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To voluntarily perform or be audience to an infinitely long piece of "utopian" ambient drone music (a la Rod Modell's track Ultraviolet World from the Incense & Black Light album) that never began, but has always been playing, as will it continue forever. Thus, the decision to play and listen to this music will always regress ahead of infinity back from a set point; the decision reaches back in an infinity longer than the infinity of the duration of the piece at any given moment...the opp

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If the well-known glorification of the lion is darwinian, then the glorification of the sheep is post-darwinian. I find beauty in the herbivorous and content indifference of the sheep, an indifference disturbed by the predatory threat of such creatures as the overrated lion. And so transovinism, the radical reduction of such disturbances for a full life of blissful and disease-free grass-munching via a nanotechnological barrier as infallable as possible surrounding such a welfare state. Such a b… Continue

Try to imagine a situation in which all that exists ever is a pure sphere. Do you have an image in your mind of a sphere in a void, a sphere surrounded by infinite darkness? If so, try to purge that, for the nothingness is still something else. I did say, after all, just a sphere. A completely finite existence...a sphere not even surrounded by nothingness, a sphere not even in a vacuum. Just a sphere. Such is the bizarre nature of finity, up there with the paradoxes, self-references and Grand

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On a planet, you are warming your wet hands underneath a hand-dryer where you then rest your weary forehead on it's plastic case. The warmth and the gentle vibrations onto your skull stimulate blood flow; it is very nice. The planet unexpectedly explosed, and you automatically adapt. The mechanical shockwaves, gravity waves and electromagnetic emissions, across the orders of magnitude, are still cosy like a quietly humming beacon of soft light in a vibrating case.

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