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Watching these elephants I fall deep in thought. I start imagining how, with such enormous heads, their brains must be considerably large. We assume that small animals have small brains and a low level of intellect, so naturally, we acknowledge that those with large heads have large brains and a great capacity for constructive thought, reasoning, and the experience of different emotional states.
Just like us, it is obvious that elephants meet with suffering and love during their lives. Yet regardless of the level of intellect we might imagine or can even prove that elephants possess, there is something which disadvantages them when we think of the ways one might bring their thoughts in to reality.
It is obvious to be reminded of, but, unlike humans, elephants do not have hands. What if elephants minds are filled with contemplations that could be turned in to creations, and like a man who lost his arms in an accident, they experience the frustration of being unable to do what it is they would truly love to do?
Because we have hands, we are able to bring our thoughts in to reality; we paint paintings, build buildings, create meals and then feed ourselves, we caress our loved ones, and as we’ve seen here, we turn our thoughts in to passages of words which are read by others.
Look down. Recall how fortunate you are to have hands. Consider all of the magnificent things they assist you to do in your life. Feel grateful.
@itsheididoe Elephants!
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Tower of Ring, Tiajin | China (by EASTERN Design Office)
@theTexan787 too bad you won’t be close to this city, interesting architecture.
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Earth and Jupiter will be closer on December 1, 2012 than until 2021
Photo Credit: Alexandre CROISIER
Jupiter is always closest around the time of its yearly opposition, which comes on December 2-3, 2012. Jupiter will remain close and bright throughout December and January 2013.
Why are some oppositions of Jupiter closer than others? It’s because Jupiter’s orbit, like Earth’s orbit, isn’t round. It’s very nearly round, but not perfectly so. Jupiter passed its perihelion – or closest point to the sun – in March 2011. Since then, the giant planet has been getting farther from the sun in its 12-year orbit, and it will continue to get farther from the sun each year until its aphelion – or farthest point from the sun – in 2017.
In 2011, when Jupiter swung in closest to the sun at perihelion, it was nearly 50 million miles closer to the sun than it will be at aphelion – its most distant point. We’re swinging between the sun and Jupiter in early December. Jupiter is farther from the sun than it was at opposition last year, but it’s closer to the sun than it will be a year from now. Thus when we fly between the sun and Jupiter on December 2-3, 2012, Jupiter will be closer to us than it will be next year … or in the years following.
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(via forbiddenforrest)
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Yes please
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