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Future Human
20 November 2006 00:45It’s a form of nostalgia. I like to think back to the times of the primitives. I like to think back a time where objects and materials were ‘valuable’. I like to think back to a simpler time when interstellar transit wasn’t instantaneous. Or when people had finite life spans.
I learned in school that ‘diamonds’ were indestructible to their eyes and that they were very rare and valuable. The simple monospun carbon window I’m looking out of right now would be worth millions and there are hundreds of others like it in this house.
Or gold. When gold was rare. Or silver. Or a thousand other elements from the first colonies. Elements that are easily manufactured now.
I can’t even imagine it. There was a saying amongst the ancients. It said “Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.” If that’s true, then we are a benevolent and friendly race.
We jump from star to star now in our timespace folders as easy as a child makes a paper airplane. Our matter configurators make sure that whatever raw element we need is given to us. All we need is raw material. We still can’t create matter but we can change whatever matter we have into whatever we need.
Our minds are one. We are all cells with free will that make up a larger organism of humanity spun out like a glittering net among the stars. We’ve pulled aspects of the races we’ve met and added them to our selves. We are amphibious flyers. Open space holds no more fear for us.
We are the masters of this dimension. In this state, we are still physical despite our immortality. The realm of the mental is still a new dimension for us to explore. And we will. It’s begun. We’ve managed to power cities with meditation and it’s a new mystery that has brought us great joy.
The Egyptian god Ptah was the creator of the universe. The Egyptians held him in low regard. The gods of sun and death were the powerful ones. The gods of ‘now’. Ptah had created the universe but he was just a being whose usefulness was at an end. He was good for one thing.
Being so old, Ptah had seen everything so far. If a person could bring something to Ptah that he had not seen before, he would give that person a gift.
I wonder if we were the beings or if we were the gift. I laugh at my own egotism.
We all smile constantly.
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I learned in school that ‘diamonds’ were indestructible to their eyes and that they were very rare and valuable. The simple monospun carbon window I’m looking out of right now would be worth millions and there are hundreds of others like it in this house.
Or gold. When gold was rare. Or silver. Or a thousand other elements from the first colonies. Elements that are easily manufactured now.
I can’t even imagine it. There was a saying amongst the ancients. It said “Fortune does not change men, it unmasks them.” If that’s true, then we are a benevolent and friendly race.
We jump from star to star now in our timespace folders as easy as a child makes a paper airplane. Our matter configurators make sure that whatever raw element we need is given to us. All we need is raw material. We still can’t create matter but we can change whatever matter we have into whatever we need.
Our minds are one. We are all cells with free will that make up a larger organism of humanity spun out like a glittering net among the stars. We’ve pulled aspects of the races we’ve met and added them to our selves. We are amphibious flyers. Open space holds no more fear for us.
We are the masters of this dimension. In this state, we are still physical despite our immortality. The realm of the mental is still a new dimension for us to explore. And we will. It’s begun. We’ve managed to power cities with meditation and it’s a new mystery that has brought us great joy.
The Egyptian god Ptah was the creator of the universe. The Egyptians held him in low regard. The gods of sun and death were the powerful ones. The gods of ‘now’. Ptah had created the universe but he was just a being whose usefulness was at an end. He was good for one thing.
Being so old, Ptah had seen everything so far. If a person could bring something to Ptah that he had not seen before, he would give that person a gift.
I wonder if we were the beings or if we were the gift. I laugh at my own egotism.
We all smile constantly.
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