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Current Events => The DUmpster => Topic started by: AzJames73 on December 21, 2017, 11:05:14 AM
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MineralMan (101,479 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218263167
When I was a child, I thought as a child.
I'd go out at night and look up. All those stars were clearly just out of reach, high in the sky. But, they were close. I knew that because I could see them. It was awesome, but I couldn't understand much about them.
Later, as I grew up, I learned more and understood more about our local solar system and galaxy. Then, I learned about the Universe and its scale. It was literally awesome. What an amazing thing!
And the more I learned, the more I understood about my insignificant place in that Universe. Oddly enough, that never bothered me. Instead, I found it fascinating and it led to a growing sense of wonder. The more I learned as I got older and studied higher mathematics and physics, the more awed I became. Along the way, I also learned biology, geology, mineralogy and other sciences well enough to understand planetary and biological processes, like evolution and speciation. I experienced even more awe at how insignificant I was in an almost infinitely complex Universe.
When I was a child, I accepted childish, uninformed explanations of things. As I grew into an informed adult, those explanations were no longer sufficient for me. In fact, they seemed sillier and sillier with the passage of time. Today, as a 71-year-old man who has spent his entire life learning in many areas and disciplines, I realize that knowing everything is impossible, but knowing as much as possible is a worthwhile way to spend one's brief life.
I am insignificant. I almost understand how insignificant. It is a wonderful thing to know. I get to spend a brief flash of time becoming aware of how insignificant I truly am. How awesome that is! It is more than enough. It has been a blast, and I'm not done yet!
You still do.
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This is what "warp" level virtue signaling looks like.
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You are less then insignificant George. :loser:
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As a child, Rockhead ate too much lint out of his bellybutton. He still does.
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I am insignificant. I almost understand how insignificant. It is a wonderful thing to know. I get to spend a brief flash of time becoming aware of how insignificant I truly am. How awesome that is! It is more than enough. It has been a blast, and I'm not done yet!
In addition to being insignificant you are also irrelevant, useless and a waste of oxygen, food and water.
Have a nice day. :loser:
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“When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― C.S. Lewis
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I am insignificant. I almost understand how insignificant. It is a wonderful thing to know. I get to spend a brief flash of time becoming aware of how insignificant I truly am. How awesome that is! It is more than enough. It has been a blast, and I'm not done yet!
The significance of your insignificance is significant
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You are less then insignificant George. :loser:
Doesn't even need a Total Perspective Vortex. A mirror will do.
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Sounds like a passive-aggressive swipe at his latest theist bogeyman.
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“When I became a man I put away childish things, and took up sex, booze and rock & roll!! :-)
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Today, as a 71-year-old man who has spent his entire life learning in many areas and disciplines, I realize that knowing everything is impossible, but knowing as much as possible is a worthwhile way to spend one's brief life.
The dipshit fancies himself quite the renaissance man.
Get a haircut you dirthead.
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“When I became a man I put away childish things, and took up sex, booze and rock & roll!! :-)
I am basically a child that gets drunk and pays bills. :-)
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And now you aren't even thinking as well as does a child, MM. You look at a piece of art and marvel at the artist's creativity; you look at a computer or car and appreciate the engineers' design skills. Then you look at the world and universe that are far more beautiful and intricate and refuse to recognize its Designer-Creator.
A child thinks better than you, MM.
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When MM was a child, he thought as a child.
As an adult and DUmmie, he STILL thinks as a child...
This is what liberals call "Progress"
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As a child, Rockhead ate too much lint out of his bellybutton. He still does.
He is definitely a window licker.
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He is definitely a window licker.
The lead based painted kind of windows...
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MineralMan (101,479 posts) https://www.democraticunderground.com/1218263167
When I was a child, I thought as a child.
Really no need for the past tense construction in that sentence.