So, Camera Girl works double time for a week and I just spend two days eating thousands and thousands of calories of delicacies over the long holidays but I\u2019m the one who\u2019s exhausted and complaining!\u00a0 I guess we each have our own strengths and weaknesses.<\/p>\n
So, mission accomplished.\u00a0 Two days hanging out with the grandkids and all the rituals were observed.\u00a0 I even bonded with my sons-in-law.\u00a0 They were good sports and tolerated all of my quirks.\u00a0 They uncomplainingly watched my showing today of W.C. Fields classic \u201cThe Man on the Flying Trapeze.\u201d\u00a0 They even laughed at several of the most absurd scenes of Ambrose Wolfinger with his cellar full of singing burglars, his career as a \u201cmemory expert,\u201d his criminal adventure as an unlicensed manufacturer of apple jack, his passion for professional wrestling and his trials and tribulations dealing with his truly awful wife and her mother and brother.<\/p>\n
The kids fell right in with the silliness on display.\u00a0 The only protest came from my six-year-old granddaughter who recognized both Fields and the actress playing his wife from the previous showing of the other Fields movie where they played a husband and wife, namely \u201cIt\u2019s a Gift.\u201d\u00a0 Princess Sack of Potatoes wanted to know where the son and daughter in that previous movie had gotten to in this movie.\u00a0 I explained that even though Fields and the actress were playing husband and wife again they were different characters.\u00a0 I think this situation didn\u2019t sit well with her.\u00a0 Apparently, she felt that her suspension of disbelief was being abused and she wanted those interesting characters returned.\u00a0 I did my best to smooth over this outrage but it took half the movie to return her to willing participation.<\/p>\n
And as everyone was heading home, I was thinking what a strange world we live in.\u00a0 All the silly rituals and behaviors that we associate with happiness and family.\u00a0 Three generations of people playing penny ante poker or watching movies from ninety-some-odd years ago or eating peasant foods from a country none of us has ever lived in.\u00a0 It\u2019s all just a hodge-podge of things that make up a stream of experiences that we all share together travelling down the years.<\/p>\n
And for me, those are the realest things in the world.\u00a0 All the other things I read about \u201con-line\u201d and the important progress that is being made by artificial intelligence, global convergence or whatever else they call what they are doing with government money are utterly fake.\u00a0 Watching my two youngest grandchildren trying for the first time to master the silly game of getting a wooden ball on a string to land in a little wooden cup was more meaningful than listening to two physicist talking heads debating about whether dark matter was faker than modified gravity.\u00a0 These high powered (we hope) intellects should be concentrating their efforts on solving the world\u2019s energy problems.\u00a0 The physics they need to be studying is defining the criteria for engineering a safe fission reactor.\u00a0 Humanity needs to snap out of its stupor and produce an ecosystem of abundance and prosperity that fosters human happiness and maximizes human intellectual potential.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s amusing to hear people who \u201cbelieve in science\u201d stating categorically that there is no God and that the universe and life are just meaningless accidents.\u00a0 And their proof is \u201cThe Big Bang.\u201d\u00a0 They declare confidently that the universe began x number of billions of years ago with all the matter and energy of creation appearing out of nowhere and all of that creation is still expanding at an ever-greater acceleration into empty space with entropy leading to the heat death of this universe in y billions of years from now.\u00a0 But if you ask them where the big bang came from, they just shrug their shoulders and say that is unknowable.\u00a0 In essence they are saying they don\u2019t know anything about the beginning and end of the universe.\u00a0 So basically, they\u2019re saying, \u201cand then there was light.\u201d<\/p>\n
I tend to think life is not an accident.\u00a0 From my point of view, what I experience in my small piece of the universe is the point of the whole thing.\u00a0 A little kid playing with a ball and cup toy is the reason for the big bang and everything else that has been put in motion.\u00a0 Now prove me wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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