they'll need a crane to pick the broken pieces up again
realize the sun doesn't go down- it's just an illusion caused by the world spinning 'round.
Not such a big breakthrough, this¹; seemingly.
But it hit me at some point that this simple truth is possibly among the most important ever. It is part & parcel to the old geocentric vs. heliocentric debate [which sadly only "most thinking people" {including incidentally the Catholic Church itself, officially but only in hindsight} agree has been settled once and for all. Evolution is a much stickier wicket, unsurprisingly- since the bible doesn't repeatedly state that "the earth is the actual physical center of the universe" in as many words plus all kinds of colorful variations], but besides this quite simple and well documented aspect of the recorded history of human thought, there is the far simpler, more immediately problematic fact that it directly contradicts seemingly concrete, inarguable observation: "Certainly the Sun goes down! Just look at it, you dumb-ass! (you call yourself a scientist!? PAH! Phooey on your science!)"
As usual I am talking simultaneously about the larger subject of the aggregate of shared human knowledge, and on a different level about my own lived reality. A lot has happened in my heart that I haven't yet mentioned here, unless you count adding some tags to old posts, which, if anyone picked up on and decoded, they deserve Kudos not in the abstract 'uh, that's a word that means congratulations in ancient greek' way, but rather in a more tangible 'hmm, what is considered a good reward these days, like if you are wealthy & you lose something of great sentimental value and someone returns it to you and you feel super grateful' kind of way; not that I have anything valuable to offer. (To the nobody who undoubtedly earned it.) I am referring of course² to the fact that a few of my entries now have tags, some of which are meant to remind me that an image link is broken because where I used to post photos is gone, but one of which is just three letters long³...
a friend recently said something vaguely about having been on a love roller coaster and I have been as well. They said they were flung off the top (sounds pretty un-fun!) and I feel a little more as though the one I was on just stopped existing. Except that I can still feel the inertia when I close my eyes -or maybe that's the earth's rotation.
Anyway, Yeah.. So: Sunlight. What A Concept. Can't Wait till it comes round again; in the meantime I'll just wonder why it can't stay, and if sunrise is worth sunset. You know, the usual.
Good old thinking!²
¹in case anybody doesn't know, this is a quote from the flaming lips' yoshimi battles the pink robots,
which album I never heard all of until about 3 months ago; SO GOOD!
²a joke.
³they are initials, specifically the initials of my sometime co-occupant on the love roller coaster.
Not such a big breakthrough, this¹; seemingly.
But it hit me at some point that this simple truth is possibly among the most important ever. It is part & parcel to the old geocentric vs. heliocentric debate [which sadly only "most thinking people" {including incidentally the Catholic Church itself, officially but only in hindsight} agree has been settled once and for all. Evolution is a much stickier wicket, unsurprisingly- since the bible doesn't repeatedly state that "the earth is the actual physical center of the universe" in as many words plus all kinds of colorful variations], but besides this quite simple and well documented aspect of the recorded history of human thought, there is the far simpler, more immediately problematic fact that it directly contradicts seemingly concrete, inarguable observation: "Certainly the Sun goes down! Just look at it, you dumb-ass! (you call yourself a scientist!? PAH! Phooey on your science!)"
As usual I am talking simultaneously about the larger subject of the aggregate of shared human knowledge, and on a different level about my own lived reality. A lot has happened in my heart that I haven't yet mentioned here, unless you count adding some tags to old posts, which, if anyone picked up on and decoded, they deserve Kudos not in the abstract 'uh, that's a word that means congratulations in ancient greek' way, but rather in a more tangible 'hmm, what is considered a good reward these days, like if you are wealthy & you lose something of great sentimental value and someone returns it to you and you feel super grateful' kind of way; not that I have anything valuable to offer. (To the nobody who undoubtedly earned it.) I am referring of course² to the fact that a few of my entries now have tags, some of which are meant to remind me that an image link is broken because where I used to post photos is gone, but one of which is just three letters long³...
a friend recently said something vaguely about having been on a love roller coaster and I have been as well. They said they were flung off the top (sounds pretty un-fun!) and I feel a little more as though the one I was on just stopped existing. Except that I can still feel the inertia when I close my eyes -or maybe that's the earth's rotation.
Anyway, Yeah.. So: Sunlight. What A Concept. Can't Wait till it comes round again; in the meantime I'll just wonder why it can't stay, and if sunrise is worth sunset. You know, the usual.
Good old thinking!²
¹in case anybody doesn't know, this is a quote from the flaming lips' yoshimi battles the pink robots,
which album I never heard all of until about 3 months ago; SO GOOD!
²a joke.
³they are initials, specifically the initials of my sometime co-occupant on the love roller coaster.