Wise Father

What’s it like to get hit by the Earth?

Imagine that you are an egg,  now imagine something 20 times smaller than the earth, like Mars, hitting that egg.  That’s what it’s like to get hit by the Earth.

How does white corn taste differently from yellow corn?

Have you ever licked your skin after you got really sunburnt?  It tastes sort of different than when you kiss someone, doesn’t it?  That’s pretty much the difference.

How old is time?

Can you imagine a basin in the world which is big enough to hold an ocean?  Picture such a basin filled with ants instead of water, because the world is such that ants never die, and instead they simply fill oceans with themselves.  It is hard for us to even concieve of such an era, for it is so bizarre, unnatual and alien to us.  Time is so old that it remebers that. 

How strong is Arnold Schwarzenegger?

Arnold Schwarzenegger could lift 1000 lbs off of the ground when he was at his peak.  An ox can drag a 4000 pound plow through the dirt, which is roughly equivalent to lifting the plow. So Arnold Schwarzenegger is about as strong as one ox’s leg.

What’s it like to be a rock?

Can you imagine sitting down now, and not ever getting up until water and weathering erodes you away? But you can’t even really sit because you have no discernible anatomy.  Rocks are like that.

Why can’t I fly like a bird?

Think of a hill compared to a mountain.  The top of the mountain would seem to fly compared to the top of the hill.  The bird is the top of the mountian, but just the top, without anything underneath.  We are all just hills compared to the birds.  Think of it along those lines.

What’s the ultimate pleasure?

You’ve doubtless heard of how pleasure frequently involves the flesh.  But I’ve heard that pleasure must originate in the mind. This mind- pleasure is probably a lot faster than the flesh pleasure,  since we think much faster than we move.  So we might fashion the ultimate pleasure into a ball made from fleshy things, like meat products, and lightning, which moves even faster than the mind.

What would it be like to fall upwards?

It would be a lot like riding on a gradually accelerating motorcycle.  Except you would not be holding onto anything, so think of riding the motorcycle with a pool on it and you are floating in the pool and feeling the wind simultaneously.  Then, when you reach space, you explode.