Phil Hands for March 15, 2018

The universes will miss him.

I will miss him. Wish his disease in this life hadn’t taken him from us.. But I think he is probably in a better place and much happy dimenion. He had stopped saying that he rejected the existence of God.

A great mind that still had room for a sense of humour. e.g. The Big Bang Theory

I remember him well in a scene on Star Trek, Next Generation. He played the winning hand of poker, beating out Data, Sir Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.

So, who inspired who?

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the Western Spiral Arm of the galaxy lies a small, unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly 93 Million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue-green planet, whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea!” Douglas Adams.

Another one who left too soon.

Or a backwards breed of mud in the center of the universe with a light in the firmament of heaven to let us know when it is day. But we don’t want to understand the universe. That makes us average and ordinary.

“Life would be tragic if it weren’t funny.” Stephen Hawking.

And each one there

Has one thing shared:

They have sweated beneath the same sun,

Looked up in wonder at the same moon,

And wept when it was all done

For being? Done too soon…

—Neil Diamond

Some of us could understand the universe.

Most of us had to invent gods to explain the universe to us. We needed a sun god to have a day and a moon god to have night. See needed war gods and peace gods. We needed love gods and hate gods and gods for all things we didn’t understand, which was almost everything.

Many of us have not progressed beyond that point.

“Pale Death with impartial tread beats at the poor man’s cottage door and at the palaces of kings.” —Horace

“Monkey Man”

I’m a fleabit peanut monkey

All my friends are junkies

That’s not really true

Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.” ― Niccolò Machiavelli “The Prince”