So which state functions do you care about - subsidies for business entities or subsidies for subcities?
I want a couple of days to step back and ponder the impermeable impervious impenetrable perforations. How, for example, does one step in and out of spacetime if spacetime does not exist? How does one appear to those who only know spacetime as the working model for daily living/survival?
I'll leave you with these thoughts by Ashleigh Brilliant:
ASHLEIGH BRILLIANT, QUESTIONS AND IDEAS, AUG 2009- NOV 2010. Part I.
1. Do red and green mean stop and go everywhere in the world?2. How close did the Germans come to invading England in World War I?
3. Is it possible that the Dalai Lama and Mother Teresa once had an affair?
4. Trade-name for a new brassiere: the CANDELA BRA.
5. Idea: write my own Constitution, beginning “I the person.”
6. Lists for the listless.
7. Are shoulders the only thing we can shrug?
8. Needed: a car that runs on URINE.
9. The Day I Didn’t Die.
10. The two great World Wars had many similarities and some striking differences. Where can I find a good comparative summary of these?
11. Do people with foot fetishes tend to become podiatrists?
12. Am I right in saying that, unlike the body, the mind discharges no waste products?
13. Good title: NOT NOTHING.
14. Good conversation starter: Complete this sentence: “My mother used to . . . .”
15. Did horse-and-buggy drivers ever use rear-view mirrors?
16. Question: Why “knuckle dusters”? What does the “duster” part mean?
17. We can say “there is only now” because past and future are in a certain sense unreal -- but we can’t say “there is only here” because we know other places exist.
18. Reality For Beginners.
19. Are there people who can put on their trousers both legs at once?
20. Do all Americans say “A to Zee” and all Brits say “A to Zed”? (This could be the basis of a detective story which hinges upon whether the perpetrator is American or British.)
21. Dear Obnoxious Cell Phone User,
I realize you are minding your own business (and that you wish I would mind mine) – but must you do so at the top of your voice?
22. And I heard God say, “THIS LIFE IS ON ME.”
23. I cut my finger on the First-Aid box.
24. I’ve heard of games involving a “greased pig.” How about an ordinary game of catch in which the players’ hands are greased. The game could be called BUTTERFINGERS.
25. When did a reigning British monarch first visit a British colony (not counting Ireland)?
26. How many home accidents occur when people are putting on or taking off their pants?
27. Question: Where did Hitler get the Negro extras who were sometimes needed in German films during the Nazi era? What became of them?
28. How many American black soldiers were taken prisoner by the Germans during World War II, and how were they treated?
29. Idea: an illustrated Who’s Who of our local homeless population.
30. Which animals need least sleep, and are there any which never sleep at all?
31. I find 3 different meanings of Amadeus: “Love of God,” “Loves God,” and “God’s Love.”
32. Why was there no Roman anti-cruelty organization picketing the Colosseum? Has society as a whole actually become more “humane”? Is this “progress”?
33. Isn’t the song “Thank Heaven For Little Girls” dangerously close to sexual deviance?
34. Is a point well taken the same as a point well made?
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