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joining family tomorrow on Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park to enjoy this rare 2 minute astrophysical phenomenon. But I also marvel at the ability of so called primitive cultures to have predicted these events with accuracy. No chaos there. Aa.

Who believes there is other life in our universe?

I have not even given this a lot of thought and I do not even know if there is a point to this. I think perhaps it is just to stimulate possible postulating. I just started a new book and only on chapter one. It has to do with physics and its link to Eastern Mysticism. The little bit I have read has gotten me thinking a bit. I was fascinated to hear that mathematics is a language of nature, only thing with symbols. Also how our spoken language is only a guide of sorts to efficiently understand one another. It would take way to long to describe every aspect of a tree, or a person. Not to mention, it would be impossible...so we use tree or person to describe that object. This is all we are taught to care about and understand. But what is a person? ...or a tree for that matter. Both are made up of matter and both have this mysterious energy force connected to them.

Okay, this is just about as far as I got with my thinking...lol.

But,

I left the best for last. At least to me it is, there was a saying I read in the book.

"The map is not the territory."

It is like we are taught how to identify and read the map, but we never go seeking for the territory.




...thus, we are being dumbed down.

Anyone still have old photo's of themselves ? Or has the digital age ,my cloud etc removed the need for physical prints ...
We can now scan and store everything electronically.

So in 50 years
Money
Books
And much more will become obscure odities much like LP's
8 track tapes
And sending letters through the post...

What do remember from your youth that was cutting edge technology but is now gathering dust in a corner of your storage unit ?

Lol

That killer white pine, leaning toward some bedrooms, is now in burnable pieces. Got a fat insurance Co. check to replace the roof damage she, her branches and the ocean wind did. Before spliting large trunk pieces into morsels, it was surprising how many Mainers the "free wood" sign attracted. Put a "free" sign on a dead cat on the lawn here, and some bearded crusty north woods character will take it, feeling happy to be getting a deal. People said they used the stuff to make all sort of items..... bowls, spoons, lake dock walkover platforms, table legs, and so on. Burning the rest in the yard in controlled fashion, rather than pay to take it to the dump. Break from the usual summer coastal boat trip. Not the best wood for stoves. But how the mind wonders in the fire induced warmth, flickering consuming flames, and attendant near induced trance. As in driving long distances, where autopilot miles pass, without awareness of driving functions, tossing needed branch pieces into the flames just seems to happen, while the thoughts flow. How to rewrite the draft of memoirs, what has been my role in lifes's woes, plusses/minuses of a next partner, new riffs for another song. Or, are the numerical repetitions seen near universally when applying chaos theory to examine observations in everything from heart palpitations to weather more than mere quirks of math? Yikes! Aa.

...all things must come to an end
Time to move over. Or on.
Whatever.

What difference, at this point, does it make?

YouTube Guy McPherson - Human Extinction Within 10 years

He's has a place in Belize, Central America.
Perhaps he figures he'll get a few extra months there.
Or maybe he just likes Belize & wants to enjoy the time left.

Whatever.

We'll get ringside seats for the ringing down of life on Earth

YouTube Guy McPherson - We Get To Be Here At The End

Should be quite a show, I reckon.

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The immediate answer to this question is yes. But just how bad can science really get? Of course all of our weapons were developed from science. Then there are many great things that science has produced. How about science holding us back from realizing our true nature on this planet? There are so many things out there that science cannot explain.

I am watching Ancient Aliens on the History Channel and I keep hearing repeatedly, episode after episode, science cannot explain this or that, or the other. We as conditioned humans just automatically do not put much credence into these things and just somewhat ignore them. What if there is something out there that is right under our noses and because of the limitations of current science, we are ignoring some sort of important message.

What about those crop circles?....just to name one.

What Would Happen If Humans Disappeared?