This is another re-write of a paragraph that may not be as important as the others, but perhaps what it lacks in importance, it makes up as interesting to me and no one is forcing anyone else to read this, although perhaps, based on the theory included below, that is not the case.
I want to visit Weymorth England in 1961.
I want to visit Weymorth England in 1961.
Sickness?
It is nothing. We are all bags of
water, so they say. If you stick us the water leaks out, if we are ill, the
waters are ill. It is only between the
filling of the bag and the emptying that that we live. How we live defines us, but only as bags of
water.
And so I called her
and told her I would be nearby, in Mississippi.
“Would you like to talk.”
“You mean would I
be interested in sleeping with you? The
answer is no.”
“I didn’t say
that.”
“You don’t need
to.”
“Ok. It’s fair to assume that I want to have sex
with you all of the time. I’ve wanted to
have sex with you all the time since I first met you but we didn’t. Wanting to have sex with you and thinking
it’s a good idea are two different things.
You realize when we talk and when we’re not arguing that what we’re
doing is as intimate as sex.”
“So we shouldn’t
talk.”
“I went too far.”
“No, what you said
is the truth. Our conversations are far
too intimate. We’ve known each other too
long.”
“How can you know
someone too long? I just want to
talk. I may be interested in sleeping
with you, but I have no agenda. We can
meet by the lake. We can go have diner
afterwards.” I think two people who
liked each other as much as we did, who had shared as much as we did, should
not let that go. They should work things
out. We had a problem, however.
What was the
problem?
We were incredibly
compatible in bed. We both knew exactly
how we wanted to be touched and we touched each other that way. We knew how we wanted to be kissed, and that
was how we kissed each other. We knew
the different ways that we could couple together and we instinctively seemed to
find those ways, and it seemed like we always found something different to add.
For my part, and my
part was different than hers for many reasons, I no longer wanted to have sex
with anyone else after having her. That
is not to say that when I was with a stranger wearing very little clothing who
was making come hither comments and attempting to surreptitiously look me over
that I wasn’t interested in some mindless physical activity, but it did mean
that I didn’t care about it. And I can’t
explain this, but I had no interest in the sure things, the ex-lovers who asked
me to make out with them. The ex-lovers
who gave me peculiar looks when I said no and the dissatisfaction with the
explanation, ‘its complicated.’
“I can’t make it
anyway Friday, I have a date.”
“That’s ok, I just
thought I would ask.”
“I’ll tell you
what, though. What time is your meeting
over?”
“I should be done by four,” should I tell her that I scheduled it late so I would be there when she was finished, in the unlikely event she had time and would agree?
“I should be done by four,” should I tell her that I scheduled it late so I would be there when she was finished, in the unlikely event she had time and would agree?
“I’m free till
6:30. I have a meeting out there. I was coming back to the office, but I can
work at the lakefront office. If I wear
what I’m wearing on the date, then we can meet at 5 for a few minutes. It will
give me an excuse to avoid the traffic.”
When I lay dying I
will think about what I have done and I will think about god. For the rest of the week, I would spend most
of my time thinking about her.
I was not going to tell her I was there for an interview. I would have felt stupid and it would have
come off as self-serving even though it was only meant to be informative. Perhaps when we talked, I thought, but knew I
would not. The interview was a waste of
time. I was as qualified, but I was old,
blind and rotting inside.
I was not at all
worried. I was vastly more mature and knew
more about the business than the younger persons who would be interviewing me
and I had no need of taking the job. It
isn’t that I didn’t need the money, but only that for me in the same amount of
time, it was easy to envision making more money doing any number of
things. Why would I want to take those
skills and use them to make someone else rich?
Also, the purpose
of the job had little to do with the large paycheck and benefits. It had to do with finding a reason that
everyone could understand to move.
Failing to understand it, it provided an excuse that everyone could hide
behind, me no less than anyone else.
At this point in
time, it had nothing to do with moving in with the girl. She had moved on.
I had not; but I
had now lived most of my life without moving on from her and was well used to
the idea of mindless, emotionless sex with strangers that would not last
because I was in love with someone else and I was far past the idea of starting
another family. Been there, made that choice
by accident, with all of its benefits and mistakes, already. If I had to chew my leg off to get out of
that trap, I hoped I’d have the good sense not to trap one of the other ones in
the next baited trap.
And, of course, it
was unlikely I would get the job despite my qualifications, because I would be
honest in my outside interests. However
compatible they would be with the job, they were a distraction of time and a
conflict.
As a physicist, you
might think that I would have no faith.
You may think that I would look only to mathematics for my
religion. That I would assume that since
god was more complicated than space, that god could not ‘evolve’ before
space. That, of course, would not occur
to you if you studied quantum mechanics or if you think about it
logically.
The universe is far
too evolved to serve as a platform for evolution. The old fashioned idea was of a big bang,
nonsense as an origin event, though it likely occurred in some fashion. How can you have a bang without something to
explode? Saying the universe began with
a “big bang” is like saying that a mine began with the explosion of dynamite. The dynamite is relevant to the opening of
the hole, but the mine, the rocks, the unexploded dynamite, the space and time
already had to have existed. How moronic
the whole concept of the big bang becomes with even a cursory analysis.
I provide a
framework for this, of course, a big bang that always happens and has always
happened, but think about how little that adds to the complexity of the
universe.
To consider life
forms, gods and even time independent protozoa that exist outside of time, life
that exists all at once, might sound like science fiction, but the math as I
see it says that even we creatures of space-time exist like that. We don’t realize it because of the illusion
of linearity, but there it is nonetheless.
Moreover, because
we all exist at once and without separation by real time or space, the concentrations
of intelligence is more godlike than manlike.
Physics doesn't ask
for god, but one does show, uninvited. Non-linear
time requires that all time, space, thought is concentrated in one place. The concentration necessarily encompasses a
type of knowledge of the past and future so it is, if not a god, then a god
similar construct.
Perhaps in such a
scenario a type of god is mathematically possible, perhaps even mandated, but
not your god. This god may be all
knowing, he may be able to understand every emotion you have ever had at one
time. But he cannot change a thing, not
a single god damned thing, because it already knows what will happen and in
fact has made it happen.
But, of course, if
I am the spawn of Satan as you apparently want to believe, I must be an
outlier, imbued with true self determination, the random element in a
non-random universe. I don’t accept that.
I am no more capable of being good or evil than anyone else. It is the illusion of self-determination,
both immensely powerful and irrelevant.
And don’t give me
your religious zealotry. The last thing
a religious bug thinks before it hits a windshield is "everything happens
for a reason." And the last thing a sympathetic bug says to another
before they both hit the windshield is "everything is going to be
alr..."
And when I explained that to her, before
our arranged meeting, she responded; “Wait, we don’t have to accept that. You’re
using your theory as an excuse for your conduct.”
That is the same
thing the girl said to me then. And what
I said back was, ‘That isn’t true. I
think from our perspective, the illusion of self-determination is as relevant
as it would be for true self-determination. I only say that in a universe
governed by specific rules, you can predict what happens next and that is the
same thing as saying it has already happened.’”
The girl did not
even need a moment to think about this. “That doesn’t matter, even if it is a
clever exercise in logic. You used me.”
“We needed each other,
maybe. You want to accuse me of manipulating you, but if you believe that
you have to think that I can plan 20 or 30 years in advance and that I’d be
willing to do that just toy with you for a whim. You’d have to believe
that I don't really like you.”
“I have to go.”
“We’ll see each
other on Friday?” I meant it as a
question, did it come out that way?
“Good bye.”
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