The Question of the Day:
What is the one human activity wherein there is no gray area?
Originality – you are either original or you are not.
(And several readers immediately emailed to say that they had already thought of that.)
The Definition of the Day:
The Second Reality: Culture & Civilization – where being argumentative is taken for being creative.
One man was home sometimes;
then he wasn’t;
then he was, then he wasn’t,
and on like that.
(The title of this story is too disturbing to reveal, plus it is too well known to require more explicit details, and as to the name of the man…well, you of all people surely don’t want to get into that.)
The tricky part of consciousness is that you have no inner home without it, and when you do, you cannot stay there. In and out! In and out! No wonder the screen door is coming off the hinges… about like many people.
If a planet has an atmosphere, this will create the sensation of there being creatures, and if a creature does not in some way create his own personal sensation of a self, the atmosphere will do it for him, and it will thus not be truly his.
(In the above, those of uncertain mental footing may make the following substitutions: for a planet, put, “a creature”; for atmosphere, put, “consciousness”; for creatures, put, “you,” and leave everything else the same.)
J.