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Your Text: Insert Slimies » Insert UBB Code » Close Last Tag \| All Tags UBB Help	In a world of uncertainty... I found myself seeking some solid foundation upon which to build my life. I left the monastery of the Brothers of Charity when I was thirteen, after a year or so of studying and prayer. I then turned to Secondary modern school, taught by rote the basics of education, science, languages. Teenage enquiring minds took too much time from beleaguered underpaid teachers and their educational schedule. Thinks I, start with basic principles, what is matter? What is the world made of? I did not realise I was standing next to the abyss, and as I gazed into it for clues, my world changed, evaporated before my unblinking eyes. [url=http://www.particleadventure.org/frameless/startstandard.html] What is the world made of?[/url] Atoms?, well no, because atoms are made of other things. Fundamental particles? There again we find that even these particles, protons and neutrons, are composed of even smaller particles called quarks. As far as we know, quarks are like points in geometry. They're not made up of anything else. So, as far as I can manage to comprehend, the world, universe, everything is made of nothing! The Abyss does not only engulf from outside, it consumes from within. Science, telling me that all is nothing? [quote] [b]Tao Te Ching by LAO TSU Translation by Gia Fu Feng and Jane English[/b] Thirty spokes share the wheel's hub; It is the center hole that makes it useful. Shape clay into a vessel; It is the space within that makes it useful. Cut doors and windows for a room; It is the holes that make it useful. Therefore profit comes from what is there; Usefulness from what is not there.[/quote] SO what [i]is[/i] our universe, our world? [quote]All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: [/quote] This post is long enough I feel, so I'd like to "round off" with some more quotations which I feel are very pertinent to our journey of discovery. Please stick with it if you can for I'm sure they will help. [quote] [b]Shakespeare - The Tempest Act 4, scene 1, 148?158[/b] Our revels now are ended. These our actors, As I foretold you, were all spirits, and Are melted into air, into thin air: And like the baseless fabric of this vision, The cloud-capp'd tow'rs, the gorgeous palaces, The solemn temples, the great globe itself, Yea, all which it inherit, shall dissolve, And, like this insubstantial pageant faded, Leave not a rack behind. We are such stuff As dreams are made on; and our little life Is rounded with a sleep.[/quote] [quote] [b]Shakespeare - (from Hamlet 3/1)[/b] To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them? To die: to sleep; No more; and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to, 'tis a consummation Devoutly to be wish'd. To die, to sleep; To sleep: perchance to dream: ay, there's the rub; For in that sleep of death what dreams may come When we have shuffled off this mortal coil, Must give us pause: there's the respect That makes calamity of so long life; For who would bear the whips and scorns of time, The oppressor's wrong, the proud man's contumely, The pangs of despised love, the law's delay, The insolence of office and the spurns That patient merit of the unworthy takes, When he himself might his quietus make With a bare bodkin? who would fardels bear, To grunt and sweat under a weary life, But that the dread of something after death, The undiscover'd country from whose bourn No traveller returns, puzzles the will And makes us rather bear those ills we have Than fly to others that we know not of? Thus conscience does make cowards of us all;[/quote] [url=http://www.particleadventure.org/] Begin the Particle Adventure here[/url] [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/5635] [img]http://www.digitao.co.uk/sigs/taoboogie.gif[/img] [/url] [i]Those who look for monsters should look to it that they do not become monsters. For when you gaze long into the abyss, the abyss also gazes into you.[/i] [small](Edited by [url=http://www.ozoneasylum.com/user/4175]Tao[/url] on 06-26-2008 03:07)[/small] Loading...
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