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Contemplating life, why are we here?
Clinging to existence on this earthly sphere
Sitting by a lake, thinking and wondering
Listening to the sound of the sky thundering
Are humans meant to contaminate the air?
Or strip the forests until they are bare
Are humans meant to kill and to maim?
Is it all part of the evolutionary game?
Maybe there really is an omnipresent god
Looking down, thinking they’re odd
I gave them a lovely planet, full of many wonders
They keep making, such elementary blunders
Like filling the oceans full of nuclear waste
Destroying the ozone layer with indecent haste
Pretending they don't see, others dying of need
Declaring wars, until the earth it does bleed
Contemplating life, why are we here?
Clinging to existence on this earthly sphere
By a lake, that is mysteriously gleaming
I stand contemplating, life's real meaning
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Taken at: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Aridia/63/197/23
I talked to a friend about the idea of being able to choose our own heaven. It's been a lot on my mind lately. This sim comes close to what I'd love to experience in the next plane of existence. I love old things from bygone eras, broken, worn down, rusted.
The Johnny Cash song has been on my mind a great deal lately. One day very soon, I'll be free of the shackles of this debilitating affliction. Free again to explore the next world. Hope it's one like this space.
Aerial shot from a helicopter over South Iceland. Evidence of glacial and river erosion are everywhere as are the grey lava rocks from a long history of volcanic activity in the foreground. And as a contrast the small area of farmed land. It cant be an easy existence to farm this.
In spite of having totally different exterior coatings. One is freshly painted and the other beautifully striped.
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[TNK] JEFF - CREEPYPASTA #11
Hotdog - Porcupine jacket
Mossu - James.Pants
toksik - Chained Boots
[Angry Store] Kitchen Knife
[ContraptioN] The Saboteur's Gloves
VICTIM:
.BF. Missy Dress Blood 02
Izzie's - BakesOnMesh Layers Bloody Nose
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RAV3N's Wasted Face
[monso] My Hair - Wonyoung
“What you ask, was the beginning of it all?
And it is this …
Existence that multiplied itself for sheer delight of being
And plunged into numberless trillions of forms
So that it might find itself innumerably”
- Sri Aurobindo
Doing some indoor practice/homework for the final week of my macro course I stole an idea that I’d seen a beautiful example of by the always inspiring Judi May, that is reflections in a spoon.
Called “Fractal Spoon” because the teaspoon is sitting on top of one of my favourite books, "The Colours of Infinity: The Beauty and Power of Fractals" - proving that I am a geeky mathematics nerd once and for all :-)
This book is based on a lovely TV show which is also available on YouTube and has a soundtrack featuring music by Pink Floyd's David Gilmour (my favourite band and favourite guitarist).
You can see it here if you are a geeky mathematics nerd too —> www.youtube.com/watch?v=WoHGlBpFkHY
If you just like to listen to a rather beautiful medley (in high-definition sound) of some of the beautiful David Gilmour music from the soundtrack listen here —> www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC_7rMdA7gs - it truly is gorgeous.
The opening quote appears in the closing credits of The Colours of Infinity.
So remote that I can't remember exactly where this is! I think that it is probably in Lunedale on the B6276 between Brough and Middleton-in-Teesdale, but I could easily be wrong!
It was certainly wild countryside even on a relatively nice day of sunshine and showers. It must be so bleak in the depths of winter.
Wavelengths of light exist outside our brains, but colors are subjective mental phenomena that depend on our visual systems.
The easiest way to realize this is to consider how televisions and other displays create the subjective experience of color. They use red, green and blue light (meaning light with the corresponding wavelengths). With these 3 wavelengths, a television can be used to create any color imaginable.
Consider how red light and green light can be combined to create yellow light. This has nothing to do with physics. The two types of light wave do not in any sense "mix", except at the retina.
The retina is not the whole story, however. The neuroscience of color vision is complex, and only partially understood. The famous image of the blue-and-black / white-and-gold dress illustrates this. Some people can voluntarily switch between the two percepts. This implies that the retina is not the only part of the visual system that is involved in color vision. Voluntary control is generally assumed to act at higher levels of the visual hierarchy.
Yohan John, PhD in Cognitive and Neural Systems from Boston University
The Chapelle de Tadoussac, also known as the Chapelle des Indiens, is a historic Catholic chapel located in the village Tadoussac, Quebec. The chapel was built in 1747 and is the oldest wooden church still in existence in North America.
This structure of timber framing and log construction is a unique example in Canada of the wooden mission churches of New France.
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