Recap: A Follow Up

But yea, anyway, this sounds, all in all, a lot like Kate's Theory and both of yours make sense. I think the next step is figuring out what all this means. Or rather what's the damn meaning of life? Connecting with as many things and people as possible in order to feel at least part of the big "connection"?

As Kate had said, there's no one meaning of life. If you want to set your meaning of life as "connecting with as many things and people as possible" then sure, go ahead, you'll be in-lined with most meditation gurus and monks. Each person have their own connection that they want to keep (remember...astrology=connection with stars, etc.) and that's what determines their meaning of life, the connection itself isn't the meaning, though it can be. Following up on what you feel you're connected with will make you happy, which is an very interesting idea in itself because...okay I'm digressing. But the point is, the meaning is a highly arbitrary thing depending on the individual.

But that's more complicated than it sounds; it's hard to have powerful bonds with too many people/things and, besides, you can never really get even close to being connected to the entire universe like you used to at the Beginning.

No, you can never be connected like you were at the beginning, that stage is in the irreversible past. It IS very complicated (hey, since when's life simple?), and unless you can learn to sort out yourself, having too many connections can actually be quite distracting! For people who wants to connect with too many people it's usually easier just to lump them together as a whole and develope a love for humanity . We call them philanthropists.

Hmm, did you ever have the superstitious feeling that once you figure out the meaning of life, you will die? Not necessarily as "punishment", but like.. moving into the next phase (whatever it may be or may not be at all) because you got this one all figured out.

I don't think I've ever gotten the feeling that knowledge will lead to "death" before, but yes, I think knowledge is what will take us to the next phase. Some people might consider leaving behind a way of thinking/life "death" so, I suppose, knowledge does in a way lead to death. I just think I happen to have a lack of fear for this sort of death, that's all. Ditto Kate on the step on the stages of life thing.

It's silly, but I'm just wondering. I guess it's sort of like the thing in Hitchhikers about the universe that becomes more complicated and starts all over once someone discovers what it is for and why it is there.

I think that sort of thing is really just symbolic of how we keep wanting to know everything, except everything keeps changing, so the moment we think we have everything figured out something's already changing and our understanding's out of date. It'd feel like starting all over again. Terribly frustrating but no, don't think the universe will blow up any time soon.

Also, no, Kate, I don't recall seeing a resonance rant, but it's always neat to have friends who can think the same way you do.

Ah, and getting back to my morning visit to the doctor. The new Kaiser building is big and shaped like something a drunk mathmatician who specialized in geometry might draw. Finding departments was somewhat difficult before the discovery of an internal map. The elevators all have a 30 second latency between when the elevator stops and when the door opens and standing there, waiting for the door, I keep thinking "open sesame" in my head. Over and over again. There're only so many things that you can say about being poked with needles and they've all been said by various other people already, so I'll leave you to furnish up that bit in your imagination.

Weather=warm.