Maybe the point is that as we grow we're not supposed to have a larger footprint, not to collect physical things. Maybe the point is to divest one's self of all manner of things that weigh one down without adding value - to remain trim, reactive.

And maybe instead of collecting things, we're supposed to let them go so that we can become smaller and smaller until we're no more than a point of light with the same mass - a dense particle, full of potential energy.

Ready to suddenly tap all that potential energy when necessary, as needed, sparingly.

It's the bright lights that one has to watch.

We're all sent here COD, and we're all stamped Return To Sender. The main dispute people seem to have is where the Sender lives, what the Sender looks like and whether the Sender's mother was a virgin or not or whether the Sender had a mother at all. Kind of rude to discuss someone's mother's sexual activities, isn't it? No wonder people fight.

And isn't it odd that something would create something that simply returns things back? If that doesn't prove we're some sort of mad scientific experiment, I don't know what does. Or maybe the Sender didn't do it at all. Maybe someone made the system the Sender uses and he's wondering why the Hell all these things he's sending are coming right back.

What's scary are the first two paragraphs might offend people. Exploring such topics almost always leads to some form of rebuke, even delivered with a light heart. :-)

We see Boolean Logic every day, though those unfamiliar with it may not realize it is Boolean Logic. Most light switches have the settings of off and on. The computer in front of you is built on Boolean logic. Maybe even the way one looks at the world is influenced by Boolean Logic - and maybe that view has become dominant. And maybe that's not good. Or bad¹.

Being the son of an engineer and raised by² that engineer, Boolean logic was a fact of life. Being the nephew of a computer analyst who then liked to womanize and drink more than write code³, the Boolean logic was reinforced by writing code while he was attending his likes. It gives the world a solid state of being. No pun intended.

But the world is bigger than that. It's bigger than '1' and '0' and all the permutations in between. Some light switches are dimmers now. Ask two people what warm is and you'll likely end up with two different objective temperatures. Is something pornography or art? Grey is neither black nor white.

I was fortunate enough to delve into Fuzzy Logic almost 15 years ago. At the time I was dealing with problems that needed to deal with subjective information and make it as objective as possible to control a piece of equipment. Fuzzy logic actually ended up being a part of the solution.

With Fuzzy Logic, inexact information can be dealt with. Something can be both right and wrong to varying degrees - called truth values. What a useful tool, allowing something to be measured in degrees of truth and false. In degrees of Right and Wrong. And I wondered why it hadn't become as common-place in the West as it had in the East.

Popular western religion seems to require a Boolean approach³. If it isn't good, it's evil. This can end up in some perverted Boolean Logic. Consider:

This is a first entry under 'scribbling'; it's where I'll start shoving incomplete (and sometimes unrelated)thoughts that I write on paper. They just haven't fleshed out into full entries yet.

Anarchy is the default state of democracy.

The only reason that we believe we are more enlightened than animals is because we have told ourselves that we are.

People don't buy art. They buy the stories that come with the art. This is why religious texts are full of stories. During periods of illiteracy, verbal stories are all that people had. And the love of these stories has resulted in bloodshed, charred flesh, eviscerations, beheadings and much more. Philosophy is so much more clean.

True democracy is socialism in disguise; if the masses are poor then the poor should have greater voice than the rich by virtue of democracy. That doesn't happen.

Chicken breasts aren't supposed to have bones in them. Those are ribs.

Code is not just Law, it is Intent.

We talk about the planet as if we're truly concerned, but it is really the survival of our species we're interested in. Maybe on the next planet we'll do better.