By David Revoy / Blender Foundation (Own work) [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)%5D, via Wikimedia Commons
Hurricanes and earthquakes and mudslides and fires. Entire islands decimated, formerly lush green paradises now without a speck of green. And let’s not forget, this terrible streak started with an eclipse and, here in Chicago, a corpse flower.
So if we were superstitiously-minded, or fundamentally religiously-minded, we might take all of these events, piled on top of a regime terrifying in both its ineptitude and cruelty, as a sign.
But some of us are science-fictionally-minded. And we take it as proof-positive that someone’s been messing with time and time is not happy about it.
Not happy at all.
I’ve written about time before, in the seldom-loved but extremely long-titled The Great Paradox and the Innies and Outies of Time Management. The thing is I didn’t think it would become a manual of any kind.
After much research into a topic that is far more complicated and impossible to understand than you might think, I realized one truth: Time does not like being messed with. Not at all.
And we’re seeing that now.
Do I really think that someone got a time machine and stepped on a gum wrapper meant for someone else thus unraveling life us we know it?
Nope. But that’s a pretty good concept, I think.
I guess my point is that we have to process what is happening in the world right now whatever way we can. For me, imagining nefarious science-fiction underpinnings makes it just a hair more tolerable.
But hey, fantasy may be your genre. In that case, I’d blame the dragons.
It’s always the dragons.
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There have been end days before and will have them again. Actually, when you think about it, it’s the end days for many, just not all today. The dinosaurs didn’t see it coming and we obviously don’t either. Don’t need religion to see it headed at us. Neil deGrasse Tyson said it so well. Earth is pissed. It will get even. Time is an illusion or so they say. 🙂 I didn’t hear about the Chicago corpse flower. That sounds interesting. I love the way your mind works. I get to go along for the ride. My life is a bit boring.
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The dinosaurs really didn’t. This time I think we’re the meteors AND the dinosaurs.
It does seem like the Earth is trying to get back at us, doesn’t it?? Maybe there’s something to Gaia.
Yep! Same day as the eclipse, a corpse flower bloomed at the Chicago Botanic Garden. I have pics, but no room to post them. It was not as smelly as I thought it would be but apparently it dissipates.
And thank you! I’m glad someone enjoys it 🙂
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