User:Zwartell

By day I am https://webpages.charlotte.edu/zwartell/. (Of course, UNCC does not endorse anything I wrote on Wikipedia).

But 24/7, I am a lost, stumbling seeker. Possible reasons:

1. I was born in 1972, the year the first human took a fully illuminated color image of the Earth (The_Blue_Marble). Although every human born after 1968, the year the first human photographed the Earth from another astronomical object (Earthrise), must already be a "star child" (2001:_A_Space_Odyssey, (Kubrik, 1968)).
   • Footnote: By "a whole string of pretty meaningless coincidences" ^{[Adams, The_Hitchhiker's_Guide_to_the_Galaxy]} the photographer of Earthrise William_Anders passed away June 7, 2024, two days after this page appeared. Before you decide to go mad, see Quote #1, and recall the anecdote below:

     “I will go mad!” he announced.
     "Good idea,” said Ford Prefect, clambering down from the rock on which he had been sitting. Arthur’s brain somersaulted. His jaw did push-ups.
     "I went mad for a while,” said Ford, “did me no end of good.”
     [Adams, Life,_the_Universe_and_Everything]

   • I am 'Diagonally Parked in a Parallel Universe'
   • I wonder more and more whether 42_(number) is one of the oldest literary Shibboleths or esoteric allusions.
   • I hope someday to finish and understand Spinoza's Ethics.
   • I am terrified by my name.

Quotes, Thoughts, Experiences, and Metaphors

1. "A fetish for numbers is also an ominous sign. Math is magical, but math approached like magic is just superstition—and numerology is where the intellect goes to die." ~ Sam Harris, Waking Up: Searching for Spirituality Without Religion
2. Metaphor: 'Luke explains the Force in Rey', Star Wars The Last Jedi, 2017 (film: 47:41 - 51:38) [1]
3. Experience: "Yosemitebear Mountain Double Rainbow", Paul "Bear" Vasquez, 1/8/2010. [2]
4. Wisdom: "The miracle of walking on earth." Thich Nhat Hanh. [3]
5. At the edge of River of Forgetfulness (Myth_of_Er).
   
   G-d: “Unfortunately your mind will be too poorly parked to know https://www.quora.com/What-does-it-mean-when-a-girl-purposely-bumps-into-you. Therefore never fall in love with an A.I.”
   
   Dpi Pu: "A digital one?"
   
   G-d: "No. You will have learned enough to avoid that folly. I mean a biological one"
   
   Dpi Pu: “But then why?”
   
   G-d: “Because you will naively miss-interpret the bump as an accident, and because you so fear violating Principle #1, 'Do No Harm', you will silently step further way. But it won't be an accident, and hence you will end up violating Principle #1.”
   
   And Dpi Pu drank.