Comments on: Cooking for One, Hitting Your Head http://www.conradhubbard.com/blog/2008/01/27/cooking-for-one-hitting-your-head/ The chip is broadcasting... Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:03:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: A Nonymous http://www.conradhubbard.com/blog/2008/01/27/cooking-for-one-hitting-your-head/comment-page-1/#comment-1889 A Nonymous Mon, 28 Jan 2008 20:04:48 +0000 http://www.conradhubbard.com/blog/2008/01/27/cooking-for-one-and-hitting-your-head/#comment-1889 You might be surprised at just how significant even the smallest thing may turn out to be. Conventional wisdom (at least among the wise) is that, truly, one human being is nothing but the tiniest, most insignificant speck in the universe. And what with the universe being so vast, what difference does it make what one human being, or even an entire civilization, does? Certainly, this seems the case. But, what if it is not? What if rather than being a worthless speck everything was instead the tiniest cog in the grand mechanism of the universe? It may seem that our little concerns are trivial, but if they're teeth on the cog that is our life. Then every little slippage does have an effect on the universal machine. That slight distortion affects other cogs, and those cogs affect yet more. In time, the entire universe comes to be affected. It's rather like the butterfly effect on an even larger scale. Maybe that's nothing more than a random philosophical rambling. But, then again, maybe it can also remind you that slipping on a bathroom floor may reverberate across the universe until it turns out that the human race may lose the war against the bug eyed alien conquerors ten million years from now. So...be careful; the human race depends on you. ;) A. Nonymous You might be surprised at just how significant even the smallest thing may turn out to be.

Conventional wisdom (at least among the wise) is that, truly, one human being is nothing but the tiniest, most insignificant speck in the universe. And what with the universe being so vast, what difference does it make what one human being, or even an entire civilization, does? Certainly, this seems the case. But, what if it is not?

What if rather than being a worthless speck everything was instead the tiniest cog in the grand mechanism of the universe? It may seem that our little concerns are trivial, but if they’re teeth on the cog that is our life. Then every little slippage does have an effect on the universal machine. That slight distortion affects other cogs, and those cogs affect yet more. In time, the entire universe comes to be affected. It’s rather like the butterfly effect on an even larger scale.

Maybe that’s nothing more than a random philosophical rambling. But, then again, maybe it can also remind you that slipping on a bathroom floor may reverberate across the universe until it turns out that the human race may lose the war against the bug eyed alien conquerors ten million years from now. So…be careful; the human race depends on you. ;)

A. Nonymous

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