We are puny!

[Cameron]

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

And Antares isn't even the biggest star!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_largest_stars

[neimad]

 

i love it cameron.

 

 

ive suddenly discovered a great deal of comfort in admitting i am nothing in the scale of the universe..... it's a beautiful thing.

[Cameron]

Seeing how small we are is rather liberating, isn't it?

 

Cam(puny Earth being)

[voice]

And, seeing how big other things are...lets me feel bigger.

 

Chris (with synaesthesia)

 

Seeing how small we are is rather liberating, isn't it?

 

Cam(puny Earth being)

[snowmon]

Dust in the wind..all we are is dust in the wind

[三江源]

Liberation through Measurement.

 

a new theory by Miss C. Entimetre.

[Cameron]

I think the zen understanding is that size is pretty arbitrary anyway. The universe is contained in a blade of grass is somehting I have heard. Everything contains everything else, etc.

 

From that perspective we aren't puny since outside and inside are one and the same.

[DaoWaDiddy]

You mean, size doesn't matter?

[Cameron]

I am trying to make us feel better about living on a tiny planet circling a tiny star. Ok!?

[mYTHmAKER]

Maybe you need to read Buckminster Fuller's

Operatering Manual For Spaceship Earth.

[Yoda]

You mean, size doesn't matter?

 

 

For Cam, size doesn't matter and that's ok too.

[Cameron]

Yoda do you think the Aliens joke on us about how small our planet and star is!?

[Smile]

I am trying to make us feel better about living on a tiny planet circling a tiny star. Ok!?

As you know, apocalypse is coming....

[Cameron]

As you know, apocalypse is coming....

 

 

But I just got my Total Blender!?

[thelerner]

Eh, that Antares isn't so big. I can hold it in the palm of my hand.

 

The biggest stars and galaxies are just pin pricks of light to me,

and as each morning approaches

I blow them out,

one by one.

 

ME, I am powerful

but humble too

so I let them catch light again come nightfall

and let the earth sail around the sun

turning and spinning

to keep the whole place

toasty warm

(cept for poles and some mens hearts)

 

Michael

[Cameron]

I had a feeling you might be behind it all Michael.

 

So why not get back to some Aikido training old timer?

[thelerner]

I've got to do something to get this fat butt moving. I should probably restart. I have a friend who's running a small mellow group. Maybe its an egoey old fart thing. I was never great, but after 13 years, I was better then the average bear, and a Nidan!

 

These days, I'd probably roll like a rock and throw like a girl(sorry ladies). The reality of how far I've fallen urrghh. My kids are doing Shotokan Karate at a nice traditional dojo. Great Sensei, lots of life lessons, strict but happy dojo. But I did my time w/ Karate in high school, now it seems so rigid.

 

I want to find a nice esoteric chi gung school in the Chicago area, there must be some around. Had a bunch of white garbed lunies dancing in circles around a nearby beach last year. If my wife and kiddies hadn't been around I would have no doubt introduced myself and joined them.

 

Maybe I'll just have to keep the stars circling around.

 

Michael