The ancient sentinel wall defended for hundreds of years. Yet it faded into obscurity just another piece of landscape. The ground began to quake the thunder of an enemy that was absorbed into the culture was released and came knocking. The wall came with it. #BookishTues
Category: Philosophy
Poem – The War Prayer by Mark Twain
The War Prayer by Mark Twain It was a time of great and exalting excitement. The country was up in arms, the war was on, in every breast burned the holy fire of patriotism; the drums were beating, the bands playing, the toy pistols popping, the bunched firecrackers hissing and spluttering; on every hand and …
Twitter Reverie – The final countdown
The ship tumbled in the fingers of the ancient force. Her crew long dead as it is rolled and thrashed about. The force took a final aim and sent the ship towards the shore. The populated portion. A vessel that once brought goods is now bringing the end. #bookishtues
Quote – Incomplete state of knowledge
It is a strange fact, characteristic of the incomplete state of our present knowledge, that totally opposing conclusions are drawn about prehistoric conditions on our planet, depending on whether the problem is approached from the biological or the geophysical viewpoint. — Alfred L. Wegener In The Origins of Continents and Oceans (4th ed. 1929), trans. …
Twitter Reverie – Engine of destruction
I am far better versed at the engine of destruction than of the complicated mess that is human interaction.
Quotes of Awesome – You people cannot handle it
"When you talk about the mental health problems, when people come back from war and combat and they see things that maybe a lot of folks in this room have seen many times over and you're strong and you can handle it but a lot of people can't handle it. They see horror stories, they …
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Twitter Reverie -Skeleton gas
The first evacuation of the planet did not fare well in their gamble for survival. The wave that blasted away most of the Eastern atmosphere also visited the outbound flotilla. The ships and their skeleton crew will wander the ocean the life-giving gas just feet away. #1linewed
