This is how I warm up.
Google quotes this morning:
Rests on "ground". That there is no "ground" for supposing has to be established and it will rest in turn on its own ground - saying "no ground whatsoever" assumes that's knowable, provable, already there.It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
- Bertrand Russell
There's no ground whatsoever for earlier belief in the proposition that matter is composed of whirling particles in a relatively empty containing medium - most layman have trouble believing it now, even with the asseverations of the majority of scientists that it's true.
The "whatsoever" is a tell, a give-away, the attitude comes from an adolescent rejection of the paternal credo. With maturity these stances can calcify and block the open-minded wondering so conducive to understanding.
A good friend can tell you what is the matter with you in a minute. He may not seem such a good friend after telling.Everything stands forever. He's talking about access. We have access to mathematical equations, because they inhabit a space immune from change - we lose our access to the past by our movement with time through the present.
- Arthur Brisbane
Yes, we have to divide up our time like that, between our politics and our equations. But to me our equations are far more important, for politics are only a matter of present concern. A mathematical equation stands forever.
- Albert Einstein
But it's still there, and what comes out of the present is the future. "Forever" means the continuous open-ended moment, the blurry other edge of time, up ahead where it runs into eternity.
The illusion of being severed from the past is created by our inability to recover it, to return to it in tangible ways, and - big step - I believe that illusion is fostered and maintained by the same agencies that perpetuate the idea that we're cut-off entirely from anything higher than the combustion of matter and its consequent light, and that against the grandeur of the stars we're insignificant and worthless.
The present day is tomorrow's past. It's here forever - we move on from it, it doesn't go away.
The actions of everyone stand forever, and since politics has to do with the rules and services that affect us all, politics stands forever, along with doing laundry and drinking tea and writing criticisms.
