John Brodix Merryman Jr.
2 min readMay 24, 2022

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Yet how willing are you to go against those theories the vast majority believe?

Consider time. As these mobile organisms, our experience of our world consists of a sequence of perceptions, in order to navigate, so our theory of time is as the point of the present, moving past to future. Physics codifies it as measures of duration.

Though the evident reality is that change turns future to past. Tomorrow becomes yesterday, because the earth turns. Duration is the present as the events coalesce and dissolve.

There can't be any literal dimension of time, because the past is consumed by the present, to inform and drive it. Causality and conservation of energy. Cause becomes effect.

Energy is "conserved," because it manifests as present, so going past to future, while the patterns generated go future to past. Energy drives the wave, while the fluctuations rise and fall.

Consciousness also goes past to future, while the perceptions, emotions and thoughts giving it form and structure go future to past. Though it's the digestive, respiratory and circulatory systems processing the energy, while the central nervous system sorts the information precipitating out.

I could offer up some others, such is whether a spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, or an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. Ideals are not absolutes and the assumption they could be leads to all sorts of social craziness.

Is money a social contract enabling efficient accounting around the economy, or a commodity to mine from the economy?

Safe to say, various of the points I'm suggesting as illogical are taken as sacrosanct by many people in society, including some of the most educated, but if I'm not banned for raising them, simply ignored.

At some point the ideas become bedrock. As least until the plates shift.

Though it does feel like there is some deep rumbling going on.

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John Brodix Merryman Jr.
John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Written by John Brodix Merryman Jr.

Having an affair with life. It's complicated.

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