Dorky stuff about the Universe
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...SweetChildofMine wrote:Well thats what I mean knocks them down a few... a human with an inflated head cant handle they are just part of this tiny microcosm. Your second thought on "ownership" of God its seems to be in human nature the need to control. Im not saying we all go out and act like maniacs...however, the need to control control control... is tiring... I just want to say you control nothing, cannot and will not. The more you control and try to harness and manipulate the things around you dont understand the outcome most likely 95 % of the time will be a detriment.
Life is one shot at what? If we are insignificant what is the shot at? Being a human? what does it mean to be human? And what kind of human are you that a destructive or consrtuctive one? So is it valuable or worthless? Does it even then matter? As i walk around this planet I see hierarchy of things (part of control, nonetheless), what makes one person more valuable than another? At the end of your life will you reflect upon the most important contributions or your mistakes? So then the question of insignificance is what the point? Nothing terrible giving surrender to things greater than oneself or cannot comprehend. In such a surrender, may I add enlightenment may occur of understanding such things greater than yourself. Nothing wrong with being humbled... by the looks of this shithole everyone could use a dose or two of humility. ( i didnt mean shame either... there is a difference)
What it all comes down to is survival and physical and spiritual evolution of our species as well as others species in a pitri dish called Earth. A life giving seed in the dirt vacuum of space.
I beg to differ there... we have many many lifetimes. There is a lot to learn. As temporary the flesh is... have we not a spiritual source from inside of which is the only a house of this energy or soul and thus upon death this energy is transferred. You cannot acquire all wisdom and knowledge in one lifetime as a human.
Regarding control: You can only control the things you have control over. The minute we control our own actions, we quit worrying about the things we cannot control.
Regarding your questions about what is life... those are the answers you need to find because no one else can answer them for you.
Finally... you believe we have many lifetimes.... and maybe we do. But, we do not know if there is our existance beyond this life... the life inside our skin... at this time... in this space. I say, "I don't know if there is anything for me beyond death", because i truely do not know. All i know is that once you pass through the portal of death... you ain't coming back. So, I celebrate my insignificant existance while I can. Life is too short and there are too many things to experience on this tiny planet for me to worry about.
But.. that's just me.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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...hedonist wrote:Now these are some beautiful words - thoughts, beliefs - I can get behind.
DO get behind.
Good to see you back, Cos.
Hey, Sweetheart...
Thanx. Most of those thoughts come to me when I'm out on the waves or sitting on the sand at night. Stars and grains of sand.. which is which, right?
Sorry you couldn't make the Chevy Metal gig. It was pretty packed... but, they were great (as usual). It was nice to see Chris and Taylor and Wiley. They are going to play at the Topanga Daze. It's this cool little community faire in the artsy/hippy enclave that is Topanga Canyon. If you get a chance, you should get up there.
peace...Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Stars and grains of sand.. which is which, right?
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...SweetChildofMine wrote:Stars and grains of sand.. which is which, right?
Count every grain of sand on the planet and you might have a ballpark figure of the number of stars in the Universe (and vice versa), right?
Maybe... maybe not. The truthful answer is, 'We don't know'.
When you spoke of the omnipresence, you spoke of what Mankind has felt beyond the years... when we first looked up to the stars and contemplated the reason for our being here. This is the birthplace of gods. To explain what we cannot explain. It still goes on today. Why does a tornado destroy everything in it's path, yet leaves one house unscathed? We are quick to say, it is God. We don't know that... but, we want to believe that.
Anyway... I love the grandeur of the night sky. It puts me in proper perspective. I am insignificant... yet, I am here. It must be for something.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Sorry I couldn't make it either; I want a raincheck.Cosmo wrote:
...hedonist wrote:Now these are some beautiful words - thoughts, beliefs - I can get behind.
DO get behind.
Good to see you back, Cos.
Hey, Sweetheart...
Thanx. Most of those thoughts come to me when I'm out on the waves or sitting on the sand at night. Stars and grains of sand.. which is which, right?
Sorry you couldn't make the Chevy Metal gig. It was pretty packed... but, they were great (as usual). It was nice to see Chris and Taylor and Wiley. They are going to play at the Topanga Daze. It's this cool little community faire in the artsy/hippy enclave that is Topanga Canyon. If you get a chance, you should get up there.
peace...
My spine has decided to rebel. I curse it! But thankful it's not worse than it is.
As for the grandeur of the night sky...we can't see many stars from here (the true ones above us - not "celebrities")...the city lights dull them.
But there are some early mornings when it's all bright and clean out there. Then comes the pondering, and wonder.
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...hedonist wrote:
Sorry I couldn't make it either; I want a raincheck.Cosmo wrote:
...hedonist wrote:Now these are some beautiful words - thoughts, beliefs - I can get behind.
DO get behind.
Good to see you back, Cos.
Hey, Sweetheart...
Thanx. Most of those thoughts come to me when I'm out on the waves or sitting on the sand at night. Stars and grains of sand.. which is which, right?
Sorry you couldn't make the Chevy Metal gig. It was pretty packed... but, they were great (as usual). It was nice to see Chris and Taylor and Wiley. They are going to play at the Topanga Daze. It's this cool little community faire in the artsy/hippy enclave that is Topanga Canyon. If you get a chance, you should get up there.
peace...
My spine has decided to rebel. I curse it! But thankful it's not worse than it is.
As for the grandeur of the night sky...we can't see many stars from here (the true ones above us - not "celebrities")...the city lights dull them.
But there are some early mornings when it's all bright and clean out there. Then comes the pondering, and wonder.
Some wonderful stuff.
