From: spike66 (spike66@attbi.com)
Date: Sun Dec 15 2002 - 11:43:51 MST
Some random musings with no particular cosmic meaning.
In times of crisis, one often hears the phrase "Lets
just take one day at a time." There is even a
quasi-religious song to this effect, first recorded
by country singer Tammy Whinette, whose name literally
means, small female whiner.
In the latest family crisis someone utter the phrase,
at which time I immediately wondered, aloud, I fear:
how many days at a time we should take it when things
are going well? If the crisis deepens, do we take it
in smaller time subunits? Would the ultimately bad
situation force us to take it one chronon at a time?
Would that represent the worst things could possibly
get? Or just the most we can take? Would then crises
be quantized at the finest scale? Would the smallest
quantum subdivision of a crisis then be a crison?
On the other end of the crisis scale, what if
nanoclause or singularityclaus comes along and
solves our every problem beyond our wildest and
most optimistic expectation. How many days would
we take at a time then? Could things ever be so
good that we take an eon at a time? If we identified
and solved every last crison, would we take eternity
at a time? If we decide to take more than one day
at a time, could we *cause* things to get better?
Take it where? What is at a time?
I have reluctantly concluded that I am not the
best person to have around in times of crisis.
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Fortunately evolution has given us John Grigg.
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spike
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