¶ Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence (2)
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Heartbeat Magnitude Sequence:
"Let us now assess human history and Universe in one-second heartbeats. For instance, two weeks is 1 million heartbeats. One year is only 31 million heartbeats. You enter college at 500 million heartbeats. At the prime of life, i.e., at about 32 years of age, you’ve had about 999 million heartbeats. So not until you start the second half of your life do you need to get into billions magnitude. Vitally speaking the, millions are large numbers. The money game of ‘millions’ and those who are millionaires have led us to assume that millions are inferior magnitudes leading swiftly to eccentric billionaires. If you live to full life insurance ‘expectancy’-- 70 years-- you will complete only 2 billion heartbeats. If you reach 100 years, you’ve had only 3 billion heartbeats. Christ and mohammed both lived tens of billions of heartbeats ago. The billions magnitude does not exhaust itself rapidly.
“You may begin to realize how preposterpus it is that humanit y is spending $200 billion each year on armaments on the erroneous assumption that we cannot afford to support all humanity, when that magnitude of 200 billion, considered in your own heartbeats, takes history back to the dawning of the 8,000-”
¶ Citations
- HEARTBEATS AND ILLIONS, World Mag., 13 Mar’73
