Reverend Ken's Blog: November 30, 2012

November 30, 2012 (Friday)
(Post 666, Day 335 of 2012, 700 days since starting this blog)

Daily Comment

It's always closer to the end, closer to the beginning.

I have this sense of the infinite, that it can be contemplated, but not visualized - all the pictures we have of the infinite are limited.

The image we have of the infinite, though, is itself finite. I, for instance, always imagine the infinite as a mobius band (which, logically, has no beginning or end, in- or out-side. , and is, itself an example of optical illusion when drawn - is 2-dimensional when touched, an has no other sensory image attached. However, when you make a mobius band, it exists in a 3-diminsional world, the world of our senses.

Of course, our senses are finite, and can't do justice to the concept of infinity.

Why am I off on this ramble into the ineffable? Because I have been thinking about the future, about life, about my life.

And I keep on going to this place: Every ending is a new beginning. The end of my work-life will be the beginning of my post-work life. The end of playing with this group is the beginning of playing in another, new context. To live abroad, I have to end my current residence.

People say, "You only live once." Personally, I don't think that is accurate - I think life is infinite. Our experience of this particular manifestation may be - more to the point, may seem - a one-off, but energy can't be destroyed - it just takes on a different "form" (there's that finite, sense-centered, illusory imaging, again).

As I've learned from my brother, conservation of energy isn't just a good idea, it's the law.

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