Strange times.
We are living in strange times. I don't know what to believe from the news media or from our politicians, and our scientists are telling us that the world out there is an illusion.
I got to page 154 of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters". To be more precise I got to the chapter called "Nonsense". Scientists, or at least the creative ones, sometimes put out their findings even though they make no sense at all with the expectation that future scientists will make sense of it. I hope Quantum mechanics isn't nonsense, even though it makes no sense at all to me, it's fascinating stuff. In fact it's the stuff that dreams are made of.
Actually, it makes sense to find out that some of the laws of the universe make no sense; and it feels very refreshing to find out that light obeys no law but it's own. It's going to go at 186,000 miles per second no matter what we do. If we ever get to travel at 186,000 miles per second then light will still flash past us at 186,000 miles per second. Hmmm, I don't know why, but I like that thought.
It's also interesting to think that we may be making up our own reality. The observer and the observed are connected. One cannot exist without the other. The observed may not exist unless it is observed, and the observer may not exist if there was nothing to observe.
I tell yer, leave it to our western scientists eh? The East has been going on about this for years, but they made no sense at all to our western minds. Ah but now that our scientists are discovering what the East has known for years, we can actually begin to come to terms with chaos and rationality with a belief based on hard, but kind of imaginary, scientific evidence to back us up.
Are we coming to an actualization of the concept of our right brain and left brain thinking in harmony so as to form a whole new view of life? It's possible. Imagine a triangle with left brain and right brain at the bottom two corners; then imagine consciousness at the top. I'm sure there's a mathematical formula for it. Let the number one mean left brain at the right base, let number 2 mean right brain at the left base, and let 3 mean the consciousness of both brains working in harmony that sits at the top of the triangle. The formula would be: 1+2=3. Who can argue with that! It's also a perfect description of transcendental mediation.
So much for my newly acquired grasp on physics, but hey, it's as good a theory as the many worlds idea. Or at least I think it is, and if I'm making up my own reality then I'm entitled to make up a reality that I like. If you don't like mine then make up your own, and I promise that I'll try to live with yours if you'll try to live with mine.
After having my mind blown by Quantum Mechanics all afternoon I decided to watch a program on the Sundance Channel about George Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Oh my oh my, was Bush trying to make up his own reality about Iraq? According to this show on the telly he was. If so, why did he fail?
Did he miss the part about where classical physics still holds sway over the macro-world? If so, where were his advisors? Surely one of them must have known! Why didn't they tell him that we haven't got that far yet? Why didn't they tell him that it was all still in the concept stage?
I believe that George Bush believed he could do it. He had total faith in his belief. He also had no doubt about his concept of right and wrong. There was no doubt in his mind that he was right, and he was sure the future would show that he was right. That belief, however, does not let him escape from the fact that he was embracing nonsense. If nonsense turns out to be sense then all is well, but the nonsense of George Bush flies in the face of sense when we find no weapons of mass destruction. It flies even more in the face of sense when he denies saying anything about nuclear devices, and it turns into farce when Connie Rice says we forgot about some things.
The world is going through a strange time to be sure. It's getting harder to make sense of anything, but we still remember what we were told a few years ago!
I'd like to just leave it as a mystery, but there's a thing about a mystery, and that is that it's a thing that begs to be solved. If a mystery is totally out of our realm, like the mystery of light, then it's best to just let it be, but the joy in life comes from solving mysteries; it's like falling in love with a beautiful woman, albeit, it's like peeling an onion, and we never get to the real heart of things, but it's always fun trying.
George Bush thought he could create reality. He was wrong, and the mystery is how are we going to get him to fess up to it?
Waltre
I got to page 154 of "The Dancing Wu Li Masters". To be more precise I got to the chapter called "Nonsense". Scientists, or at least the creative ones, sometimes put out their findings even though they make no sense at all with the expectation that future scientists will make sense of it. I hope Quantum mechanics isn't nonsense, even though it makes no sense at all to me, it's fascinating stuff. In fact it's the stuff that dreams are made of.
Actually, it makes sense to find out that some of the laws of the universe make no sense; and it feels very refreshing to find out that light obeys no law but it's own. It's going to go at 186,000 miles per second no matter what we do. If we ever get to travel at 186,000 miles per second then light will still flash past us at 186,000 miles per second. Hmmm, I don't know why, but I like that thought.
It's also interesting to think that we may be making up our own reality. The observer and the observed are connected. One cannot exist without the other. The observed may not exist unless it is observed, and the observer may not exist if there was nothing to observe.
I tell yer, leave it to our western scientists eh? The East has been going on about this for years, but they made no sense at all to our western minds. Ah but now that our scientists are discovering what the East has known for years, we can actually begin to come to terms with chaos and rationality with a belief based on hard, but kind of imaginary, scientific evidence to back us up.
Are we coming to an actualization of the concept of our right brain and left brain thinking in harmony so as to form a whole new view of life? It's possible. Imagine a triangle with left brain and right brain at the bottom two corners; then imagine consciousness at the top. I'm sure there's a mathematical formula for it. Let the number one mean left brain at the right base, let number 2 mean right brain at the left base, and let 3 mean the consciousness of both brains working in harmony that sits at the top of the triangle. The formula would be: 1+2=3. Who can argue with that! It's also a perfect description of transcendental mediation.
So much for my newly acquired grasp on physics, but hey, it's as good a theory as the many worlds idea. Or at least I think it is, and if I'm making up my own reality then I'm entitled to make up a reality that I like. If you don't like mine then make up your own, and I promise that I'll try to live with yours if you'll try to live with mine.
After having my mind blown by Quantum Mechanics all afternoon I decided to watch a program on the Sundance Channel about George Bush and the invasion of Iraq. Oh my oh my, was Bush trying to make up his own reality about Iraq? According to this show on the telly he was. If so, why did he fail?
Did he miss the part about where classical physics still holds sway over the macro-world? If so, where were his advisors? Surely one of them must have known! Why didn't they tell him that we haven't got that far yet? Why didn't they tell him that it was all still in the concept stage?
I believe that George Bush believed he could do it. He had total faith in his belief. He also had no doubt about his concept of right and wrong. There was no doubt in his mind that he was right, and he was sure the future would show that he was right. That belief, however, does not let him escape from the fact that he was embracing nonsense. If nonsense turns out to be sense then all is well, but the nonsense of George Bush flies in the face of sense when we find no weapons of mass destruction. It flies even more in the face of sense when he denies saying anything about nuclear devices, and it turns into farce when Connie Rice says we forgot about some things.
The world is going through a strange time to be sure. It's getting harder to make sense of anything, but we still remember what we were told a few years ago!
I'd like to just leave it as a mystery, but there's a thing about a mystery, and that is that it's a thing that begs to be solved. If a mystery is totally out of our realm, like the mystery of light, then it's best to just let it be, but the joy in life comes from solving mysteries; it's like falling in love with a beautiful woman, albeit, it's like peeling an onion, and we never get to the real heart of things, but it's always fun trying.
George Bush thought he could create reality. He was wrong, and the mystery is how are we going to get him to fess up to it?
Waltre
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