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Equinox_at_the_Pyramid_of_the_Feathered_Serpent.jpgEquinox at the Pyramid of the Feathered Serpent (Image Credit & Copyright: Robert Fedez - Credits for the Author of lyrical prose: Dr. Paolo C. Fienga)95 visiteWhat If…
(…Justice, according to some, is Truth, while Others believe that Justice means Vengeance.
Now, since I know the Truth and I want Justice, I will seek for Revenge.
And Revenge shall be mine…)
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When I was a child, long ago, my Father taught me to watch the Sky, learn the name of the Stars and Constellations.
He taught me to love the Infinite above us and ask myself lots of questions.
I had to do that, even though I had to know that I could have never get any answer. But I was supposed to watch, learn, and meditate. No matter what the outcome of all those efforts might have been.
Now, after many years have come and gone, I still do the same.
When I lay down, in my bed, at night, I see the Stars, lost in a never-ending Darkness.
When I wake up, at dawn, and I look around and what I’m supposed to do, I only see emptiness. Banalities. Misery. Insane disputes that have their foundation in our unfathomable ignorance and stupidity.
I hear inane chatters, dialogues full of commonplaces, empty promises, and clear nonsenses.
Then I ask myself, every day, what actually powers the World, and I understand that our World is not powered by Faith, Energy, Beauty, Love or Empathy and Pity.
Our World runs on lies.
The same lies that make us go through miserable and dead-slow days, spent in an often-desperate search of what we believe is good for us.
We believe that everything will work fine and that, in the end, we shall get our well-deserved reward.
We shall be prompt, precise, on time, rightful and forgiving.
This, all this is what we have been taught that we needed and useful to survive.
So, we also believe that everything we have studied and learned, is the Truth.
And the Truth shall make us free.
We believe in an endless Universe that works like a clock. Only that this Clock is eternal. Immutable. Fixed.
We believe that the Universe does not need to be fully explained, because it explains itself just by the fact that it exists, and we can see it.
At least, a small part of it.
The books explain this in many ways.
And those explanations are the Truth.
A Truth that makes us worthy of living.
But…
What if our teachers lied to us?
And the same was done by our loved ones, when they said they loved us?
Do we have to believe in Love just because of the fact that Love is something eternal and endless?
Do we have to believe that Love is something fit to explain all our hopes, illusions, disappointments, mistakes, and misconducts?
What if our engine, what we have named “Love”, is just something deeply false and nonexistent?
And, if it really does exist, is simply wrong in its foundations and is actually malfunctioning, pushing us at doing and believing in things we do not truly care and believe in?
What if all our dreams, and sacrifices, and good actions, are just illusions founded on a profound misunderstanding?
A misperception of Reality?
What if we are all misled by Love because Love simply does not exist and, if it does, it is something we just dream of, at night, when the blanket of our deepest Truths disappears, thus leaving us surrounded by the sick and naked Reality?
The Reality that we are all alone, eternally lost in a Universe that only lives in our minds?
In our unachievable dreams?
In our fake and fading pity and empathy?
In our empty and opportunistic Faith, perhaps?
What if the Truth is that there is no Truth at all?
What if we are all the unwanted sons of a way too demanding Mother and a mischievous Father?
What if nothing is actually real or, at least, not as real as we thought it was?
That is why we need lies.
We need them to justify our misdeeds and still unpunished intellectual arrogance.
But, above all, we need lies to justify our own pathetic existence that has no other and further meaning, but depriving Others from their good right to believe that we were deeply wrong.
We need lies to explain our lack of capacity to see things for what they really are, such as nothing.
The Universe is empty.
Like the Paradise and Hell: they are all empty.
Like us.
And now, in my old age, and now, that all my tears have been shed and dried up, and now, that all the pains that my flesh is heir to have come and gone, I can finally open my eyes and look around.
But there is nothing to see.
Nothing to live or fight for.
Nobody to hate, and nobody to love, anymore.
I’m alone, in this endless nothing that wraps the whole and inexistent Universe.
I’m alone.
The Universe does not exist.
And, if it ever existed, it’s now passed away.
And so did I.
Amen.
MareKromium
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Eternity.jpgBeyond...54 visite"...A well-written Life is almost as rare as a well-spent one..."
Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881) - "Critical and Miscellaneous Essays" (1838) MareKromium
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Eternity_in_the_Rainbow.jpgEternity in a Rainbow (by Dr Gianluigi Barca)117 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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EyesInTheSky.jpgEyes in the Sky55 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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EyesintheSky-W00037024.jpgLike "Eyes", in the Space of Saturn...58 visite"...Nec te quaesiveris extra..."
(Persio)
"...Non cercarti fuori da te stesso..."MareKromium
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Eyjafjallajkull-Fulle.jpgNight over Eyjafjallajkull (credits: Marco Fulle - Stromboli Online) 54 visiteWhy did the recent volcanic eruption in Iceland create so much ash? Although the large ash plume was not unparalleled in its abundance, its location was particularly noticeable because it drifted across such well populated areas.
