Cowardice and Greener Grasses

Why can’t I scrap my worldly possessions, break my relational ties, and set off on foot around the globe to discover god, myself, and internal peace?  No one could stop me if I decided I wanted to break camp.  So I must be the one standing in the way of myself.  Why would I do that when nothing sounds better than chucking my stresses?  Cowardice. 

I fear disappointing others.  I fear the unknown.  I fear that I won’t like me once I find me, or that there isn’t a god to discover, or that internal peace is really just loneliness.  I fear jumping for a dream because I might fall off the ledge.  What if the un-materialistic life is not what I want once I get it?  What if I have to crawl back to my relations to beg for a small part of my life back?  Maybe we’re brainwashed by that “grass is always greener” saying to keep us from doing what we really want to do.  That fucking phrase halts dreams.   -antiwasp

Filed under: Character, Culture, Religion, Self Actualization, Wisdom

God and PowerPoint

Microsoft PowerPoint, or just PowerPoint, according to the Bible is the language of moral imperative created by God and bestowed upon the people of America from the mountain of Microsoft.  PowerPoint endows the people of America, the Chosen Ones, with the ability to communicate divine ideas.  Legend testifies that God, himself, intelligently designed the program from his personal laptop in just eight days.  He then ripped himself into two separate, but unequal, parts becoming both his own son and his own father at the same time ( . . . somehow???).  During the split he talked to himself often, and he also delivered the PowerPoint program directly to Dennis Austin and Thomas Rudkin.  Austin and Rudkin received instructions from the lesser half of the God, who was standing behind a burning bush.  The lesser-burning-bush God gave the two men instructions to sell the product to Bill Gates for a huge profit.  God rested on the ninth day, was crucified, and then nothing else happened.

Today, PowerPoint is recognized as the divine language to both East and West Coast Americans.  Legend of how text, graphics, movies, charts, and animations came to be differs from one group to another.  Factions clash violently over the differences today, but one thing is certain . . . Slides can only be interpreted and created by the pre-destined.  Only those who study and know the true power of PowerPoint will enter though the eye of the needle, which sounds kind of painful.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Religion, Technology

All Alone: No Aliens Here

Frank Drake came up with an equation to estimate how many planets in our galaxy (Milky Way Galaxy) had the conditions to support life if it were to spontaneuously occur there.  His conclusion was that there are 153 other planets in our galaxy that can sustain life, but the nearest one is 2000 light years away (Andromeda, the next nearest galaxy is 2 million light years away).  We started sending out radio signals about 40-50 years ago, so they should reach the nearest planet capable of sustaining life in about 1950 years.  I hope by then something has developed that can hear it. 

It’s highly unlikely that extraterrestrials have ever visited Earth.  Nobody knows we’re here.  (If someone in Andromeda has really good eyes and they are looking at us right now they see a bunch of Homo Erectus guys walking around from 2 million years ago.)  I don’t think we’re anywhere near developing a rocket that can travel at the speed of light, and even if we did we can’t live for 2000 years to make it to the next planet, and even if we could even nuclear power wouldn’t last long enough to get us there. 

We’re all alone, and we always will be.  -antiwasp

Filed under: Religion, Technology