10.07.2002
Well... Today was a busy day. i had my statics test in the morning, and I think I did ok on it. I screwed up the homework, though, but I can recover that. Electromagnetics remains a looming threat. Which is why I am completely ignoring it for the moment.
I read phillipkdick.doc, and was blown away. Very VERY good article. It contains some threads of thought that I had pursued myself. Not so much in questioning the fundamental nature of reality, but in questioning the beginning of reality. It was part of a Creation/Evolution thing that I was thinking about. The whole of science and religion seem to be beating around the same bush on the Creation/evolution issue, and I came to the conclusion that they agree with each other nearly completely save one point- measuring (or quantifying) the flow of time. I finally reached the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong (or at least different) with the way we quantify time. It works well for short scales -Today came after yesterday, but before tomorrow. Last year I took a particular class, etc- but begins to break down for longer scales. I had the thought that all points in time exist as a single point-a single event, but there is some steadily changing aspect or focus on that point, providing us with a "flow" of time. Locally, that focus is not very much different than the preceeding focus, but globally, some very wierd situations began to arise. It finally ended up being so unthinkable and "out there" that I gave it up, realizing that it was an impossible thing to comprehend, and I did not have the mathematical vocabulary to express it, so I may as well leave it alone.
I can make no claims of my thought's accuracy, or even whether I agree very much with it, but it did occur.
Abortion is something that mystifies me. I have heard all the arguments in its support, but I have yet to hear a logical one. even a good one. The very best that its proponents can claim is that it is simply a matter of convenience. In my mind it is the greatest injustice and crime imaginable.
so, with a very disheartened outlook for the survival of sanity, I will go.
{sigh}
I read phillipkdick.doc, and was blown away. Very VERY good article. It contains some threads of thought that I had pursued myself. Not so much in questioning the fundamental nature of reality, but in questioning the beginning of reality. It was part of a Creation/Evolution thing that I was thinking about. The whole of science and religion seem to be beating around the same bush on the Creation/evolution issue, and I came to the conclusion that they agree with each other nearly completely save one point- measuring (or quantifying) the flow of time. I finally reached the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong (or at least different) with the way we quantify time. It works well for short scales -Today came after yesterday, but before tomorrow. Last year I took a particular class, etc- but begins to break down for longer scales. I had the thought that all points in time exist as a single point-a single event, but there is some steadily changing aspect or focus on that point, providing us with a "flow" of time. Locally, that focus is not very much different than the preceeding focus, but globally, some very wierd situations began to arise. It finally ended up being so unthinkable and "out there" that I gave it up, realizing that it was an impossible thing to comprehend, and I did not have the mathematical vocabulary to express it, so I may as well leave it alone.
I can make no claims of my thought's accuracy, or even whether I agree very much with it, but it did occur.
Abortion is something that mystifies me. I have heard all the arguments in its support, but I have yet to hear a logical one. even a good one. The very best that its proponents can claim is that it is simply a matter of convenience. In my mind it is the greatest injustice and crime imaginable.
so, with a very disheartened outlook for the survival of sanity, I will go.
{sigh}
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