From Spike Jonze’s new film, Where the Wild Things Are, based on the classic Maurice Sendak book. Neither the book nor (apparently) the movie are pablum. Via io9 (spoilers at that link).
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From Spike Jonze’s new film, Where the Wild Things Are, based on the classic Maurice Sendak book. Neither the book nor (apparently) the movie are pablum. Via io9 (spoilers at that link).
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Oh, man. Never mind kids, kind of dark for *adults*.
Definition of die includes:
1 : to pass from physical life : expire
2 a : to pass out of existence : cease b : to disappear or subside gradually —often used with away, down, or out
Our sun:
A t the end of the Sun’s life time it will begin to fuse helium into heavier elements causing it to swell up. It will ultimately swell so large that it will consume the Earth. During this phase of its existence the sun is known as a red giant. A billion years later it will collapse into a white dwarf which is the final end product of a star like ours. It will take as much as a trillion years to completely cool off.
Say, what does come after dust?
Fear.
After dust?
Reunion with the infinitely infinite universe, i.e, nature.
Of course we were never really separated from nature in the first place, but rather just taking a temporarily finite form. 🙂
Fear is the product of a lack of understanding.
Yours in nature,
RLO
http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
“What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow
Out of this stony rubbish? Son of man,
You cannot say, or guess, for you know only
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats,
And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief,
And the dry stone no sound of water. Only
There is shadow under this red rock,
(Come in under the shadow of this red rock),
And I will show you something different from either
Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”
– TS Eliot
‘The man who understands nature thinks of nothing less than the topic of death, especially his/her own.’
Spinoza
See Stuart Hampshire’s book “Spinoza and Spinozism” for a philosophy that is not based on fear or tooth fairies.
RLO
http://www.amherst.edu/~rloldershaw
SPINOZA VERY WELL BUT MARX AND ME BEST
WAEL MOREICHEH
POET
What comes after Dust?
Consciousness, of course.
(Couldn’t help throwing in another literary reference.)
Like Woody Allen said (more or less): I don’t want to achieve
immortality by shedding my finite form and reuniting with the
universe.
I want to achieve immortality by not dying.
How is it that Sun is going to die ? Was not it bought by Oracle? 🙂
The Sun is going to die!!!…. Does Phil P. know about this?
Yes, the sun is going to die. Slowly and painfully, shedding bitter tears from puppy-dog eyes. And it will be our fault.