Remembery’s Rick Neece posted a charming photograph of a Christmas tree ornament at clusterflock, and the sight sparked a remembery of my own favorite childhood ornament, “Two-Star Hennessy”. Two-Star Hennessy was a golden ball figured with two glittering pink stars, one centered in each hemisphere. (Its name, bestowed by my father, referred to Hennessy cognac; two stars perhaps designated V.S.)
I must have been four (perhaps I was five) when Two-Star Hennessy’s spell so enchanted me that I hooked it over my ear (to this day I love big dramatic earrings) and whirled about the living room in a dizzy waltz.
And shattered Two-Star Hennessy.
I felt as though a shard of rose-gold glass had pierced my heart.
But you know what? Come next Christmas (or maybe it was that very same Yule), another Two-Star Hennessy appeared on our tree. Thus did I learn of mass production, and with that knowledge came a slight but perceptible rift between my household world and the realm of enchantment.
(Cross-posted at Remembery)
Sheila Ryan
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In 1687 Sir Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, which laid the foundation of determinism. Through Newton’s ideas in what we call now the Age of Reason, rose the idea of ”clockwork universe”, generally stating that by measuring things as they are, we can accurately explain all the Nature’s phenomenae and predict the future using the laws of science.
One probably could wonder, what does Newton’s work has to do with my memories. Though I haven’t read the original and was born nearly 300 years later, it had a certain impact on me. As a matter of fact, we perceive reality and interpret it through the prism of our cultural and educational background. It’s never “as it is”, but as worthy as it’s description. My father was a strong believer in science, and wanted me to be a mathematician, a kind of a weird wish keeping in mind he was a poet himself. I remember him trying to come up with a precise word, which could describe what he felt at the moment best. He often felt stressed about it as he couldn’t. I guess he thought it is easier to operate with numbers rather than words. I remember refusing going to my 1st grade in school: I demanded science. I wanted to study physics and maths, I wanted to understand the mechanics of existence. That’s why my parents have sent me to a school with advanced maths and science programs, and determinism was what they taught in school too.
My belief in numbers was ruined after I’ve read at the age of 12 some popular books on astronomy and quantum mechanics: it turned out that, with the course of time any system behaviour starts to “fluctuate” and become disordered, behaving randomly. Even orbits of planets, massive bodies, never quite follow the same path. We live in a universe which is rather chaotic, then orderly. Our brain waves, or the pattern of it’s electric impulses, is also being chaotic. This could be the origin of consciousness , free will and creativity. Our mind is ruled rather by Chaos, then Order. Continue reading ‘Feeling of being human’
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(Note this is a repost from my own blog)
I had the thought that time doesn’t really exist if you think about it hard enough. People look at time and space as a three dimensional environment, space goes in all directions and time goes in another direction entirely keeping a track of its own. Well my thought is that time doesn’t go in a different direction or the same direction or any direction at all. As far as I’m concerned time doesn’t exist, its a figment of the collective consciousness, a little trinket created by man to keep our lives in order. Rotations and revolutions of planets, stars, solar systems, galaxies, and universes aren’t recorded and set by some big dimensional clock, the only things in existence capable of keeping time are sentient beings, like humans and any possible extra terrestrials.
This brings me to another theory/idea that I have which I will explain backwards to forwards to make it most clear to everybody.
When you look at the matter of existence you usually end up with a few options for how it all came to be. If your into the whole religion thing you are usually pretty sure that there is a “God” somewhere out there that created the whole ..everything. For most rational beings this draws you to the question of who or what created god, and then who or what created the who or what that created god, and so on and so forth into complete oblivion. That however is more plausible than the next option of everything ever spontaneously popping into existence without reason. From nothing for no reason is just not a viable answer to anything. I can agree with any people who want to argue god over this point, they are quite right thinking that this is the answer to the big why is completely ridiculous. I wouldn’t have a problem however arguing for the matter that everything has always existed. There was never a point when there was nothing, no time when everything was made. You know why there was never such a time, well for one because time doesn’t exist. For another its the fact that things cannot possibly be made from nothing, its just rather impossible in matter concerning mathematics. There might have been have been a time when nothing living existed, or everything in the universe was all clumped together in some gigantic ball of mass, or it might have been gas or particles or who knows a gigantic friggin star, that exploded and sent its parts all over everything. If thats the case though it would like like everything comes from a gigantic star which explodes and turns into what we have now which expands to a certain point and eventually starts to collapse into itself and turn back into a star. After that the whole thing starts all over again repeated on a time scale which isn’t even comprehendable and I don’t want to think about.
So yes this has been my big rambling ramble about everything and nothing and the non existence of time.
Dalarius
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As you could see, one of our goals on our quest for the global consciousness is to define what a human being is.
This definition could be derived only from the first hands (your hands posting memories and dreams on this site 
), via our memories and dreams. Now, after you select what’s important, interesting or simply matters, and post it, we have the first approximation of it. Memories and dreams are our life excerpts. Now we can extract even deeper meanings and emotions by using tags for our posts. They are indeed our lives keystones, shortcuts to micro-universes of human beings. Without those refined meanings the communication would be lost. On Quintessential page of this site we put them all together. They make a very interesting text, a collective description of our perception, a flux of Humankind consciousness, a message, if you like. Well, why don’t we beam this message into the Universe? Once again, light and radio-waves are essentially the same substance but on a different wavelength. Radio-waves are indestructible, thus travel through the vast open space forever, like light from stars dead billions light-years ago just reaching our planet. This is actually how scientists are looking for other Extraterrestrial Intelligence : scanning radio-waves for a message (an organized, repetitive message, which could be represented, for instance, by language means). So, we ask machine to read our Quintessential tag cloud on a regular basis. You could listen to our first message and download it here.
Now you can have it pod-casted. As podcasting employs radio-waves, we started our transmission.
Make our message rich. Post your memories and dreams, tag them. Join the voice of the Humankind travelling through time and space.
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