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Writings in the Sand

by Ned

Rated: 13+ · Book · Entertainment · #2199980

Thoughts destined to be washed away by the tides of life.

I've been studying my cover photo for a while now, and it seems to me that it is more than just a photo of what is there that can be seen, more than just three white rocks stacked on a beach. It contains an important question about the future, about what happens long after the photographer has gone. What will happen to our pile of stones when the tide comes in? Will it topple or has the architect built this structure at a safe distance?

I don't know what will happen to these words that I stack here on the sand. They may prove safely distant, or they may be swallowed up by a rush of self-doubt. They may be here for a season. They may lose their balance and be scattered by the shoreline, or be hidden away under shifting sands. Perhaps someday, the tides of life will reclaim them.

Or maybe that's just a bunch of poetic, romantic nonsense. After all, this is just a blog.

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Ned

about 22 hours ago
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Beholden

I found this for you. You'll want to start at 25:11. I noticed he used the accent over the e when he wrote his name. He was very funny in this clip.

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Kåre เลียม Enga

a day ago
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

I agree about the usefulness of youtube. That's how I watch my Thai programs. I also agree that Ed Sullivan was the king of variety shows... kinda like a box of chocolates.

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Cubby

May 26, 2025 at 8:43am
In response to "Where or When?"

Very interesting! And definitely thought-provoking.

Ned

May 26, 2025 at 5:51am
In response to "Where or When?"

Beholden

I can't shake the feeling that I have answered your comment before, so I am not going to do it again.

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Ned

May 26, 2025 at 5:50am
In response to "Where or When?"

Cubby

"timelines that never happened but did"

This is exactly how I view time. It explains how omniscience and free will can exist simultaneously. An omniscient God sees all time all at once, we see one timeline only. We make choices on which path to take, but before we even choose, God sees the end of all possible paths and so knows everything that will happen as it already has happened, but without interfering with our free will to choose.

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Beholden

May 25, 2025 at 4:20pm
In response to "Where or When?"

This gave me the strangest feeling. This has happened before in some strange way. But maybe that's just some weird brain fart or other. I'm far too old to have a déjà vu experience now, aren't I?

Cubby

May 25, 2025 at 8:32am
In response to "Where or When?"

I recently finished listening to the science-fiction thriller audiobook, Recursion by Blake Crouch. I didn't love it or hate it, but it was interesting and somewhat thought provoking.

It explores the idea that déjà vu is actually a remnant memory from a previous timeline, timelines that never happened but did. Confusing? Yes. I'm not explaining it well. The book is mostly about a chair that Helena, a neuroscientist, created that will take one back in time to relive moments or try changing them (her mother had Alzheimer's, which inspired her help others with this disease to retrieve their memories).

‘False Memory Syndrome' is also mentioned, where one has memories that are not true...but are they? Had someone gone back in time and caused new memories that never actually happened in the first timeline?

Yep, like I said...thought provoking, but not really my kind of book.

...though I have experience déjà vu...

Beholden

May 24, 2025 at 12:30pm
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Now I have to ask myself the question of whether I care enough about hearing someone sing through a megaphone enough to investigate the threads you mention. I really wanted you to do the work.

Ned

May 24, 2025 at 7:43am
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Amethyst Angel 💐

Well, he's dead now so hes' unlikely to bother her much. Sullivan had no talent, he wasn't good-looking, he was like a stiff bobblehead - but he could get together a variety show like no one else. Where else could you see an opera singer, a magician, an acrobat, Senor Wences and The Rolling Stones all in one television show?

Beholden

There are probably audio versions of those performances but no shorter videos. I think you would have to watch some old movies from the 30s and I know you would see some singer with a megaphone. Maybe a Busby Berkeley movie or perhaps one of those Ziefeld Follies movies?

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Beholden

May 23, 2025 at 9:50am
In response to "Into the Valley of Rudy"

Interesting. I was so hoping you'd found a video of him singing through a megaphone. Well, I suppose two seconds of it will have to do.

May 29, 2025 at 7:17am

#1090202

Read the Manual

When you buy anything requiring assembly, whether flat pack furniture or electronic devices, you will find an instruction manual. Well, you will eventually find it. It's usually hidden at the bottom of the box so that you have to remove all the pieces before you have established which order they should be stacked in. That's on purpose.

Reading the manual can be trying, too. They tend not to explain fully so that while you know that piece A should screw to piece B, you don't know that it will fit on backwards so much more easily than the right way that you will be quite confident in tightening the screws and so have a more difficult time un-attaching it so that you can do it all over again.

YouTube has changed all this because for just about anything you can buy, there will be a video of someone who has already read the manual and put everything together twice so you don't have to.

They say life doesn't come with instructions, but it's not true. Ask anybody and he will tell you everything he knows about the subject. Then ignore half of that and watch the video.

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