Comments on: Time goes by, everything else keeps changing… http://www.ladyvulcan.com/2008/08/24/time-goes-by-everything-else-keeps-changing/ Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:56:28 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Odette http://www.ladyvulcan.com/2008/08/24/time-goes-by-everything-else-keeps-changing/#comment-5287 Odette Mon, 25 Aug 2008 15:12:19 +0000 http://www.ladyvulcan.com/?p=500#comment-5287 Around the time I graduated from high school, one of my favorite quotations was something attributed to Thomas Carlysle: "Go as far as you can see: when you get there, you will be able to see farther." Obvious, perhaps -- what else could you possibly do? -- but reassuring nonetheless. At ten or thirteen, twenty-two seems plenty old enough to be a "settled form," but of course once you get to it, the very idea does seem a bit ridiculous. Slippery nature of time and all that. Which is what makes the act of looking back so amusing and surreal, I suppose. Yup, I have seen Powers of 10. IB Theory of Knowledge was good for odd things like that; though I think I might have encountered it somewhere else as well. Around the time I graduated from high school, one of my favorite quotations was something attributed to Thomas Carlysle: “Go as far as you can see: when you get there, you will be able to see farther.” Obvious, perhaps — what else could you possibly do? — but reassuring nonetheless. At ten or thirteen, twenty-two seems plenty old enough to be a “settled form,” but of course once you get to it, the very idea does seem a bit ridiculous. Slippery nature of time and all that. Which is what makes the act of looking back so amusing and surreal, I suppose.

Yup, I have seen Powers of 10. IB Theory of Knowledge was good for odd things like that; though I think I might have encountered it somewhere else as well.

]]> By: Cousin Sarah http://www.ladyvulcan.com/2008/08/24/time-goes-by-everything-else-keeps-changing/#comment-5285 Cousin Sarah Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:19:57 +0000 http://www.ladyvulcan.com/?p=500#comment-5285 This is very nice, and I've certainly done my share of omphaloskepsis. "Grown-Up and settled, I suppose, into some kind of final form" I have decided that this general social idea of 'settled' is a myth for me - it's a Powers of 10 problem - have you seen that film? http://www.powersof10.com/ However, there does seem to be a Point of Accumulation, at which one can look back and say, hmm, I've had these kinds of Encounters and made those Choices, that This is the sort of person I am, and I think I can live with that, so given present position, That Direction is where I'd like to go next. This is very nice, and I’ve certainly done my share of omphaloskepsis.

“Grown-Up and settled, I suppose, into some kind of final form”

I have decided that this general social idea of ’settled’ is a myth for me - it’s a Powers of 10 problem - have you seen that film? http://www.powersof10.com/
However, there does seem to be a Point of Accumulation, at which one can look back and say, hmm, I’ve had these kinds of Encounters and made those Choices, that This is the sort of person I am, and I think I can live with that, so given present position, That Direction is where I’d like to go next.

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