What point on Earth is farthest from its centre?
Hint: It’s not Mt Everest.?
Adam J Taylor
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Postgraduate researcher in The School of Pharmacy at The University of Nottingham.
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Journey away from the center of the Earth
“To feel you in my veins like God in the rivers
and adore you in the sorrowful bones of dust and lime.”
— Pablo Neruda (via Kashif Nadim Chaudry)
The 9/11 Letters, Naomi Alderman
Naomi Alderman’s break up letter to God following the events of September 11th, 2001, commissioned for the BBC’s Book of the Week, is a truly poignant, painful reflection.
“But you don’t leave me alone. Of course you don’t. When did you leave anyone alone who just asked you nicely. I’ve had a whole life around you to unpick: My family still love you, my dear friends don’t understand how I could leave you. My new friends, who’ve never met you, can’t understand why I was with you at all—and that’s another kind of loneliness.
“Again and again I’ve tried to root you out, only to find that I learned your ways so well, so young that my whole brain grew up around you. It’s not that you’ve ever stopped talking to me. But just that I’ve had to learn how not to listen.”
“Hello Airplanes? It’s Blimps, You Win.”
I can’t quite bring myself to submit this to fuckyeahairships.
(Source: youtube.com)
“Love justice, you that are the judges of the earth. Think of the Lord in goodness, and seek him in simplicity of heart.”
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Something to share with my Father. One day.
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Tenebrae: Turtle Dove - Trad arr R Vaughan Williams
Our secret weddings
I’d always thought that I’d want to be married (One day, one day. Have patience) in a big ceremony, but having read these stories of secret weddings the thought of a small sunlit chapel, with just one or two close friends and God as witnesses, is immensely appealing.
“It is one thing for scientists to oppose creationism which is demonstrably false but quite another to make pronouncements which offend people’s religious faith — that is a form of tactlessness which merely brings science into disrepute. My view of religion and ethics is simple: even if we do not believe in God, we should try to live as though we did.”
— Max Perutz (THE, Nov 1994).
