“You were made from the earth,” I whisper to her skin, “I can feel the universe moving through you, and yet you are something else unto yourself.
“I never wanted to love a human. I fought you with everything I had. You were everything I shouldn’t want. But then, your compassion pierced me deeper than any blade.
“I have felt the earth move, I have felt the grinding of rock as mountains shift and the world changes shape. None of it could prepare me for you.”
“I love you. Maybe more than all of what I am. And I don’t understand why, but I do. I love you.”
So, if she's somewhere near me, I hope to God she hears me
There's no one else could ever make me feel I'm so alive
I hoped she'd never leave me, please God, you must believe me
I've trudged the universe and found myself within her eyes
-Guns N' Roses
Fundamentally in everyone there is the feeling for this allmighty which we call God (that is to say, the dominion of
natural laws throughout the whole universe). The priests, who have always succeeded in exploiting this feeling, threaten
punishment for the man who refuses to accept the creed they
impose.
when one provokes in a child a fear of the dark, one awakens in him a feeling of atavistic dread. Thus this child will be ruled
all his life by dread, whereas another child, who has been
intelligently brought up, will be free of it.
It's said that every man needs a refuge where he can find consolation and help in unhappiness. I don't believe it! If
humanity follows that path, it's solely a matter of tradition and
habit. That's a lesson, by the way, that can be drawn from the
Bolshevik front.The Russians have no God, and that doesn't
prevent them from being able to face death.
We don't want to educate anyone in atheism.
The life of a human, according to the Scottish philosopher David Hume, was of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.
But if it was important enough for David Hume to write that thought down, then maybe it was important enough to aim to do something good.
To help preserve life, in all its forms.
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We are still faced with the question of why this Universe, the one we inhabit, would sit on such a narrow thread when there is so much other potential parameter space we could inhabit. No matter how you look at it, the existence of stable stars appears to be a fine-tuned property of our Universe.
As stars burn, lighter elements are fused together. At the same time, very heavy elements decay through radioactivity to become lighter elements. There is a common goal: iron. Iron is the most strongly bound of the atomic nuclei, so it won’t decay into lighter elements without an injection of energy, and it won’t be built into heavier elements without other injections of energy. That is, it has no free energy to give.