My short trip is over now. A mere two days on the road. Soon, the road will be much longer, a series of moves one followed by the other, unending almost, as everything seems unending right now.
I don't have my notes with me so this entry will have to be split into pieces. Yes, not all of what I write is held within this loosely assembled mind, or at least I keep notes to give the appearance of humility.
So what does Zeno, realism and the traveling Martin Luthers.
The answer lies in what each does or what each leads to, just as Genetics is economics with different names, so too are reality paradoxes and radical changes in perspective.
Zeno was the first to make it a matter of record, that we did not exist the way we thought. Much later came, in the 1500, the resurgence of pragmatic approach to existence where the idea of existence "I think therefore I am" was developed which incorrectly assumes that our ability to be cognizant of our existence means at least on some level we exist. E-hologram theory (and that is a whole 'nother story) shows that our thoughts may be predestined, a mere replaying of something which Einstein predicted "without time" would all happen at once. Non-linear time theory, of course, operates with the understanding that time is non-linear in some stages and very well might mean that everything happens at once as shown in E-H theory. I think, therefore my thoughts occur along with everything else at once until time goes linear. Existence doesn't require the linearity of time, only the appearance of linearity. John Dunne was the poet laureate of this conceptually.
Now, where does traveling alone come into this? Very clearly, Martin Luther was, as previously discussed influenced by a single line which gave dimension to a rethinking of what religion was, that is he was one of the first to believe that "what art man that thou art mindful of him" in the sense that we cannot influence what god does with us as the Church of the time sought to manifest for its own purposes. This led to a revolution in Europe that lasted 100 years and left the world with French and American democracy, a throwback to Greece, government by consent of the governed.
The second Martin Luther in question, in this case Martin Luther King Jr also traveled preaching a message of change, wondering how in a modern world it was conceivable that people would be considered different only because of skin color when there were so many better reasons to hate one another perhaps. While his life was not in as much danger as Martin Luther the former, but he died for his beliefs whereas Martin Luther the former was appalled at what he caused at least in his later writings, perhaps influenced by his own self-interest, that is the interest of not being killed for causing the religious wars of Europe and 100 years of infighting.
Both travelers, however, changed the world around them by refusing to accept the artificial reality that so concerned those other before them and me in particular now that I have joined their ranks in incredulousness if (certainly) not fame.
But more on this later.
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