Daddy Bear Posted October 5, 2006 Share Posted October 5, 2006 People, they come together People, they fall apart No one can stop us now 'Cause we are all made of stars Moby, "We Are All Made of Stars" The next time you look up at the night sky, think of this lesson that the stars can teach us: most of the ones that we can see are supermassive giants, twenty or more times the size of our sun. They are visible due to the enormous amount of atomic activity that such huge balls of gas produce. We admire them and imagine them to be the stuff of love. Yet they are doomed. Paradoxically, the largest stars have only a few million years--a short period in celestial time--before they sputter out; or, more precisely, explode into virtual nothingness. A million years from today, Orion's Belt and the Southern Cross as we know them will not exist. Consider, then, the humble brown dwarfs. They burn quietly in the sky at a mere fifteen hundred degrees Kelvin, and we can see almost none without a telescope. They are only a tiny fraction of the size of their flamboyant neighbors, yet they will be there for tens of billions of years--a far greater time than even the age of the Universe to this point. Can this mean anything to us, spending our days in the real world, interacting with one another on the cool surface of the Earth? It certainly can. Infatuation is very much like the giants: hot and heavy for a short time, and then poof!, it's gone; scattering into the ether, never to be seen again. By contrast, love, real love--this calm glow is destined for a much more desirable fate, one of gentle stability and near-infinite longevity. We are all, quite literally, made of stars--for example, the iron that your heart is pumping around in your bloodstream right now was formed in cataclysmic supernovae billions of years ago. We need love; there's little use in denying it--but let us honor our fallen ancestors by controlling our own metaphorical burning in such a way that we don't tragically flame ourselves out much sooner than needs be the case. Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 15, 2006 Author Share Posted October 15, 2006 wow, zero replies in ten days. that's a new record for me. and i honestly thought this was one of the most brilliant things i ever wrote--ha! can you say, "RESOUNDING THUD??" i should have posted it in Poetry. at least i would have gotten a thumbs up from Ailec. Link to comment
New_Horizons Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 Well I don't browse this forum much...but it's never too late to say AWESOME POST! Link to comment
TheRedQueen Posted October 16, 2006 Share Posted October 16, 2006 cigareetes and whiskey and wild wild women Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 16, 2006 Author Share Posted October 16, 2006 these are pity posts, aren't they? yeah, i can smell it. TRQ, yor'un don't even make a lick o' sense nohow! now i'm gonna have a durn country song in muh haid fer the rest o' the naght. yew suck, ma'am. Link to comment
freedom Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 good grief. what a load of crap! hahahahahaha i like it. It is like saying, The spark of Love is like a Nuclear bomb. when it exploses within you every fibre of you being awakens. you feel the energy run through your body and the atoms within you split causing your brain to wonder which direction to head or run to. It confuses you. Upon detonation the rush of energy through your heart is like the way a mushroom cloud forces its way through the atmosphere. Ok.. that is enough. I was teasing mate hahahaha Thanks for your post, i did learn something about astromomy though. Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 ah, then you already understood the difference between caring and wanting; between admiration and infatuation; between altruistic, humanistic love and romanticized attachment. that's good, because a lot of people here aren't able to distinguish one from another. Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 what are you even babbling about? I don't even think YOU know anymore bendy... ...are you high? Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 that's the problem, pooperina... i'm not. Link to comment
doyathink Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 yeah...um...nice poem...I MEAN...nice um...post! I believe everything you wrote there ...in that post...up there ^...at the top... Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 Ok then SB - let me RE-read it - cos I DID read it once - and all the way thru even - and see if there is a more intelligent - albeit not AS - response I can give........... Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 nope.............. Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 DYT: i'm glad somebody liked my poe... er, post. (same to NH) T: it doesn't mean anything. i was just typing words at random. Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 DYT: i'm glad somebody liked my poe... er, post. (same to NH) T: it doesn't mean anything. i was just typing words at random. I know dude. I was just giving you a hard time ......sorry - did I go too far? Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 not at all. i was just giving two diametrically opposing answers for levity's sake. wait, i mean yes. yes, you hurt my feelings and you should send me money. Link to comment
AwdreeHpburn Posted October 17, 2006 Share Posted October 17, 2006 not at all. i was just giving two diametrically opposing answers for levity's sake. wait, i mean yes. yes, you hurt my feelings and you should send me money. oh. Ok - If you think that'll help. To where should I send the check and to whom should I make it out?? Link to comment
Daddy Bear Posted October 17, 2006 Author Share Posted October 17, 2006 R.E. Morse c/o Happy Hectares Institute of Zoocryptology San Itarium, CA 90666 Link to comment
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