Batman Returns!
"The stars awaken a certain reverence, because though always present, they are inaccessible." -Ralph Waldo Emerson
That thought has been bothering me lately. Not the fact that the stars are inaccessible, (which they aren't) but the fact that I won't live to see Ralph Waldo Emerson proved wrong. Lately I have been thinking about it, and I although I still regret being born in the 20th century, it is for different reasons now than for before. Before I always wanted to live in the medieval era or before, but now, I want to see technology! I want to see mankind explore Mars! I want to see mankind live on another planet! But no, I have to live in an era where we are still struggling to cure cancer, still struggling to figure out how the laws of gravity and physics work! I mean come on, dark matter....are we still at a spot where we have to make stuff up to explain things that don't make sense? It's like saying "I swung my bat at the baseball but it missed, therefore something must have pushed it away!"
Ok, maybe not the best comparison, but it's the best I can do at 2 AM, and you get my drift, right?
P.S. I just decided that I want to be Batman, and I am returning to my dusty old blog, hence the slightly random name.
P.P.S. There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. - Albert Einstein
Nice quote, no?
That thought has been bothering me lately. Not the fact that the stars are inaccessible, (which they aren't) but the fact that I won't live to see Ralph Waldo Emerson proved wrong. Lately I have been thinking about it, and I although I still regret being born in the 20th century, it is for different reasons now than for before. Before I always wanted to live in the medieval era or before, but now, I want to see technology! I want to see mankind explore Mars! I want to see mankind live on another planet! But no, I have to live in an era where we are still struggling to cure cancer, still struggling to figure out how the laws of gravity and physics work! I mean come on, dark matter....are we still at a spot where we have to make stuff up to explain things that don't make sense? It's like saying "I swung my bat at the baseball but it missed, therefore something must have pushed it away!"
Ok, maybe not the best comparison, but it's the best I can do at 2 AM, and you get my drift, right?
P.S. I just decided that I want to be Batman, and I am returning to my dusty old blog, hence the slightly random name.
P.P.S. There are moments when one feels free from one's own identification with human limitations and inadequacies. At such moments one imagines that one stands on some spot of a small planet, gazing in amazement at the cold yet profoundly moving beauty of the eternal, the unfathomable; life and death flow into one, and there is neither evolution nor destiny; only Being. - Albert Einstein
Nice quote, no?
who doesnt want to be Batman?
Posted by
Nate James |
July 30, 2006 1:52 AM
Finally!!!!!
It's been too long between posts, Will, and it is good to see you here again. I hope we see a few more great posts.
One word, in response to your post, as a way of fulfilling your desire to see all these things....CRYOGENICS!!!!
But seriously, look at all the developments we have seen in this lifetime which the people who lived before us didn't see. And who knows, you might live to see some of the things you have listed....granted, you might be 80 or 90...but you will be around to see it!
Great post....and I agree - who doesn't want to be Batman?
Posted by
Rushan |
July 30, 2006 2:05 AM