Reno Odds:
1. Our task at the Washoe County School District is all-intensive. Our time and energy are put towards weekday hours. We are too tired from the week to do much more than explore Reno, save one weekend where we hit up South Lake Tahoe. Unable to stand each other anymore, the "team" splinters apart, resulting in a drunken street/casino brawl, complete with flying chips, smashed cocktail glasses and giant bouncers escorting us out. We go home without any legal repercussions. Chances: 2%
2. Same as 1, but the Reno 911 cops show up, imprison us in a cell of comedy overnight, then forget to keep watch and we walk out. We are on tv, and become celebrities overnight. Chances: 5%
3. I continuously forget to apply suntan lotion to my face and arms. The dry dessert heat slowly melts my constantly peeling body. I go home in a world of pain and misery. Chances: 3%
4. I continuously forget to apply suntan lotion to my face and arms. The dry dessert heat slowly bronzes my muscular body. I go home and get all the babes. Chances: 10%
5. With the end in sight, I drink heavily as I count down the days until we finish. Eventually, I lose track of my sober existence, my team disowns me, and then leaves me in Reno. I live out my days a hopeless and homeless bum. Chances: .01%
6. I come up with the idea that Reno should rename itself "Las Vegas, But Cheaper". It is met with much fanfare, and I am immediately hired to run a variety of city real estate ventures. I fanagle it so that I end up owning multiple lucrative luxury casinos, and live out my days philanthropically. Chances: 20%
7. I decide that I do actually want to go pro in sports, start up the Reno Pro Curling League and win the championship every year. Chances: 2%
8. I slowly find myself seated more and more at the casino's poker tables. This time is different, however, because my new volunteering alter ego can't stomach winning other folks' money. I realize my destiny: To siphen off all of my stipend money from the Americorps program by purposefully losing at the poker table. I'm dead broke as July heats up, but I know deep down that this is stupid, but the volunteerism has taken over. There's not going back.
Chances 57.99%
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In an attempt to further bolster your practice of living in the moment, I'll offer you this about Time:
ReplyDeleteTime is nothing more than a notation we use to calculate change. A day is what? It's a full rotation of our planet in relation to the star that powers our planet, the Sun. Time is a man made notation, just like money. With money, we have a unit of measure that signifies the value of objects to us. We know that money is not needed, because we could, and have, used objects to measure each other. For example: instead of buying a pair of sneakers for $100, we could trade 50 $2 coffees instead. The value is intrinsic, it is not dependent on an independent measurement, objects can be compared directly. The dollar amount is nothing more than a notation for "value". This is in correlation to Time. In the same way, Time is just a measurement of change, as opposed to value in the example using money.
Think of Time again as a measurement of change:
1 Day = 1 Full Rotation of our Planet in Relation to the Sun
1 Year = 1 Full Orbit of our Planet around the Sun
Well what's next for Time? Nothing. Why? Because there is no more apparent change we can observe to give notation to.
"French philosopher Maurice Merleau-Ponty argued that time itself does not really flow and that its apparent flow is a product of our 'surreptitiously putting into the river a witness of its course.' "
"Time may exist only by breaking the world into subsystems and looking at what ties them together. In this picture, physical time emerges by virtue of our thinking ourselves as separate from everything else."
So, what does this mean? It means that things don't happen over time, things happen in a specific order, and the order of those events and the changes that result from them is what we perceive as Time. It also means exactly what is stated above, time only exists in our perception that everything is separate form each other, when in reality everything is one and the same.