Sylar got me up early this morning to go potty (that’s puppy speak for ‘take a leak on the grass’). As I was standing outside in the early morning twilight, I noticed the orchestra of bird songs that were coming from the trees all around me. My ears were hearing it the whole time I was outside, but when I noticed it, it all seemed to fade in and become real. It’s amazing how our brains can tune out things that it deems unimportant to it. Anyway, I stood there and listed to it for a while. There must have been a dozen or so different songs, coming from hundreds of birds. The world around us is so full of life and beauty. If we don’t slow down and listen for it from time to time, we will roll right by it and never know it was there.
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Monday, in Old English, literally means ‘Moon Day.’ Monday is the day that was historically used for the worship of the Moon and the many Gods and Goddesses that were associated with it.
Among the Greeks, Selene was the personification of the moon. The Romans worshiped Luna. The moon is most commonly associated with female deities. Also, werewolves tend to come forth during full moons, which adds to its coolness.
I often find myself gazing up at the moon. I love to do night hikes during the full moon. It just makes me feel good inside to fling my clothes aside, and run naked through a moon-lit field. But, that’s just me.
Ah, the challenge phrase… you may never need it, but if you ever do, you’ll be glad you have one. “But what is a ‘challenge phrase?,’” you may ask. The challenge phrase is something that is used in the military. Basically, when someone would approach your unit in a combat situation, and for what ever reason you cannot identify them, then you would issue the challenge phrase. If the unknown person or party doesn’t reply with the correct password, then you would open fire.
Now you, like me, may not be in the military, and would probably think that you would never have a use for such a thing as a challenge phrase. Think again. Let’s suppose that a shape-shifting alien copies your form, and then attempts to dispose of you so it can take over your life. Luckily, your trusty wife arrives on the scene, and when she sees two of you – she pulls her Glock and holds you both at gun point. If you and your wife have a challenge phrase, then you can be sure that alien and not you is going to get a cap busting in it’s shape-shifting ass.
And, not only that… you never know when your soul may end up trapped in someone else’s body. How exactly do you think you would convince your love one that you are really you. You see, challenge phrases are an indispensable tool.
I was talking with Denice earlier about some interesting scenarios. I like to engage people in weird conversation like this; sometimes to learn about their thought process, but mostly for mutual entertainment. Tonight I posed these questions:
- If you were in dire need of a heart transplant, but the only available heart was from a condemned serial-killer, would you take the heart? To refuse would most certainly mean your death.
- You are going through hard financial times, but have the good fortune to find a house for dirt cheap, and it’s a really nice place. You have till tomorrow to vacate your current home, so if you don’t take the house you and your family will probably be on the street. The catch is that the house was the scene of a brutal crime, where a family was torchered over a period of days, and then sadistically slaughtered. However, it had been clean up beautifully. Would you move into the house?
- Scientists invent an android body that will look just like your own, and it is so advanced that it would be practically indistinguishable from your current body. It is also ten times as strong and will never die. They want you to be the first recipient of one of these miracle bodies. They have a way to transfer your consciousness into the android body. You would never get sick again, never feel tired, and would practically live forever. Of course, you wouldn’t really be ‘human’ anymore either. Would you trade your body of flesh and blood for one of nano-circuits and polymers?
- And finally, if there was a way to freeze yourself and be revived without harm 1,000 years in the future, would you do it? You would have the opportunity to see how mankind ended up, and experience all the wonders (or terrors) of the future. Of course, everyone you know would be dead.
I would love to hear your answers. Feel free to comment if you like.
I just wanted to share this with my blog followers, who aren’t linked to me via Twitter, Facebook, or Youtube. This is the image that I am currently using on my social networking pages. This picture was taken in Colorado, near a wind farm. I guess you could say that I’m really grabbing the bull by the balls in this one…
I was walking the dogs earlier, and when passing by some pear trees that were in brilliant white bloom, I notice they were putting off a scent that smelled strongly like ejaculate. Has anyone else noticed this?