Joined: 2 Mar 2016 Age: 35 Gender: Male Posts: 545 Location: Kentucky
17 Mar 2016, 12:34 pm
_________________ “In the same way that you see a flower in a field, it’s really the whole field that is flowering, because the flower couldn’t exist in that particular place without the special surroundings of the field; you only find flowers in surroundings that will support them. So in the same way, you only find human beings on a planet of this kind, with an atmosphere of this kind, with a temperature of this kind- supplied by a convenient neighboring star. And so, as the flower is a flowering of the field, I feel myself as a personing- a manning- a peopling of the whole universe. –In other words, I, like everything else in the universe, seem to be a center… a sort of vortex, at which the whole energy of the universe realizes itself- comes alive… an aperture through which the whole universe is conscious of itself. In other words, I go with it as a center to a circumference.”~ Alan Watts
Surely I'm not the only one in this forum who loves this song...
_________________ "I Would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it."
-Thomas Jefferson
Adopted mother to a cat named Charlotte, and grandmother to 3 kittens.
Joined: 18 Jan 2016 Gender: Female Posts: 134 Location: Norway
18 Mar 2016, 6:12 pm
This song has been stuck in my head on many occasions in the past, i havent listened to it for a long time, since my phone which i use to play music 'died', but two days ago the song popped into my head, and I've been playing it in my head mentally, and humming it often since. I have always loved the entirety of the song, the lyrics, Nick Cave's magical voice, the melody, and a particular part of the song always gives me heavenly goosebumps starting at 03:50 into the song. The song in mind being, The Ship Song