Believing is Seeing

This is the new motto to my life. Coming out of a multitude of concepts, ideals, ideas, beliefs and philosophies, it is exemplified in science and the Internet.

In science, in experiments, until the end goal is stated, what the experiments are looking for, what they hope to find, not until the desired end is put into writing or expressed in some fashion, the experiments will never find it. The results, the data will not correlate to what is being looked for.

As a long time existentialist, Seeing is Believing has been a theme of my experience and belief systems. So now in a twist on a variety of other concepts I have come into contact over the last few years, the new motto is now

Believing is Seeing

I am once again participating in the National Novel Writing Month hosted at http://www.nanowrimo.org/. This is where you spend the month of November trying to write a 50,000 word novel between November 1 and November 31.
This comes out to be about 1,667 words a day if you write every day, and about 2,500 words if you do not write on the weekends.

Also on the writing front I am the Tampa SF and F books Examiner. My page is located at http://www.examiner.com/x-26054-Tampa-SciFiFantasy-Books-Examiner and I can always use a few more views. Focused on Book Reviews with occasional comments and observations about bookstores in my local area.

Sustainability is the keyword to Life

Sustainability, the ability to maintain, to sustain, in this case life and the human race’s continued existence on this planet, what it all boils down to. How we, humans, as a species, as varied and diverse cultures, can sustain a level of living that is comfortable and sounds from a economic and ecological perspective.
This is one of the major issues facing our world this day. How to continue to live as we have always, and yet stay sustainable. A conundrum I do not believe we can achieve. Some where, at some point and time compromise, real compromise on core social and economic levels, will need to be made. Without them I suspect we could face a collapse that would hurl the modern world into a 4th world scenario, leaving on the 3rd world countries, using those terms in their most layman of senses, in the best shape. Mostly due to a lack of heavy infrastructure, where they will continue pretty much how they are at this time. It will be the most commercialized, more mechanized nations that will take the real hit, experience the fall much harder than those lagging behind, in conventional theory.

So the challenge is how to sustain life, in a form at least similar, to how it is at this stage of the dance on mother earth. This is the sustainability challenge. A key to this challenge is, I believe, transportation. The current world model is predicated on Oil. This is the primary energy source, as transmuted, for transportation. So the movement of goods and services from one location to another, which in turns allows for more people to have access to more things. Without oil, as the main cheap (in comparison to other alternatives) source of motive power, the current world economic model will, I believe, collapse.

So to promote and engender sustainability, my personal opinion is, a new overall source of energy for motion, movement, for transportation, is necessary. This is the key to sustainability, a viable alternative. It will not save the current societal structure, instead I believe it will sustain the human race and allow us, people, a chance at a society similar, and different, that is focused on continuing in the long term our species instead of focused solely on the short term, short sighted, sense of glut capitalistic gains. I feel competition and advancement in the capitalist sense is possible, while still having respect and dignity, having responsibility, for everyone in the mind as well as in the heart.

Sitting in Books a Million tonight with the wife, I got most of the way through this book Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller: Oil and the End of Globalizationwhich is mostly talking about Peak Oil. A topic I have found interesting for hmmm, maybe 15 years is all. Yes I am a Peakist (as he stated in the book) and have stated my views and arguments for it for many years now, including some fiction as well.

I plan to finish it up, but it has tons of things to make me think about potential Peak Oil, small world shringage businesses to work into or to create to take care of my family.

More later as I digest the notes I took and also finish the book up.

Capacity is a state of mind
A Way of the Universe
My newest game setting

The real question is

It is d20 OGL based
Several new classes including Bruisers, Capacitors, Sprites and Junkheads

There are Solutions (manipulating the basic energy of the universe)
and Aliens. Lots and lots of aliens, most that no one will ever hear about too.

Come on you want to play don't you?