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trendal
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Dust in the wind...
#4419531 - 07/18/05 02:56 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Sometimes, when the conditions are just right, a few billion individual grains of dust will come together and form something new...something that is "more" than the sum of all those grains. Something that, while its constituent parts existed before, did not itself "exist" until the conditions were right and the grains came together. Something that is entirely "unlikely" to exist...when all we look at is the grains themselves.
Thus a dust devil comes to life. It twirls around, seemingly at random (obeying its own "free choice"), perhaps picking up some small leaves or rubbish along the way.
Then, always, it comes to an end. The conditions change, no longer able to support it. As quickly as this dust devil came into being, it collapses and ceases to be. The parts, the grains, do not cease to exist...but the larger whole, the "dust devil", does not exist any longer.
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Edited by trendal (07/18/05 03:14 PM)
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Daytripper420
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4419545 - 07/18/05 03:00 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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cool?
-------------------- Turn on, Tune in, Drop out.
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LethalX5
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thats deep.....
-------------------- "To get what you've never had, You must do what you've never done."
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trendal
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: LethalX5]
#4419582 - 07/18/05 03:08 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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It would have been even deeper if I posted it in the right damned forum
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
Edited by trendal (07/18/05 03:15 PM)
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adrug
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4419598 - 07/18/05 03:11 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Aww, you should've just left it. It was a great analogy.
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LethalX5
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: adrug]
#4419604 - 07/18/05 03:13 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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ya i liked it.
-------------------- "To get what you've never had, You must do what you've never done."
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trendal
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: adrug]
#4419616 - 07/18/05 03:15 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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Well for you....it's back
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Once, men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.
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adrug
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4419618 - 07/18/05 03:15 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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much betta!
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TYL3R
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4420437 - 07/18/05 06:58 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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sWeet.
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automan
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4420512 - 07/18/05 07:18 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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should... have.... sent.... a..... poet.....
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emptywisdom
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Re: Dust in the wind... [Re: trendal]
#4420830 - 07/18/05 08:48 PM (18 years, 8 months ago) |
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this had to be done
I close my eyes, only for a moment, and the moment's gone All my dreams, pass before my eyes, a curiosity Dust in the wind, all they are is dust in the wind. Same old song, just a drop of water in an endless sea All we do, crumbles to the ground, though we refuse to see
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind
[Now] Don't hang on, nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky It slips away, and all your money won't another minute buy.
Dust in the wind, all we are is dust in the wind Dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind.
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