May 3, 2022
I’m listening to a book that is an oral history of The Next Generation and subsequent Star Trek shows. They talked about Deep Space 9 which I never watched. Hearing a description of the show, I don’t think I’ll ever watch it. They talked about spirituality being a part of it, which goes completely against the previous Star Trek shows and movies. Gene Roddenberry created a world without religion or other primitive ways of thinking at least from the main characters. It is what I like most about Star Trek. I don’t want to think about a future where religion still exists. Religion has ruined the past and continues to ruin the present. Leave Star Trek and the future alone!
Star Trek is pro-science. Religion is anti-science. People try to justify religion being compatible with science. None of the justifications follow the scientific method and, therefore, are not scientific. Science fiction does not need to follow all scientific principles, but it should not include elements with no scientific basis. If you can justify the mysterious powers of an alien race with speculative science, I’m okay with it. If your only explanation for the powers is the alien is spiritual or magical, you have broken the rules of science fiction. You have stepped into the land of fantasy.
Star Wars is a space fantasy. I like Star Wars and fantasy as a genre. My least favorite aspect of Star Wars is the force. It sounds scientific, but it is just another word for magic. There are rules to the force just as there are rules to the magic in Harry Potter. Limitless magic is boring and unimaginative. As I was writing this paragraph, an announcement came on the radio that ended with, “May the force be with you.” I work in a place that values fantasy like I do. Star Trek is enjoyable to me for completely different reasons than Star Wars. I’m very glad Star Wars calls it the force and not spirituality.
Self-centered people piss me off. People who talk too much, ignore others around them, and only care about things they are interested in make me want to give up on humanity. They don’t even justify their behavior. Ignoring reality and the world around them, they only notice the world when they are called out on their behavior or someone else ignores them. They claim to be happy with their lives, but spend most of their time pointing out what is wrong with the world. The problem with the world is people like them who ignore everything that doesn’t affect them directly. Most self-centered people hate other self-centered people. They can never get along because each of them is ignoring anything that doesn’t irritate them about the other. They don’t communicate with each other in any meaningful way so they can never resolve even the smallest irritation with one another. All communication is a challenge to prove the problem is with the other person.
May 4, 2022
May the fourth be with you! I’m going to be hearing that a lot today so you might as well see it once in written form from me. According to NerdMouse.com (my favorite place for all things nerdy), it started when Margaret Thatcher was being congratulated for taking office as prime minister on May 4th. Star Wars nerds took it from there. We got donuts and muffins in the past few days to celebrate Star Wars days. Today, we got “healthier snacks.” There were apples, bananas, unsalted nuts, tangerines, and Kink bars. They were healthier than the other days, but were nowhere near the healthiest snacks. As per my usual, I didn’t get any of it. I’m doing very good at losing weight on my work days and I don’t want to ruin that. Tomorrow I’m off, so I can hopefully continue my weight loss. I think the key is just continuing to work all day and always having water with me. That’s my plan. We’ll see if it works.
Everyone at work was talking about how gross the nuts were without salt. At one point, I said, “You understand nuts are not naturally salty. Salted nuts are no longer healthy.” Most of them just said, “But they taste better that way.” It’s the continuing reality denial I deal with every day. Most of the time, I just clam up and don’t say anything. If I can think of a funny way to get my point across, I will try that. In the end, they will only listen when their health gets so bad they can’t ignore it. Even then, they won’t associate their unhealthy eating with their health problems. They will blame it on genetics or other factors that have much less to do with their health. It goes back to free will. If you believe your actions are not under your control, you are just living your life on auto-pilot. You eat based on your cravings and give no consideration to nutrition.
I’m not afraid of death. In my current condition, I’m not going to die soon. When I was young, my family went to a funeral that had an open casket. It was the son of a coworker of my mom. He was a young man in his twenties. I remember it to this day because it was the first dead body I had seen. Why anyone chooses an open casket for their loved one is a mystery to me. It’s religious logic that I just don’t get. I saw my dad’s dead body when they took him off of life support. I was there mainly for my mom, but I wish the circumstances were different. When my mom died, I did not see her dead body. Dead bodies are no longer the people you knew. I guess I’m afraid of a painful death enough to live a healthy life to avoid it.
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