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15 Apr 2012, 10:13 am

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15 Apr 2012, 10:19 am

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15 Apr 2012, 10:23 am

nat4200 wrote:
I am a child of human parents.


Human parents which are a subset of a universe.



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15 Apr 2012, 10:25 am

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15 Apr 2012, 10:29 am

nat4200 wrote:
bizboy1 wrote:
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I am a child of human parents.


Human parents which are a subset of a universe.

As far as I can tell, though perhaps not the same universe...


You and I and everyone else are made of star-stuff. We were first cooked up in the belly of exploding stars. It took a few billion years before we showed up in our current form.

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15 Apr 2012, 10:41 am

So we are star children?



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15 Apr 2012, 10:45 am

One time I built a star so I am a star father.



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15 Apr 2012, 11:11 am

I thought you didn't like the whole "through us the universe has developed a way to understand itself" thing?



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15 Apr 2012, 11:17 am

Then the universe owes us some child support payments...



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15 Apr 2012, 11:48 am

No because that would be socialism.



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15 Apr 2012, 4:20 pm

I like this poem a lot. Not sure if poem is the right word.



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15 Apr 2012, 4:22 pm

scubasteve wrote:
Then the universe owes us some child support payments...


Bill paid up. There are vast quantities of energy for you to use. Reach out and get them.

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15 Apr 2012, 7:47 pm

CloudLayer wrote:
I like this poem a lot. Not sure if poem is the right word.


Oh yes. "Desiderata"( Latin for "essential things")
Its considered a "prose-poem" according to wicki.
It was written in the thirties or fourties by the unknown author Max Erhman.

But it was discovered in the sixties, and by 1970 it had ascended to a zenith in pop culture.
I remember seeing it first on a poster- and being quite taken with it.
Then I remember hearing recorded versions on the radio.
National Lampoon even did a parody of the version recorded by Leonard Nimoy.
More of a sendup of nemoy than of the poem itsself.
Then it faded from pop culture like a hit song.
So Im old enough to have been overexposed to it in that 1970 era!
But in the intervening years Ive come around to liking it again.



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15 Apr 2012, 7:49 pm

naturalplastic wrote:
CloudLayer wrote:
I like this poem a lot. Not sure if poem is the right word.


Oh yes. "Desiderata"( Latin for "essential things")
Its considered a "prose-poem" according to wicki.
It was written in the thirties or fourties by the unknown author Max Erhman.

But it was discovered in the sixties, and by 1970 it had ascended to a zenith in pop culture.
I remember seeing it first on a poster- and being quite taken with it.
Then I remember hearing recorded versions on the radio.
National Lampoon even did a parody of the version recorded by Leonard Nimoy.
More of a sendup of nemoy than of the poem itsself.
Then it faded from pop culture like a hit song.
So Im old enough to have been overexposed to it in that 1970 era!
But in the intervening years Ive come around to liking it again.


Ditto here. It is corny but I like it and I even believe it. It makes some kind of sense for me.

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15 Apr 2012, 10:19 pm

scubasteve wrote:
Then the universe owes us some child support payments...


Yes, this is a good point. What a cheap universe! There are diamond planets out there and yet we don't get any as payment for being brought into this miserable existence entirely against our will. There is no justice!


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16 Apr 2012, 1:40 pm

American wrote:
scubasteve wrote:
Then the universe owes us some child support payments...


Yes, this is a good point. What a cheap universe! There are diamond planets out there and yet we don't get any as payment for being brought into this miserable existence entirely against our will. There is no justice!


Whattaya think the Sun is there for?

To grow the green plants on earth - so we can graze cattle -so you can eat hamburgers!
And some plants have already been composted inside the earth and turned into oil for your car.


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