Dangerous Times

Congress, led by McConnell and Ryan, and the executive branch, led by Trump, are corrupt and ineffective.

Meanwhile people, real people, suffer and die unnecessarily due to federal government action or inaction. Worse, large parts of the government know this, and don't care.

Special interest, greed, power hunger have replaced true governance. Those now attracted to government are there not to lead so much as to consolidate power for powers sake, and to enrich themselves and their supporters. Sating campaign donors need and demands is now the immediate focus of congress and the President - helping people that are dying for lack of health care, a clean healthy environment, economic stability, or advancing world peace and stability - not so much.

It is a sad day for the United States - truly. This isn't about liberal vs conservative, democrat vs republican, fox news vs msnbc. Our government is not governing, it is corrupt, it is dysfunctional, and it is dangerous.

Religous Darkness

The village schoolteacher is the torch.
The village clergyman, the extinguiser.

Victor Hugo

So Says Religion

Not understanding needn't be a call to action.
Curiosity, a threat to faith.
Ignorance, as virtue.

So says religion

Listen to the Silence

Listen to the silence
as it sucks the breath from your chest

Listen to the silence

whilst it dissolves you into nothingness

Listen to the silence
amidst your empty, airless, screams

A cacophony of violence, hate, greed, suffering, useless, self-absorbed construct, amidst a background of perpetual, deep, throbbing, silence

Listen to the silence
And know it is your fate

Fermi’s Paradox

Any intelligent species capable of spaceflight will develop computers. Super general intelligence, a billion fold greater intelligence than us, will rapidly follow.

A billion fold greater intelligence than our current level will exist in ways we cannot experience.

If intelligent life is ubiquitous in the universe - as it surely must be - where is everybody?

Self destroyed or beyond our comprehension.

Say Hello to Trump

Political correctness has only too often morphed from consciousness-raising to thought control, suppression of opposing viewpoints, intolerance. This has served to push bigotry, racism, sexism into the shadows where they grow stronger on a diet of suppressed rage. 

Humility Will Set You Free

It used to be that all that there was revolved around us - the chosen ones at the very center of the universe. Until we discovered we revolved around the sun.

Well at least our solar system was at the center of the universe. All that there was revolved around our solar system. Except we are not at the center of the universe. There is no center.

Well at least we are part of all that there is. Our universe is everything and we part of it.
Except our universe may be one of an infinite number of universes in a multi-universe reality.

Just how small and insignificant do we have to be until we realize just how small and insignificant we are and can finally open our arms, our minds, our hearts, to all that there is, has been, and will ever be.