this will sound odd, but bear with the idea and possibility...
you know the felling when you are totally fine, then suddenly lose your energy?
How about deja vu?
or forget what you were doing, what you were getting, or where u were going and why?
Theory of time travel. Maybe not us per se', but a possibility of such.
A typical rule in (movies) time travel, when retrieving one from the past, bring them back before you went to get them, and they will not remember going forward through time.
I'm not entirely sure how that theory is supposed to work to be honest. I mean, to pick me up in this time, I would remember a time traveler saying "come with me", and the travel, the event to occur during the travel, and the return. Theoretically, my time line has not changed yet so I would remember all that had happened, becoming the new me within an alternate dimension, where as the old me from dimension 2 either stays or travels and not returns... Or simply just like a meld-like thing. I'm pretty sure two mes in the same time/dimension would cause a paradox and... well bad news. regardless, Memory would remain.
But basing this theory upon the theory that returning prior to time exit, would erase memory of said event...
The loss of energy. A future time traveler, picked you up, did something in the future (possibly past), and have returned, depleted of energy. Well, hell, you just ensured a historical event happened, or defended against a disaster... You suddenly are tired from kicking ass whenever you just got back from. Badass. A time-traveling hero and you don't even know it.
Deja-vu.
Brief boosts into the future, you were picked up, and brought maybe moments, or days into the future, prevented a disaster, or event, brought back to the point before, do not remember fully, but the brief memory flashes back into your head. Sometimes its scary, and you think some bad shit is about to happen after a series of events, but doesn't. Leaves you on your toes. You stopped an event from happening. (or you can see in the future and prevent it on the spot)
forgot what you were doing, or why you were going to get from the other room?
you were picked up after your thought, and returned before you thought your thought.
Cool right? makes you think a little more about why it happens right?
How do we know this isn't a real thing? Maybe those of the future (distant future) have created time travel and patrol it to create the best possible future for the human race? Bringing minds from the past to assist in future issues? History repeats itself, and what better way to solve a problem now, than to learn from the past directly? Wouldn't you be curious of historical events, and how they truly happened? I know, if we were having a shortage on electricity, I would want to go to Franklin and Tesla for answers of how they would solve it.
Maybe, in the nearer future we have developed a technology that extends our lives past 100 years. after all, with modern advances in the medical field has shown a much longer life span today than earlier in history. Average span being 40 or 50, maybe 60 at most, and now we hear of 100th birthdays. Quite remarkable. Sooner than later we will be celebrating 150th birthdays, 200th birthdays... We could turn out to be considered a type of immortal in the future... Who knows right?
Time-traveling immortals? Time-lords? >.<
Wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff?
Every one of us is a potential hero or villain in another time/dimension....
And we don't even know.
Friday, August 21, 2015
Saturday, August 8, 2015
Boundries, Fear and Respect.
A thought crossed my mind as I answered a question asked by my oldest son.
He asked me why we had to park the car that way to put gas in it, and the best way I could describe it was with a balloon. "You can't fill a balloon with air from the top can you?" He laughed, "Nooo!" And went on explaining that there is only one place we can put the gas in the car, and that place is close to the pump when we park like this.
Well, the thought that passed me during that explanation.
Limitations, and how they mold us. Or hurt us.
I'm looking at it like a road map. If A parent were to give a road map to a 7-year old, It would most likely be the street you live on. (I'll call it Main Street) as he were to get older, more roads are filled in on the map. 1st, 2nd, 3rd... And by the time they become 16, or so, pretty much the entire city's roads are filled in, and even a few others surrounding it. After 18... All of it. The whole world.
Well, reality is: that's what we do with our kids anyway. Just with everything else. Filtering what they eat, watch, say, hear... Every limit put up is another road not drawn in on the map. Another blockade to restrict access. Another road that will have to come open to them eventually, and if restrictions are too hard, and they only move out at age 18 only knowing Main St.... its a huge overwhelming slap in the face of reality.