At sunset (the Sun setting in the Pacific, not the Boulevard), look westward. The bright 'star' is Venus, the lesser bright star, Jupiter.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Our place faces east, so we get these awe-inspiring sunrises and depending on the clouds, backsplash reflections of sundown on the buildings facing west toward us.
It's quite beautiful actually - these huge glass structures looking like deep-orange pillars.
Part of what I love about those moments is how fleeting they are. Makes me appreciate them that much more.
On occasion, I do seen Venus in the early morning. Great way to start the day, especially if the moon's visible and still hanging around.0 -
...hedonist wrote:Our place faces east, so we get these awe-inspiring sunrises and depending on the clouds, backsplash reflections of sundown on the buildings facing west toward us.
It's quite beautiful actually - these huge glass structures looking like deep-orange pillars.
Part of what I love about those moments is how fleeting they are. Makes me appreciate them that much more.
On occasion, I do seen Venus in the early morning. Great way to start the day, especially if the moon's visible and still hanging around.
Speaking of Sunrises... we are taking an April road trip to Phoenix to catch Eddie Vedder's gig and are planning it so we get to see a desert Sunrise. I love the sun rise in the desert.
Also... think about McCready's UFO gig at the Galaxy (see how it ties to the Universe topic?) Theater in Santa Ana. There are booths there that are first come first serve, if your back keeps you from standing.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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...hedonist wrote:Our place faces east, so we get these awe-inspiring sunrises and depending on the clouds, backsplash reflections of sundown on the buildings facing west toward us.
It's quite beautiful actually - these huge glass structures looking like deep-orange pillars.
Part of what I love about those moments is how fleeting they are. Makes me appreciate them that much more.
On occasion, I do seen Venus in the early morning. Great way to start the day, especially if the moon's visible and still hanging around.
Speaking of Sunrises... we are taking an April road trip to Phoenix to catch Eddie Vedder's gig and are planning it so we get to see a desert Sunrise. I love the sun rise in the desert.
Also... think about McCready's UFO gig at the Galaxy (see how it ties to the Universe topic?) Theater in Santa Ana. There are booths there that are first come first serve, if your back keeps you from standing.Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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It looks like a not too far off place I sometimes surf to in my dreams...
The Sombero Galaxy
Peace*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)0 -
"The Sombrero Galaxy" - I fucking love that.
Really beautiful, too.
*edit* - just realized you said Sombero, I said Sombrero (let's call the whole thing off :P )Post edited by hedonist on0 -
Cos, I can't even sit IN a car for the time it'd take to drive there. But that's now; I hope then/later is better.Cosmo wrote:Also... think about McCready's UFO gig at the Galaxy (see how it ties to the Universe topic?) Theater in Santa Ana. There are booths there that are first come first serve, if your back keeps you from standing.
The Phoenix trip sounds badass.0 -
hedonist wrote:"The Sombrero Galaxy" - I fucking love that.
Really beautiful, too.
*edit* - just realized you said Sombero, I said Sombrero (let's call the whole thing off :P )
For some reason going back 67 years i've ALWAYS spelt it that way even I know better. To me it just looks kooler so I use it as my location on all my music sites.
Still beautiful though and out here in the country in S Fl the nights are dark but the skies always light up.
Peace*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)0 -
...g under p wrote:hedonist wrote:"The Sombrero Galaxy" - I fucking love that.
Really beautiful, too.
*edit* - just realized you said Sombero, I said Sombrero (let's call the whole thing off :P )
For some reason going back 67 years i've ALWAYS spelt it that way even I know better. To me it just looks kooler so I use it as my location on all my music sites.
Still beautiful though and out here in the country in S Fl the nights are dark but the skies always light up.
Peace
That galaxy looks like when Luke blew up the Death Star... in the later version of Star Wars where George Lucas messed it up by 'enhancing' the (superior) original release. I mean, come on... Greedo was a notorious bounty hunter.. and he missed a sitting target across the distance of a bar booth with a first shot? Really?Allen Fieldhouse, home of the 2008 NCAA men's Basketball Champions! Go Jayhawks!
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Wait - it IS Sombrero with two r's? And your location still spells it otherwise?g under p wrote:hedonist wrote:"The Sombrero Galaxy" - I fucking love that.
Really beautiful, too.
*edit* - just realized you said Sombero, I said Sombrero (let's call the whole thing off :P )
For some reason going back 67 years i've ALWAYS spelt it that way even I know better. To me it just looks kooler so I use it as my location on all my music sites.
Still beautiful though and out here in the country in S Fl the nights are dark but the skies always light up.
Peace
If so - and again - I fucking love that
Also, skies lighting up reminds me of the Van Halen song.0 -
This might not be dorky about the universe but it's certainly dorky about our plant. This from the frozen planet take a look at the video....
http://www.bing.com/videos/watch/video/ ... orm=MSNRLL
Peace*We CAN bomb the World to pieces, but we CAN'T bomb it into PEACE*...Michael Franti
*MUSIC IS the expression of EMOTION.....and that POLITICS IS merely the DECOY of PERCEPTION*
.....song_Music & Politics....Michael Franti
*The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite INSANE*....Nikola Tesla(a man who shaped our world of electricity with his futuristic inventions)0 -
With an average pair of binoculars, you can make out four of Jupiter's moons under moderately dark skies. I was doing some viewing last night, but the moonlight was causing problems.Cosmo wrote:...
At sunset (the Sun setting in the Pacific, not the Boulevard), look westward. The bright 'star' is Venus, the lesser bright star, Jupiter.
Also, Mars can be seen in the early evening to the SW. It's hanging to the left of the full moon.Be Excellent To Each OtherParty On, Dudes!0
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