(no subject)

Are you damned?

Though you are leaving this life in God's grace, you haven't quite been able to stop youself from sinning. Our God is an angry God, and requires that you serve your time in limbo before you pass through the pearly gates. Some theologians believe that while you are resting here you won't know that eventually you will reach heaven, causing terrible doubts and hopeless speculation. Good luck.

aynnoromo - yes, yes I would.

delchi - Either call him Armadillo or Roland

coyotegoth - Words. The eternal search for the perfect expression of thought or deed, the yearning to say something great or terrible and to say it well.

goodbye

Columbia fell from the sky, a burning star

This was the first thing I say when I checked the news this afternoon.
And yes, I'm crying. Not because I knew any of these astronauts personally, but because I think the space program is one of the greatest, most ambitious things we have done as a people. We reach for something so beyond these frail mortal bodies, the most grand plane of this natural world. Space.


Godspeed all of you.

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( Lucius )

I'm just going to stare at my screen for awhile, and alternate between seriousness and and emptiness. Because I'm really more profoundly upset by this than I ever imagined. Because really, did I think I would live through two space shuttle explosions in less than twenty years? And I know that worldwide, there have been many accidents and that it is more dangerous than most other occupations. But it is strange, to look at these photos and feel five fucking years old again, and hear my kindergarten teacher's voice in my head saying "Oh God, Oh my God."