Ever see the movie "See Spot Run"? In the movie, the little boy's mother only allows him to eat a healthy cereal, healthy foods, and no TV... totally blocked off from the outside world. Then his mother has to leave for some reason but the sitter hasn't shown up, so her neighbor, Gordon agrees to look after the boy for a few hours, and being desperate, she agrees. Well, the sitter never shows, and the boy has to stay with him for a while. Well, Gordon gives him Fruit Loops, soda and all kinds of junk. Well... after the cereal alone, the next scene shows the boy with the box on his head, standing on the table swinging his shirt around while screaming. After a scene of sheer insanity, the boy feels awful on the couch, sipping on a 2-liter of soda. Groaning in pain.
That's what it would be like. All your life you are protected from everything, and when you step out into the real world you discover that not everything or everyone is awesome and nice. Not everyone uses nice language, or says nice things. Not everything is fair. Nothing is as perfect as it has seemed for the past 18 years.
It hits you like a ton of bricks. Live in a tiny crummy apartment or mini trailer instead of a nice house, have to have a job or two to pay for your own bills, buy your own food, car maintenance, nosey and noisy neighbors when you have an early shift, dogs barking and screwing up your yard... Lots of stressful stuff, and it happens all at once, even if you do get to keep your furniture from your folk's place...
To be blocked from "bad" music and TV shows... They will see and hear it eventually, and the restricted is more tempting than the non.
16-20 year olds drink like fish, partly because it is restricted. As of 21, it no longer that way so it's a bit less appealing.
Not saying its always like that, but it makes total sense. I know that's how it happened with me anyway. Not with everything, but there were some things i was blocked from and when i discovered them, it was a bit of a thrill. "I'm listening to rap music on my headphones so my mom doesn't hear it. *Gasp!* they said the F word! :D" (Exaggerated example btw). When I moved out on my own, it didn't matter anymore, so it happened a little less often...
A little at a time, let the discoveries make themselves.
However, not restricting a child at all gives them no fear of consequence, and would be more likely to end up being a non-law abiding citizen. Respect for authority, at least in my opinion, respect in general, comes from a kind of fear of it.
I fear a lot of things, but have the respect for it as well. Some is just more flat out fear than respect, but I still count it as respect. Fear it, like it, respect it- in a sense i suppose. I respect my wife, in a sense of fears of her bad side. I respect her boundaries because she will get pissed off if I don't, and what she could do if I disrespect her. We discussed this, and she has a similar fear, which also leads to respect. I'm not saying this is the ONLY respect. I guess i would call the other to be a fearless respect. (contradicts what i said before, i know) but its hard to explain how i can respect my sons when i have nothing to fear from them.
What it just came down to me as, is the well used "Do onto others as you would have others do onto you."
Be nice to people and they will be nice to you. Its a shame it doesn't always work that way.
Some other thing is morals. That has a bit to do with respect I would imagine as well. Some people have some crummy morals and make me wonder how they haven't been locked up and stayed there. Others, it makes me wonder why they don't have a better life? They deserve better.
(this is the part where i figured out what i was trying to say about respect)
I fear cops, I fear the water, animals, space, many people... I respect them, because of that fear. Aside from people anyway. It depends on the person's attitude, morals, and a fear of disappointment from them. If i don't care if i disappoint someone... Well... I think you get it.
This concept works for me anyway.
He asked me why we had to park the car that way to put gas in it, and the best way I could describe it was with a balloon. "You can't fill a balloon with air from the top can you?" He laughed, "Nooo!" And went on explaining that there is only one place we can put the gas in the car, and that place is close to the pump when we park like this.
Well, the thought that passed me during that explanation.
Limitations, and how they mold us. Or hurt us.
