One day recently eternity was on my mind. Not in any supernatural sense - I don't have any supernatural beliefs - but in the sense of "can things go on forever"? I think I had been reading about planned robotic missions to Saturn's moons & I thought about humans putting themselves in spacecraft traveling to other stars & how long it would take & how it would feel like eternity to us but not to them. & when I think about eternity I think about the Thoreau line: "As if you could kill time without injuring eternity!"
Which is very clever but doesn't really mean anything, which may be why I appreciate it. I don't believe that wasting time - which what the idiom "kill time" means - has anything to do with one's soul (I don't believe humans have souls) so I don't think it impacts their lives after death (since I see no evidence that such a thing exists). I repeat though that I think it's clever & it would probably be a great line in a song.
The point is this - when I find myself pondering something - like the concept of eternity - sooner or later my brain, which is always in the process of working on radio shows, thinks, "Would this be a good idea for a radio show?" & once I feel like enough of the pieces are in place for the show, I schedule it. This show happens tonight.
& yes, like most of my shows, it will feel like an eternity but will only be a couple of hours. The jokes write themselves.
Which is very clever but doesn't really mean anything, which may be why I appreciate it. I don't believe that wasting time - which what the idiom "kill time" means - has anything to do with one's soul (I don't believe humans have souls) so I don't think it impacts their lives after death (since I see no evidence that such a thing exists). I repeat though that I think it's clever & it would probably be a great line in a song.
The point is this - when I find myself pondering something - like the concept of eternity - sooner or later my brain, which is always in the process of working on radio shows, thinks, "Would this be a good idea for a radio show?" & once I feel like enough of the pieces are in place for the show, I schedule it. This show happens tonight.
& yes, like most of my shows, it will feel like an eternity but will only be a couple of hours. The jokes write themselves.
Tonight! Midnight to 2am. 90.7fm in Portland. kboo dot fm everywhere. & then out to eternity!
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