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Speak Your Truth
Blue Voices Member
Blue Voices Member

Hello to you all from me ...

This is my first post and it feels like a good place to start, as I am really soooo tired of ‘my stuff.’ Sometimes there seems to be no end to one part of it in particular. As I’m a newbie I think I’ve misunderstood how this all works and most of this post I’ve put in a reply to White Knight, so I’m starting again

Croix might not know about The Legend of 1900 but I do. I’ve got it on DVD and last saw it a long time ago. I must watch it again - it is a great movie

Does anyone else ever think to themselves “no one thinks like I do, no one understands ... “ ? I do, but online recently I came across someone who does think like me, but unfortunately we don’t know each other 😕. This is some of what I read ...

”I find myself lost in admiration for the things human beings can build. The urban landscape is an incredibly complex combination of architecture, engineering and science. Where has the mysterious human mind come from? Things like giant gravity defying bridges and skyscrapers amaze me. Buildings in cities have lifts moving up and down inside them, and electricity and water flowing through pipes in the walls. Every room has machines and appliances running on this electricity. People are in these rooms communicating with others across the world on their computers. Jets fly across the sky and cars fill the roads, stopping and starting at traffic lights run by computers. All of the building materials that make a city are taken out of the Earth. By some sort of magic concrete, bricks, steel and glass are sculpted into all sorts of interesting shapes. For millions of years the night was dark on this planet but now it is alive with colour and light. Cities are visible from space in this age. Everything from the smallest house to the most massive skyscraper has been dreamt up and designed by a person, engineered by someone else and then constructed by a builder. If you were born one thousand years ago you could never have imagined what this modern world be like. The story of our civilisation amazes me and ... “. Very eloquent words by the writer don’t you think ?

Celebrity news and reality tv doesn’t cut it for me. Where are the people who think like the writer of these eloquent words ? Are you out there in this forum ?

bye for now everyone 😀

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BballJ
Community Member

Hi Speak Your Truth,

What a very interesting post, I enjoyed reading how that was written, where did you find that piece of writing if I may ask?

It actually amazes me when I read it how much is true and how far mankind has come to allow these things to be built.

My best for you,

Jay


Actually Jay I’m not sure I should have posted this excerpt at all - I’m wondering now if I’ve breached the copyright or something 😳🤭. Anyway the writer is a Brisbane artist (painter) called Robert Brownhall - the above, and more, is in his CV. It’s great isn’t it !

Hello Speak Your Truth, and can I welcome you to the site.

The wonders of what we can build, how we can communicate and our ability to do so, is remarkable without any doubt, but we have the tools to do all of this, whereas my fascination goes way back in time where we didn't have any equipment but perfection existed.

If you go into any church in, say Rome, not that I have been there, or a court room and look at the carpentry and how defined it is with posts carved out in particular detail, even all around and smooth, how did they do it?

Small carvings can be explained, but the many questions of how they could perfect such amazing brilliance in perfect detail, makes us wonder whether us with all the knowledge and constant upgrading of new equipment is better than centuries ago when they only had their bare hands.

For me, it was centuries ago, because now we have the technology and availability to produce items every single day. Geoff.

Hello and thank you for your welcome Geoff

yes, the wonders and mysteries of human achievements from long, long ago are hugely fascinating to me as well, of course. The Pantheon in Rome is incredible and of course it is just one of countless achievements by humans all around the world.

bye for now 😊

bronte
Community Member

Hi Speak Your Truth,

Doesn't the world amaze you.. I have always liked engineering, architecture, technology.. to see how things are made.

Do you ever wonder why humankind isnt further ahead than we are considering some of the inventions in history.

I am watching a house being built next door and they are now using flexible hoses intsead of pipe work for plumbing. I suppose it saves money.

Have a good day all 🙂

Bronte