are we in a self created bubble?

do we have any idea of what's really going on?

Delia

P.S. are things like truth and reality -- human concepts -- really "real"?

the great puzzle or the great absurd?

I often get the impression that it's really a game... a puzzle of some sort that we all get a chance to figure out -- that the pieces are all there, we just need to figure out how to make them work...

we have decent control over a lot of things in our environment... so is it just a matter of time and persistence? Is one of us or more likely humankind collectively going to solve it in the end? or are we going to run out of time? is there a clock ticking away? and what does it all matter? so what if we figure it out? so what if we live forever? ultimately... it all seems absurd anyways...

is it all just a bizarre dream?

Delia

fast forwarding

it's hard not to think that if we could fast forward long enough nothing would really matter... (no matter what you do, you'd still be dead in the long run...and not just you, everything gets erased and becomes irrelevant)

Delia

P.S. unless we (humans) pull something extremely unusual...

Unitarian church (gave it a try...)

I really didn't feel like going but G.'s been after me to give it a try (he's got this idea that because they use symbols from different religions they must be an open minded bunch -- the kind of non-dogmatic people that can have real conversations on religion and the like).

Delia

P.S. it was mostly boring although I had to excuse myself at one point and rushed out of the room so I would not have to explode in laughter right in the middle of the "fellowship" (they were singing Kumbaya and praying for the gas prices to come down...) D.

sustainable hedonism

this is what people appear to seek in this life (or any other future life); it's just that they have or believe to have different pleasures (e.g. a religious person derives or believes the religious path will bring her/him most pleasure in the long run) D.

William Barrett: Irrational Man

not a bad book but it could have been much better if he would have separated searching for the truth (rationalism, in his book) from searching for a way to deal with life (religion, in his book) D.

(more on) Terrence McKeena (and Mark Pesce)

here