(November 17, 2015 at 2:16 am)RaphielDrake Wrote: I like the poetic structure, even if the content is abit fanciful.Whilst writing this my inspiration came from Neil Degrasse Tyson's video/s "We stopped dreaming"
If I squint my eyes I see a pleasing, soft looking brown shape. When I open them fully I see the smelly bastard of a dog that woke me up with its pacing in the middle of the night.
We can all make things appear more optimistic by diminishing our senses when faced with the pessimistic. Thats what drugs and alcohol are for. It doesn't mean anything.
It's when he was talking about the earth and explaining how "Before we wen't to the moon, we had never seen earth as this big ball in space, the most well known photograph of the globe was taken at this point. Once people saw this picture, they started to see the Earth in a new light, because unlike a globe in class, it was the first time people had seen Earth not divided by countries, and without borders like globe models in class rooms. It was the first time people stopped thinking about Earth divided, but instead as one, and that's when organizations like "Doctors without borders" were started, because for the first time, people were seeing things in a global perspective, "Without borders"? Who heard of that, that wasn't even a thing until we saw that picture, nobody had that perspective."
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That's what I was half attempting to recreate in what I posted, and half making it my own and adding ideas of my own.
It was a lot like what he said, but in a less direct sense, and more of a um....creative sense? I don't know, I like poetry that is boad, general, and indirect, the two i've written I wanted to write so that people could draw their own conclusions and meanings. Did it work? I don't know. I get the feeling people didn't like this one, which disappoints me but what're you gonna do I guess.
However, i'm quite confused especially by benny's response, I was aware that this was a forum of intellectual discussions, and posts, whether or not you like/dislike my writing, I don't understand saying "Save your thoughts to yourself", or "Don't post this here", I thought sharing your thoughts was exactly what this forum was for, discussing them whatever, but I can't accept what may have been just benny or other people telling me "You can't share these thoughts here". I would expect better from people who claim themselves as intellectuals to tell someone to keep quiet about their opinions and ideas.
Which is better:
To die with ignorance, or to live with intelligence?
Truth doesn't accommodate to personal opinions.
The choice is yours.
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