Raccoon Existentialism

I think this is taking the question "why are we here?" too literally. We could answer that the Universe and our lives are ultimately absurd and we're simply here by sheer blind happenstance. That would be an answer to this question. Whether it's the correct one is another issue.

Also the question of "how are we here" requires more of an answer than my parents procreated etc. We have to answer why there is something rather than absolutely nothing. And given there is something, how did humans come about rather than any other intelligent life come about, or indeed no intelligent life at all?

Also, if I am the result of a single sperm and egg and my parents needed to meet, and their parents needed to meet in turn etc, then the probability of *me* being born is effectively zero. Yet here I am. So there's a problem here. There's something incorrect in the mainstream assumptions (I'm aware that just about the whole of the human race disagrees with me about this last point, but they're simply not understanding the issue.  See a blog post by me).

Electric Unicycle

This seems quite good, vastly better than those crappy "hover" boards. 15mph is quite fast. Almost as fast as sprinting? Certainly less exhausting. Women could use it to cheat in a running race provided they wear a long dress so it can't be seen.

A caveman suddenly appearing in a modern city

Imagine a caveman from 100,000 BC suddenly being transported in time to today and placed for a brief time into the middle of a modern city. A cacophony of noise; a staggering number of people all seemingly very busy walking in random directions all ignoring each other; the movement of large inanimate objects moving under their own volition, some of which travel at an unbelievable speed. Completely and totally frenetic.

Then he suddenly get transported back. How does he explain his experience to his fellow cavemen? It was very busy, strange, noisy, lots of people? That scarcely conveys it. Nor would my description above convey what it was like. Nothing could, it's simply completely outside anything they have ever experienced. Any attempt at a description could not possibly convey the raw experience of being there.

Likewise for those who have had psychedelic or mystical experiences or NDEs trying to explain their experiences to us. Not that I've ever had any of these experiences.

Walking speed and longevity

Apparently there's a correlation between how fast you walk and how long you'll live. I strongly doubt that deliberately walking faster will lead to a longer life though. It will be the *urge* to walk faster that is indicative of a longer life, not that walking faster will cause one to live longer.

So walk as slowly as you like (so long as you're not blocking my path).

Claims of being a famous person in a past life

Somebody said there's a huge following of reincarnation claimants on Instagram, many of whom claim they were a famous person in a previous life. I think it's highly unlikely that a claimed past life of a famous person is genuine (even though I think at least some people reincarnate).

What percentage of the population were represented by famous people at the time of the claimed past life? Very small I imagine. I'd put my money on none, or virtually none, of these claimed lives as being for real. People crave the attention, and others duly oblige.

Allowing Advertisments

I keep getting messages on websites like the New York Times imploring me to support their outstanding journalism by allowing ads. How making me suffer by having ads pop up all the time helps support their journalism is quite beyond me. If they think I'm gonna take notice of advertisements, then they have another think coming. But if I don't take any notice of ads, then absolutely nothing is gained by me viewing them. All that happens is they just piss me off. Apart from this all advertisements are immoral and should all be banned.

Log Cabin

This is what I'd make if I inexplicably went back in time a ~million years or went "sidewards" in time to a parallel world where humans never evolved.

Boss and worker

Precisely, that's capitalism for you.