Melting Snow

Midweek Reflections on Perceptions, Reality and Energy

Wednesday, June 22, 2016

The official temperature in Las Vegas on Monday, June 20, was 115 degrees. On Tuesday, June 21, the official temperature was 113. Today (Wednesday, June 22) the temperature is supposed to be only 111 or 112. Isn't summer in Las Vegas wonderful?

The "Blog City ~ Every Blogger's Paradise"  prompt for Day 836
"I am not strange, weird, off, nor crazy, my reality is just different from yours. Alice-Through The Looking Glass As a big fan of the latest Alice movie, I couldn't resist! What is your view on this?

After 69 years of dealing with individual members of the human race, I'm fairly sure that no two people see reality from the same vantage point. The reason I believe this has to do with the fact that no two human beings think exactly alike. Sometimes we may think another person think the same way because they appear similar to us, but this isn't true. Each person sees the world through his or her own eyes and experiences.

“Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for the limits of the world.”
Arthur Schopenhauer, Studies in Pessimism: The Essays

Each human looks at the world through his or her our own limited vision and perceive that as reality. When someone else's perception disagrees with ours then we think they are living in an illusion because their field of vision is either wider or narrower then our own. When this happens some people attempt to change another person's perception through one means or another instead of attempting to change their own perception.

The "Blogging Circle of Friends "  prompt for Day 1316
Use the following words in a story, poem, or essay: bash, backbone, ideal, damnation, crusher, details.

The devil is in the details,
that's what people always say,
but I don't believe the universe
works quite that way.

The backbone of creation
is in subatomic particles;
details so small
they are invisible
to the unaided human eye -
the building blocks of matter
have nothing to do with damnation
except in the human imagination.

A human can use a crusher
to bash a boulder
into tinier and tinier fragments
until it becomes dust
blown away in the wind,
but we haven't destroyed
the boulder's atoms.

The only way to destroy atoms
is to transform them into energy,
which can either
lay waste to
or power a city.

The ideal use of energy
is to use its power
constructively
and not destructively.