Today lets talk eternal, what that actually means. First off I defer to great thinkers through out time both religious and secular. So many have reported some sort of continuation beyond what we think of as physical death. If we are talking a purely energetic transfer, where what we think of as us ceases when our body stops functioning we can end the thoughts right now. If on the other hand there is a bit more of us that continues on this journey of existence other questions spring forth. How about even the Idea that energy can not be created or destroyed it can only be transformed. Taken to an extreme that would mean all things that exist now, have in some form or another always existed, and will always exist. That there can be no beginning or ending, there would be only transition, one state or phase endlessly shifting to another. There are so many questions of the why's and how's.
I want to think a bit about what it means from an individualized portion of self. Not a being that identifies with a single name, but one that has been so many names and is in all likely hood experiencing all these names now. To a being like this what a gift it must be to have firsts, or a conception of an end. To forget if only in delusion the infinite self. What a gift the finite, the present would be to an entity with this conception of self. Hold in mind this concept, of a self that has ultimately been every name. Now lets twist things around a bit. From this side we have taken natural time and using computers increased the effective time people live.
I could go into clock cycles, and try to get into ideas of changing the fundamental flow of time. How the pure access to information, and the speed of dissemination changes who we are and how we interact with our world. Many have talked about how disconnected we have become from each other on a personal level. Even as our world has become infinitely smaller, as people all over the globe instantly communicate real time. How quickly our understanding changes and grows, how difficult it becomes to stay current. How easy it becomes to be lost in a technological time warp. If we are to believe that Moore's law will hold true for even the next 20 years the changes from this moment to that moment will be astounding.
Now for a bit of the inane at least from my perspective. I have been playing with, and learning about the crypto-currencies. Some Ideas on Bitcoin, what makes this valuable it has no backing. There is the idea that it currently has the largest distributed network ever created. This is amazing, and sad. Amazing that it's been created at all. Sad that it's being used to make essentially video game money. Virtual gold coins to be traded in a virtual world. Who's use creates the value, Just as the value of the U.S. Dollar is in the decline due to losing it's status as the worlds trade currency. You can argue that last statement, though it would be one of extent. While yes technically the Dollar remains the worlds reserve currency it is steadily losing it's use as a trade currency. Bitcoin's use and acceptance as a cross boarder currency in an increasingly globalized world will only hasten the decline. This doesn't make Bitcoin the answer, as it seems even farther removed from the resources then the traditional fiat currencies we are already using. If the Dollar is rotten, anything that has it's value tied directly to the dollar has to be rotten as well.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
I want to think a bit about what it means from an individualized portion of self. Not a being that identifies with a single name, but one that has been so many names and is in all likely hood experiencing all these names now. To a being like this what a gift it must be to have firsts, or a conception of an end. To forget if only in delusion the infinite self. What a gift the finite, the present would be to an entity with this conception of self. Hold in mind this concept, of a self that has ultimately been every name. Now lets twist things around a bit. From this side we have taken natural time and using computers increased the effective time people live.
I could go into clock cycles, and try to get into ideas of changing the fundamental flow of time. How the pure access to information, and the speed of dissemination changes who we are and how we interact with our world. Many have talked about how disconnected we have become from each other on a personal level. Even as our world has become infinitely smaller, as people all over the globe instantly communicate real time. How quickly our understanding changes and grows, how difficult it becomes to stay current. How easy it becomes to be lost in a technological time warp. If we are to believe that Moore's law will hold true for even the next 20 years the changes from this moment to that moment will be astounding.
Now for a bit of the inane at least from my perspective. I have been playing with, and learning about the crypto-currencies. Some Ideas on Bitcoin, what makes this valuable it has no backing. There is the idea that it currently has the largest distributed network ever created. This is amazing, and sad. Amazing that it's been created at all. Sad that it's being used to make essentially video game money. Virtual gold coins to be traded in a virtual world. Who's use creates the value, Just as the value of the U.S. Dollar is in the decline due to losing it's status as the worlds trade currency. You can argue that last statement, though it would be one of extent. While yes technically the Dollar remains the worlds reserve currency it is steadily losing it's use as a trade currency. Bitcoin's use and acceptance as a cross boarder currency in an increasingly globalized world will only hasten the decline. This doesn't make Bitcoin the answer, as it seems even farther removed from the resources then the traditional fiat currencies we are already using. If the Dollar is rotten, anything that has it's value tied directly to the dollar has to be rotten as well.
Jack
aka
PanseyBard
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