Musings

Musings

DirtySciFiBuddha26 Comments

It’s easy to argue we’re stuck in a zero-sum existence. However, no one has definitively explained the nature of our reality, the fundamental truth behind consciousness, quantum phenomena, and whether or not we’re stuck in a simulation. In other words, there’s still a lot of wiggle room that allows us to choose our individual perspective. So on occasion, I may have to pretend I’m a crab in a bucket, but I refuse to believe I must always be paranoid, that I always have to watch out for the other shoe to drop, that I need to step on others and prevent their ascent so I can wallow in my relative height.

I think of the real estate in my mind as exclusively mine, so instead of planting seeds of fear and insecurity, constantly reacting to an overgrowth of negativity, I’d rather be present and stay open to opportunities that bloom in my path.

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  3. Good lord! From where did the idea of a zero-sum existence come? Even if we assume that the energy in the universe is fixed and finite (which doesn’t appear to be true), it’s a freaking ENORMOUS place. When you consider a planet like ours, it very certainly isn’t zero-sum. We receive energy from the Sun and we radiate much of it back out into space. We have an almost continuous ‘rain’ of very small chunks of dust and rock. The atmosphere is continually ‘bleeding’ out into space, top. No – very much NOT zero-sum. And the world of human-kind is even less ‘zero-sum’. We eat and are eaten; we exchange water and breath; we shed our dead cells and grow new ones. And even our inner world is not ‘zero-sum’ either. If it were, how could we ever learn anything? Or pass on new ideas? So yes! Stay open to new things; there’s an almost continuous flow of them, if only we stay ‘present’ to notice them. [Best wishes on your new books, by the way.]

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    • Yes, all very true! Also, I learned a few years back there is no true “vacuum” in space–tiny particles are always winking in and out of existence, which I think is the theoretical basis for zero point energy, as well as the proven basis for Hawking radiation. I like to see it as a physical metaphor for a continuous supply of abundance.

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  8. “Instead of planting seeds of fear and insecurity, constantly reacting to an overgrowth of negativity, I’d rather be present and stay open to opportunities”

    This in itself is poetry and could stand on its own. Very beautiful post

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  10. Because ‘I think, therefore I am’ is a much better philosophy than thinking we’re in a simulation.

    If you believe in God, or Gods, then perhaps you might consider we are in an experiment. ‘I wonder what will happen if I create a singularity and then burst it open?’

    God then leaves the experiment to its own devices and observes it.

    There’s a subtle difference between that and a simulation.

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  15. That lands well with me; thank you, friend.

    I’m feeling blessed by many manifestations in the natural world today – butterflies; an extraordinary moth; an aestivation of snails at the base of my perennial honesty plant (now relocated to compost barrel!); bumblebees feeding on Globe Thistle nectar; a deliciousness of new green peas … and the community of writers and poets, a buoyant network for sharing safety and humanity.

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  17. Such a conundrum. My worldview would definitely fall under the “conspiracy theorist” category, and it’s often depressing to “wait for that other shoe to drop.” So much so I had to caution my wife, be careful of going down that rabbit hole; it gets dark down there and there’s no coming back. Honestly, I live with a jaded optimism, somehow trying to find equilibrium between hope and despair, yin and yang, balancing the two.

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    • Yes, I’ve been down that rabbit hole myself, hoping that I could prepare for enough threats and implement enough measures to increase my peace and fulfillment. Unfortunately, that never happened, and I suspect the rabbit hole is endless, so I had to pivot in another direction

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