Ground Hog Day Updated--Again, and for the fourth time

This update is short, a short sentence.  The situation remains the same except she never goes out.  We move about the building but always inside. 

She's a warrior, going on to her fifth year since the fall.  Cannot say there's been improvement, but on the other hand there has been only a little decline.

As for me, the carers here allow me to go about my outside activities knowing she's in good hands.  This may be the last of the Ground Hog Day updates. If he sees his shadow, or not, let us hope for at least 6 more years of life.

Memento Mori

 Called a friend to talk about a new idea, and he said, for starters out of the blue, "I've got six months to live." A neighbor with liver cancer, has a year. Another friend, same floor down the hall, died today; "Eaten up with cancer." Carola is on borrowed time.   Any number of my friends and neighbors have already died.  I am the last of my generation on the Lina side.  There are several of the same generation on my mother's side because she had siblings who were younger and they had children.

Various...isms say to remember death, so that's what I am doing.  I wrote another blog post with my beliefs about it, On the Subject of Death, in March 2025.

As for me, I am 86 years old, in excellent health and condition. I should live a long time, genetically 100 years or more, barring any sort of accident.  That's less than fourteen more.  That many ago, would be 2012.  Thanks to my logs, history, and planning files, it can be reconstructed. It would be interesting, although it would be of no practical value.  The present is a good place to start.  Even that is an exercise in futility.

There are a few things of this body that could run amok: heart, lungs, bronchia, knees, feet.  The heart is genetic, the breathing apparatus from smoking, knees and feet from age, wear, and tear.  The only thing to do is continue treatments from appropriate doctors and maintain this healthy lifestyle.  There is no cause for alarm.

This one, the persona who is writing this, will cease to exist at death.  Core-being will continue and be a little better than he was when he came into this lifetime.  There will be some memories that we share that will be retained by him.  A lot of the good we did was important at the time but, even now, much of it has faded away.  The only things that haven't are the effects we've had on others, and, if that happened, those things may have passed along to others.  The most noticeable "others" being family.

Core-being is sufficiently apart from the rest of the being (us) that there's little or nothing known about him, his intentions, his aims.  There have been some hints, during this lifetime, of where he has been in the past, the kinds of activities in which he was involved.  I have identified some of them in past writings, but as to his job, his aim, his goals, we (the rest of the being) don't have a clue.

We can only hope that Core-being will share some knowledge of himself with us before the end of this lifetime.  We can only wonder if, and how, this will occur.  Will it be subtle familiarity as we have experienced in different locations? Will it be Voila! moments when we realize a heretofore unknown fact? Will it be memories, like watching a movie of this being doing what Core-being was doing, but on a more meaningful level of understanding?

We don't know any of this and we may not even trust it if we were to be given such information.  Core-being may pragmatically know all of this and say, "Why bother? when the body dies, it's over, for that one anyway."

Still, we would like to know, but somehow, I don't think we will.  That would imply an emotional level, which Core-being may not have.  The death of this body will be like the death of any other animal that has been a part of our living arrangement.  After a period of grieving, however long or short it may be, Core-being will move on.

If he is, as we suspect, a member of a spiritual hierarchy, he may be assigned to a new host.  There is so much we don't understand, and I'm OK with that.  It is like being outside a large office building and seeing an employee of that company.  There is no clue of the intricacies of that company by seeing one employee out of context.

I think I understand death, and I am emotionally prepared for it.  I'll defer it a long as I can, but when the time comes, I'll go, more or less, willingly.

Apprehending

 

The Genesis account of the creation of Adam and Eve may contain a hint of where it all started.  Earth, before we got to where we are today, is Eden.  It is/was a balanced eco-system with different species providing whatever to keep it that way.

Then something sparked one species, us, to move apart from the rest and do what we are doing.  Perhaps it was a visitor, maybe the influence of the spiritual world.  We continue to evolve, to where?  We don't know, but what we do is not necessarily natural.  Oh, we don't violate natural law, but we bend and twist those laws in ways that they may not have been meant to be.

Something tweaked our genome, and voila! we have become unnatural.  One cannot say supernatural, yet.  That may be coming with the development of Artificial Intelligence and whatever is next.

It is, however, a house of cards.  We are putting all of our eggs in a binary basket, which would disappear without electricity.  We have chosen this path, and one has to wonder if it is a dead-end road.  It all goes away without electricity.  All the knowledge we have accumulated and stored becomes inaccessible.  All the tools that support our lifestyle become useless.  The hand tools of yesteryear are gone.   The night is once again, dark.  The population would shrink drastically, and after disposing of billions of bodies, it would have to be restarted.

(I don't feel I'm doing justice to this idea but I'm mushing on.)

The amount of electricity it takes to accommodate the computer processors that produce comprehensible results is staggering.  And it is causing concern as this is being written.   Bottom line, it may all be unnecessary unless there is some extra-terrestrial goal to be achieved.

Earth doesn't need us to function effectively.  Much of what humans do is detrimental to Earth and all the other living organisms that cohabitate with humans.  So, all of this, that has been done until now and after, could be one big exercise in futility.  It's possible that we could do the same thing with the mental powers that we already have but have not developed.  Are we involved in the ultimate distraction?  Like the guy looking for his lost keys in the area lit by a streetlight.  He lost them elsewhere, in the dark, but was looking for them here because it was lighted.  He may find keys but they won't be his.

The human population continues to increase.  Diseases appear and we develop cures, vaccines, and treatments.  The population continues to increase and much of what we have developed, technically, is to support our artificial lifestyle.  We are all superfluous.  

Are we, have we all been, the cast of a scenario whose plot is unknown to us, and kept secret from us?  And what we think of as unscripted, is actually not?  The lines and blocking are made known to us as the present unfolds.  Setbacks and off script moments are resolved, and the play proceeds to an unknown conclusion.