The first installment of the Don and Hill---done in hell?---show is tonight.
I have no intention of watching.
(Not having a TV makes this easy.)
Neither do I intend to listen to it on the wireless.
Why should anyone want to get into the wallow with the hogs?
26 September 2016
06 September 2016
Administrivia--New Background
I've changed the background picture from the generic Blogger image to something new and different. Yes, it is a bit dreary, but is--perhaps--a bit more appropriate foer these times and mores.
For those interested in such things, it is a digital photograph of an oil on canvas run through a Lomographic filter.
For those interested in such things, it is a digital photograph of an oil on canvas run through a Lomographic filter.
05 September 2016
Bosons of Light and Darkness
Its sure getting dark out there.
Seemingly everything which provides light is getting dimmer.
That’s not literally true of things like the Sun and man-made lighting, but, in
other ways, perhaps only in perception rather than in physical actuality, Darkness
seems to be increasing.
There is no particle for Darkness as there is the photon for
Light, since Darkness is defined as the absence of light, and not as an actual
physical force or type of energy. There is nothing which actually radiates
Darkness as a hot piece of metal radiates light and heat.
The Dualistic religions from the Middle East have, to one
degree or another, provided a source of Darkness because they cannot accept the
fact that, in a strict monotheistic theology, G-d is the source of both the
Light and the Darkness, of both Good and Evil which befalls Humans. Human
action—or inaction—may be cites as the cause of divine Evil, but it ultimately
comes from G-d. Causality über alles, even if just “bad luck”, is a better explanation.
But the Darkness still exists, whatever its source, and it
does seem to be “radiated” by means of some Humans who, acting as vectors,
transmit the Darkness and its effects to other Humans and—sometimes—to the environment.
Its almost impossible to avoid the effects of the Darkness
without becoming a hermit. The effects of the Darkness ripple through human
society despite the best efforts of some people to neutralize or deflect them. It
is a cascading effect, like a row of dominoes when the first one is knocked over,
and the only way not to be one of the dominoes is not to be in line with the
other dominoes.
The ebb and flow of Light and Darkness that one sees might
not be an eternal battle of the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, but
rather something more like the alternation of day and night as the Earth
rotates about its axis, something that occurs naturally as part of the
functioning of the physical universe or Kosmos, and it is the human desire of
order and continuity which makes the formulation of moral categories for
external events inevitable.
Or, perhaps, not.
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