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He Must Have Built It All for Us

If He put us on center stage, He must have built it all for us.

from The Language of God by Francis S. Collins

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

There is no up and down in Universe; in, out, and around exist.

from Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller

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The Heavens Were the Realm of Perfection

These loopy planetary orbits were hugely problematic for the ancient Greeks, because all the orbits were supposed to be circular according to Plato and his pupil Aristotle. They declared that the circle, with its simplicity, beauty and lack of beginning...

Source: Big Bang by Simon Singh

To Remove Man From the Centre of Things Was To Raise Him From His Low Estate

And the one change of this kind implied by the abandonment of the geocentric system was, as is evident from what has already been said, the reverse of that often attributed to the new astronomy; to remove man from the...

Source: The Great Chain of Being by Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Not upon Any Theory or Abstract Model of the Universe

It is evident that Teilhard does not resonate to the biblical world-view. Not only does he find it staticist and narrow, but he thinks that it is based upon "the Alexandrine" cosmology (whatever that might be). What Teilhard fails to...

Source: Teilhardism And The New Religion by Wolfgang Smith

Do You Suppose It Is Beyond Us to Produce a Dual System of Astronomy?

Do you suppose it is beyond us to produce a dual system of astronomy? The stars can be near or distant, according as we need them. Do you suppose our mathematicians are unequal to that? Have you forgotten doublethink?

Source: 1984 by George Orwell

There Is No Up and Down in Universe

If you, the reader of these lines, personally use the words up and down, you, too, are as yet imprisoned in the Dark Ages. There are no parallels on the surface of the Earth; what may appear to be parallel...

Source: Cosmography by Buckminster Fuller

🎼 Song Excerpts

You Start to See the World a Little Differently

You start to see the world a little differently when you turn it upside down

Source: Upside Down (Paloma Faith) by Paloma Faith

See No Evil in All Directions

See no evil in all directions

Source: Don’t Change by INXS

The Crumbling Difference Between Wrong and Right

And in between the moon and you the angels get a better view of the crumbling difference between wrong and right

Source: Round Here by Counting Crows

That’s When the Energy Comes, and the Dark Side’s Light

You come out at night - That's when the energy comes, and the dark side's light

Source: Building a Mystery by Sarah McLachlan

Look Up, Look Down, All Around

Look up, look down, all around

Source: Satellite by Dave Matthews Band

Try To See It Once My Way

Into the flood again, same old trip it was back then - So I made a big mistake - Try to see it once my way

Source: Would? by Alice in Chains

Life Is All Around, Why You Lookin’ Down?

Life is all around, why you lookin' down? Life is all around - So look up, look up

Source: Good Feeling by 311

From the Top of the World Every Which Way Is Down

From the top of the world every which way is down

Source: Too Much to Think by 311

The World We Hold So Tight and True, Turn It On It’s Head

Even cold hard facts have got a way of changing their stripes in the light of a new day - The world we hold so tight and true - Turn it on it's head

Source: I Want to Know by Kongos

See Things the Right Way Up

How long am I gonna stand, with my head stuck under the sand? I'll start before I can stop or before I see things the right way up

Source: Speed of Sound by Coldplay

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Every Which Way Is Down

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Think About the Place Where You Live

If you are confused, check with the sun. Carry a compass to help you along. Your feet are going to be on the ground. Your head is there to move you around.