What's on your mind?
This is the question we always see on Facebook yet how many of us have taken the time to think about the question. Usually we just look at the box, click it and type away or post what we want others to see. Usually, we don't even answer the question. How many of our posts even answer this question?
Going deeper, this may be a way that we view our daily lives. The internet is a place where we can be free of the shackles that bind us to our community, society, and in extreme cases, even humanity. This has both positive and negative repercussions with the positive outweighing the negative.
Something similar happens with 'freedom walls' as well. Give people anonymity and the right to draw on a blank white wall. You see a few drawings and notes here and there, sure you see vandalism as well. It's inevitable. Eventually though comes wonderful pieces of art.
Just like the internet, from scratch comes a great promise. After that we see negative things happen, we had a boom in child pornography, black hat hackers or those individuals with malicious intent proliferate the 'web' but then again, we see the rise of white hat hackers which are the opposite of black hats. They are the ones responsible for the penetration testing of website or so-called 'proofreading' the code by trying various exploits to try and take over a site.
As a matter of fact, one of these white hats is responsible for wiping out child pornography from the The Hidden Wiki, the directory of links to most of the darknet's sites.
So good can certainly come out of bad things right? Similar to how a phoenix rises from it's own ashes when it dies, newly reborn and ready to face the world right? Like a cycle of life where from good things comes bad things which in turn begets more good things unlike a quote that says "good begets good and evil begets evil" right?
Well, I still can't think of anything positive that came out of the Holocaust. For me, it's a really terrible thing that happened in our past. Yes I said OUR past because whether we were already there or not, chances are we or someone we know was somehow impacted by that event and we're all in this together. But don't let that bring you down. Just think about the universe.
Think about the biggest person in the earth and compare him/her to the size of UY Scuti, a bright red hypergiant with a radius roughly 1708 time that of the sun. Think about the most influential person in the earth and compare his influence with the pull of a black hole. Now compare the holocaust with the end of the universe of which there two theories that are most widespread.
The first of which is the 'Big Rip' where the expansion of the universe will go on infinitely until such a time where where gravity may be nonexistent or negligible to the point where everything no matter how small disintegrates into unbound elementary particles and radiation ending with dark energy's density and expansion becoming infinite such that the state of the universe is a singularity.
The other is the seemingly opposite theory is known as the 'Big Crunch' where the density of the universe reaches such a level that it stops expanding and starts contracting or converging together where the end result is unknown but may end up in a dimensionless singularity.
So I guess the point is we all die? Well since we will probably reach a singularity I guess in a non-literal sense it means that we'll all be together someday. Me, you, and everyone else. Seems like a happy thought. At least, when we die, we all die together.
So how did this post go from Facebook to the Darknet to the Holocaust and finally to everyone dying? To be honest, I really don't know. All I know is I'm just answering Facebook's question about what's on my mind and I just hope I was able to share something interesting today.
So how about you? What's on YOUR mind?
This is the question we always see on Facebook yet how many of us have taken the time to think about the question. Usually we just look at the box, click it and type away or post what we want others to see. Usually, we don't even answer the question. How many of our posts even answer this question?
Going deeper, this may be a way that we view our daily lives. The internet is a place where we can be free of the shackles that bind us to our community, society, and in extreme cases, even humanity. This has both positive and negative repercussions with the positive outweighing the negative.
Something similar happens with 'freedom walls' as well. Give people anonymity and the right to draw on a blank white wall. You see a few drawings and notes here and there, sure you see vandalism as well. It's inevitable. Eventually though comes wonderful pieces of art.
Just like the internet, from scratch comes a great promise. After that we see negative things happen, we had a boom in child pornography, black hat hackers or those individuals with malicious intent proliferate the 'web' but then again, we see the rise of white hat hackers which are the opposite of black hats. They are the ones responsible for the penetration testing of website or so-called 'proofreading' the code by trying various exploits to try and take over a site.
As a matter of fact, one of these white hats is responsible for wiping out child pornography from the The Hidden Wiki, the directory of links to most of the darknet's sites.
So good can certainly come out of bad things right? Similar to how a phoenix rises from it's own ashes when it dies, newly reborn and ready to face the world right? Like a cycle of life where from good things comes bad things which in turn begets more good things unlike a quote that says "good begets good and evil begets evil" right?
Well, I still can't think of anything positive that came out of the Holocaust. For me, it's a really terrible thing that happened in our past. Yes I said OUR past because whether we were already there or not, chances are we or someone we know was somehow impacted by that event and we're all in this together. But don't let that bring you down. Just think about the universe.
Think about the biggest person in the earth and compare him/her to the size of UY Scuti, a bright red hypergiant with a radius roughly 1708 time that of the sun. Think about the most influential person in the earth and compare his influence with the pull of a black hole. Now compare the holocaust with the end of the universe of which there two theories that are most widespread.
The first of which is the 'Big Rip' where the expansion of the universe will go on infinitely until such a time where where gravity may be nonexistent or negligible to the point where everything no matter how small disintegrates into unbound elementary particles and radiation ending with dark energy's density and expansion becoming infinite such that the state of the universe is a singularity.
The other is the seemingly opposite theory is known as the 'Big Crunch' where the density of the universe reaches such a level that it stops expanding and starts contracting or converging together where the end result is unknown but may end up in a dimensionless singularity.
So I guess the point is we all die? Well since we will probably reach a singularity I guess in a non-literal sense it means that we'll all be together someday. Me, you, and everyone else. Seems like a happy thought. At least, when we die, we all die together.
So how did this post go from Facebook to the Darknet to the Holocaust and finally to everyone dying? To be honest, I really don't know. All I know is I'm just answering Facebook's question about what's on my mind and I just hope I was able to share something interesting today.
So how about you? What's on YOUR mind?
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