- Albert Einstein
Quoted by Dr. Buckaroo Banzai

I’m talking about your comments on Prokofy’s blog. I don’t think that people who were offended by her were out of line, but you spoke out against them:

http://secondthoughts.typepad.com/second_thoughts/2009/10/the-story-behind-the-story.html?cid=6a00d83451cfe069e20120a5bdd0af970b#comment-6a00d83451cfe069e20120a5bdd0af970b

Your lack of action combined with your criticism of people who were insulted implies that you share her sentiments. I was actually a little disappointed. You struck me as a thinker, a genuine intellectual. I expected better from you. I don’t see how you could have stood by and said nothing. How anyone with time enough to comment about anything could have possibly focussed on anything but that wretched cesspool of hate that looms over the comment section. I really was shocked. It was terrible, even for her.

For fuck’s sake, I thought we had already dealt with that. I apologized. It was heartfelt!

Believe it or not, there are those who can intuitively grasp philosophy. I had no prior knowledge of Parmenides before the subsequent google search that followed your comment. With the right information, one can pose the right questions. With the mindset that the truth is it’s own reward (absence of bias), the same conclusions can be drawn.

The absence of time and space is something that modern physicists are struggling with right now. It’s literally at the cutting edge of modern physics. Very interesting to note how modern science is still reconciling with ancient philosophy. Ironic when you consider our technological capabilities. If anything, I’d say that technology has actually slowed down our progress and made us stupid.

Why is it so difficult for people to imagine a world that perhaps does not work the way we think it should? The illusion of time has proven time and again, that tradition is not always correct. It most certainly is not ‘progressive’ or ‘innovative’. The opposite really. A civilization bound by tradition will slowly feed on itself as it starves and dies.

Ichabod, studying philosophy and truly understanding it are clearly two different things. Anyone can read the words of a scholar in a textbook. But I wouldn’t expect much more than that from someone who seems to share ignorant and destructive views on subjects such as that of a particularly stigmatizing disease. Anyone capable of thinking for themselves, logically, and without bias, would have been forced to arrive at other conclusions. If philosophy is critical thinking, then I have absolutely no idea what it is you’re doing over there.

To answer your question: Man wound up the clock, and invented the concept of change. A moment in time is like a single frame in a huge roll of film. The universe is the entire roll of film. Nothing changes in the whole, but to a person observing a single frame at a time, each frame appears to change into the next. This is time. There is no real change though.

Masturbation?