the world is way too fragile to still be alive
we only exist through our own distorted perceptions and naive visions of reality
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Noooo, I like the world! All my stuff is there! To everything, there is a season...
and all seasons will eventually pass
Naw, it's all still here. I checked this morning. :]
well there goes my theory
Also, how could the second law of thermodynamics affirm that the world has collapsed?
energy cannot be created, yet the universe tends toward increasing randomness and unusable energy (entropy). If time doesn't truly exist, then the world has already collapsed, but we live on through a distorted perception.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy_%28arrow_of_time%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modal_realism
Really, anything is possible. Perhaps there are an infinite number of universes. Perhaps there is only this one. Perhaps time exists, perhaps it doesn't. Perhaps the atomic structure of reality exists. Perhaps it is an illusion. We can speculate anything- but we must live following evidence and practicality. Our best guess is that time does exist, and that the universe has not collapsed. It is impractical to believe otherwise, anyway.
Even if we are in an illusion, all we have is to live within and according to the laws of this illusion. Because this illusion /is/ our reality.
This somewhat reminds me of an anime called "Sword Art Online", in which players in a virtual reality game become trapped in the game for over a year. In that story, they even know that they are trapped in an illusion, but they realize that, for the time being, that illusion is their reality, is the place and circumstances in which they "live".
can't disagree with any of that! truth is, I should have stopped at the first sentence in my reply to Voltage before I got all pseudo-science philosophical about this. the blog was modified quite a bit from it's original message of "we don't excel at anything; rather people just see others being good at certain things through their own naive perception of it".
time isn't something that can exist, it's just a human construct. The same way numbers don't exist, they are just means of expressing quantities.
what I have in mind is more of an immediate global implication rather than a theoretical, speculative cosmological one. There is limited space on earth, yet humans multiply at an exponential rate, destroy natural ecosystems to plant their revenue generating factories, all while a satisfactory, even growing level of biodiversity is maintained. Natural resources are declining fast, yet they are still abundant and fairly affordable. The world is governed by money- many forms of currency which are close (or have already) to collapsing, once we collectively wake up and see what money really is- just pieces of paper and cheap metal with pictures of dead politicians on it. The socio-economic status of my family affords me the luxury of being ignorant of all these potential problems 99% of the time for the time being, but fortunes can be reversed at the drop of a hat, and hats drop fast in this fucked up world. It all seems too fragile to still be real.
sounds like a very cool anime!
Ah, one of these slickly ambient graphical loops you've grown famous for! Just watching the light sky and the lights fly is pretty alarmingly calming. Yeah, the world's fragile; humans too... life's a pretty amazing thing.
oh cool i'm famous!
Life's got inertia, thank goodness. Though I'm not happy about the fragile nature of our http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads And I thought The Day After was brutal.. though when I was a kid in the 1980's, it was. One misplaced burp in the sun, and both of those movies together could happen quite easily :p
ahh what a fitting plug to a television show for this blog post! though i'm too young to have seen that shit.
Its a strange thing to be human. We were born with all sorts of needs and wants and desires and yet we can also feel very bad when we do something wrong. We are a muddled species indeed.
so that mean we're in the matrix :(
Nine years later still so soothing... illuminating... moving...
Eternal cool.
Doomroar
Is clear that we can be real, by faking it as hard as we can.
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