Nothing Here, Move Along. Immortality Ahead Through Door #1B.
Death terrifies me. I mean terrifies me.
As an atheist and agnostic (see other sources for definitions; they're worth differentiating), I believe, for lack of additional evidence, in this life and no other.
Frankly, I'm rather attached to this life. And My greatest, truest, most honest desire is this: to witness history. To see what we become, or do not become. To witness the future on grand time scales so large as to make me dizzy while sitting down.
Not only us: I want to watch rock worn away, uplifted, continents drift, the Sun and stars evolve, the galaxies waltz, the vast and minute, the great footwork of the great Astaire and Rogers of time's arrow.
And I know that I will witness no such thing any more than a grain of sand on a beach witnesses and comprehends the greatest of human achievements. Less, to be sure.
And yet I wish it. Beyond all else. From whence do legends of immortals come? From these feverish dreams of time within control. From within our desire -- born of evolutionary intelligence -- to surpass evolution itself.
My cat knows nothing of time, really. Food, rest, play, pleasure, fear, comfort...and, I like to think, Love. But immortality? Is she to be envied? Some, who might be called wise, would say yes. But that Zen-vectored view isn't one I can share anymore. I seek more. I seek the impossible, the forever cat, endless catnip.
Labels: cats, deep time, evolution, forever, geology, immortality, time
posted by chris @ 11:32 PM
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Where does time come from? How has it been scaled in both grand scales and small scales?
Where does the Sun come from? And before you say an interstellar dust cloud I will warn you...I will ask where does that come from? And eventually as we move back through what one might call unwitnessed history you might say "the big bang" but I of course have the easy job of saying where does that come from? There is an answer but it is not in time.
I too want see the wonder and beauty of life unfold... why is that? Perhaps we can recognize beauty when we see it. Where does beauty come from? There are things we all might agree are beautiful.
I, too, have no answer to the question posed in your second paragraph, nor would any self-respecting astrophysicist.
Because really, I just want to be wtness.
My point is that there is no final answer in time, we will always be able to discover something deeper, more central and root cause. Until, I and others, have found that there is only one root cause that is central to it all, but it can't be in time.
If you and I and everyone can agree that something is beautiful, which I believe there to be such things, then there must be some sort of core invocation. We must have been cut out of the same clothe.
Any self-respecting astrophysicist would surely be attuned to other respectful sources of human knowledge and imagination.
"My point is that there is no final answer in time, we will always be able to discover something deeper, more central and root cause. Until, I and others, have found that there is only one root cause that is central to it all, but it can't be in time."
Fair enough. But I will in turn suggest that not only will we not find an answer "in time", we will in fact never find "THE" answer. If we exist tens of thousands of years from now, I suspect that we will still ponder THE question: from whence did that dust cloud come? If the Big Bang is 'real', what caused it?
There will still - and, arguably should always be - mysteries.
Mysteries will always be here. I believe that the Universe is Infinite based upon the available evidence, and therefore it will ever hold more to share.
And for me, this is "THE" answer. There is only one source of all...the infinite universe. Nothing comes from outside of this source being that it is all.
Another bit to chew on - Nothing real can be threatened, nothing unreal exists, herein, lies the peace of the Universe.
Happy Thanksgiving!
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