limited time today…
The best way to describe and understand reality, especially our reality,
is to understand existence as being transient, accidental…
which in large part why people are so insistent on looking
for certainty in existence…
we want certainty because our lives are so transient……
here today, gone tomorrow… could be the motto of life and the
motto of human existence…
so much of our live is not only transient but accidental…
my existence was fundamentally changed with the loss of my
hearing and it was an accident as so much of our lives is accidental…
we are born on one side of a line and we are called Americans,
born on another side of an imaginary line and we are called Mexicans,
born on one side of an imaginary line and you are French and on the other
side of the line, you could be German or Dutch or Italian… again depending
on which side of a line you can’t even see………accidents of birth determine
what nationality you are or what is the color of your hair or if you are handicap…
we must understand this very basic nature of existence which is its transient
and accidental……….
so this search for certainty is a search for something that in human existence
is not possible… the very essence of human existence is transient… both in
form, bodies and in spirit which is our laws, government, philosophy, history,
economics… we see these things of ism’s and ideologies and biases and
superstitions of being not transient… for example, we see the ism of
democracy as being permanent, but it isn’t… it too is just as transient
and as accidental as we are…
we cannot seek our understanding of the universe, of reality as being
stable, fixed, certain… for the universe and reality is accidental
and transient…… today, the ocean is a certain color… in the past, our ocean
was different colors because it had different elements in it… and the moon,
at one time, the moon was far closer to earth then it is today… the physical
nature of our reality today is different because of the transient nature
of physical reality…
we see forces like gravity as being fixed and stable and ever present,
but even forces like gravity, so called laws change and flex depending
on the situation…even gravity is not absolute… it too is accidental
and transient…will gravity exists the same as it did in the beginning, during
the big bang and will gravity be the same at the end of time… no,
the so called fixed forces like gravity and electricalomagnatism will
change over the years……… it might be why the universe will end because
the four forces, the four laws of existence will change over the many of billions
of years……
even the universe is accidental and transient… if it is born, it will die…
just not today and not for billions of years, but yes, at some point, even
the universe must end…and that is the interesting part… the length
of time that an object gets is accidental… we humans get roughly 70 years,
some tree’s might get 500 years, some flies last for hours and the planet
might get a billion years and the solar system might get 9 billion years…
we never know how much time, how transient matter is…… but matter
is transient…we know this, the only question is how long does that matter
exist for…not if it will last forever…………
that is the basic fact we must learn to come to grips with,
that we exist in and we ourselves are transient, accidental…….
begin your understanding of reality, of the universe there…
Kropotkin