RIPped

Yeah, this is what I think too.

You are in parallel rn. All your cells are independent living beings all doing their thing. They might be part of structures, tissues, or-gans. Each one alone is not you. Almost all cells are completely unaware of the majority of the other cells. A cell in the muscle fiber in your foot has no awareness of a cell in the retina of your eye. In fact, none of the cells have any real awareness. But when they all act in parallel, you come about. Imagine that, but with all life. Maybe there’s an emergence that comes from that.

What if we’re all different parts of the same thing, so no one really dies. You instead get absorbed back into the big life thing, things get rearranged, and life comes up somewhere else with a little bit of you and a bunch of other stuff mixed in? There is no death. Just a new mix.

So you believe in it even though you don’t?

You can melt down all the medals and cups I have and they wouldn’t be a plating for the twenty-four karat friendship that I felt for Luz Long at that moment.

What a bad ass

You’re welcome!

Thanks! I’m glad you liked it

Legit question: Why would someone want to disable Gemini?

I was there when he told me, a stranger he met at the Applebee’s Bar that night after he was hitting on my 8-month pregnant wife then tried to pretend he wasn’t after she introduced me to him as her husband, the story while he was drunk.

Reminds me of when I saw a Mountain Spring Water filling station ornamented with a picture of a snow-capped mountain at a Wal-Mart about 500 miles from the nearest mountain and nearly 2k miles from the nearest snow-capped mountain. The thing had pipes out the back going into the wall. That was straight city water that maybe that dispenser filtered a little more if it was properly maintained.

And you don’t want to accept it because that would mean disappointment again.

Harriet, I have spoken!

Congrats! I’m excited to see your upcoming posts on distro hopping.

I’m not gonna have kids so they can start competing with me for crying time. That’s a limited resource, and I need all of it.

We don’t know each other, but if we met, we’d probably understand each other really fast. If there’s an afterlife, I hope we meet up. I’m sure we could both provide each other some validation.