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Life In Deep Space - Air Added

Life in Deep Space (Air Added)
True freedom can feel like an exquisite jail, our colonized space bound by bars that we love. Childs’ nutrition once favored, a lap dance now passé, our restaurants change with new owners (when chefs find new orbits), food served fades as children leave home fires (in trying new wings, seems youth rarely look back)! Moms are left with learned spice tricks but few mouths to feed and all pops have less impact as children find voices, write poems that resonate just in youths’ ears! And most parents scratch heads, though they’ve pride in teens’ flight, fear bairns’ orbits are fractured, don’t sport a real center (a God that they circle), lack stars in the heavens wise view for direction, blood valued (whose gravity’s trusted). We cling now to hope childs’ genetics are sound. On leaving the earth, the first astronauts found a more humble perspective, sufficiency busted, the earth more a marble that floats, at its best a canoe (or a dog a tick feeds on), an owner or renter? A parasite maybe that stumbles on insight its host is quite fragile, though prey may lack tears, feels no pain, (or regret at humanity’s choices). But gravity’s well is as deep as this life’s need to know if God’s real! There’s some code we can hack to put God in a headlock? Can we kick the tires of what happens, post-life? Or is faith more defined as the best we can do, that’s not bluster or hearsay? The claim, “faith’s a lie,” is pure faith: can a joke win? By faith, God is real! Grace, God’s Science, can’t fail! Brian Johnston 15th of February in 2020

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Date: 6/29/2020 12:52:00 PM
good one....einstein called the existence of an actual logic (to the 'experience' of a universe) his idea of what a god is/might be....nietzche said ask your own questions and construct your universe from logic found (be as a creation god)….. stan sand
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