All immortals will be struck by lightning
Sorry, there are limits for growth...
Mayby the title sounds like a weird quote from a classic drama, but actually it is a quite normal consequence of the weather.
Thunder is not rare in Denmark, and each time thousands of lightnings are let loose. And yet only one person is hit annually.
However, if you have infinitely much time at your disposal, every possibility will one day be released.
Beware of the rare...
The 4 Elements
Are there more than four?
The idea of 4 elements are usually seen as obsolete metaphysics,
that finally collapsed centuries ago. However, this is only partly true.
The original theory made physical sense, but created nonsense when applied chemically.
Above Fire was supposed to exist a mysterious substance phlogiston,
with a negative weight to make equations work.
(And you thought modern physics were weird?).
However, the idea of 4 elements still makes sense
as the four physical states of matter:
solid, fluid, gas, plasma.
If understood as principal levels,
Elements are still valid today...
Optical illusions
Your eyes adjustable like television
There are many possible optical illusions. Some are just a trick to fool the eye, or a gimmick in the filmindustry. But art has also found them usefull sometimes, fx Escher, Magritte, Dali...
However, all illusions I've seen did have one irritating drawback. Each time I was left with the impression that the illusion was an effect of the picture, not the eye. Thats actually an extra illusion by itself. The optical illusion is caused by the optics itself (=eye+brain), no picture is required. In other words, you may create an optical illusion merely by manipulating your own eyes.
Eon
Worlds largest number
Some entities are small, but numerous.
Some are incredibly high, but only rarely used.
But both ends are necessary, and we need the full spectrum.
Is it possible to touch the sky, while keeping your feet firmly grounded?
At least one may attempt it, so here's my suggestion...
A chair is a chair?
A thing beyond definition
A chair is an object that everybody knows. We have all seen lots of them.
Such an ordinary thing, and yet it is beyond definition:
How does a chair look like a chair?
100 words
The essential dictionary
The number of languages on Earth is falling. But the number of words is rising.
In order to investigate this evolution, I suggest a linguistic experiment: the minimal dictionary.
If you should choose one and only one word, for a dictionary with only 100 words,
which one would you choose..?
The Woman who
Turned into an Oak
Absurd story or what do you not
One day Sylvia discovered that a small leaf had sprouted from her left elbow.
Next day she found another on her right arm, she suspected a change.
And the rest of the week she increasingly found herself
in the garden, branching out in silence, panorama!
Doing nothing at all, standing still while admiring the suns speeding arc,
yet strangely yearning for rain to fall; I'm leaving, she thought...
When her friends asked Sylvia if she didn't find all this difficult,
she answered: No, not at all. It's as easy as one, two, tree...
The urban fugue
A parable
He turned in his dream, his sleep
was disturbed and something
moving around up his sleeve.
He couldn´t recall it all, reminded by the half.
He was listening to a friend of his, a philosophical blacksmith,
and in the dream such a title seemed quite natural.
More...
The end of all the birds
An escatological Pile of feathers
A vulture pierced to pieces by winds of prey
A canarys decline is often feline
A blackbird blacked out at the dead of night
Bats bleeding in the belfry
Swarms of pigeons getting lost in the big city
An ostrich burying its entire body in sand
Sparrows wither in flight in bleak winters light
Read more...
Matrix goes fo(u)rth
Synchronicity indeed
Some weeks ago I dreamt I was watching a film. Not on TV, but in the cinema. Since dreams are a kind of visual fantasies, dreaming of films is almost too convoluted.
But perhaps it still made sense, since the film was Matrix. Not the first one, nor was it the second or third. Nope, it was the fourth matrix-film which to my knowledge hasn't been made yet.
Don't ask me what the film was about, as I only saw 1-2 minutes. When I woke up...
The parallel world
A traffic accident on the hyperway
Time is change. But all things do not change equally fast. An example: fashion is a perennial production, architecture last centuries. Everything evolves at its own internal speed. Thus time moves on in a myriad of separate but interwoven roads...
Sleeping one night in the 90'es, I had a parallel dream: It begins in a future, where teleportation is normal and widely used...
I'm about to travel to another place, but this should only take a few seconds since I'm going to 'port' myself. I step into the transmitter-box, my body dissolves. In the shape of pure code my body (and mind) is sent to the corresponding receiver-box.
Then an accident happens on the hyperway...
Making order
making sense
A cognitive comment
This dream was long ago, and extremely short.
Nevertheless, it certainly had a point to make:
I am sitting in a room, watching TV.
At least I'm trying to watch, but the screen displays only noise,
chaotic dots. It's impossible to see the film I wanted.
Impossible to see any thing at all.
Then I suddenly realize...
The sky, the Sun
and the Ocean
The word for world is water
Long ago
I had a most unusual wet dream, but not in the usual sense:
I lie on a raft or similar, no need to swim, I'm floating somewhere
in the middle of an Ocean, no land in sight in any direction:
The word for world is water. Only me and the ocean,
I look at the sun, I see the sea, skies.
I look around and I know, I know....