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<div class="main-hero" title="Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - Click for Info">[[File: | <div class="main-hero" title="Credit: NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA) - Click for Info">[[File:Messier83 - Heic1403a IJ.jpg|frameless|thumb|class=blog-hero-img|link=https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Messier83_-_Heic1403a.jpg|alt=Scatterings of bright stars and thick dust that make up spiral galaxy Messier 83.]]</div> | ||
''We live infinitely; our bodies do not'' | ''We live infinitely; our bodies do not'' | ||
The complex interactions between biology, environment, culture and ideas that lead to these revelations and the underlying understanding | The complex interactions between biology, environment, culture and ideas that lead to these revelations and the underlying understanding of experiential reality are crucial to fulfilling the grand bargain of all pain and suffering: that though we endure hell, we also reap heaven. | ||
But there is no way to discern the ratio. How much hell do we endure for how much heaven? How | But there is no way to discern the ratio. How much hell do we endure for how much heaven? How often do we awake to bad, and how often to the good? | ||
How long are the stretches we are subject to the whims of a cruel and indifferent nature? How many times do we almost build heaven only to fail? How many times are these ideas realized but not voiced; voiced but not heeded; heeded but not enough? | How long are the stretches we are subject to the whims of a cruel and indifferent nature? How many times do we almost build heaven only to fail? How many times are these ideas realized but not voiced; voiced but not heeded; heeded but not enough? | ||
That is why this project may at present feel incomplete: though I will live on infinitely, this body will not. I am working to get these ideas out and conveyed to the best of my ability knowing at any moment the path | That is why this project may at present feel incomplete: though I will live on infinitely, this body will not. I am working to get these ideas out and conveyed to the best of my ability knowing at any moment the path does get cut short and another heaven may be lost, its absence echoing across the [[Infinite Journey]] and worsening the ratio of heaven to hell. | ||
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''Literally just a PDF link for the book so far:'' | |||
[[File:pdf-download.png|center|500px|link=https://infinist.org/InfiniteJourney.pdf|alt=Infinite Journey PDF]] | |||
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Latest revision as of 19:24, 7 October 2026
We live infinitely; our bodies do not
The complex interactions between biology, environment, culture and ideas that lead to these revelations and the underlying understanding of experiential reality are crucial to fulfilling the grand bargain of all pain and suffering: that though we endure hell, we also reap heaven.
But there is no way to discern the ratio. How much hell do we endure for how much heaven? How often do we awake to bad, and how often to the good?
How long are the stretches we are subject to the whims of a cruel and indifferent nature? How many times do we almost build heaven only to fail? How many times are these ideas realized but not voiced; voiced but not heeded; heeded but not enough?
That is why this project may at present feel incomplete: though I will live on infinitely, this body will not. I am working to get these ideas out and conveyed to the best of my ability knowing at any moment the path does get cut short and another heaven may be lost, its absence echoing across the Infinite Journey and worsening the ratio of heaven to hell.
Literally just a PDF link for the book so far:
