This is the question that plagued my youth
I was a small child, a real young pup
All the grownups would ask of me
“What will you be when you grow up?
For all small children must have a dream
a goal their sights are set on”
Yet no such thing had called on me
Not cop, spaceman or Don Juan
But then the thought it hit me
Nothing ever felt much apter
I said to them “My dream is this:
To be a Velociraptor”
Governments are like George Lucas, they have the potential to be ridiculously awesome, but if they don’t have a legion of people standing around telling them when they have a stupid idea, they make the prequel trilogy.
Ron Paul is living proof that as long as you have the balls to stand up for what you believe in, you’ll be regarded as a hero.
Even if what you believe in is stupid as fuck.
(In progress)
He paints a sunny day onto the inside of his eyelids
upgraded moldy tomes with next generation papyrus
yet somedays no mural feels the same
can’t help but feel the rain
with outstretched arms he searches for the purity inside it
don’t ask me why, I’m not a meteorologist
I’m only tall enough to kiss
the soles of serendipity
I’ve yet to find the meaning I’d missed
Like the 9 o-clock arriving at 8 hours 56
but it’s fleeting, this storm is slowly shifting into sleeting
you think the rain was bad?
I fear my mayday needs repeating
The observable universe, what we see when we look up at the night sky, is 13.7 billion light years across. The actual size of the universe is somewhat larger but the most distant light has yet to reach us. This means that if you were a photon of light emitted from the most distant star we can observe, it would take you 13.7 billion years, travelling at the speed of light, to reach here.
We know this because we know the speed of light, if we didn’t, things like mobile phones, the internet, your microwave, GPS systems, WI-FI and many many more technological marvels that we take for granted, wouldn’t work.
This means that the universe, that big old thing all around us, is unimaginably vast. It is phenomenally, astronomically gargantuan beyond imagination.
There are so many issues this simple fact presents to those of a theological inclination, one being that a 6000 year old earth wouldn’t have any stars shining in it’s night sky. This is because the distance of the majority of stars in the sky from us doesn’t allow enough time for their light to reach the earth over 6000 years.
Theists of the world have yet to realize this, but they’re immersed neck deep in one of the biggest mental scams our race has ever conceived. I urge them to release their minds, rejoice in the majesty of their unique and special lives, follow their own hearts, laugh, cry, love and explore the infinite beauty of their fleetingly short existence, and even shorter childhoods, unencumbered. We are 21st century beings living in a modern, technological world and a 2000 year old doctrine, written by people who had no concept of what it would be like to live in our world today, cannot and should not form the basis of how we decide to shape our experience of the short time we have here on earth.
Make your own rules, live your own life.
