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Mar 03, 2008 23:13

When people die, invariably those left behind to live on make statements indicative that the dead are now in a better place. Are these statements true, or are they only devices we use to distance ourselves from the pain of loss and the knowledge that one day we will also be the ones about whom those statements are made ( Read more... )

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germboy March 4 2008, 09:37:43 UTC
Glad you liked the pic. Astronomy always blows me away, but what's even more sobering is thinking about all the empty space inbetween. Lots and lots of empty void. That's more nightmarish than the size of supergiants like VY Canis Majoris. Imagine being lost in that.

And then there's the question of dark matter. They say they're finding sheets of it now.

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m1jac0ge0 March 4 2008, 10:05:46 UTC
On the other hand, in space no one can hear you rip a really ripe nasty one...

I guess that the vastness of space is to me the reason why I've often wondered why we even assume to know anything- about other life, about eternity... we're grains of sand no bigger than the pixel period at the end of this sentence, making grand statements about God, science, forever.

All those things lay far beyond human comprehension, or even the hope of ever being understood.

Still, most people are content to remain myopic, oblivious, small. So long as they have enough to eat and enough people around them to give them the illusion of safety, they're content to forget the big picture.

I have never really had that option. I have no idea what is out there... but some of it had the affrontery to remove my sister, and until I can figure out who it was, where she went, and why they did it, I guess I can't rest comfortably.

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thiscorrosion March 4 2008, 16:13:41 UTC
But of course, Peter.

And you are but half-right, Mr. Pan. Silent Hill is many things, but its role as a purgatory is only one of them. What else is it? Well, that's a tale to be told when you're a bit...older.

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m1jac0ge0 March 5 2008, 04:45:49 UTC
Something bugging you, tallboy?

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fmsblueraincoat March 5 2008, 08:15:33 UTC
Skullfuls of stupid!

On my next vacation in Hell, I'd love to watch you rotting, Mr.Mulder.

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m1jac0ge0 March 5 2008, 08:16:43 UTC
Walter. So glad you stopped by. Come again soon, m'kay?

...not.

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