Friday, January 01, 2016

Happy New Year!

7,391,864,373 of us at 19:35, and thus 73,280 more than at 11:51.

Prost Neujahr!

7 comments:

  1. An estimated 2611 suicides in 2016 already, at 20:20 UTC on Day 1 of the year. Now that is not a happy thought. One every 40 seconds on average and probably more than that at this time of year, unfortunately. It could put me off my self-absorbed attempts at contentedness, if I thought about it.(Oh... 2621 now. Damn).

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    1. And the more and more and more we become the more such "numbers" are likely to incline.

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    2. Hm, probably *increase* would have been more felicitous.

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    3. But then there are probably all those many millions of other planets with other sentient species whose current troubles and agonies I could fret about too. Sometimes just looking closest to home is best.

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    4. And then there are sentient people, who when looking closest to "home" tend to suicide.

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    5. Ah... Let's look to where contentedness may most likely be found then.

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    6. So be it. And may both serene calmness and calm serenety accompany us on our quest.

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