Notes

        You saw some well defined bumper stickers on a car while riding up to Kidd’s Coffee in Mason after your late morning walk in the park woods and you began thinking on what ‘delusional’ means. Then, of course, rather than focus on who all out there in Warren County, Ohio, the United States and the World are delusional you decided to focus on yourself first.

         It has occurred to me that being delusional at least to a point, is actually a part of human nature, and I wonder why that would be. Is being hopeful delusional? Is being mad (insane)? As long as you keep your thoughts and your behaviors to yourself who would know the difference.?  It is back to a definition of reality, and it the definition fits a group of people and not others then it appears to fit or not fit the general consensus of what reality is. Fine tuning. I am thinking of the Nazi’s here.  

         What is bothersome to you is that you want to make sure there is a strong line between the notes and the books and your life. This came up the other day when you thought of yourself when the focus was on Richard, Robert’s twin, in the story and you went back to clarify it not for the reader, first, but for yourself. You have good reason for your concern but I do not, at least at present. You have separate pockets of reality depending on your environmental circumstance at the moment, but then from what I can observe in here, so does everyone. That is, we change our behaviors to meet the faces that we meet. Adaptation for survival’s sake. Certainly for some who would see your bumper sticker with Obama on the back and Apple and the UK (British) flag on the backs of both of your cars, may think you are delusional also. Very funny. Genetically you may hail from the Isles but you do not have a British passport, so why the symbolic flag. You are an Apple fan, no question about it, so the reason is there. What is the Obama sticker for but to anger those who cannot stand the man and his policies?  All kinds of motivations for bumper stickers, orndorff.

         I wonder what the equivalent of bumper stickers would be in Elysium? People like to project the way they feel about things, how do the Dead do that? After all their feelings/attachments are an essential part of what people are.

         Take a break, post this. Spiritual blogs, now there is an idea, ghostly advertisements for other spirits. – Amorella.

        You were a little chatty on Facebook this evening and feel the need to shut up.

        

         It seems arrogant to me to post a point of view. This afternoon was spent reading more of Twain’s Autobiography. What a delight. Then I received an interesting note from Doug:

Dick, The speed of light is the speed of light, and that's that. Right? Well, maybe not. Try and figure this out. Astronomers studying radiation coming from a distant galaxy found that the high energy gamma rays arrived a few minutes after the lower-energy photons, even though they were emitted at the same time. If true, this result would overturn Einstein’s theory of relativity, which says that all photons should move at the speed of light. Uh oh, Einstein.

Regards

Doug

         Doug keeps me thinking on such things. I wonder how such a thing is even possible, that the gamma rays arrive a few minutes after the photons? What does this mean if the observation is found to be correct? How anyone can ever be bored in this world is beyond me.

         The Dead aren’t bored either, orndorff, unless that is how they wish to spend their ‘time’. Chapter six later or tomorrow, though tomorrow you are off to Westerville until Thursday evening when you will return. Enjoy the evening. Post. – Amorella.