Inizio Registrati Login

Elenco album Ultimi arrivi Ultimi commenti Più viste Più votate Preferiti Cerca

Inizio > DEEP SKY > The Universe Inside

Piú viste - The Universe Inside
Night_Beauties-ES.jpg
Night_Beauties-ES.jpgNight Beauties (by Ermes Sansottera)148 visite"...A man can be destroyed but not defeated..."

Ernest Hemingway
MareKromium
True_Colors.jpg
True_Colors.jpgTrue Colors (Credits: Eric Houck)148 visite“La salvezza umana giace nelle mani dei creativi insoddisfatti"

Martin Luther King
3 commentiMareKromium
Moonlight.jpg
Moonlight.jpgDistortions... (Image Credit & Copyright: Giacomo Venturin)148 visite"...L'usanza comune a molti letterati di disprezzare il mondo moderno e' una maniera dissimulata di presumersi degni di un altro migliore..."

Aristide Gabelli
1 commentiMareKromium
Equinox_at_the_Pyramid_of_the_Feathered_Serpent.jpg
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)147 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…)

§§§

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.
1 commentiMareKromium
Sundogs.jpg
Sundogs.jpgThe "Sundogs", again146 visiteCaption NASA originale da "NASA - Picture of the Day" del 23 Agosto 1999 :"What if you woke up one morning and saw more than one Sun in the sky? Most probably, you would be seeing Sundogs, extra-images of the Sun created by falling ice-crystals in the Earth's atmosphere. As water freezes in the atmosphere, small, flat, six-sided, ice crystals might be formed. As these crystals flutter to the ground, much time is spent with their faces flat, parallel to the ground. An observer may pass through the same plane as many of the falling ice crystals near sunrise or sunset. During this alignment, each crystal can act like a miniature lens, refracting sunlight into our view and creating parhelia, the technical term for sundogs. Sundogs were photographed here in a cloudy sky above the Very Large Array of radio telescopes. A bright Sundog is visible on the far right, and a dim one on the far left. Ice-crystals can create other strange illusions of the Sun and Moon including halos and pillars".
Equinox.jpg
Equinox.jpgEquinox146 visite
Solar_Eclipse~2.jpg
Solar_Eclipse~2.jpgFeeding on the Sun...146 visite"Essere immortale è cosa da poco: tranne l'uomo, infatti, tutte le Creature lo sono, giacché ignorano la Morte. Ma la cosa Divina, Terribile ed Incomprensibile, è nel sapersi immortali..."

Jorge Luis Borges
14 commentiMareKromium
ZA-Green flash from the Sun.jpg
ZA-Green flash from the Sun.jpgAnother "green flash" from the Sun (Finland)145 visiteThe same phoenomenon represented by the previous picture.
thermal_trenches_1600.jpg
thermal_trenches_1600.jpgUncommon Mistake145 visite
MoonMercMonaco_jacques_full.jpg
MoonMercMonaco_jacques_full.jpgThe Moon and Mercury, from Monaco (FRA)144 visiteUna falce di Luna ed una piccola scintilla, piuttosto alta nel cielo della sera: Mercurio.
Una bella immagine che ci arriva dalla Francia e che ha trovato spazio anche nella Rubrica "NASA - Picture of the Day".
Questa la caption originale:"Low on the western horizon after sunset, a slender crescent Moon and wandering planet Mercury join the lights of Menton and Monaco along the French Riviera. Astronomer Vincent Jacques took advantage of this gorgeous photo opportunity a week ago on March 11, when the Moon and Mercury were separated in the sky by just 3°. Of course, the Moon in a slender crescent phase is always seen near the horizon, as is Mercury - a bright planet which can be difficult to glimpse as it never strays far from the Sun in Earth's sky. In the coming days good views of Mercury will indeed be fleeting as the Solar System's innermost planet is rapidly dropping closer to the glare of the setting Sun".
RingOfFire.jpg
RingOfFire.jpgThe "Ring of Fire"144 visite"...Fides facit Fidem..."

(Binder)

"...La Fede genera la Fede..."
71 commentiMareKromium
BlackSun in Antarctica.jpg
BlackSun in Antarctica.jpgBlack Sun in Antarctica (November 2003)142 visitenessun commento
476 immagini su 40 pagina(e) 1 - 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 - 40

 
 

Powered by Coppermine Photo Gallery