The Eyjafjallajökull Volcano in southern Iceland began erupting on March 20, with a second eruption starting under the center of a small glacier on April 14, 2010. Neither eruption was unusually powerful. The second eruption, however, melted a large amount of glacial ice which then cooled and fragmented lava into gritty glass particles that were carried up with the rising Volcanic Plume.
Pictured above, lightning bolts illuminate ash pouring out of the Eyjafjallajökull Volcano.MareKromium
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FIRST DREAM.jpgThe 10000th Image for LunExIt: First Dream149 visiteCon questa immagine, scelta fra le 97 che abbiamo ricevuto, celebriamo la pubblicazione dei primi 10000 frames sul nostro Sito. Lunar Explorer Italia ringrazia, tramite il Presidente, lo Staff, i Collaboratori Interni, quelli Esterni ed i Soci Attivi, tutti coloro che hanno dato, danno e daranno il loro contributo per fare della nostra Fondazione un Punto di Riferimento, un domani, per coloro che cercano, investigano, si pongono domande e cercano, con onestà e pragmatismo, ma senza porre limiti alla propria mente, di vedere che cosa si nasconde "Oltre il Buio della Notte" (e così citiamo una splendida - e datata! - novella di Arthur C. Clarke che, a nostro avviso, costituisce una pietra miliare nel panorama della Science-Fiction di alto livello).
L'immagine First Dream ci è stata mandata da Gianluigi & Paola Barca, che ringraziamo di cuore.
Uno speciale ringraziamento anche ai nostri Amici "più presenti", e cioè il Dr Alessio Feltri, Lorenzo Leone, Matteo Fagone, Massimo Granzo, il Dr Alessandro Pullini, Fabio Italiano, il Dr Gino Sartarelli e tanti altri che, pur se non citati in questa sede, sono comunque nei nostri cuori e nei nostri pensieri.
Grazie a TUTTI!
Lunar Explorer Italia
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FL-Anticrepuscolar Rays.jpgInfinite59 visiteCaption NASA originale:"(...) Pictured above are anticrepuscular rays.
To understand them, start by picturing common crepuscular rays that are seen any time that Sunlight pours though scattered clouds. Now although Sunlight indeed travels along straight lines, the projections of these lines onto the spherical sky are great circles. Therefore, the crepuscular rays from a setting (or rising) Sun will appear to re-converge on the other side of the sky.
At the anti-solar point 180° around from the Sun, they are referred to as anticrepuscular rays (...)".
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FaithFullMoon090409_westlake.jpgObscuring the Moon...54 visiteCaption NASA:"October's bright Full Moon is also known as the "Harvest Moon".
Traditionally, the Harvest Moon is the Full Moon closest to the Autumnal Equinox. But in this snapshot, the Full Moon could be called the "Old Faith-Full Moon".
Taken on September 4, 2009, the picture combines the regularly occurring lunar phase with Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, named for its dependable eruptions.
Shining on the well-known geyser's towering pillar from behind, the moonlight creates an eerie halo surrounding convoluted shapes.
Faithfully, the Full Moon itself is bright enough to be seen through the dense swirling steam near the top".MareKromium
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Fake_Sunrise.jpgTotally Beautiful, but totally Fake61 visiteImmagine pubblicata sulla prestigiosa Rubrica "NASA - Astronomy Picture of the Day" il giorno 10 Ottobre 2011. Si tratta di un esempio ulteriore di come il "fake-ben-fatto" (e pure assai suggestivo) abbia un successo ed un seguito sempre più eclatanti.
Noi, che pure adoriamo il Genere "Fantasy" (al quale questa foto appartiene per non meno del 99%) umilmente, dissentiamo e diciamo che un'immagine come questa (in sè - lo ripetiamo a chiare lettere - davvero molto affascinante e particolare) meritava senz'altro un riconoscimento, ma NON quello del "NASA - Picture of the Day". MareKromium
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False_Impression.jpgFalse Impression (by Dr Gianluigi Barca)77 visitenessun commentoMareKromium
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Fantasy APOD.jpgThe Universe is "on sight"!81 visiteDa "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 16 Giugno 2006:"The first APOD appeared 11 years ago today, on 1995, June 16. Although garnering only 14 page views on that day, we are proud to estimate that APOD has now served over 400 million space-related images over the last 11 years. That early beginning, along with a nearly unchanging format, has allowed APOD to be a consistent and familiar site on a web frequently filled with change. Many people don't know, though, that APOD is now translated daily into many major languages. We again thank our readers and NASA for their continued support, but ask that any potentially congratulatory e-mail go to the folks who created the great pictures - many times with considerable effort - that APOD has been fortunate enough to feature over the past year. Many can be contacted by following links found in the credit line under the image. Some of these images are featured in the above spectacular collage of a fantasy sky above Mars submitted by an enthusiastic APOD reader skilled in digital image manipulation. How many APOD images can you identify?".
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