The one thing I can say from all my search for true information both historical and scientific, is that there will be a future for this planet. I believe humanity will survive what is coming in the next hundred years. There will be pain, however. Billions of people are going to die horrible deaths in extreme heat, terrible storms, or societal collapse during famine and war. Only a few will survive and adapt. Hopefully, enough will survive to repopulate and rebuild. Those few survivors will have evolved significantly.
I do believe our surviving descendants will eventually join the interstellar galactic community. We will become powerful enough and wise enough to take our place amongst those who simply sit back and know things. The universe will go on, even if our planet doesn’t.
Taffy King, the girl in the Paffooney at the beginning of the post, is a fictional character from AeroQuest that I think represents what the future us will be like. You notice she has snake’s eyes with vertical pupils. This is because she is from a genetically fused race, part human and part Galtorrian saurian. A lizard girl without a tail or scales. The one lesson we must learn is that there is no us versus them. There is only us. Life in this universe is all one thing.
I don’t get to see whether my prediction of the future will come true or not. I do not have that many years ahead of me to see it with my own eyes. But when I die and melt back into the physical universe, the universe will continue as it should. What is inevitable is what will happen. And there is a powerful need to learn from the experience.
Catch a Falling Star 
Flying the Magic Flying Carpet
There are many ways to fly. Airplanes, bird wings, hot air balloons, bubble-gum-blowing goldfish… well, maybe I am really talking about flying by imagination. The more my six incurable diseases and old age limit my movement, my ability to get out of bed and do things, the more I rely on reading, writing, and the movie in my head to go places I want to be.
Sometimes the wings I use to fly come from other writers. I get the flight feathers I need not only from books, but also from YouTube videos, movies, and television shows.
This magic carpet ride in video form is by the thoughtful creative thinker Will Schoder. In it he carefully explains how Mister Rogers used the persuasion techniques of Logos, Ethos, and Pathos to talk to elephants and convinced a congressman intent on cutting the budget to actually give Public Television more money for educational programming. This is a video full of warmth and grace and lovingly crafted magic flight feathers that anybody can use to soar across new skies and blue skies and higher skies than before. I hope you will watch it more than once like I did, to see how beautifully the central explanation spreads its wings and gives us ideas that can keep us aloft in the realm of ideas.
It is important to stay in the air of fresh ideas and new thinking. The magic carpet ride that takes you there is the product of vivid imagination, cogent thinking, and the accurate connection of idea to better idea. So instead of falling from the sunlit sky into the darkness that so easily consumes us on the ground, keep imagining, keep dreaming, and keep flying. You won’t regret having learned to fly.
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