January 19, 2011
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"Cats appear,and then they disappear."
--Joe the Bear
The Daily News
1 So...Sargent Shriver walks into a bar.2 One of the founders of the Peace Corps and a Kennedy democrat who knew what was up.3 More significant: guy was 94.
4 I'm not sure if that gives us hope, or misery.
5 That makes me feel like a middle-school kid.
6 Yeesh. And yesterday there was some article online about a guy who "keeps fit" at a hundred and seven!
7 I worked out three times in the past week; have been eating really healthily, danced for around an hour on Saturday, and now feel that the only part of my body that doesn't hurt is my left cheek.
8 I can't imagine living for another fifty years.
9 Not that I wouldn't want to; I love life and embrace it.
10 But watching what my Dad is going through and all? Man. And each time another elderly person in my life gets something, I look at Joe-a-hundred-Seven and think to myself, "Did the guy who wrote this article look up this fool's birth records?"
11 I guess it's good, in a way, to be sore from working out, eating healthily, and dancing, but still. I worry about when I hit the age of brittle bones and fierce diseases.
12 The other side of me is also amazed at modern technology though.
13 When I look at how amazingly fast technology has brought us the ability to stop time on live television, can pinpoint exactly where we are driving from and to from satellites in space, and has put computers in two-inch by four-inch phones, I have to think that we are quite possibly on the brink of perhaps a fountain of youth, which sounds great with the possible exception of the overcrowding.
14 Now I haven't been to real school since, well, this morning, but really, quite a few years. I'm not really schooled up on what the latest trends are in technology, but we are already surpassing science fiction by a light year.
15 This summer, KNBR's Murph and Mac show had the station's in-house hippie, Paul McCaffrey talking constantly about "particles". Particles are quantum concepts, and they embrace entire notion that mass and energy are the same thing being the essence of all spirituality, and all that is.
<-------frivolous picture of Uncle Albert.
16 To the layman, which I clearly am, this means that everything is energy, and the particles those guys talk about are the positive, radiant energies that can happen when absolute positive thoughts can somehow affect others, and in turn, can result in major positive results.17 That is a bunch of hooey coming from a guy who majored in English, but to me it's interesting for the exact reason that I don't know science at all.
18 Science deals with cause and effect. What I enjoy is looking at anti-science and acausal phenomena.
19 Is modern science working on breaking us down into particles so that we could say, transfer our molecules across space and wind up traveling from San Jose to New York in literally a New York minute? Don't laugh; I'm serious about this stuff.
20 Is there an astral plane that exists in which thought and particles can co-exist, and that we can eventually create our own realities? Will the heavens and the Earth ever converge harmoniously?
21 One has to wonder. At this point in time and space, one seriously has to wonder.
22 Case in point: one of the most amazing things to me is Yahoo maps (or Google maps; I don't really want to enter the debate.). How can technology be SO precise as to tell me how to get from point A to point B with pinpoint accuracy? And how can technology do that within milliseconds?
23 How can a computer on my phone tell me with a voice exactly where I am, and how to get where I wish to go?
24 And yet, old people suffer from bone cancer and all sorts of dreaded diseases that by now, given the accomplishments of technology in other areas, should be wiped off the Earth
25 Globally, how is it that technology hasn't managed to help save countries that are in dire straits?
26 In my lifetime I've seen computers go from large rooms and garages to something I could put in my shirt pocket.
27 In many ways, getting older gives one a perspective that young people can't even begin to understand. Twenty years is a long time, technologically. The advancements of the past twenty years are amazing, if you really think about it.
28 Will we be able literally to change "particles" and re-arrange our bodies so that they become almost eternal?
29 Is there an astral plane where we can visit those who are gone, and those who remain?
30 Cosmic questions.
31 Cosmic days.
32 Is it possible to take people who are old or in misery to a peaceful and relevant plane?
33 Twenty, thirty, or how ever many years from now, we might all be living in an entirely different world, a world that we couldn't even begin to imagine.
34 Fun thoughts from a guy who has been through it the past few years, and especially in the past week.
35 Positive particles. If-you-can-think-it-you-can-do it sort of stuff.
37 Just some fun thoughts on Wednesday morning early. Powerfully hopeful and positive, in my light.
38 Gottago. <poof>
39 Hope you have an absolutely positive-particle, quantumly amusing day.
40 Peace.
~H~
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Hey, thanks. It's a lot of fun. I claim I don't write it; it writes itself.!~H~
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