RE: Sometimes its nice to just look at stars, lots of them.
December 11, 2012 at 1:06 pm
(This post was last modified: December 11, 2012 at 1:08 pm by Cyberman.)
(December 11, 2012 at 12:57 pm)LastPoet Wrote: Isn't it just beautifull to look at stars and partially comprehend what they are? I'm sure any animal with eyes can see them, but we are the only ones capable of gazing at them and wonder what they are
Well, we're certainly the only ones capable of gazing upon them and know what they are, at least on this planet. I know I've seen Ozzy, my parents' dog, looking keenly at the night sky. Maybe he's seen a bat or something, or maybe he's just enjoying the breeze on his face as dogs are wont to do; but maybe...
(December 11, 2012 at 12:45 pm)Ben Davis Wrote: Good work! Deserves another Rating +1.
But I can't.
Sorry.
Never mind, it's not my work anyway. In hindsight I should have attributed it, but I'm not sure who penned it. I know it dates back at least to an 1852 journal edited by Charles Dickens and that's as far as I get. By the way, anyone figured out what the poem means, unless you know already?
At the age of five, Skagra decided emphatically that God did not exist. This revelation tends to make most people in the universe who have it react in one of two ways - with relief or with despair. Only Skagra responded to it by thinking, 'Wait a second. That means there's a situation vacant.'
