I came to a realization recently while I was at work. One of the assumptions of geometry is that there is such a thing as a point. A point is the smallest possible size and is located at a specific place. My realization was that if the point had a size, you could always zoom into it and you could preak it into parts, a top, a bottom, a left side and a right side. If it were infinitely small, it wouldn't exist at all and there would be no point. I called my friend Mike Adams who studied to be a math teacher and who I had a conversation with about the postulates of geometry. I told him I didn't think there was such a thing as a point and he said, well there's no such thing as a plane either because it would have length and width, but no height, and if it didn't have height it wouldn't exist at all. He said geometry was a logical structure based on assumptions that are false.
I got a job with Chips-All-Gone. I am fixing stone chips in windshields. I think it is going to pay enough money to allow me to get by. I want to make sure I keep exercising a lot and make sure I don't buy a car and start driving everywhere. It will be more of a challenge with a job.
I am visiting Nichelle in Bloomington. I don't know what we are going to do. There are some yoga classes we can go to. She got a job at Bear's and her first day is today. I am not sure how much time she will have free to spend with me.
Well, I like to talk about my dreams but I can only talk about ones that I can remember because I don't have my dream journal with me. In one dream there was this ocean of colored energy and the waves would hit me. It was incredibly beautiful. In another dream I was with Britten and we were looking at a drawing that someone drew about their possible futures. One of the pictures on it was soldiers. Well, my mind is kind of blank on other dreams. I don't remember any dreams from last night. I wonder why I dream sometimes and other times I cannot remember.
I read some things on the bus ride to Bloomington. I read a discover magazine. There was an article about dolphins. They did tests on dolphins to see if they were self conscious by putting a mark on them and then putting them next to a mirror to see if they noticed it. They have done the same tests to chimpanzees to prove they were self conscious. Both the dolphins and chimpanzees reacted to the marks. Some dolphin activists protested the rounding up of dolphins and the selling of them to places like sea world. They got a 100 million dollar lawsuit against them. It seems like such an excessive amount of money and it scares the part of me that wants to be an activist.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
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