• Seven Decades

    Seven Decades is an offshoot from Oldsters View which is a news aggregation site specializing in digging out oddities in the news and putting them in a convenient place for you to read them. I try to avoid editorializing on Oldsters View and to keep my own random thoughts to a minimum. So Seven Decades will be the place for that. I hope you will find it interesting, and maybe, sometimes, relevant to your life.
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Permanency

If you reflect for a moment you will realize that nothing is permanent…not me, not you, not the Earth we live on, no human relationship. Cars wear out, houses fall down, nations and cultures disappear. Indeed one day even the Sun which energizes all life on Earth will be no more and in its’ passing [...]

Time is the great deception

…and yet I believe that time itself doesn’t exist. It is the parade of events that we use to mark our place in the great play in which we participate.
How can it be that time doesn’t exist? Clearly we see the hands on the clock move around and the leaves of the calendar turn. Surely [...]

Reality. Is it real?

Nothing is real. Not me, not you, not the Earth we walk on or any of its’ components. At the atomic level all is empty space and energy. It’s all a construct for lesson learning, a vehicle for the spirit. Time and again we return, each time to learn a new lesson, interact with different [...]