I'm pondering how infinitesimally short the "present" is, thinking aloud, if you will.
If it takes light about 8 minutes to reach earth from the sun, we're seeing the sun as it was eight minutes ago. If that holds true, then what we see everyday is actually the reflected light from several nano-seconds ago. We see a small subdivision of the past. Technically, we cannot biologically process anything as it actually happens. The only place where something instantaneous can happen is the mind, but then it only exists in the present at the instant the thought happens, and then it slips into the near past. You can't define the exact instant a thought happens, because measurements are technically continuous and infinitely sub-divisible, so the present doesn't exist, but only varying degrees of the past, because the future hasn't happened yet and any predictions of that future happened in the past. So, therefore, the past encapsulates all of our understanding of time.
Sunday, September 26, 2010
Thursday, September 23, 2010
First Post, and Thoughts about Nudism!
Friends, Romans, Countrymen...
STAND HO!
I've got a blog now, where I'll be posting my thoughts on anything from Philosophy, to Politics, to Science, to Religion, to Music and anything else my overly-adventurous mind might stumble upon.
I like to think of this experiment as an exercise in "Mental Liberation." And you, the reader, can think of this as a sounding board--- feel free to respond, to ARGUE, if you must. It is your duty, after all.
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Now, this blog is like baby now. Freshly delivered, still smoldering and covered in various bodily fluids...
And it's totally naked. Like a Nudist.
These guys and 'gals fascinate me with the whole no clothes thing. If you think of the implications, it's really deep: People wear clothes to hide things. "We (the Nudists) have nothing to hide!" It's really beautiful and just... awesome. If I had a better physique, I might seriously try it, some day.
BUT--- There is nothing Natural about it.
I've meditated on this for a while, and I've reached a conclusion: Nudism is a slap in the face to Mother Nature and Father Darwin.
It goes like this: clothes are an adaptation. Way back in the day, some people realized that by dawning the organs of their slain prey, they attain much higher levels of warmth and comfort. Human hair just doesn't match up to carcasses in that respect. So, we need less built-in warmth because we wear clothes, so we lose most of the hair over time.
See where this is going? Even though (I'll argue this, though I can't precisely back it up) people beat Natural Selection once populations stabilized in the 1500's, there's no sound biological reason to NOT where clothes. They provide warmth and keep us clean.
I'd wager that if some calamity drastically reduced human populations and the separated the remainder, an isolated Nudist population might someday "Revolve" increased body hair, assuming they live in mild climates. I doubt they'd get much if they lived in, say, the tropics.
Granted, I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that the "naturally nudist" argument falls flat.
STAND HO!
I've got a blog now, where I'll be posting my thoughts on anything from Philosophy, to Politics, to Science, to Religion, to Music and anything else my overly-adventurous mind might stumble upon.
I like to think of this experiment as an exercise in "Mental Liberation." And you, the reader, can think of this as a sounding board--- feel free to respond, to ARGUE, if you must. It is your duty, after all.
=========================================================================
Now, this blog is like baby now. Freshly delivered, still smoldering and covered in various bodily fluids...
And it's totally naked. Like a Nudist.
These guys and 'gals fascinate me with the whole no clothes thing. If you think of the implications, it's really deep: People wear clothes to hide things. "We (the Nudists) have nothing to hide!" It's really beautiful and just... awesome. If I had a better physique, I might seriously try it, some day.
BUT--- There is nothing Natural about it.
I've meditated on this for a while, and I've reached a conclusion: Nudism is a slap in the face to Mother Nature and Father Darwin.
It goes like this: clothes are an adaptation. Way back in the day, some people realized that by dawning the organs of their slain prey, they attain much higher levels of warmth and comfort. Human hair just doesn't match up to carcasses in that respect. So, we need less built-in warmth because we wear clothes, so we lose most of the hair over time.
See where this is going? Even though (I'll argue this, though I can't precisely back it up) people beat Natural Selection once populations stabilized in the 1500's, there's no sound biological reason to NOT where clothes. They provide warmth and keep us clean.
I'd wager that if some calamity drastically reduced human populations and the separated the remainder, an isolated Nudist population might someday "Revolve" increased body hair, assuming they live in mild climates. I doubt they'd get much if they lived in, say, the tropics.
Granted, I'm no scientist, but it seems to me that the "naturally nudist" argument falls flat.
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