Python Liberation Front

Transition Folk; an Ode to the Baby Boomers

Mourning for a legacy of fortune unreceived,
Mourning for an elegy of destiny deceived;
Like Mozart, too early felled by fickle hand of fate,
Mourning for what they could not comprehend nor consummate;

Stitched in  between the times, a momentary suture,
Out of touch with the past, yet still not a part of the future;

Like vampires, not still alive, but merely yet undead,
Their mountains still unclimbed, their stories left unsaid;
Forever on the cusp of expectations unachieved;
Forever on the cusp of what they never could achieve.

DreamState

Say, it is as if when a person dies, their perception of time slows down as they approach the precise moment of death. In fact, their internal perception of time approaches a limit, which is an asymptote approaching infinite slowness; that is, so to speak, that a minute before the time of death, what appears to an outside observer as a second may be experienced by the dying person as a thousand years.

At one second before the person dies (as time is observed by you or I as neutral, outside observers) a millisecond may be subjectively experienced by the dying person as a million years, and so on, so that the dying person can experience an infinitely long period of time as she approaches death, while never actually arriving at the experience of nothingness caused by the extinguishing of all brain activity at the time of death and forever thereafter. That point of mental extinguishment does occur, but the dying person, subjectively, never quite arrives there.

In other words, one could say that the dying person experiences eternity as they approach death.

There is one caveat. The dying person is limited by the contents of their own mind, during this eternity. In other words, the person can not interact with what we call "the real world" and add to her real world experiences and affect the real world like we can in our normal life. The person's eternity is limited by the possible permutations of the contents of their own mind's states and experiences and combinations thereof; which are infinite, but still limited.

Sort of like in our dream lives.

So it is important to consider that whatever experiences, thoughts, emotions, qualities, capacities, attributes etc. that our minds contain and achieve in our lives determine the potential quality and character of our eternal lives.

Interesting. The contents and the state of our minds is important, even precious, and may determine our eternities.

2005

I think that 2005 will be a year of transition and change in my lfe, the lives of many of my friends and family, and perhaps also in the world.