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Journal: May 22, 2012
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Journal (J)               Idea of Time                            Souls                            Epistemology

What's a paradox? .... a couple of PhD’s.

TheDesk (again): The source is the sun, the Big Bang, birth, the pussy, the womb, God, chaos, etc. and its brightness, effects, energy. Its influence etc. decays with time and distance, probably inverse square, at least for space. Influence modified of course by the grain of interactions among iota emitted from the source. For time .....? Linear, exponential, inverse square? I mostly suspect linear.

Is the decay for a single life or for all life? A single day or all time? A single universe or all universes? A single eternity or all eternities? Yes, I guess so. Even the source and whimsical awareness follow the grain. Abstraction and its fellow traveler perfection do not. ISTMRN that many have a sense that the grain, the way of things, is “death and therefore evil” which perfection slices through with the abstraction of immortality.

An abstraction I believe is created rather than abstracted, perhaps a difference with no distinction. And “cutting across the grain” is productive, progressive, good, and thus probably endorsed by God, the maker of the cutting tool, our minds. Whose purpose then is to worship God, our creator. If we get rich along the way, so much the better.

To me, all the effort that goes into cutting and rearranging of the streaming iotae is quite futile. The grain just reabsorbs the abstractions, space, thought, mind, consciousness, and all else.

My drainage map of McHenry County shows but the slightest influence by people so far. At that scale of time and space we have hardly made a dent, but we have. On the other hand, our dent so far on evolution may be immense, mainly from the mixing of plants and bugs and other hitchhikers. Fifty and higher percentages of “invasive” species mixed up from all over the world for profitable ornamental and agricultural harvesting, as well as the mentioned hitchhikers. Animals right behind, especially hogs, and other vegetable litter eaters, and of course their eaters and so right up to cattle, sparrows, and people. BIG TIME STRESS – new kids on the block, hell almost all kids on the block are new. There’s gonna be, already is a lotta fightin’ and a lotta loving, and who knows what’s comin’ out the other end, but diversity seems not to be a high priority, “humanity” does.

Why should we share? What are the proper limits for money, love, power, and other desirables, along the scale from “selfless” to “selfish”, from “love” to “hate” and are they positively or negatively correlated? (positively ISTMRN). And of course who do we include in the pool and how many “shares” or votes do they have? How about feeling good for sharing, is that sharable? Is that selfish? Or is just “self” shareable? I doubt it. At least for me, everything I have ever touched, seen, thought, imagined, known and know including what I don’t know and some of what I can’t know, and felt emotionally; all of it, is just me – un-shareable. To cement my point, I have never shared anyone else’s, not really shared, empathy, sorrow, understanding, caring, etc; all fall WAY short of my feelings, understanding, thoughts.


One Note Entry (ON)               Acceptance

I gave a note to Mary Dewitt, my grandniece, as her high-school graduation present with the following

The Manuel or Handbook, aka The Encheiridion
             by Epictetus


Ecclesiastes by the teacher, some say preacher
             King James Version


The Way aka Tao Te Ching
             by Lao Tzu


I’m just an old student-professor, so as you start, not end, your learning, formal and informal, here’s a reading list, just a few memory ticklers I recommend you put away ‘til later, perhaps ‘til you remember this silly gift when you encounter one of them in your wanderings. Then, perhaps much later, I recommend another look at or at least a thought of them again. They point to quiet and solace, which many don’t find attractive, usually. But if you’re ever in the mood, these are pretty good starting points.