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Posted by jason on November 11, 2009
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….worried about your brainpower?? Did you take one of those awful online IQ tests?? Not to worry. Read this story…. And ask yourself…… If the bird was sent back to alter the past and succeeded, why would there still be a need to do anything about the past in the safe and comfy future?
If your brain is already sore and tired and needs some comfort food, then click here… Just do a crossword puzzle afterwards…
Hey Jason! Ever read any Philip K. Dick?… I just felt like I did while reading that 1st artical. That is some funny stuff. These guys are grossly over educated, but they are still clinging onto ideas of ‘god’ and novelistic ideals to back ideas that even the most imaginative (me) will laugh at. I do have to say it in entertaining. But the use of our taxes to fund something that superfluous is a gross misuse of money I work hard for and don’t like watching get pissed away.
But then again I have been rather political, of late, reading Al Franken and Simone de Beauvoir’s works; plus the fact that it is Veteran’s Day, and the Fort Hood shooting just happened, plus the deployment of additional troops to Iraq has me prtty peeved.
Comment by Timny Pafford — November 11, 2009 @ 8:55 pm
Hey Tim… I have only read one PKD book (for fear of jeapordizing my already-tenuous grip on reality), recently saw the film version of A Scanner Darkly, though… I had the same thought, how unexpected it was that top level SCIENTISTS are positing that kind of stuff………. One of my co-workers, about a year ago, was telling me about the ULTIMATE refutation of time travel: the fact that the Earth does not sit still in time… It’s in orbit, for chrissakes!… So someone could go back 200 years, and find themselves floating in space, looking at the planet from a great distance!!!
…..EVERYTHING is political, by the way… Or, I should say, everything is social… And Veteran’s Day SHOULD provoke and engender much more in the way of reflective and contemplative dialogue… Instead, we get mostly platitudes…
Without discussing which wars are “just” and which are not, and without minimizing the courage soldiers somehow find, I can also say I don’t know how many people really WANT to murder complete strangers, and risk their own lives similarly… It could be said that what we are really honoring is their OBEDIENCE… Robyn Hitchcock has a song called “Legalized Murder”… Check it out…
Comment by Hason — November 11, 2009 @ 9:09 pm
I was unable to find a recording of that song on the net. But I was able to get a copy of the lyrics and they are really good. Thank you for pointing me in the direction of that song. I will keep looking to see if I can hear it some time. It made me think of Bad Religion’s “Requiem” so I posted the lyrics:
Oratory of hope and glory a whisper and a rhyme
An effigy, a soldier out of time
Citizen and patriot you can’t be far behind
The funeral is weighting heavy on your mind
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution’s thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
Dig around the cemetery a record of the day
Friends and neighbors in stages of decay
But the saddest thing of all eludes discovery
The stimulus for this somber ceremony
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution’s thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
The sanctimonious minions how they grovel at the feet
Authority is populist deceit
Pity yet another casualty’s demoralized decline
Just a victim of irrational design
Requiem! Requiem!
Requiem
Bring the dissident from slumber
Requiem
Raise the rebel from its grave
Requiem
Sound the revolution’s thunder
A monumental blunder averted and betrayed
(I hope it is not a copy write issue…)
You know I love the version of A Scanner Darkley as a movie more than the book. I really enjoyed the book but Linkliner did a great job of editing the book to fit a film format VERY well. But then again Dick’s daughters were on the set for filming to back him up.
I can not believe I didn’t think of the Earth’s rotation around the sun when calculating time travel! Wow! That is a thought to think about very seriously.
It kindda goes to show how our minds don’t think of something like that untill it is really staring us in the face as a possible reality, right?
It’s kindda like the German philosipher Martin Heidegger wrote a whole book entitled Being and Time. He did a great job of expalaining being so much that even Jean-Paul Sartre couldn’t expound apon it when he wrote his rebuttal Being and Nothingness. But his chapters on Time were very lacking. He only took it from the Nihilistic stand point as to say that time can only be experienced by try understanding of one’s own Being. Too solipsistic for me.
I happen to feel that time is much more than something that can only be experienced by the individual; or simply measured by instruments equipmodaly. It is moving and fluid. It can be bent and changed but not just from the perspective of the individual. We have seen how time bends when the speed of light is reached. But all this was found in theory after Heidegger’s publication….
Kindda goes to show how great imagination and eduaction can lead to get new ideas and eploration. But it can also drive on einto area that are useless to the ‘real world’ to such an extent all the work put into these ideas and excercises go for not. Damn….
Comment by Tim Pafford — November 11, 2009 @ 10:49 pm
Kindda goes to show how great imagination and education can lead to great new ideas and explorations. But it can also drive one into areas that are useless to the ‘real world’ to such an extent all the work put into these ideas and excercises go for not, and are just a waste of time and money. Damn….
Sorry. Didn’t self edit the last paragraph correctly…. Let the fingers get going w/o the brain turned on.
Comment by Tim Pafford — November 11, 2009 @ 10:52 pm