they're done cleaning up the Trade Center ruins.

[aruan]

and where once two proud monuments to freedom and the American Dream stood, there's nothing but cracked foundation and painful memories.

it always amazes me when they ceremoniously demolish a building or syphen off more marshland to make way for a gas station. makes me consider my own impermanence and the ease at which it can all swallow me, a miniscule thing of soft flesh and infinite insignificance if they can tear down a mighty, immobile structure in a few moments or make disappear something that's been as and where it was since time untold. the thought of nuclear war bringing it ALL crashing down, merciless and thorough, and maybe the universe would be better off without this warring, self-absorbed and monumentally immature race of beings, but damn it, i've got plans to be great.

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a heavy dose of bridge construction and collapse brought to you by the learning channel

[shejaty.livejournal.com]

"destruction after all is a form of creation" -Graham Greene

where something stands, something else once stood before it, whether talking about mountains, buildings, or gas stations. that's the amazing power of this world to humble all beings, us being quite possibly the most proud organism of them all. being inhabitants of this amazing globe, we are blessed with the ability to create, and also to destroy. and what a mighty fine job we do at it. but rest assured, your destiny for greatness will not be diminished by the cycle of creation and destruction, nor nuclear threats. and while we are pretty insignificant and can be wiped away like a bug upon the windshield, so are the majestic mountains (as i recently learned from the learning channel). for perspective's sake, we have comparable power to nature's ferocity (although she is somewhat more vindictive, even compared to the spectacle religious radicals displayed for our viewing pleasure) and just as much a right to be here. with that offhand tangent i bid that you have fun with it.

it's good to remember that it's time and wind and water that bring down mountains,

[gjstruthseeker.livejournal.com]

not necessarily dynamite or earthquakes. and it's also good to remember that we're just as entitled to share in the process as that which was here long before and will quite probably remain long after, if by no virtue other than good placement and the relative immortality that being an inanimate object offers. we just have to strive for ours. and survival is something i'm told we're all very good at when properly motivated. the trick is to see the battles we fight every day and not let those wear you down before the real stuff begins. and no one can take victory away from one who's earned it. so thank you, Shelly, for reminding me that an unexamined life is simply one whose protagonist has bought into the status quo and goes with what they're presented instead of dissipating the haze.