Howard Weamer has spent the last 35 winters in a hut in the Yosemite backcountry. Jonathan Burhop did a beautiful job exploring Weamer’s beautiful mind in this short documentary.
Emerson repeatedly wrote about the importance of one’s personal interpretation of what on confronts with in life. How what you take from Homer and Shakespeare and Socrates is just as important as those initial creations.
Well, I found this line from Weamer to be uniquely relevant to me and today:
…trust readers will forgive, close this record, and watch.
I feel like every blog post ever written should end with this line. The internet allows folks to share great things with other folks who may never have seen them in the past. But, it all means nothing if we fail to power off and live it.
…trust readers will forgive, close this record, and watch.
Very roughly speaking, when most people think about an immaterial soul that persists after death, they have in mind some sort of blob of spirit energy that takes up residence near our brain, and drives around our body like a soccer mom driving an SUV. The questions are these: what form does that spirit energy take, and how does it interact with our ordinary atoms? Not only is new physics required, but dramatically new physics. Within QFT, there can’t be a new collection of “spirit particles” and “spirit forces” that interact with our regular atoms, because we would have detected them in existing experiments. Ockham’s razor is not on your side here, since you have to posit a completely new realm of reality obeying very different rules than the ones we know.
Wind River Roadless Area, Wyoming
Photo: Jack DykingaNo signs point the way here, only the arthritic limbs of a pine gesturing to an endless sky. It is the wildest of the wild, a glacier-scoured terrain unmarred by roads, tugged at by wind, on the shoulder of the Continental Divide. This preserve of the Eastern Shoshone and Northern Arapaho dates back to 1937, decades before the United States passed the Wilderness Act, in 1964.
(via picture-perfect-world)
Personifications of nature are reliably amusing… as if an ultimate force of creation and annihilation would care any more or less about our species as the tick I just flicked of my shin cared about my fear of Lyme Disease. That said, if there is a Mother Nature, I hope she looks like this.
