Meandering Thoughts

(1) VANTAGE POINT I - If civilization had first developed in the southern hemisphere our maps would be upside down.

(2) WHERE AM I - I'm not always here in the true sense of the word "here", but I'm always some "where" due to the restrictive nature of physical laws. However, I may be forever anywhere at anytime due to the nonrestrictive nature of spiritual laws. (Learned the spiritual part from religious study and the physical part from my wife's periodic calling "Ed... Ed!... Ed!!... Stop thinking, you're scaring the children!")

(3) LONG DISTANCE - Infinity is beyond human comprehension... (i.e.) How high is up? I've heard it is twice as far as halfway up. I also believe that if you're traveling faster than the speed of light... well... never mind... I expect you'd better concentrate on what's UP in front you!

(4) CONFLICT AND COLLISION - A good rule of thumb... Keep a safe distance between all persons, places and things... Space is good between stars, atoms and cars... Space is what keeps any number of neat differences from becoming one messy sameness.

(5) TIME - Somewhere between time Zones, Daylight savings time, Greenwich Mean time, Military time, Astronomical time, Atomic time, Earth rotation time, Ephemeris time, Sidereal time, Solar time, Julian time, Father time, and the meantime is an illustration of the fact that no time is like any other time except that it is now everywhere at the same time.

(6) MEMORY - see BRAIN see BRAIN... Oh, I said that already.

(7) ART - It's the interpreter that completes the work. I'm grateful for my many blessings especially my family and for my encounter with the six year old blind boy that told me he wanted to become a race car driver as he was feverishly pressing buttons on his hand held video game he could not see.

(8) BRAIN - One thing I’ve noticed is that as we age we appear to become smarter… which explains why the hair on our head begins to gray. This graying-out is a direct result of brain overflow. As we acquire more smarts, we begin to gain excess “gray matter” which turns into a sort of human “flowering” of the head… similar to plant life when it reaches its cyclic and beautiful apex.

(9) ORIGINAL OR REPETITION - Due to our finite human universe, words and phrases are bound to repeat and be repeated repeatedly... Letters are a much worse problem.

(10) HUMOR OR SICKNESS - Humor is good medicine no matter how sick we become... which is funny is a sick way.

(11) UNDERSTANDING - On many subjects we don't always understand what we think we know. Take cherries for example... how can life be like a bowl of cherries if the cherries are dying in a restricting bowl. Doesn't this justly illustrate how self-centered, unhinged and twisted our thinking usually is? People see what they want to see and do not hear silence screaming... those poor pitiful cherries... plucked in their prime from their life support only to be humiliated and gawked at... trapped with no way out short of divine intervention... poor pitiful cherries... how can people be so cruel to place you in that predicament and humiliate you with their furtive gazes... insane with misplaced metaphor... poor poor pitiful cherries... your fate does not go unassimilated.

(12) VANTAGE POINT II - Perspective is a unique perception and perception is a unique perspective. Everybody has at least one.

(13) SPACE EXPLORATION - According to current extraterrestrial evidence… resisting intrinsic union with Earth is futile.

(14) METEOR SHOWERS - It seems to me that "showers" is a pale descriptor for burning rocks hurtling toward us at great speed.

(15) ORIENTATION - A friend told me that I'm "space oriented". I told her that's an oxymoron.

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   WHAT'S UP? - Or as my daughter likes to say, "wuzup"... Is this a mental or directional question? Why do we throw this question out so casually to people we see? Perhaps it is because we want to make certain that, like ourselves, no one else knows the answer either. This is possibly the most complicated question perplexing mankind (womankind is far more likely to know).

The MENTAL 'UP' is a constant variable and can easily be any thought available to the human mind at any instant and regarding any circumstance. The 'up' you may be currently processing in your mind would be relative to your life experience and resulting notion regarding the meaning and existence of 'up'. Were it not for your reading this meandering message, your 'up' could be any thought or combination of thoughts within the capacity of your uniquely developed brain. You could be relating to anything from your past, present or future, depending on your state of mind at the moment you realize you are thinking about something.

The DIRECTIONAL 'UP' can be anything in any direction from any given point in the universe. Were it not for your pre-existing notion of where 'up' is, relative to where YOU are, 'up' could very well be in any direction at the initial instant you realize you are conscious, such as, when you wake up... during your wake up... after you fall down... Pointed example> Imagine your self, in a familiar surrounding, leisurely free-floating and slowly spinning and tumbling in a weightless condition, like a spaceman or spacewoman. You will probably have selected the familiar surrounding you are in right now as your reference for 'up'. Now change the reference for 'up' from the surrounding to your relaxed and weightless body... Now your familiar surrounding is spinning and tumbling! Kind of like the planet you live on and this meandering thought.