Oh my (Originally published on January 24, 2008)

I would like to thank Kilowatts for a reminder. One sent to him through the ages. Charley Chaplin reminding us about life. I sometimes forget the lessons I have learned. I sometimes forget that it's all a cosmic joke.

But every once in a while, I laugh... I laugh with an earnestness that amazes people. I laugh as if the world is but a figment of my imagination. I laugh is if I could die tomorrow., because.... well, I can.

But, that sounds nihilistic. We fear nihilism. We have all run into those who were thinking of or did take their own life. But knowledge by its nature is dangerous. If we ignored all that was dangerous, we would still live in caves (assuming we got that far).

But here I am again. Looking at the world in amazement. It all seems so simple. The paths greed, hate, anger, and despair take are obvious. The paths love, faith, and hope go down are unpredictable.

In the end, we started out as talking monkeys. Computers surrounded in flesh. However, somewhere along the way, we became more. We broke the bonds. We left the physical plane. We took ourselves out of the evolutionary cycle. At that moment we became limitless. We stumbled across the very energy that drives the universe. We learned to manipulate things to our will. We became something else; something that could not be calculated or quantified.

So I ask everyone to look around. Take joy in the unpredictable. Take joy in those things that logic can't explain. In my limited experience, those were the only things that mattered.