A militant INDEPENDENT democratic socialist's attempt to expose the truth of our culture – in all its rich irony and absurdity.
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Friday, October 11, 2024
♪♪♪ Lullaby 4 HOURS ♪♪ Twinkle Twinkle Little Star Instrumental ❤ Baby r...
[ .... " the Ancient Greeks had many ideas about what stars were. Almost all of them consider the stars as being something that exists on, or in, a massive sphere of darkness that surrounds the rest of the Heavens. In some cosmologies they are pin-pricks in this dark sphere (with a sphere of fire on the outside of it), in some they are something embedded in said sphere (e.g. fiery stones or planets). In all of these cases they are not nearly as far away as we now know them to be — distances on the order of billions of light years were not readily contemplated (and still give one pause today when one considers how distant that really is). To put it into perspective, Ptolemy (a Roman scholar of a somewhat later period) estimated the fixed stars to be 20,000 Earth radii away. In reality the closest stars are about 6.25 x 109 Earth radii distant — a hugely larger number, and most are much further than that. " ]
The child's voice in the nursery rhyme should never ever lose that SENSE OF WONDER. In elementary school it might think about many other wonders before they cease to seem wonderful : what is your SOUL made of, what is MIND , what is MATTER , what is LIFE , what is DEATH. What is LIGHT , what is HEAT , what is SOUND, what is ELECTRICITY , what is ENERGY , what is GRAVITY what is THE UNIVERSE ?
And the child- like the famous scientist Albert Einstein- can still be asking himself or herself these very same questions near the END OF LIFE .
Einstein thought that IMAGINATION is even more important than KNOWLEDGE . So even adults could benefit from reading Fairy Tales.
[ " Fairytales can come true, it can happen to you
If you're young at heart
For it's hard, you will find, to be narrow of mind
If you're young at heart " , popular Frank Sinatra song ]
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