Stream Of Consciousness Blog #1

I've decided to do a 5-10 minute timeboxed blog of stream of consciousness every weekday at 7:45. I find most of my crazy or insightful thoughts come around this time.

At this moment I am listening to "mad world", the version from Donnie Darko. If you havn't heard it, find it. The artist is Gary Jules.

I'm constantly amazed at although we all have so much pain and anguish in our lives that we are able to hide it in our interactions with other people. No matter what's happened to you last night, or that girl who rejected you, or that person who made a comment which didn't seem hurtful to them but did.

We all are burdened by these things, but we have the choice to let them go. Of course choice is a dangerous thing, and knowing you have the choice doesn't necessarily mean that you're going to make it. Not having the choice, or percieving you don't, is sometimes easier because you're not pressured into making it. The hard choices, the things you don't want to do but do anyways...

Reminds me of that line from History Of The World Part 1 in which the Mel Brooks as Talkamata during the spanish inquisition says "You know you oughtent to do but you do anyway"

I have so many movie lines or lyrics fly through my head at various times throughout the day. I could be in a meeting and someone could say something, a word or phrase that I associate with a particular film line or lyric... and I have to bite my tongue not to say it. Many lines from Pulp Fiction, Three Amigos, Star Wars... etc... I wonder if this is something that will become more prevelant as our children grow up on a steady diet of multimedia.

If we relate mostly to fantasy as opposed to other people than what does that say about us, or does it say anything? To paraphrase one of my favorite writer/performers and someone I consider my early mind expanding people, Joe Frank (http://www.joefrank.com), We don't deal in answers here, the questions are often much more interesting.

Answers complete something, but the questions often lead to more questions. I think my favorite kinds of questions are those which can never be answered, but which can lead to incredible debate and which reveal much about those who debate them:

• Is there a heaven and hell, or is there simply a light which switches off when we die?
• Are we living in a true reality, or based on quantum physics are we living in a number of different potential realities which collapse into the reality we all percieve every second? Or maybe we're living in a computer simulation which took 2 minutes of real time to run, but we're percieving it in our own time because that's how it was programmed.
• Do you ever pick your nose while driving? Why should we be ashamed of this? If there is something in your nose and you're on the road, pick it and wipe it on something appropriate.
• The concept of scale: Are we the macro beings whose cells contain countless other universes, or are we living in the cells of some other beings? Or is it an infinite loop and we are both inside and containers.

Thus ends the first of our daily stream of consciousness blogs. This is just a taste of what my head does all day long. It's a blessing and curse.

See you tomorrow.