Mid-afternoon. You are facing west sitting
in the shade near the Whitaker mausoleum at Rose Hill after having an excellent
late lunch at Longhorn. Jen was there and you chatted for a few minutes before
she left for home because there were not enough customers. She is returning in
the evening. A new Texas Roadhouse opened two weeks ago about two miles west of
Longhorn on the corner of Tylersville Road at Dayton Road. That is how you interpreted
her description. Carol is re-reading an old children's book, Beverly Cleary's Strider (one she used to read to her fourth
graders) that she found cleaning a closet. The weather is perfectly Fall with a
warm sun yet with a pleasant light chill in the breeze while sitting in the
shade. - Amorella
1521 hours. I have been thinking about the sentence: "Thought is as
water to the Dead".
Last night before bed, during sleep, and
early this morning while waking. - Amorella
1523 hours. That's more than I can consciously verify.
You came to no conclusion as to its exact
meaning. - Amorella
1525 hours. I was relieved that it wasn't: "Thought is water to the
Dead".
Clearly 'thought' is for drinking and
growing things. - Amorella
1527 hours. I was thinking of thought as a way to grow and communicate
individually as an independent heartansoulanmind, or more simply, a human
spirit sans physics. I suppose that is the reason I added the 'as' in a manner
of course -- it read better. Besides, "Thought is water to the Dead,"
is a statement and sounds truthful when nobody really knows.
Humans are built to consider and draw their
own conclusions. - Amorella
1534 hours. In context I don't see how it could be that human spirits
would see the value; which for the Dead would be 'innately' understood.
You are assuming a choice of interpretation
of spiritual setting would not be an option. - Amorella
1537 hours. I guess; yes.
Well, "home could be where the heart
is"? - Amorella
1539 hours. That's a rather simple cliché, but perhaps the spiritual world is simpler place.
Even then, if 'Home is where the heart is,' is a spiritual definition, then who
decides if soul and mind disagree?
That's rather self-evident, young man. Isn't
it? - Amorella
1544 hours. In context, you are right; if 'Home is where the heart is',
is indeed a true statement. Strangely, I find it bothersome if a spiritual
place is so simple. What good is the complexity of the human mind in such an
environment? Does mind just wither away with lack of use? Are human spirits
just left with heartansoul?
As the heartansoulanmind loses the physical
body, then it is plausible that the mind might wither away from lack of use. -
Amorella
1553 hours. If you lose your mind before physical death then you would
be one step ahead.
That's a rather crass thought out of the
blue. - Amorella
1556 hours. I'm of those who think the mind is a terrible thing to
waste.
So, what would you do, young man, if this
premise were true, that the mind would eventually wither from the vine, as it
were, of heartansoul? - Amorella
1558 hours. It sounds like a right wing/left wing political conflict. Without
a physical place human spirits would probably decide like during the American
war for Independence; a third would side with those who supported the
continuing use of mind; another third would support the 'natural' withering
away of the mind from heartansoul and the last third would be indifferent
(probably because their minds were already gone).
I understand your thinking but I and you are
both unsure if this is the actual way it was (historically) during the American revolution.
Who took the survey? - Amorella
1604 hours. I don't know. That's what I read somewhere, sounds
reasonable to me with people being as they are. A third for independence, a
third for the British or moving to Canada and another not giving a damn one way
or the other. Sounds like a modern day survey with Trump as president and a
right wing Republican agenda with me being in the moderate to liberal third. I
do give a damn but there is nothing I can do about modern American politics.
And, jumping back, I probably would be upset that spiritual minds were
withering away but there wouldn't be a damn thing I could do about it. One
either learns to fit in or one doesn't no matter what the circumstance.
Carol finished her book and is now taking a
walk. Relax and enjoy the afternoon, orndorff. Post when feasible. - Amorella
Supper
was makeshift at best. You watched ABC
News and "The Blacklist". Carol is presently watching one of her
favorite shows. - Amorella
2109 hours. Carol sent me an interesting article on economics It
is titled, "Just own the damn Robots" which appears in John Maudin's economics post "Outside the Box". The fellow who wrote "Just own" has his own blog. The
focus of the article is on world automation and the great loss of jobs that will be had in the
next decade or so. I dropped it on my FB page. I read the contents of the
article fifty years ago in science fiction. In the seventies when I taught
'Future Studies/Science Fiction' at Indian Hill High School I used to be a
member of The World Future Society. I
even got my father-in-law, Dr. G. S. Hammond, to teach a like class in his Sun
City Center community in Florida once he had retired from State. He enjoyed
teaching the class to fellow community retirees. Some people don't get the word
on 'the next big thing', but times just keep a changing -- 'robotamation' is my
word for it. AI is the theme. Change is not new, it is the very life blood of
reality, at least to me. How we react to change revels our own personal
characters. We all learn something from it whether we like it or not. (2125)
You're not teaching a class anymore, boy.
Post. - Amorella
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