Tuesday, September 23, 2008
It is far away
It is far away. Blue against the infinite blackness. A little dot amongst a myriad of other little dots. If I could sigh I would. If I could feel I would be melancholy. From here there is a stillness. An appearance of calm so unlike the pandemonium the last minutes have wrought. The news streams filter in from the webring and I watch several simultaneously in my minds eye as I watch and wait for the end. The chattering clicks and clacks describe the horrors in excruciating details. In an instant I recheck the status of the waiting portal just behind me. My escape, my sanctuary from the fate of those I have come to observe. This moon like many others, free of atmosphere, affords a spectacular view of the inner planets, in conjunction as they are now they will all burn one after the other. As I watch the numbers dwindle on a holoprog superimposed over a close in view of this systems star it amuses me to think of the long count that in a moment will come to an end. No, not the long count of the Mayans, that count has long since run it's course. I consider instead the billions of years that I have counted down to this inevitable moment. The stars fuel is spent and it will soon consume the inner planets. I have chronicled every detail of every weather pattern, every species and their weblike meanderings through evolution, every tectonic shift, every civilization and a trillion trillion other bits of data. Gaia-Artemis-Devi-Shakti-Mother-Nature is a fickle mistress. In your mind I have come through time. In the mind of a shallow three dimensional being stuck in linear time I am magical. In the end I have come to tell you that you are not special. You are nothing in the long count of the endless multiverse. Burn brightly in the time that you have for when that flame is gone you will be no more.
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First of all, it's great reading and seeing someone who doesn't blog about their families or infertility. Anyway, this post was really awesome. Most likely, I'm missing but to me it meant that earth is just a little ball of dirt in the infinite darkness. And the end is sooner than we think. Regular people think people who think this way are dark and deep. It's not! It's knowing that the end was always going to come. But when people hear something like Y2K or 2012 all of the sudden it comes back to them that a end is possible. People who aren't afraid of the end, because they knew it was coming eventually, they just look at people and say, "You think the human race is so awesome. You just forget that in a little while none of this will matter. It's ok, just go on living your life. It's not my fault when your surprised by the end." Once again, I apologize if I missed the point but that's just what it said to me. I not only love this message cause that's the way I think too but it's so awesomely written! I write some poetry but now I'm like afraid to put it up cause it's crap compared to your awesome writing. You've got a follower. I hope we'll keep in contact
~Athena Mew
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