Category: Eclection

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Lolife vs Lyle Rossiter, Thomas Sowell, and me

I often can’t properly remember how or why I arrive at any particular site on the web, but I also don’t often forget when I see something interesting, particularly if I feel strongly enough to comment on someone else’s blog.   Back in 2008, after Tropic Networks was acquired by Alcatel-Lucent, I found myself in a very foreign environment, and asking, which is crazy, this place or me?  I re-read Thomas Sowell’s A Conflict of Visions, amongst other works, to at least ensure that if crazy, I was in good company.  Some improbable series of events must have occurred to land me on “lolife’s” site, but once there, I decided to comment, as I had already written up an odd experience, one that demonstrated the conflict of visions in action, in the specific area of employment equity.  I was a blog-virgin up until that point, only ever before having posted comments to a few stock message boards on yahoo.

I clipped much of the discussion and place it below (sorry the format is a bit weird), but the original discussion can be found here. On our blog we will not resort to name calling, and expletives, but keep things civil.  The discussion below relates to Lyle Rossiter’s assertion that liberalism/leftism (whatever that might mean) is a form of insanity.  The bait looked just too tasty, so I bit.  Enjoy.

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Ben’s Holistic Eclectic Ramblings

On space, time, consciousness and free will: the strange statue.

Nothing moves in the complete state-matrix of space-time, the one that spans all space, all time, and any more dimensions we may need to model reality as accurately as we can.  In that space, all reality is one giant, still statue, exploding out from its root at the big bang. We are outside “our”  time in this view, remember, and looking at all of it at once, from bang to bust.  Still and silent, that is, except when a consciousness executes its inalienable right to the expression of its free will.  And at the instant (in our view of time) of that expression of will, the entire state-statue changes shape, save the one tiny slice of that instant, within our notion of time.  An odd notion you say?

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Xty’s Compact Thoughts

Writing

to read or to write, a constant battle, with reading currently winning most skirmishes.

Hummingbirds

They are really tiny.  And very hard to photograph.

Poetry

Both the art and the audience have passed away.

The Universe

It is big and both complicated and simple at the same time.  Gravity may well be the thing that causes complexity and hence the perception that time is passing.  It is gravity that makes mass “aware” of other mass, and causes an interaction between separate “super-positioned” [is that the word for the situation an unobserved electron finds itself in?] masses without apparently changing them physically.  Gravity causes the positioning, it would appear.