#94 Rational choices

Now this of course presumes irrational choices are not always taken. They toatally are.

I got a bit of bad news recently. Pretty nasty debuff, but it's not like I can't do anything about it. I can do something about it. Have I said the same thing twice there?

So you know there's 3 things to do in most case. There's the choice between the three. That's the free will, but there's not an awful lot of it, and it only makes big differences in a large cumulative fashion.

How many choices does it take to make a difference? One? A hundred? How would you know? Is one choice enough to tip a domino? Has it already been tipped?

Why would you want to know. Satisfy to a satisfisory standard, propagate the species, make better than what you arrived into.

If it's all so easy, then why can't I do it?

#21 Gonna try make this a weekly

Alrighty, second ever podcast. Hope you like it :) I think I'll put this on youtube as well. That way more people will see it. I left the sound low enough so you can turn it up yourselves. 5 minutes might be a bit heavy, so future videos will need to be shorter, or more compressed.

Interesting observation on freedom there; sometimes you don't know what to do with it.




I put too much effort into this. Next week, I'll probably just put in audio and a picture. The reason I'm using video is because I can't find the audio uploader. I know I could probably host the files elsewhere, but meh. This is easier. Most folk have broadband these days, and someday I'll appriciate visual aides.

In fact, I'll try and take film or other pictures for the next few videos. That'll be easier. Maybe a film of a walk through the local park. You could decide for me :)

'Course I'll have to keep going to work in the meantime, but that doesn't mean I'll be entirely without free time. Hehe, free time. Nice idea. Folks earn their time by slogging it out at work. It's a crazy idea that you might spend a days pay on a ticket to a show. Once in a lifetime experience? Yeah I guess so, that would be worth the time spent abiding with drudgery.

Here's a question: how is some time spent while other time is wasted?

#7 I'm lucky, but sometimes everything changes

Routine. Any freedom in that? Sure: how about the freedom from thought?

Some freedoms aren't as good as others. Heh, the freedom to choose freedoms, now that's a good one. All freedoms have limits. Bush said there ought to be limits to freedom. Not sure if he was joking, but there are.

You've the freedom of your time up to when you get hungry or thirsty. Then you lose a freedom to your body. This one loss starts the domino effect. You have to go find food and/or water (usually water).

What would life be like if we didn't need food or water? Now that I think about it Jesus said a lot about bread and water.

Let's say you could still eat and drink for fun. No famine, that's a given. Pestilence? That'd take a hit for sure. Plenty of folks died from bad food and water. War? Majorly hit too. Food competition is out of the equation so all we fight over are things like natural resources. Not sure if oil would still cause problems. Death? Hard to say. Isn't aging caused by oxidization? Call an expert in.

Most of what I'm writing about has already been written elsewhere. The difference is that I'm piecing it all together for myself from places like books and modern media.

The grand objective remains. This perhaps brings in a third need.

Love.