It only recently became clear to me that the riddle I’ve been chasing for 40+ years is this: Why … … in a country with as much wealth as the United States of America — the envy of the world in its offerings of opportunity and prosperity — are so many so far from realizing…
There’s no getting around it: LIFE’S TOUGH … perhaps excepting for a lucky few who have had the good fortune to benefit from the grit and grind of others – but, even then, it’s often only temporary. The bliss and ecstasy of marrying someone, who, we fully expect, will selflessly look after our personal welfare…
One of the hardest things to decipher in life is what it’s going to take to get from where we are NOW to where we want/deserve/need to go and be – eventually … i.e., how to fill that GAP. It’s a HUGE GAP of many proportions, and the “End Game” seems so indeterminately far away.…
While we may profusely object to any analogy linking human behavior to robotics, our daily activities do draw heavily from a background “Script” running in our heads … like “Tapes” in continuous “Play” mode. In fact, we operate at a base level very similar to a computer, liberally using “If …, then …” statement processing…
We first encountered “Slingshot Accelerators” in the blog, Virtual Reality YOU. [https://ertiaunlimited.com/virtual-reality-you/] A “slingshot accelerator” is a paradoxical contrivance. In order for a slingshot to work, it has to be forcibly pulled back into a hyperextended, “cocked” disequilibrium before its full power can be unleashed. Gravitational slingshots are used in space travel: “One of the…