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Theme: “Is This Just an Illusion”
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Just a month before, Apollo 11 astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong had left their colleague, Michael Collins, aboard spaceship Columbia and walked on the moon, beating by five months President Kennedy's goal of putting a man on the moon...
Source: My Life
by Bill Clinton
For those who have a sense of this invisible, other reality, the answers to life’s mysteries offered by modern science are inadequate and unsatisfying. They are unable to accept them and they find themselves seeking something else.
Source: The Secret Teachers of the Western World
by Gary Lachman
The theory of relativity he described as "a mass of error and deceptive ideas violently opposed to the teachings of great men of science of the past and even to common sense.
Here they are hurling through space on a molten rock at 67,000 miles an hour and the only thing that keeps them from flying out of their shoes is their misplaced faith in gravity.
Source: 3rd Rock from the Sun
Are you in a universe which is ruled by natural laws and, therefore, is stable, firm, absolute—and knowable? Or are you in an incomprehensible chaos, a realm of inexplicable miracles, an unpredictable, unknowable flux, which your mind is impotent to...
Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It
by Ayn Rand
I have given Truman the chance to lead a normal life. The world, the place you live in, is the sick place. Seahaven is the way the world should be.
Source: The Truman Show
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It's crazy, I'm thinking - Just knowing that the world is round - And here I'm dancing on the ground - Am I right side up or upside down? And is this real, or am I dreaming?
Love's got the world in motion and I know what we can do - Love's got the world in motion and I can't believe it's true
Am I only dreaming Or is this burning an eternal flame?
And baby I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule, I'll rule - Let me live that fantasy
Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where no one notices the contrast of white on white
Doctor please believe me, I know you won't decieve me, But do these things I'm seein', have any hidden meaning?
Something tells me this isn't true
What’s that riding on your everything? It isn’t anything at all
Lookin' in your eyes I see a paradise - This world that I've found is too good to be true
I know, it seems that I might have crossed into a dream
Can you even feel what's real, with such a shallow depth of field?
I've been looking so long at these pictures of you that I almost believe that they're real
Did all my dreams never mean one thing?
When illusion spin her net, I'm never where I want to be - And liberty she pirouette, when I think that I am free
Did you think that your feet had been bound by what gravity brings to the ground? Did you feel you were tricked by the future you picked? Well, come on down.
Fantasy fills my mind - To leave this place before my time - Release myself from earthly care - My dream may be your nightmare
Take me to the place where you go - Where nobody knows if it's night or day
Is this just an illusion - That I made inside my head to get me by?
One more sun comes sliding down the sky - One more shadow leans against the wall
No one to tell us, "no" or where to go, or say we're only dreaming
There is no dark side in the moon, really. Matter of fact, it's all dark. The only thing that makes it look light is the sun.
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