{"id":98,"date":"2014-06-01T20:30:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T19:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johntownshend.com\/wordpress\/?p=98"},"modified":"2014-06-01T20:30:39","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T19:30:39","slug":"three-certain-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jwt.quest\/wordpress\/three-certain-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Certain Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Three things are certain in life:<\/p>\n<p>1. uncertainty<br \/>\n2. death<br \/>\n3. change<\/p>\n<p>Could sound depressing that but turn it around\u2026. <\/p>\n<p>1. I\u2019ve always loved surprises, big or small.<br \/>\n2. Everyone dies one day and no one knows what happens next. Thinking about death is like pressing fast forward on your favourite music.<br \/>\n3. Sure, life can be shit, but change is the biggest thing in the universe! Change has always been there, and will go on for ever. Did a god or spirit create the universe? Maybe but before that there was change. Change will always be around. May as well embrace it!<\/p>\n<p>I don\u2019t know. If, but, and\u2026 do.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s going on? I don\u2019t know. Why? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>If change is infinite yet we experience stuff. Then perhaps stuff that we\u2019ve experienced can be experienced again. Maybe from a different perspective. Uncertainty is a doorway to infinite possibilities. What\u2019s going on? I don\u2019t know. Why? I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n<p>But I like to think that infinity is about experience but also something beyond that. I currently experience things with this body and mind, in mostly similar places (all physical things). If you remember the possibility of infinite possibilities, it is maybe possible that once this physical experience is over, (Perhaps our visible universe dies and restarts a few times or something) maybe they\u2019ll be something different to experience, something less painful, or something more painful. It\u2019s all speculation. I honestly have no answers. Who knows?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m probably complicating things.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is simple. Change is about cause and effect, a process, present as the laws of physics are now. But even change itself is subject to change. Whose to say when we\u2019re all dead the laws of physics won\u2019t eventually change? They\u2019ve changed since the very early universe according to the large hadron collider (or so I am led to believe).<\/p>\n<p>Whatever you think. Accept you thought it. Accept that eventually, it might be of no consequence. Things change. Things are destroyed and created all the time. Why? Can any living thing really know? Even the smartest brains are only a limited size after all.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking for myself. It\u2019s important to respect other\u2019s right to think and believe what they want and like. I\u2019m very cautious and careful about so many things. Just, in life I seem to have too much \u2018faith\u2019 in what could possibly be. I don\u2019t fear death, nor do I understand it. However, I do want to enjoy life in the present at the same time, and a lot of my caution is preprogrammed (genetics\/upbringing\/instinct). I\u2019m not a risk taker. That could change though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three things are certain in life: 1. uncertainty 2. death 3. change Could sound depressing that but turn it around\u2026. 1. I\u2019ve always loved surprises, big or small. 2. Everyone dies one day and no one knows what happens next. Thinking about death is like pressing fast forward on your favourite music. 3. 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