Hear ye, hear ye

[Meem]

A man off the street walks into the pub, in the midst of all the hub-bub, and calls attention to an article in question. Instantly everyone has their own copy to read and can speak. The news of a strange dance, but not in this place, but all around in the depths of space.

http://www.space.com/scienceastronom...le_030924.html

"For only a few percent of its 240 million-year orbit around the Milky Way Galaxy does our solar system pass through the path of Sagittarius debris," Majewski said. "Remarkably, stars from Sagittarius are now raining down onto our present position in the Milky Way. Stars from an alien galaxy are relatively near us."

This is what attracts his attention the most. The Earth, the lord of hosts. Long ago when first passed by, visitors came and said arise arise. Now the time is coming when they should pass again, but do they come to find a new begining or the foretold end? Could they find just one, if only one friend? Should I stay or should I go, is our rock doomed and theirs safe to show? Or is it the other-way around, and soon they will come to stake a claim intergalactic refugees caught out in the stellar rain?

[labelwench]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSh5...eature=related

[Meem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIGPU...eature=related

[labelwench]

Another of life's coincidences......I was going to post that song just moments before, then decided that "From a Distance" was more applicable to the theme of the thread.

My logic and intuition circuits are frequently in conflict, lol....

For you, Meem, and for all other TOE Questers, may I offer the following interpretation of the same song by The Kelly Family.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iJ8he...eature=related

Best regards,

Lorrina

[labelwench]

Laura Smith with her interpretation of the poignant classic lullabye, My Bonnie.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DwrAHpfScs

And so I lay this day to rest.....pleasant dreams to all.

[Meem]

District 9, a strange movie.

[labelwench]

Ah, yes. There are many ways to conquer. Assimilation by means of DNA manipulation could be effective, as our DNA determines far more about us than Science has yet established.

What was the outcome in District 9, or was the audience left hanging?

District 9 Movie Synopsis
Over twenty years ago, aliens made first contact with Earth. Humans waited for the hostile attack, or the giant advances in technology. Neither came. Instead, the aliens were refugees from their home world. The creatures were set up in a makeshift home in South Africa's District 9 as the world's nations argued over what to do with them.

Now, patience over the alien situation has run out. Control over the aliens has been contracted out to Multi-National United (MNU), a private company uninterested in the aliens' welfare. MNU will receive tremendous profits if they can make the aliens' powerful weaponry work. So far, they have failed; activation of the weaponry requires alien DNA.

The tension between the aliens and the humans comes to a head when MNU begins evicting the non-humans from District 9, with MNU field agents responsible for moving them to a new camp. One of the MNU field operatives, Wikus van der Merwe (Sharlto Copley), contracts an alien virus that begins changing his DNA. Wikus quickly becomes the most hunted man in the world, as well as the most valuable—he is the key to unlocking the secrets of alien technology. Ostracized and friendless, there is only one place left for him to hide: District 9.

[Meem]

SPOILER--FOR DISTRICT 9

Meem thought it was a good outcome in an odd sort of way. The humans ... seemed like jerks. MNU, dirty, power hungry bastards.

And the audience was left hanging. The alien the earthling helped, he left in the ship with his son. It took 20 years to collect "the fluid" which is what powered the ship/tech, and which is also the same fluid that transformed the human. One of them leaves in a ship with his son, and the humans fear that when he returns maybe ... he returns with war. I would suppose, it would be what the ones who cant see deserve ... for what they did to them.

[Meem]

Meem,

In is his dreams, and ... somewhere else while awake ... feels as if ... he is under a micro-scope. The irony he ponders in the situation is the macro-scope. Yet, he can't exactly thumb the riddle just yet. Perhaps he should meditate and still his mind, so that he can find the micro fit for his macro. Where to go, whom to meet. So very strange these days have become. He makes his own T-shirt, with the thought inspired from another ... "this is not here," "needle in a haystack." He wonders, "am I really from this place ... it doesn't feel like it at all." What is he missing?

[labelwench]

An old song, with a timeless message, Less Of Me, GlenCampbell.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2OnZyGhYic


LESS OF ME

Let me be a little kinder
Let me be a little blinder
To the faults of those about me
Let me praise a little more

Let me be when I am weary
Just a little bit more cheery
Think a little more of others
And a little less of me



Let me be a little braver
When temptation bids me waver
Let me strive a little harder
To be all that I should be

Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker
Let me think more of my neighbor
And a little less of me



Let me be when I am weary
Just a little bit more cheery
Let me serve a little better
Those that I am strivin' for

Let me be a little meeker
With the brother that is weaker
Think a little more of others
And a little less of me


Regards,

Labelwench