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DRIFTING

November 2, 2026 LRS Leave a comment

When we are confronted by the possibility that everything we’ve learned in life could be a lie, how do we “know” what we think we know?

FLOATING ON AN ENDLESS SEA
OF QUESTIONS AND UNCERTAINTY.
DRIFTING ON AND IN A FATHOMLESS ABYSS:
A TINY PLANET FLOATING IN THE SKY.
OUR NAKED FLESH CANNOT SURVIVE
THE AIRLESS COLD ON EITHER SIDE.
DRIVEN BY WINDS OF CHAOS AND REALITY
WE STEER OUR TINY BOAT OF LIES
TO SUSTAIN OUR FRAGILE LIVES
FOR AN INSTANT IN ETERNITY.
WHO NAVIGATES THE BRUTAL TIDES?
ARE WE OUR ONLY FRIEND AND GUIDE
WHILE SAILING THROUGH INFINITY?

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Lawrence R. Spencer. 2013

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A BEST FRIEND

November 2, 2026 LRS

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The older my body gets (almost 70) I become more aware of the ancient adage: “Life is short”. Indeed, it seems so. What is a single lifetime in the order of the cosmos? Less than a blink of an eye . Through eternity there is only one companion, as far as I know. Yourself. If we find being alone difficult, without friends, we may have a very long time to endure existence without others to keep us distracted from ourselves in the “great beyond”, whatever that may be. So, being our own best friend makes good sense.

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WHICH WAY DO WE GO?

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— Excerpt from THE OZ FACTORS by Lawrence R. Spencer:

“4/ WHICH WAY DO WE GO?

“Now which way do we go?”–Dorothy

“Pardon me, that way is a very nice way … it’s pleasant down that way too.”–the Scarecrow

“That’s funny … wasn’t he pointing the other way?”–Dorothy

“Of course, people do go both ways.”–the Scarecrow.

“Are you doing that on purpose or can’t you make up your mind?”–Dorothy in ‘The Wizard of Oz’

Everyone has a personal viewpoint about everything.

Every person has a singularly unique point of view.

There are as many universes as there are individual beings. To that degree, every subject is relative to the viewpoint of the person looking at it.

Example: How many different versions of an accident can there be?

1/ the same as the number of individuals who witnessed the accident

2/ the one version that the majority of individuals agree upon as being the “real” one.

This leads us to the understanding that there are at least two Universes:

1/ YOUR OWN UNIVERSE, which is subject to your own person viewpoint

2/ The PHYSICAL UNIVERSE, the universe each of us share in common to the degree that we agree upon “reality”.”