Shortly after noon. A lazy Sunday morning with the usual readings and breakfast first. A talk with daughter earlier on the phone. Browsing ‘mac rumors’ on the web and some apps. Here you are sitting in the living room chair yawning, with nothing to do.
Sounds like the old song, “Counting Flowers on the Wall” or whatever the title. Captain Kangaroo is long gone. I don’t know about my marsupials though. I still don’t see how they are eventually going to tie in. It has been a rather gray day so far and that supports my current mood I suppose. Carol has been on the phone with her sister who is coming down late morning for a visit tomorrow – Carol is now in her office online. Jadah the cat is curled up into a ball on cushions on the back of the couch next to the opposite wall. Miss Monochrome with pink nose and paw pads has missed her morning sun but is suddenly awake giving herself a cleaning. She is a most fastidious, charming and calming house cat. We are one retired couple who are finding Jadah a necessity for our civilizing humanity. Now, what would be the catalyst for the Dead? There are hints in the book that the Dead can keep their favorite pet shaded within the privacy of their own home. How is that? Do they enlist all of the life’s favorite pets to cuddle with at once? Call them forth individually? Or, what? How does that work, Amorella, in context with these books.? What is the reasoning behind the metaphysics?
Pets are a natural part of some people’s lives and the attachment for such creatures sometimes goes into the heart further than the individual suspects. Allowances are made and a deeply held favorite or two stay within in conjunction with necessity. In other words, they appear when needed to sooth a distress. I like to think of the pet, whatever it may be, as sleeping under the bed ready to climb out and sooth its master. Otherwise, it is elsewhere pleasantly asleep and perhaps if it has the capability, dreaming the kinds of dreams an animal of its nature might dream. Mostly comforting kitty or puppy dreams with mother. How’s that? – Amorella.
This sense of consciousness, this attachment to a pet or so, has to be developed I assume.
Self-education is a necessity, orndorff. Curiosity is a part of that necessity. The Dead in the books have a much greater sense of freedom than the Living do. It can be compared to people who are in the working stages of their lives and those who are comfortably retired. The mature mind thinks lots of things. Dead, the mind realizes it has many more choices to ponder on. Ultimately this leads to more growth and maturity. For instance, imagine you are extremely wealthy and can buy any material goods in the world. Most would not really buy everything, it is the fact that they could buy everything that counts the most. There is a vast separation between wants and needs for the Dead. No longer having access to material things helps clear the way for another level of maturity.
You seem to have a response for these questions even though I haven’t thought it all out.
That is because I thought it all out beforehand, orndorff. I have contingency plans for anything the characters can think up in their free will, that includes you too, boy. Post, and take a break. – Amorella.
You and Carol watched the night’s Inspector Lewis on Masterpiece Theatre and though it is late you are thinking about the note you just received from Doug in reference to a note you sent him earlier today. First, fill in the first note and then the response. I will have something to say after that. – Amorella.
NASA: Massive solar storm in 2012 could wipe out power grid
August 21st, 2010 11:49 pm
“NASA is warning this week that a solar storm currently underway on the surface of the sun is projected to hit earth in 2012. . . . This solar storm could be so powerful it may wipe out the power grid on the entire planet.
NASA says that other geomagnetic storms occurred back in 1859 and 1921, wiping out telegraph wires completely. The storm in 2012 is expected to be even more severe, possibly leaving humans without transportation, communication, or power. This could have a profound effect on the world economy and hold us hostage in a power-less electrical gridlock. . . .
The current cycle of the sun is projected to be one of the most intense since record keeping began almost 400 years ago. . . . NASA has talked of the coming 2012 solar storms since 2006, and if correct, say this event could threaten to beat out the historic solar maximum of 1958.” From: Brent McGrady, Albany Weather Examiner
You sent this to Doug G. to ask what he thought and here is his response:
Dick,
I watched a whole hour on this. It is quite clear that if we get hit
a billion or more people will be killed. Recovery would take 100 years--if ever!
It was only a few years ago that scientists were even aware that such an effect could happen. Remember the magnetic storm that took out Canada few years ago? That was the wake up call. A study was done to see what would happen if a storm 1000X larger would happen (which they expect to happen any time) would destroy the grids worldwide. No more pumping gas, no more electricity anywhere, no more phones, no more iPads or TV's, no more fertilizer to grow food as there is no fuel to move anything around. Not a pretty picture.
Doug
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You responded to Doug that you had never imagined such a catastrophe as this, you thought that another one like that one that hit Canada or one three times that size would cause enough havoc.
You have too much imagination on your hands, boy. Plus, you don’t like end of the modern world scenarios as they have been overdone in fiction, but done best in Asimov’s short story “Nightfall”.
A wonderful story, Amorella. A planet has several suns and ever twenty thousand years or so the planet has a nightfall. People go crazy as they have never experienced darkness before. Civilization is destroyed and in another twenty thousand years or so it happens all over again. Such irony. Billions of stars. No one could ever imagine such a thing. Just wonderful writing by the master.
You see, once Asimov came to mind you settled into a story rather than a possible reality. In your heart of hearts you really cannot accept such an implausible scenario. You have too much hope for the future, boy, even though you hate to admit it. Such hope keeps the Dead alive, boy. Keep that in mind. Otherwise you would not have settled on such books as these.
I would like to think such an event would not happen, but I do not deny the possibility. Besides, a hundred years is a far cry better than twenty-thousand. Surviving would first be a matter of luck, of being in the right place at the right time, then survival would be a matter of friends and of wit.
See, not much different than some of the chapters in your books. Fiction, no less. Tomorrow a fellow talks about windows then your sister-in-law arrives for lunch and perhaps a movie. Time for bed, old man. Post. – Amorella.
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