleep patterns, my brain chemistry, yadda yadda yadda. AND i can interpret it as the (differently) felt effects of the metaphysical (think toe) life in which i am living every second of it simultaneously in which every possibility is simultaneously extant. (since i don't do the math for this stuff, i understand it in very metaphorical ways. i hope it's not too far off.)
and i'm hoping that oil prices skyrocket; that america has to rethink the wisdom of basing his entire economy and infrastructure on the limitless availability of oil. where does any of the food i ate today came from? anywhere less than five hours away? with the exception of the tomatoes from my garden.
the mayan calendar, according to some great doomsday websites out there, promises the end of time in 2012. does everyone feel that? what would it feel like? i read this great scifi novel, can't remember the name, where people were basically coming up with the theory of everything (toe). the way the math worked, though, working out that formula actually creates the end of time. i'm sure i didn't get all the details; my physics is a little fuzzy. (other identifying characteristics of the novel: people could choose asexuality. these people were called, instead of 'he' or 'she', 've.')
anyway, in this novel the idea is that, since time is a human construct projected onto the world, when something happens, in 'reality' (outside of human comprehension, since our comprehension is unidirectional) its effects are felt in *all directions*, which means that the event can be felt in the event's past, mathematically speaking. so i'm not getting all the specifics here, but it's a provocative idea, right?
that means that the mothman's right. sort of. at least, we're experiencing the effects of future events now, although not perhaps with our linear, rational faculties. so what does it feel like to experience our own deaths, or great trauma? can we develop sensitivity to these things? is thinking this way necessarily deterministic?
so: i think of how i feel today. i can interpret it as the strongly, consciously and unconsciously felt effects of my recent past, my distant past, my menstrual cycle, my eating habits, my sleep patterns, my brain chemistry, yadda yadda yadda. AND i can interpret it as the (differently) felt effects of the metaphysical (think toe) life in which i am living every second of it simultaneously in which every possibility is simultaneously extant. (since i don't do the math for this stuff, i understand it in very metaphorical ways. i hope it's not too far off.)
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