Earth is not an Infinite Reservoir of Profit

[mnaz]

Grew up with ideas of profit
seared in Bible consciousness.
Thousand year wars same as now.

Then a Religion of Profit kicked in.
It didn't matter who won, the main
thing is: win. Nothing else matters.

Then it turned into a slugfest,
squabbling over earth while Earth
had no intention of going quietly.

[mnaz]

And I'd like to thank Google earth for helping me understand the problem. Just click up a few hundred thousand feet or many miles if you're impatient, and you see the curvature...

[jackofnightmares]

on the curve
mnaz wrote:

Grew up with ideas of profit
seared in Bible consciousness.
Thousand year wars same as now.

Then a Religion of Profit kicked in.
It didn't matter who won, the main
thing is: win. Nothing else matters.

Then it turned into a slugfest,
squabbling over earth while Earth
had no intention of going quietly.

this freaked me out in 69,

as if I walked through a door into another world that was all new to me. Don't you hate it when you keep having the same epiphanies over and over

I am using a lot of these days, being ...verging on the edge of hysteria.

if not for poetry


Trump is the man of the year, a man for these times, he was 2000 years in the making he was born for this.

[mnaz]

Love that shot. Changed my life at age eight.

[jackofnightmares]

I keep having that epiphany over and over.

[mnaz]

That was us, all together. In space looking back. We say we know space, but now we're just trying to sell it to the highest bidder.

[jackofnightmares]

Space-Time
Time to act
Nero Fiddles
Tя☭mp Tweets
Time is money
selling time to the highest bidder

Jim Beam™ed scatterbrain thoughts

[sasha]

Love that shot. Changed my life at age eight.

I was 18, home for the holidays during my 1st year at UNH. Christmas Eve - we'd just gotten home from midnight Mass, and I switched on the TV to behold the surface of the moon from 70 miles up. And when they started reading from Genesis... it was as close to a religious experience as I'll ever get.