Hello Walk

Hello,

I was on my walk today and not one person whom I passed said “hello,” at least until I began saying “hello” to them. It may be because of my rapidly expanding beard, but it is more likely because some people are almost always aloof. I get it; they have busy lives, their minds are too full to bother with “strangers.” This attitude, however, defeats and denies the certain moral truth: it is pleasurable to be considered, noticed.

There are exceptions to this rule, sometimes we want to be left alone. But these exceptions are aberrations. To see the true state of the human condition it is only necessary to look at the infant, for the child always craves attention and love. If we survey the multitude of ethical and religious literature and history, we, too, see the truth, “The same stuff that moves the sun, moon, and the other stars (love).” The greatest confirmation: “Do onto others as you would have them do onto you;” a reciprocity possible only by consideration and resounding sharply since the beginnings of moral thinking. How fundamental, consideration for one another!

Compassionate consideration is the soul of all the social virtues.

Bye until tomorrow.

Day 2 of Homelessness

I did not create this blog to whine, I created it to think.

Here is the flexible schedule I devised for myself:

(1) Write

(2) Breakfast

(3) Read

(4) Walk

(5) Lunch

(6) Apply to jobs

(7) Read

(8) Self-evaluate

(9) Write

Today, I'm on a productive roll, a roll I'm sure would be difficult to maintain if I worked the normal hours and lived a more normal life.

It is pretty cold outside; that is why I'm in a bookstore.

To end this post for the day, I will attempt to write a great and personal sentence:

    My days are dragged into deep misery when I think too hard, when I wait for something, and when I am idle; it is rather when my mind is deployed fully only at correct instances and during other times deployed mechanically, subconsciously, intuitively that a temperamental peace can subsist; for this is the case when an individual has a true excess of thought.

Time

Several people have told me that time is going faster for them now than it has ever before. Feeling the same way, the natural question to answer is whether time itself is going faster. First of all, how could we measure it? If we used clocks, they would be going faster but show the same measure, so that's useless. We have to know how time is measured. It is based on astronomical observations. The first approximations were based on the rotation of the Earth relative to the sun, the next were by the observations of stars as they crossed a meridian, and the third is a look at distant quasars. Even now we are only accurate to microseconds. There is no exact measurement of time.

Well, then how could we know if time is going faster? We'd have to infer it, if we could, from those objects through which we determine time. The obvious factor that comes to mind, is that all observable objects in the universe are moving away from each other at an accelerating pace. At first thought it would seem that there would be a greater interval between the motions we observe, because our relative positions would be separating (that is, time would be slowing down). There are geometrical problems, however: the relation of movements between us and all the objects we are observing must be put on some fixed standard, if we are to understand how are observations are stretched or contracted. Proportions and other geometrical acrobatics would have to be utilized with the greatest skill to bring this theory to its fruition. I here only give you half-assed, provisional though. It is much easier to draw the rough outline of the skeleton than to draw the individual bones.

How would such a grand-scale cosmic stretching affect my daily life? Well, things here on Earth have motion. This motion is not independent of the grand motions out there. It is all connected. I leave linking the facts to you.

I present my theory: Observing the physical separation of all the bodies in the universe, they could very well be moving with them a medium through which or with which they move -- time. This time might very well be "stretching" or getting thinner, which would mean that EVERYTHING is getting faster. Are our feeble senses enough to detect this change? I feel it. Do you?