Heaven's Appreciation Thread

[JUN]

In this thread we appreciate the psychological soothing effect of looking up to the sky and try to explain in words and discuss why it is so.

I, for one, love the incredibly vastness and emptiness of it... It makes for such a lovely contrast of mankind, looking up always makes me feel relaxed, I fear the day the sky too will be filled with our creations... And I'm saddened for those of you who live in cities with big buildings.

 

[Beat Mango]

I live in Cronulla which, fortunately, has a fairly long and undeveloped beach which allows for gazing into the horizon. I've always (well, since mid-teens) looked to the night sky for solace. Driving under it is even better.

 

[Agent Intellect]

The way the city lights reflect off the sky is just breathtaking - it lights my soul up like the midnight sky. What have stars ever done for me, anyway? They deserve to be strangled out by our light 'noise'; there are too many of them, anyway. Nothing is better then looking up to the sky and having half of it blocked out by a recently abandoned General Motors factory - truly the work of God!

 

[NoID10ts]

I'm with you, AI. The starless night sky in Houston is a beautiful shade of glowing orange-brown the likes of which only appear in nature as diarrhea. And the daytime sky is the same .......... only brighter.

Fuck nature. Who needs it?

May the smog consume us all.

Amen

 

[Agent Intellect]

Mother nature had a good run. She put up a good fight. Now that we're winning, everyone starts feeling all bad. Next time someone feels like recycling or riding their bike somewhere, just remember all of the hurricanes and earthquakes and plagues that have killed so many people.

Here's to a fully mechanical earth

 

[Da Blob]

"We do not believe in Stars" the atheists proclaim
Only religious fools believe that the night sky contains
Other than the Orange glow of Man-made origins.
Come to the City, You will welcomed by The Machine.

The Machine of right angles; The Machine of stone and metal
The Machine, we, as gods, have created to hide the sky.
The Machine that robs children of their humanity
Transforming them into mere Objects, mere Tools
To be manipulated by the Controllers

"We believe in the Stars, because we see the Stars"
The spiritual whispers, Come to a world
not of man's making, to see those
Made by Others hands.

Travel the Dark Woods on a moonless night.
Observe the Starslight on the grounds
The light beyond the shadowcasts of the trees.
Climb to the top of the Mountain by the Path
Illuminated by lamps 1000 light years away

At that peak, lie down, shut your eyes
Wait for The Moment,
When the Moment occurs - open your eyes and
SEE!
The Stars are no longer 'up' there,
The Stars are no longer 'out' there

The Stars are Here, the Stars are Now
and we float amongst Them

 

[Nicholas A. A. E.]

daBlob++;

 

[Dormouse]

daBlob++;

Seconded.

 

[echoplex]

Pure wonder. And I feel so small. Sometimes it's alright to be small. So....vulnerable, just like everyone else. So insignificant, and yet, there will never be a moment quite like this again. I am the king of all that I know, living with all the little kings in their fragile little kingdoms. And then the moment escapes me, like individual worlds fading away from existence. The kings are all gone, and their kingdoms burned to the ground. Where do they all go?

Also, clouds are nice. Sometimes they're shaped like things.

 

[JUN]

Pure wonder. And I feel so small. Sometimes it's alright to be small. So....vulnerable, just like everyone else. So insignificant, and yet, there will never be a moment quite like this again. I am the king of all that I know, living with all the little kings in their fragile little kingdoms. And then the moment escapes me, like individual worlds fading away from existence. The kings are all gone, and their kingdoms burned to the ground. Where do they all go?

Also, clouds are nice. Sometimes they're shaped like things.

!!! You're right.

I miss having a lazy afternoon just looking up to the clouds and trying to figure out shapes in them, also, lovely post.

DaBlob: Lovely poem.

 

[Mars]

Which ever side of the value of natural beauty argument you reside upon, fellow postulators. I must propose that the arrangement of the cosmos is likened to a beguilingly beautiful manifestation of chaos.

Chaos in that its order is still veiled, beautiful because the hidden order is uncompromisingly and unapologetically manifested in the void for all to see and beguiling because it does not yeild its origin.

Yet in the span of thumb to forefinger can be grasped its very foundation. Comprehensible yet completely intangible it brazenly resides in its minutest form for all to see and none to master.

I think that it is funny, the 'natural order' as championed in victorian thinking is still having its dying gasps echoed today. After all has not mankind 'mastered' nature? Yet it is still slave to her whims.

Quite astonishing, lessons learned and forgotten. For in the end desires and ambitions will culminate in shadows and dust. Shadows of intentions and dust of their manifestations. "we mortals are but shadows and dust Maximus, shadows and dust!"

But I suppose that it is the nature of these musings, to see the value of an individual shouting in the wind.

 

[Da Blob]

Yet in the span of thumb to forefinger can be grasped its very foundation. Comprehensible yet completely intangible it brazenly resides in its minutest form for all to see and none to master.

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Nice Mars... It reminded me of this quote of Rumi...

This moment, this love, comes to rest in me
many beings in one being
In one wheat grain a thousand sheep stacks

Inside the needle's eye
a turning night of stars

There is a light-seed-grain inside you
fill it with your Self
or It dies....!

 

[Thoughtful]

You haven't lived until you've slept under the stars. No house, no tent, just you, your sleeping bag, and the cloudless night sky. It's a profound feeling I've yet to duplicate. and would recomend that anyone try it. it works best in the mountains.

Stars, Sunsets, those funny shaped clouds, it can all take your breath away now and then. Here's to the sky.

 

[Firehazard159]

Imo, skip the sleeping bag, and the clothes! Be one with nature XD

 

[Mars]

Nice Mars... It reminded me of this quote of Rumi...

Thank you Da Blob. it's nice to know that it sounds familiar.

You haven't lived until you've slept under the stars. No house, no tent, just you, your sleeping bag, and the cloudless night sky. It's a profound feeling I've yet to duplicate. and would recomend that anyone try it. it works best in the mountains.

Stars, Sunsets, those funny shaped clouds, it can all take your breath away now and then. Here's to the sky.

I do have to agree with you on that one, especially if you have the ocean waves rolling in a few sand dunes away

Imo, skip the sleeping bag, and the clothes! Be one with nature XD

well... the weather here is getting pretty darn hot, so it might be on the cards.