The Beauty of the Moon

[Bunk]

What a cheerful life you must lead:

"Daddy isn't this beetle beautiful!"
"It's just pigment to warn birds not to eat it."

"Daddy look at the sunset!"
"It's just sunlight reflecting off pollution in the atmosphere"

Rubbish. Just because someone doesn't believe in God, doesn't mean they can't appreciate beauty in nature. We disagree over how and why it is the way it is, not over the end result.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Rubbish. Just because someone doesn't believe in God, doesn't mean they can't appreciate beauty in nature. We disagree over how and why it is the way it is, not over the end result.

In a way perhaps thats what the Poet Robert Burns said :


The voice of Nature loudly cries,
And many a message from the skies,
That something in us never dies.

R Burns New Year's Day, st. 3 (1790)

[d000hg]

Rubbish. Just because someone doesn't believe in God, doesn't mean they can't appreciate beauty in nature. We disagree over how and why it is the way it is, not over the end result.

I didn't mean all atheists. Just him in particular.

[RichardCranium]

What a cheerful life you must lead:

"Daddy isn't this beetle beautiful!"
"It's just pigment to warn birds not to eat it."

"Daddy look at the sunset!"
"It's just sunlight reflecting off pollution in the atmosphere"

There is immense fascination and beauty to be seen in understanding the mathematics and physics of the world around us. It is indeed cheerful, to spot the Fibonacci series in your own garden, to see a spectrum on the surface of a puddle, to be able to see a fluffy cloud and know it will turn into a thundercloud so you bring in the picnic without getting wet.

There is more beauty, interest, joy and fulfilment to be had in knowledge and the empowerment of being able to affect the world around you than lurking in some dark, dusty stone building praying on your knees for mercy from an imaginary unknowable Big Thing.

Yes, it is cheerful.

[Churchill]

There is immense fascination and beauty to be seen in understanding the mathematics and physics of the world around us. It is indeed cheerful, to spot the Fibonacci series in your own garden, to see a spectrum on the surface of a puddle, to be able to see a fluffy cloud and know it will turn into a thundercloud so you bring in the picnic without getting wet.

There is more beauty, interest, joy and fulfilment to be had in knowledge and the empowerment of being able to affect the world around you than lurking in some dark, dusty stone building praying on your knees for mercy from an imaginary unknowable Big Thing.

Yes, it is cheerful.

Some people get a lot of comfort from their faith. It is most uncharitable to try and remove that faith.

[d000hg]

Typical evangelical atheist, can't resist an opportunity to spout his views without being asked. Obviously ok for him to do this, but wrong for religious folk to act in just the same way, because he knows he's right.

[Menelaus]

Some people get a lot of comfort from their faith. It is most uncharitable to try and remove that faith.

WHS.

As a former medic my view on religion and faith was that it doesn't matter what my beliefs are: if you get comfort from it I've no right to tackle your faith.

There's also some (mainly anecdotal) evidence that having a long-held belief or faith can help with healing times.

[AlfredJPruffock]

Perhaps if you are standing on another World as an Astronaut and seeing your insignificance in the Cosmos - the awareness of - an 'UnSeen Love' permeating the Universe must be a tremendous solace.


Personally I can relate to this perception of an 'Unseen Love' - as a child I recall visiting the coastal town of Troon near where I live in Scotland.



There were some rock pools on the sea front - I was gazing into the pool observing the little creaturess (winkles , crabs etc) crawling around - they were in turn unaware that I was watching them.



Suddenly I looked up at the sky - I was aware that I was being observed by an Infinite Invisible Power - in the same fashion that I was observing the little creatures in the pond.


Altough I could not 'see' this Entity with my eyes - I knew it was very real - it was an 'UnSeen Love' and I realised then - that I was not alone.


Now - some 45 years later - I can look at the sky and still sense that Infinite Unseen Love - and there's nothing to say, there's nothing to do - and there's nowhere to go.


And thats why - I find the Moon so beautiful.


Because I am not alone.

[singhr]

It is a vanguard posting; a test of weakness.

What the flips a vanguard posting? All the pics I've seen show a near perfect fit and I've always thought it odd. For the record I don't believe in G*d and didn't intend the post as some kind of sh*t stir.

[EternalOptimist]

Perhaps if you are standing on another World as an Astronaut and seeing your insignificance in the Cosmos - the awareness of - an 'UnSeen Love' permeating the Universe must be a tremendous solace.


Personally I can relate to this perception of an 'Unseen Love' - as a child I recall visiting the coastal town of Troon near where I live in Scotland.



There were some rock pools on the sea front - I was gazing into the pool observing the little creaturess (winkles , crabs etc) crawling around - they were in turn unaware that I was watching them.



Suddenly I looked up at the sky - I was aware that I was being observed by an Infinite Invisible Power - in the same fashion that I was observing the little creatures in the pond.


Altough I could not 'see' this Entity with my eyes - I knew it was very real - it was an 'UnSeen Love' and I realised then - that I was not alone.


Now - some 45 years later - I can look at the sky and still sense that Infinite Unseen Love - and there's nothing to say, there's nothing to do - and there's nowhere to go.


And thats why - I find the Moon so beautiful.


Because I am not alone.

Alf
my friend


I had crabs once, I didnt look down on those little fckers with infinite unseen love.

I guess some of us are born to be the loved ones, some are born to be Gods crabs.