Journal Entry - Limitless

I love a recurring theme. Being consistent feels comfortable. But in all honesty this is not forced. It is 5.26 in the morning. The last thing that I would do is to force myself to write.
I have got nothing else to do but to write. I can't sleep, and I can't read at the moment. To fill up the time, to occupy myself, I am thus forced to write. I am writing this for the sake of keeping myself occupied, while at other times I write in order to meet a commitment - a commitment to write after a certain period of inaction. Even if the agent of force is still the same, me but the underlying motives are different.

In the past two pieces I highlighted that there was strictly no contemplation to be done, my feet was to stand on the ground at all times. But at the onset of dawn, and with a well-rested physique, I can't help but disengage myself from the present, and to float away into the possibilities of the future. Welcome back, my optimistic self. This is hardly strange. After a couple of days of rest, my optimistic self will never fail to surface.

In reaction to the self-denial I am having about the requirement of work to obtain the means to survive, I will enter into alternate worlds that I have created, where there is always more money, more time, and more power. But a most important distinction that is to be made is that they are not limitless, I just have more. The joy is in knowing that there is a limit, but that limit if comfortably far that it is unlikely that I am going to reach it. Realizing our limits,  maybe that is what reality is about. It is obvious that everything is real, being real is to exist, and everything does exist, even ideas. The immaterial is not unreal.

The term reality exists to signify the awareness of limitations. Thus reality is connected to the material world, in which the laws of conservation of matter and energy ensures that there is a limitation to all matter and energy. And because of the existence of limitation, we say that matter and energy are real, and our own limitless ideas as unreal - just because it offers no limits on its own existence.

Note: This was written under my private journal in early 2013. 

EpicurusZ

Displacement and Equilibrium

Displacement - a solution of a problem will always create a new problem. Our perception of the world is always in a state of equilibrium with a constant balance of what is beneficial and what is detrimental. Good and bad are merely moral constructs.

Reality is objective - there is not such this as good or bad.

In the old days - chivalry and gentlemanly behaviour are considered to be good - but it also created a condescending outlook on women. Increased mortality rates as the world moves forward with numerous advancements in the medical sciences also mean we are suffering from overpopulation. You can say that the good of feminism displaced the good of chivalry and all the bad of a dense population - crime, income inequality, decrease of living space displaced the bad of low mortality. 

War kills a lot of people - but big spending for military purposes also led to various technological breakthroughs for civilian life. Nuclear power reactors will not have existed if not for the Manhattan Project - which was started as a response to the perceived threat of the Germans coming up with a nuclear bomb. Increasing food production - via advancements in farming technology also led to pollution due to use of chemical fertilizers. 

Everything has its good and its bad. How we choose which is which is merely a reflection of character. Someone will always be at the losing end. A winner only exists when there is a loser. The phrase win-win implies that the outcome is advantageous to both parties in a decision. But any mutual decision taken by any two parties will almost never exclusively impact only those two parties. The loser just not did not take part in the decision. Any type of subatomic particle will always have its own antiparticle, and any good thing has to have something bad that is related to it. Nobody is going to watch a superhero movie that does not have a villain.

A value cannot exist without having its own antivalue. Our perceived world is always at an equilibrium.

EpicurusZ

How Will Electric Cars Be Different?





It is interesting to see that the electrical charging stations does not require a lot of space. A gas station needs to be big to be safe enough; so that the risks of the highly inflammable fluids are within control. 

Gas stations needs the space to hold the huge underground tanks underneath them. The electric charging stations won't need this. There's no need for parking for the huge tanker trucks as well.

But the size of gas stations also have brought some measure of convenience to drivers. Its a place to take a short break during a long drive: its where you can go to the toilet, and also buy a cup of coffee and snacks.
The big size of the station makes all this possible.

I think its inevitable for electric cars to dominate in the future - a rethinking is not only required by the auto industry - policy makers and regulators will also have take a different perspective when dealing with electric cars.

Although they don't produce harmful gases or noise pollution, disposing of future old electric cars will pose a greater risk to the environment compared to petrol cars. The batteries will contain hazardous chemicals and greater care needs to be taken in disposing these batteries.

More rethinking - driving dynamics will also be hugely different. Electrical cars will have a more balanced mass distribution. As the motors will probably be located at each tyre, terms such as understeer, oversteer and drifting will be a thing of the pass (all these occur because power is only transferred to two of the tyres - either rear drive or forward drive). There's no such thing as changing gears, electrial motors are at full torque at all times. Imagine the car chase scenes in movies in the future, what will the director think off to make the chase exciting without the gear changes?

EpicurusZ

A Short Review of The Light Between Oceans

 




    It's normal that after reading a good book you will feel a sudden emptiness. You feel a longing for the story to continue, to be pulled back into the world that the book has created. This book is certainly one of the better books that I have read. It have created a deep sense of longing after I finished the book that I can't just simply continue on to read a new book. The content brings forward a deeper meaning within the play of emotions that the book projects to the reader. It reminds about the subjectivity of moral standards, and how we justify our actions within this subjective realm.

    The story, set in post-WWI Australia, takes place in two places, the small harbor town of Partageuse, and the small island of Janus, where the lighthouse stands. The two places are relatively near to each other but are completely different in their circumstances. Janus is devoid of society, the only inhabitants are the keeper of the lighthouse, Tom Sherbourne and his wife, Isabel. The isolation and the nearly self-sustainable nature of the island (A supply ship comes every three months) gives a sense of freedom, which ends with the arrival of a baby and a dead man. The baby was something that Isabel have yearned for years, especially after suffering from three miscarriages of her own. Tom and Isabel were the perfect parents but everything came crashing down after they learned something that contradicted their earlier assumption, an assumption that the couple chose to reinforce into a belief due to their own needs. The book is filled with unpredictable outcomes, but in the end everything comes together on a heartwarming note. A delightful read. 

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