Force: Hey, can I get through here?
Object: Nope.
Force: Well, this is awkward.
(Source: aedison)
Keith note: I generally like to keep my posts light-hearted, and I hardly ever repost. But even with those things being said, I think the above message is a good philosophy for just about everyone to have in his or her life. Applies to just about everybody. Perhaps everyone would be a lot happier and more satisfied day to day. Cope with troubles and hardships easier, and better relish the joys we have in life. And that would make the world a much better place.
(Source: ofcrimeandpassion)
Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we CAN suppose.
I have read and heard many attempts at a systematic account of it, from materialism and theosophy to the Christian system or that of Kant, and I have always felt that they were much too simple.
I suspect that there are more things in heaven and earth that actually CANNOT be dreamed of by us, in any philosophy. That is the reason why I have no philosophy myself - and that must be my excuse for dreaming.
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Current mood: artistic
So I was walking today and thinking about life. It led me to the question what is life? I agreed life eats and breaths, and grows. but then I thought about fire… It consumes (eats) the fuel, it breathes (it needs oxygen to leave), and it surely grows. But its not Alive. I have to re-evaluate this whole ‘living’ thing.
I quickly turned my thoughts to ENTROPY, or disorder.
See, Time’s direction is based upon entropy. The universe is expanding and causing more entropy. More disorder. I decided something living must also experience time and therefore create LESS entropy.
We eat, breathe, and grow, create babies…and all the while convert disordered things into ordered things in the majority of our actions. Maybe that’s why we experience ‘time’ going in one direction as opposed to another and why we DON’T know the future but we know the past even though time is eternal and everything really just happens at once… We experience it because we are going AGAINST the natural order (actual disorder) that the universe is. So we remember the past and not yet know the yet-to-be.
Fire has no timesense. If time went ‘backward’ it wouldn’t matter to fire. It would not matter to molecules or atoms or neutrinos either. But life, LIFE, on the other hand…if time went backwards to how we experience it…we’d know it…but then again the only way that would happen is if we generally created disorder from order - which is not the case generally. We as living things are built different. If the universe decided to contract and create LESS entropy on the other hand, the arrow of time would reverse and we would KNOW the future but not the past.
INTERESTING!
I have more thoughts on this but I better get back to work.
Beneath the quizzical nature of their music and physical presence, the band Devo was supported by a whole philosophical tenet known as devolution (hence the name Devo). To display the bizarre nature of their theories, here are the five basic components of the Devolutionary Oath:
1. Wear gaudy colors or totally avoid display altogether.
2. Lay a million eggs or give birth to one.
3. The fittest may survive & the unfit may live.
4. Be like your ancestors or be different.
5. WE MUST REPEAT.
The precise principles that guide the theory of devolution are as slurred and distorted as the music of Devo. What is known is that man has devolved. Technology has reduced us to nothing. That was the 1970s speaking –
Perhaps the Internet has devolved humans into mindless beings?
Who knows?
chos:
(via girlmeetsdream)
I love this.
I love this too. Stars are magical. And “stardust” is one of my two favorite words. And this just is lovely.
We are all apart of everything and everyone because everything and everyone is made of the same stuff: stardust. Embrace this oneness and infinite potential with the universe.
And when we die, we never truly die. We will once again become stardust which will, in turn, become an almost infinite number of other things. :-) Greatness.
I’ve believed this way for many years and it’s a wonderful comfort.
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Soren Kierkegaard.
I guess hindsight really is 20/20, right, Soren? Btw…the same is true about quantum mechanics…
