Click the pic to go to the APOD site and read a description, then click again to get an HD version. Keep clicking and remove obama from the white house.
As Peter Pan sang, "Just think of lovely things, and your heart will fly on wings to Never Never Land."
In many ways WE truly ARE what we THINK.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on ..."
The Bible says we must become like little children if we are to enter the kingdom of Heaven. It also says, the Kingdom of Heaven is WITHIN us.
So what does that mean?
I can only tell you what it means to ME, but I believe that "Heaven" is an altered state of consciousness where we are able to lift our thoughts above the ugliness, confusion and petty concerns of the workaday world, rise above strife, dissension and hatred, and get ourselves in touch with Eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, and Fearless Appreciation of Cosmic Reality.
The stars don't care about politics, personal passion and peevishness. The stars are never PETTY. The stars are not BUSYBODIES. I believe the stars are God's way of showing us there is infinitely MORE to Reality than our puny, parochial concerns.
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help."
The psalmist might better have said "The Stars," because they are bigger, higher, brighter, farther and more mysterious than "the hills."
Now that may sound a bit "airy" for some, but I KNOW from long personal experience hat the more I dwell on Beauty the less I am apt to be caught up in its opposite, and the brighter, more energetic, and more hopeful I'm apt to be.
At any rate these images from Outer Space help greatly to bring the essence of Reality into sharper perspective, so thank you, Kid.
I've been clicking for four days now. Beginning to suspect that you were lying. This goes into your book of life, Mister. I thought the star bubble was kind of neat, but it doesn't show up very well as a background for desktop. Reverted back to the Apple galaxy picture which very clear and very sharp. I'm guessing they need more homo's at APOD.
'Lying' is such a definitive term. Maybe you weren't clicking hard enough... Maybe you were but at the wrong time. Did you go to the APOD site and get the HD version of this pic by clicking a couple times? getting the high whatseeewhosits version is better for desktop backgrounds. It could certainly be more homo's are needed at APOD.
"Keep clicking and remove obama from the white house."
ReplyDeleteIf it were ONLY that easy: Hilarious!!!
Z, Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezix, I wish it were that easy.
DeleteIt IS that easy.
DeleteAs Peter Pan sang, "Just think of lovely things, and your heart will fly on wings to Never Never Land."
In many ways WE truly ARE what we THINK.
"We are such stuff as dreams are made on ..."
The Bible says we must become like little children if we are to enter the kingdom of Heaven. It also says, the Kingdom of Heaven is WITHIN us.
So what does that mean?
I can only tell you what it means to ME, but I believe that "Heaven" is an altered state of consciousness where we are able to lift our thoughts above the ugliness, confusion and petty concerns of the workaday world, rise above strife, dissension and hatred, and get ourselves in touch with Eternal Truth, Beauty, Love, and Fearless Appreciation of Cosmic Reality.
The stars don't care about politics, personal passion and peevishness. The stars are never PETTY. The stars are not BUSYBODIES. I believe the stars are God's way of showing us there is infinitely MORE to Reality than our puny, parochial concerns.
"I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills from whence cometh my help."
The psalmist might better have said "The Stars," because they are bigger, higher, brighter, farther and more mysterious than "the hills."
Now that may sound a bit "airy" for some, but I KNOW from long personal experience hat the more I dwell on Beauty the less I am apt to be caught up in its opposite, and the brighter, more energetic, and more hopeful I'm apt to be.
At any rate these images from Outer Space help greatly to bring the essence of Reality into sharper perspective, so thank you, Kid.
Thanks FT. The big picture can help keep you sane.
ReplyDeleteKid..thanks for the new layout.....now I can participate more BF....I think it's great I can read it now...LOL
ReplyDeleteIMP, Anything for old farts like you man.
DeleteCan we have him be the first president on the moon?
ReplyDeleteEd, Moon, Mars, anything off the Earth works for me :)
DeleteHow 'bout Mars...
ReplyDeleteCube, Done.
DeleteThe whole no atmosphere thing is a big attraction.
DeleteCube, Oh yea, But there will be plenty of Pizza and Basketballs.
DeleteI've been clicking for four days now. Beginning to suspect that you were lying. This goes into your book of life, Mister. I thought the star bubble was kind of neat, but it doesn't show up very well as a background for desktop. Reverted back to the Apple galaxy picture which very clear and very sharp. I'm guessing they need more homo's at APOD.
ReplyDelete'Lying' is such a definitive term. Maybe you weren't clicking hard enough... Maybe you were but at the wrong time. Did you go to the APOD site and get the HD version of this pic by clicking a couple times? getting the high whatseeewhosits version is better for desktop backgrounds.
ReplyDeleteIt could certainly be more homo's are needed at APOD.