I was parked at the Wal-Mart the other day, and saw a very very very old man walking across the parking lot on his way in. It took him about ten minutes to get to the main doo... moreI was parked at the Wal-Mart the other day, and saw a very very very old man walking across the parking lot on his way in. It took him about ten minutes to get to the main door.I thought about all the stuff he'd seen, and all the things he must know about. I wondered if he had a deep truth hidden in between his wrinkles, about something. . .perhaps he has the answer to some big world problem. .Then I thought that when he dies, all of that knowledge is going to go into the grave at the same time he does. . .poof! . . Just like that.Somebody should write a book and capture this, before it's gone forever..I wondered about what others focus on when coming across someone very advanced in years? less
Background: In looking into why Internet Q/A sites close down, Nanoose pointed out the quandary of Experience Project, which shut down April 2016. Their stated mission is the treme... moreBackground: In looking into why Internet Q/A sites close down, Nanoose pointed out the quandary of Experience Project, which shut down April 2016. Their stated mission is the tremendous Internet potential that I myself first noticed on Ask.com;
“...harnessing social media to bring empathy and understanding to all, through the power of anonymously shared human experience….Doing good for the world was not a side effect, it was the goal.”
But with millions of users, EP was “being challenged like never before. Governments and their agencies are aggressively attacking the foundations of internet privacy with a deluge of information requests, subpoenas, and warrants.”
EP describes a cat-&-mouse situation with government chasing the Bad Apples, who “are better able to cover their tracks and evade user bans by using mobile and encryption networks, and they use information to exploit the trust of others through social engineering.”
http://www.experienceproject.com/until-we... less
Democrats/Liberals/Progressive want to help those in needRepublicans/Conservatives/Tea Party folks want to help those who are already doing wellThe party of poorThe party of the we... moreDemocrats/Liberals/Progressive want to help those in needRepublicans/Conservatives/Tea Party folks want to help those who are already doing wellThe party of poorThe party of the wealthyThe party of the warmheartedThe party of the coldheartedYour view on this stereotype? With what political party are you affiliated?
You can go out and buy whatever you want -- success, prosperity, inner peace, love, anything really. The choice is yours. What will you buy? What will it cost? How will you pay?
I am just finishing a book Didge suggested, on the archaeological excavations of the sunken city on the volcanic island of Thera, in the Mediterranean Sea, prolly the origin of the... moreI am just finishing a book Didge suggested, on the archaeological excavations of the sunken city on the volcanic island of Thera, in the Mediterranean Sea, prolly the origin of the ATLANTIS legends.
Each chapter begins with a few epigrams, and one of those is this epitaph from the crypt of two astronomers, apparently buried together:
“We have loved the stars too fondly to be fearful of the night.”
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And then just for good measure, that chapter also has the original version of the famous quote from Carl Sagan, Carnegie Hall, 1984:
“All the heavy elements that make up the rocks under our feet, the carbon and iron that pulse through our veins – all of these things were created by suns that had reached the ends of their lives and erupted into supernovae.“We are all dust of the stars.”
* * *Oh, and the book is UNEARTHING ATLANTIS, by Charles Pellegrini. less
