Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul's resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his little finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had ever supposed (William James).
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Scientists calculate that dark matter makes up about 25 percent of the universe. By contrast, ordinary matter—the stuff that makes up stars, planets, and everything on Earth—makes up no more than about 5 percent of the universe. The other 70 percent of the universe, scientists believe, is made of dark energy, an even more elusive force that is pushing the universe apart at an ever increasing rate.
Neutrinos have no charge, and their masses are so tiny they have yet to be accurately measured. This means that neutrinos, which zip around at nearly the speed of light, can pass through normal matter largely undisturbed. Most neutrinos that affect Earth come from the sun and billions of them pass through the average human every second.
Love letters, business contracts, holiday snaps, spam, petitions, emergency bulletins, pornography, wedding announcements, TV shows, news articles, vacation plans, home movies, press releases, celebrity Web pages, home movies, secrets of every stripe, military orders, music, newsletters, confessions, congratulations—every shade and aspect of human life encoded as 1s and 0s. Taken together, they weigh roughly the same as the smallest possible sand grain, one measuring just two-thousandths of an inch across.
The weight of the Internet adds up to just about 0.2 millionths of an ounce.If you've ever seen a human brain, it's obvious that the two hemispheres are completely separate from one another. The two hemispheres do communicate with one another through the corpus collosum, which is made up of some 300 million axonal fibers. But other than that, the two hemispheres are completely separate. Because they process information differently, each hemisphere thinks about different things, they care about different things, and dare I say, they have very different personalities.
Unless it comes out
of your soul like a rocket,
unless being still
would drive you to madness or
suicide or murder, don't do it.
Unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut, don't do it.
When it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by itself
and it will keep on doing it
until you die
or it dies in you.
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8 comments:
Is that for real?
I found it surfing through Blogger. I did not record the blog or its site address unfortunately, because since I saved the picture I have been wondering myself.
I will say, however, all of the other photos on the blog were real so it lead me to think this one was also real.
I mean this does happen in Nature. Like the old man in the mountain in New Hampshire, which has crumbled into nothing in recent years.
Egdes look a bit too sharp to be un-edted. Nevertheless, the image is real in the sense of being an art work producing real affects.
Even if it was unedited, nature transforms and you wouldn't be able to view that tree from that angle and see the same thing again. The image is all we have and no matter what technique was used to produce that image it refers to nothing but itself and its beauty.
*stealing image*
That's true monki, from whenever the picture was taken, even if it was adulterated by hand force, it won't look the same. But I bet it looks quite intriguing now nonethless. I wish I knew where it was...
This is a very famous artwork by Storm Thorgerson for Pink Floyd.
Faked I'm afraid
www.stormthorgerson.com
Called the "Tree of Half Life"
this is a good case of anthropomorphism, not an example for the reverse of that. It is a human tendency to perceive the outer world and render visual randomness in his own image.
BTW, physis (phusis in Gr.) means Nature understood as birth and growth.
Jan. 16th 2009 Anonymous,
That is the irony and why I have left this post up. For, when I thought the picture might be an edited version of an actual tree, "Physiomorphise" indeed makes sense; however since it is a work of human art - it is exactly a case of anthropomorphism. I am still on the look out for real cases of physiomorphism and will update if I find them.
Cheers.
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