i have my 20 page lab report in hydrology due monday too. also, an exam in meteorology on tuesday and an exam in historical geology thursday. plus niels, kris, and emily are coming to visit this weekend, so i'm only gonna work on shit on sunday after they have left. i can't wait for them to come over though. i'm really excited for them to see how i live while i'm at school. to be honest, i think they are going to get really bored visiting. what is there to do here? no too much. i'm going to try my best to keep them occupied though. i hope it's going to be nice on saturday, because i want to take them to see cool nature shit. that's really all frostburg has to offer. people can look at frostburg in 2 different ways. one way is that people love it because it has everything. and another way is that people hate it because it has nothing. the only difference is what people consider "nothing". see, it's obvious that the people that say frostburg is great because it has everything are right, because it does have a lot to offer, a lot of nature, beautiful views, exotic wildlife, wild terrain, and preserved wilderness. but it's also easy to say frostburg has nothing and it sucks here. but that is only in terms of social ideals. see, this is also true. if you want to go to hang out somewhere, you can't because there is literally no where to fucking go. there are no good malls, no good shopping, no nice restaurants, no where to chill on the weekends, no urban life in general. so it really just depends on what your preferences are. it is too bad though that the majority of people tend to dislike it, because of the non social aspect here.
with me, i go both ways. i love the nature, but hate having no where to hang out. the reason i dislike it here is because they can't seem to find a moderate blend of the two of my needs. urban and nature. does such a place exist? duhhhhhhhh boulder, colorado. maybe even some parts of denver. it's a fucking city with the mountains right fucking there! i want to live there. i've never been, but i know i would fit in perfectly.
"Idealism is the philosophical theory that maintains that the ultimate nature of reality is based on mind or ideas. It holds that the so-called external or "real world" is inseparable from mind, consciousness, or perception."
i've recently been thinking very deeply about views of life using idealist thinking. i find my self very much so an idealist. it's funny how quantum physics justifies idealism and not realism. you would think that the nature of science is only of facts, but that's exactly why quantum physics justifies it. i wonder if keith lykke is an idealist. i bet he is. i really enjoy my science talks on deck that i have with him when i get bored from watching niels play video games (no offense, i love watching niels play). but like how could someone not have an idealistic mind set? that doesn't really make any sense to me. seriously, why don't people think about life as much as me? ok, try this, everyone, set back and just think. hard. about what life is. it's complexities. they way things work. evolution. the life span of the earth (4.6 billion years old) (modern humans = only a couple thousand). then think about how small that 4.6 billion years is compared to the lifetime of our galaxy, then compare that age to the universe. it's so fucking big. but then what? is the universe infinite? is there an edge of the universe? just like people thought in the middle ages, where if you sailed off the edge of the world you would get eaten by monsters. there is obviously no an edge of the universe. so is it infinite? like, what if our entire universe is just like a mirco-sized bacteria almost for an even bigger planet, in an even bigger galaxy, which is in an even bigger universe? who knows? no one will ever know.
knowing what i've just said, it does not in anyway prove that life is infinite, it proves that humans don't have the capability of knowing that answer. we could just be some fucking test in some aliens test tube. who the fuck knows. it's impossible to know. it truely is. this is where idealism comes in. no body fucking knows anything really! our minds are just based off what we are able to know. all we know is we live on earth and we are humans. sure we can explain the earth pretty damn well, and hell, even travel to the fucking moon. but that's nothing really. are you with me here? are you following me? ok, the human mind isn't able to process something that it doesn't know. for example. color. we "know" that there are what, like 7 main colors? fucking red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. sure they all mix together and you can even add white or black, and you can make a shit load of colors. but hear me out. now, try to think of an entirely new color that you have never ever seen before, it doesn't even exist on earth but you know somewhere out there it exist. just try. try to visualize this "new" color... haha, you fucking can't! so there are 7 colors, right? well fucking maybe! that's all we really know. but that's all we will ever know because our minds can't process what we don't know. see, for all we know, that color you were trying to think of, might actually exist! fuck, it might even exist on earth. but you will never be able to see it, because your mind can't process something it does not know.
this is a very interesting example.
here is another. aliens. we see them in movies. tv shows. books... etc. but we don't really know what they look like if they even do exist (which they must by the way). well, unless they look exactly like what we see in movies, we wont ever get to see them. maybe fucking aliens live right here on earth with us. but these aliens aren't a fucking solid, liquid, gas, or a plasma. they are something totally new. some new material we didn't even know existed. our minds can't process that shit, man. what does this new type of alien material look like? ummmm i don't know. maybe because i can't know. human minds are held back by such great limitations. what we know exists is only what our minds allow us to see exist.
ok, so you have an ant (insect). that ant lives its whole life in its ant hill underground. that ant doesn't realize how big the universe is, let alone how big the earth even is. hell, that one fucking ant doesn't even know how big 3 feet is. for all that ant knows, its whole life, its whole world, is that little ant hill. see, humans are just that ant, but to an even bigger scale.
i told you i think about life more than most people. i think everyone should take an hour out of their day, everyday, to just think about the complexities of everything...
life is a lot more interesting then you think. just keep on asking yourself what is even real? because we really don't know.
it's a good thing i didn't bring up religion in my rambling. but i think it's pretty obviously religions role is on this mind set...
i think it would be obvious. god? a "a higher being". in know way would i ever deny the existence of a god. but to believe that you know one exist... is just so fucking ridiculous. i'm pretty sure i made it very clear that what our minds can't process, our minds can't fucking process. god is one of those ideas like my theory of a brand new color. maybe a shit load of different colors exist that humans have never seen, or maybe they don't. but we will never know this. we are only capable of seeing our main rainbow colors. so maybe a god exist. in no way would i ever deny this, but in no way would i ever think we have the capability of knowing for sure one exists. it's impossible to know that question. this is why i remain an agnostic. not an atheist. like a true agnostic would say if someone asks them if a god exists... no one knows.
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ReplyDeleteNah man, I think about that life shit all the time. Like all that bullshit about "what if the blue i see is the red that you see" and shit like that on Mad Men. But, Don't feel like you need to keep us occupied, I'm just so happy this is happening.
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ReplyDeleteGood life talk, Pete. I think maybe our life thinks should converge sometime into a major dual life think tank.
Give me your thoughts.
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ok so i found this finally. i one too so i could follow yins blogs.
ReplyDeleteit's interesting that you mention the visible colors. so on the spectrum of visible light, each wavelength/frequency is associated with a certain observable color, right? but it's really only a visible measurement of how much energy is being absorbed or emitted based on the concentration etc etc blah but what about the frequencies outside of the spectrum of visible light? ultraviolet, microwaves, infrared, radio waves, they all exist as energy, so isn't it possible that all kinds of energy have an associated color that the human eye can't distinguish?
i guess the way the human eye/brain has evolved is specific to the environment in which we live and so we don't really need to SEE radiowave or UV rays coming down from the sky, but they must exist right? if we hypothetically existed in a world with no light, we wouldn't be able to see a damn thing. but if there was no light on earth, or any planet really, i bet the eye would evolve so much differently. i guess everything visible is only visible to humans, but the world is really just energy packed in tiny bits of room and getting visibly dispered in the presence of things like light. but if we could look at the world in a different way, in a non-idealistic, collectivist sort of way, i'm sure all we'd see is energy. but i can't really comprehend how that would even look.
in conclusion, thanks for the thought provoking entry. hope to see more soon.