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Comment on Sisyphus by hoyden

hoyden — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:45:02 +0000

I suppose this might be my dad’s reply:
http://terryworks.org/2009/08/14/faith/

Comment on under the stars by hoyden

hoyden — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 03:34:11 +0000

“The most important thing I learned on Tralfamadore was that when a person dies he only appears to die. He is still very much alive in the past, so it is very silly for people to cry at his funeral. All moments, past, present and future, always have existed, always will exist. The Tralfamadorians can look at all the different moments just that way we can look at a stretch of the Rocky Mountains, for instance. They can see how permanent all the moments are, and they can look at any moment that interests them. It is just an illusion we have here on Earth that one moment follows another one, like beads on a string, and that once a moment is gone it is gone forever.

When a Tralfamadorian sees a corpse, all he thinks is that the dead person is in bad condition in the particular moment, but that the same person is just fine in plenty of other moments. Now, when I myself hear that somebody is dead, I simply shrug and say what the Tralfamadorians say about dead people, which is “So it goes.”

from Slaughterhouse-Five
(1969) by Kurt Vonnegut.

Comment on under the stars by p

Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:08:33 +0000

“A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement of time is predictable… Each person knows that somewhere is recorded the moment she was born, the moment she took her first step, the moment of her first passion, the moment she said goodbye to her parents.”

Alan Lightman
Einstein’s Dreams