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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to
I… got lucky
Not on the garden, I hope! You might have damaged the plants. ;-)
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to
no it’s indoor in this glass house
Ah! Your hint of blue sky had me fooled.
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Capture: Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand, in reply to
It’s in the Wintergarden, which gives it a head start I guess.
Crikey, outdoor cymbidiums, must be Auckland! ;-)
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…without breaking anything.
Ahhh, how very beautiful, Jack and Sophie, thank you!
Jackson is the orchid yours? I have one very similar that’s only just starting to open.
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to
blanched?
Quite! :-)
Don't see those inky blacks so much these days. Or the more subtle whites. Digital highlights burn out so easily.ETA this could be The Night of The Cart?
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Capture: The Night Time Is The Right Time, in reply to
Bus stop and Duke of Wellington’s Herne Bay
Ghostly! Great shot.
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Perhaps this is a good moment for a slice of Good Omens :
God does not play dice with the universe: He plays an ineffable game of His own devising, which might be compared, from the perspective of any of the other players [i.e. everybody], to being involved in an obscure and complex variant of poker in a pitch-dark room, with blank cards, for infinite stakes, with a Dealer who won't tell you the rules, and who smiles all the time .
-Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to
there is an infinite amount of mental space…
more than a cathedral, more than a city,
even on standby visualising power it can
hold a perceived universe together
observing, absorbing, recording…while we are
getting further
seeing smaller
going where……but in the cranial dark
how do we light our dreams?
where do the photons come from?
I really wanna know…Thanks for that, Ian. Me too. :-)
Amy, I think about gods and godlessness and meaning and purpose all the time .
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to
Those who think science is just another religion
Is anyone actually saying that?
Well, it seemed like there were a few of you saying faith in science was just like religious faith. I'm glad if you think it isn't. (and thanks for the clarification, Chris).
And I'm glad you're not advocating Pascal's Wager, Kracklite, I thought you were. And my reference to dice wasn't meant to be about physics, particularly, just the whole idea of gambling.
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Up Front: The Up-Front Guides: The…, in reply to
you are assigning motives to the belief of others
No, I'm explaining what some of the implications of Pascal's Wager are.