I'm looking at it like a road map. If A parent were to give a road map to a 7-year old, It would most likely be the street you live on. (I'll call it Main Street) as he were to get older, more roads are filled in on the map. 1st, 2nd, 3rd... And by the time they become 16, or so, pretty much the entire city's roads are filled in, and even a few others surrounding it. After 18... All of it. The whole world.
Well, reality is: that's what we do with our kids anyway. Just with everything else. Filtering what they eat, watch, say, hear... Every limit put up is another road not drawn in on the map. Another blockade to restrict access. Another road that will have to come open to them eventually, and if restrictions are too hard, and they only move out at age 18 only knowing Main St.... its a huge overwhelming slap in the face of reality.
Ever see the movie "See Spot Run"? In the movie, the little boy's mother only allows him to eat a healthy cereal, healthy foods, and no TV... totally blocked off from the outside world. Then his mother has to leave for some reason but the sitter hasn't shown up, so her neighbor, Gordon agrees to look after the boy for a few hours, and being desperate, she agrees. Well, the sitter never shows, and the boy has to stay with him for a while. Well, Gordon gives him Fruit Loops, soda and all kinds of junk. Well... after the cereal alone, the next scene shows the boy with the box on his head, standing on the table swinging his shirt around while screaming. After a scene of sheer insanity, the boy feels awful on the couch, sipping on a 2-liter of soda. Groaning in pain.
That's what it would be like. All your life you are protected from everything, and when you step out into the real world you discover that not everything or everyone is awesome and nice. Not everyone uses nice language, or says nice things. Not everything is fair. Nothing is as perfect as it has seemed for the past 18 years.
It hits you like a ton of bricks. Live in a tiny crummy apartment or mini trailer instead of a nice house, have to have a job or two to pay for your own bills, buy your own food, car maintenance, nosey and noisy neighbors when you have an early shift, dogs barking and screwing up your yard... Lots of stressful stuff, and it happens all at once, even if you do get to keep your furniture from your folk's place...
To be blocked from "bad" music and TV shows... They will see and hear it eventually, and the restricted is more tempting than the non.
16-20 year olds drink like fish, partly because it is restricted. As of 21, it no longer that way so it's a bit less appealing.
Not saying its always like that, but it makes total sense. I know that's how it happened with me anyway. Not with everything, but there were some things i was blocked from and when i discovered them, it was a bit of a thrill. "I'm listening to rap music on my headphones so my mom doesn't hear it. *Gasp!* they said the F word! :D" (Exaggerated example btw). When I moved out on my own, it didn't matter anymore, so it happened a little less often...
A little at a time, let the discoveries make themselves.
However, not restricting a child at all gives them no fear of consequence, and would be more likely to end up being a non-law abiding citizen. Respect for authority, at least in my opinion, respect in general, comes from a kind of fear of it.
I fear a lot of things, but have the respect for it as well. Some is just more flat out fear than respect, but I still count it as respect. Fear it, like it, respect it- in a sense i suppose. I respect my wife, in a sense of fears of her bad side. I respect her boundaries because she will get pissed off if I don't, and what she could do if I disrespect her. We discussed this, and she has a similar fear, which also leads to respect. I'm not saying this is the ONLY respect. I guess i would call the other to be a fearless respect. (contradicts what i said before, i know) but its hard to explain how i can respect my sons when i have nothing to fear from them.
What it just came down to me as, is the well used "Do onto others as you would have others do onto you."
Be nice to people and they will be nice to you. Its a shame it doesn't always work that way.
Some other thing is morals. That has a bit to do with respect I would imagine as well. Some people have some crummy morals and make me wonder how they haven't been locked up and stayed there. Others, it makes me wonder why they don't have a better life? They deserve better.
(this is the part where i figured out what i was trying to say about respect)
I fear cops, I fear the water, animals, space, many people... I respect them, because of that fear. Aside from people anyway. It depends on the person's attitude, morals, and a fear of disappointment from them. If i don't care if i disappoint someone... Well... I think you get it.
This concept works for me anyway.
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