i appreciate the spirit of this quote from Benazir Bhutto:
"I find that whenever I am in power, or my father was in power, somehow good things happen. The economy picks up, we have good rains, water comes, people have crops. I think the reason this happens was that we want to give love and we receive love."
When I’m feeling lazy, at school or when I work I sneak to my computer, and then I like to shirk I don’t go online shopping, I don’t email with my mom I open up my browser, and go to digg-dot-com
Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg Gotta make this story big! Did you hear that awful sound? Another server’s down!
I always dig up Apple, and I bury Microsoft But when I said I was a girl, all the diggers scoffed And when I see those stories about Senator Ron Paul I don't even RTFA; I just digg them all!
Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg Gotta make this story big! Did you hear that awful sound? Another server’s down!
The fanboys can be tiresome, they always are outspoken And if you’re listening Kevin Rose, the comment system’s broken! I know digg isn’t perfect, but be thankful for what we’ve got It’s just like daddy always says: “At least it’s not Slashdot!!!” Chorus: Gotta digg, gotta digg, gotta digg Gotta make this story big! Did you hear that awful sound? Another server’s down!
if you ever want to get a visceral sense of what 17,000 mph looks like - pay attention next time the International Space Station is in your neighborhood. It is fricken unbelievable.
yesterday the ISS was directly over(my)head at (GW-5) 6:20pm - from 6:18 to 6:22. of course the reason it was visible is not because someone left the cabin lights on - its because its 200 miles overhead (moving from west to east) and the sun was reflecting off it (same as the moon). man is that thing bright - particularly when overhead.
to think dudes are up there lookin back at us... just amazing.
of all the comments received on our youtube video, two stood out to me above the rest:
FINALLY! Science meets the Indescribable Yahweh! Powerful video! I loved the famous Appolo 8 Genesis reading, the SOUND of thunder, the wolf howl. BeautySavesWorld
and:
You did an awesome job on the Indescribable video! Your version far surpasses the rest...thank you. What makes you tick? I have a sense that you "get it" on a deeper level and that has made it possible for the Creator to bless you with TALENT... LOVE... etc. This is kinda rare so I just was wondering. Meltingearth is a good name too... Are you driven for some calling here in these times? Do you KNOW? lightsender4u
i think both of these point at something important - and that is a multi-disciplinary approach to creating content. my introduction to this idea goes back to when my brother was finishing his undergrad work in English and was thinking about going right on for his PHD, but was told by his mentor to "go live first, so you have something to write about". so my brother became a fireman. think he has lived? i'm pretty damn sure he has.
video editing, like any other mode of content creation, doesn't exist as pure discipline. everything is video editing and video editing is everything. everything is philosophy, and everything is painting, and everything is art, and math and science and storytelling and sociology and worship. and this is where i think anyone who creates content; be that musician or mathematician, editor or physicist, painter or theologian - does so effectively and with meaning, only in the context of, and dependant upon, their proficiency / experience with many other things.
if a mathematician tells me that .999 repeating is equal-to (exactly the same-as) one... that has implication for how I think of infinity and God and myself. its a mathematical proof but its also an idea that has changed my mind and crosses into philosophy and theology and how i see the world.
if a theologian tells you God is love... how will you understand that?
since i dont' have a physics or math degree - and i've thought about this for... oh about fifteen or twenty minutes - i think we can agree i'm qualified to blather on about the implications for string theory if if a Really Simple Theory Of Everything (which i blogged about previously) turns out to be useful / correct (e.g. by predicting yet undiscovered particles).
if the RSTOE / E8-mapping is correct... does that mean string theorists are barking up the wrong tree?
one possibility (to my uniformed thinking), is that the E8 mapping turns out to be a transform of what string theorists are doing. in other words - they are both right from but different perspectives - with different approaches requiring different levels of complexity to work with - but also with differing utility.
i'm also not clear that a RSTOE really provides a true TOE - in the way we've been thinking about it for so long. so what if there is an E8 symmetry to everything... that doesn't feel like a fundamental explanation of everything to me - it's more like a curiousity. Like, why E8? What is there written into the fabric of reality that necessitates E8 as truth? Conversely a string that resonates in the four dimensions that we know + the six dimensions from a Calabi-Yau space + an extra dimension = a fundamental understanding of why. at least to me.
ok maybe as a musician, i'm still stuck on the idea that music (the resonance of a string) is what underlies it all... or maybe i'm not ready to give up string theory because... well, because just recently someone suggested that extra (11th) dimension the string theory requires, does a much better job at making things pretty, if it is in fact a time dimension instead of another space dimension - and i just think that idea is too cool.
if so, that means, we are currently living in two time dimensions, right now.
i used to think to myself - heaven must have time, because heaven has music - and you need time for music to work. but i always used to wonder if maybe heaven has multiple time dimensions... because, you know, of all the infinities of God and heaven 'n all... and i used to wonder what music would sound like in two sound dimensions.
so... we've all experienced moments when time nearly stood still. when something calamitous strikes and time slows down for us. i've started wondering if this is our consciousness accessing another (perpendicular) time dimension? normal time continues for everyone else - but our experience says something quite different. we exist for longer in that moment that everyone else does.
so maybe we do indeed feel the deep pocket of a drummers groove because we (can) experience it in more than one time dimension. maybe this is why a human playing has some intractable magic and a "drum machine has no soul".
oh the greatness and mystery of reality and consciousness.
