I am depressed about the amount of depression!

About one third of the 6.4 million veterans who receive regular care at the VA have conditions such as PTSD and major depression.  Woke culture wants to treat with psilocybin. Good recruiting strategy.

OPTION TWO

In this the Winter of our star

We will not escape who we are

Souls bestowed without voice

Destined to exhaust without choice

Drafted  from common dust

We know but cycling from love to lust

Phantoms we charge and shadows we duel

Chasing “safety”, the ultimate jewel

A game ordained by a trickster sub-surface

End date uncertain, wagering the likely purpose….but

We might oughta prolong this addictive, yes, shit show

Given that we have nowhere else to go

It’s easy to do, we literally don’t have to try

We just transfer all consciousness over to AI

Strange Shit Happening #2

     Astro dudes have maintained for almost a century that all matter in the universe is receding at a rate that suggests that there is more gravitational attraction than can be accounted for by visible matter.  As such, the current "standard model" of what's out there says that there is a whole lot of "dark matter" that we can't detect except that it must exist. What is it?  Only the shadow knows.....but a couple of months ago some smart german students at the University of Bonn, Germany, took a giant step to truth.  

They captured a bit of this "anti-matter".  Not a small feat considering that physists had already figured out that the anti-particles travel at light speed and anihalate when they hit a normal particle.  They slowed it way down by utilizing a near absolute zero tempearure field and then used a strong magnetic field to suspend the dark-particle" in a vacume where they have kept it for months.  Seemingly they can play with it toward understanding what it is.

Who knows. maybe another Super-imposed Universe co-existing in "our" space-time.  Cool, maybe a new "land rush"!

I.B.Conscious #2

Soul, Mind and Consciousness are pretty much interchangable concepts.

I.B. Conscious #1

     Coming into being as a conscious creature seems a completely ordinary, unremarkable process.  I didn’t ask to be conscious, I simply found myself that way, and I’d like to know why.