"Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the "Milky Way".
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth."
The Meaning of Life by Eric Idle & John Du Prez
Take this for what it is... comment on your thoughts on the meaning of life. KKthx
1 comment:
I think meaning is all completely relative. I no longer see a difference between cars, fashion, music, hair, architecture, nature, or watercolors. Clearly I enjoy different things for different amounts of time in different ways but I don't see a reason anymore why anything is more meaningful than anything else. It's all relative.
"But look how big this canyon is! How spectacular these mountains are! How magnificent the ocean is! It is truly an amazing creation from mother nature and has far more meaning than that girl over there's trendy shoes."
I don't think either have any meaning and both can be appreciated.
I feel similarly about the trendwhore who doesn't enjoy a good hike as I do for the hippy who looks down upon others for caring about their appearance.
I told Dan Entmacher at my house during Christmas break that I don't see any more meaning in music than I do in clothing anymore and he disagreed although we never got to discuss it. I would like to know your thoughts on all this sometime. Clearly there are reasonable lines that can be drawn with things and I still think anybody that spends all their money on clothes or a fancy car is a moron.
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