<Amazing, we thought to post to each other at effectively the same instant in time, separate by so much space, believing in different gods, ruled by two dissimilar governments, and having faith in very unequal money.>
Jay, I was going to rant on this teleological matter following on from your G vs Q vs $ post which was also a teleological discussion. But it would take too long.
Briefly, we are all like Shrodinger's Cat in a Box, with our reality a function of the reflection from other cats in boxes. We each know there is one true state and worry that the others are observing it and we are not, resulting in us soon being dead in our random little Shrodinger box. If we can just figure out enough, by seeing what the other cats and boxes are doing, we might contrive to thrive.
Is it true that Q is Great and Mq is his prophet and will get his profit? Or is the ancient Aztec G the one true god before whom all must kneel? Or are the crusading and proselytizing Uncle Sam and Uncle Al, two cats in the same box, with their totally vapourous, ethereal, ephemeral, intangible, abstract and slippery $, pixelated into trillions of bits in cyberspace, existing only instantaneously while we believe in it, the true keepers of the purpose of life?
I suspect that the reason we think to post to each other [me, absurdly in the dead of night, insomniac maniac, taking a little peek into the burgeoning consciousness I know lurks behind the screen] is the same reason that Uncle Sam and Uncle Al do so well. We might answer "Why did you post" in different ways according to our pico-fractal experiences instantaneously before we did, but oddly, the reason is the same.
Now, I'm going to abandon as impossible the job of answering your question, go back to sipping my tea, peering into cyberspace and enjoying a very Good Friday, with the sun rising on the yard-arm, the sky blue, with fluffy white clouds, greenery, birds and the rising activity as all wake to ponder the question and hunt their way through the day.
I realize it wasn't actually a question you asked!
Mqurice
PS: It's a Good Friday in Iraq! With Uday and Saddam gone, the world is a better place. Peace, light, harmony, happiness, health [Sars notwithstanding], properity [Hong Kong notwithstanding], fun and love continue to suffuse the world in the glow of cyberspace, increasingly delivered by those magical phragmented photon CDMA2000 light sabres fighting off the darkness of ignorance, bringing the cats and boxes together in a massive, stupendously powerful, Gengki Dama [= the opposite of a black hole where all is subsumed. Here's a random link, members.aol.com which doesn't explain Gengki-Dama very well = a ball of 'energy', goodness + well-being + happiness or something like that, with a little bit extracted from everyone and everywhere, concentrated into one powerful 'missile', which the hero uses to destroy evil]. |
