When one has not been there yet, earnestly he longs for.
Once he was there, nothing special at all.

The sound is like thunders rolling through the air and never stops,
The mist is like white clouds continuously falling down like rain.
Thus is the Niagara Falls.

08/22/2005

Quote: "Are we speaking metaphorically? Like always. hmmm... what could this sound here be?

Just answer the questions!
"
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Mr Woodsman,

Your question is too hard to answer.  Maybe you are the only one can answer it.

Quote: "Are we speaking metaphorically? Like always. hmmm... what could this sound here be?

Just answer the questions!
"
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Doppler Shifting
(by Alan Smale)

Susan cruisin' down the freeway doing seventy-eight
        (go speed racing, go speed racing)
She just likes to drive fast, it's not that she's late
        (no tail-gating, no tail gating)
Goes over a hilltop and what a surprise
        (too late sister, you're in for it now)
Blue and red flashing lights right in front of her eyes
                        
Nee nee nee nee nee nee nah nah nah nah nah nah nah nah
                        
Now Susan's standing by the side of her car
        (show me your licence, you're in big trouble)
Trucks blowing right by her but she's not going far
        (they're still cruisin', Susan's losin')
She's been caught by a speed trap, and now she can hear
        (here comes the physics, you're in for it now)
Sound of the Doppler Shift right in her ear

Eeeeeeeeeeeeee-owwwwwwwwww   

That's the Doppler Shift - you've heard it I know
Doppler Shift - first it's high then it's low
The good cop's gun shoots out only radar

And the beam bounces back off bad Susan's car
And assuming the policeman is standing in range
His gun tells him all about the frequency change
Then Susan's walking, walking
Her speed racing days are done

They're light years away, man, and that's pretty far
        (lightspeed's the limit, the big speed limit)
But there's plenty we can learn from the light of a star
        (split it with a prism, there's little lines in it)
By looking at the spectrum at the light that's glowing
        (wavelengths of emission, measured with precision)
Its Doppler Shift will tell us if it's coming or going
                        
Doo doo doo doo doo-ooo 

That's the Doppler Shift - you see it, it's true
Doppler Shift - to the red or the blue
                          
When a star is approaching and it's coming our way
Its spectrum seems bluer, won't you hear what I say
And when a star's retreating way out of range
And the scientist measures its frequency change
Well that's a redshift, redshift
If the star is moving away

By reading Doppler Shifts of all we see in the skies
        (clusters of galaxies, near and far)
We get the big picture and a big surprise
        (redshifts going, redshifts going)
The Universe is growing and expanding away
        (galaxies are speeding, speeding away)
But maybe gravity will shrink it back some day
                        
Owwwwwwwwwwwww-eeeeeeeeeee
                          
Doppler Shift - to the red or the blue
Doppler Shift - and our shift's overdue

Now blueshifts come and redshifts go
And that's pretty much everything you need to know
Now we're gonna pick up Susan and give her a ride
So you guys remember Doppler, and you drive to survive
And now we're shifting, shifting
And our Doppler song is done

"what are you talking about?"

Quote:

You need to have a compassionate nature like that of a Buddha, speak words of Zen, listen to the sounds of Zen, carry out the work of Zen and have the mind of Zen

You must transform all sounds that come into yours ears into refined ones.That is, you must be able to turn insults hurled at you into compassionate sounds and transform slander into encouragement.

When you no longer take offence at harsh words of others or anything you consider unpleasant, you will be able to hear the words of Zen.

By Chinese Zen master Wu De

Sharing with metta.

A couple of days of the month of August 2005 (around 20th 24th of the month), Mr Alan took him to the Falls to watch it as he longered for seeing it since he was very young (don't ask how young he was) when he took some English course.  In the English textbook, among many other topics, there were a couple of pages that described the Falls and especially, there was a picture painted a man who was walking on a tight rope arcoss over the Falls.  This was very impressive to him.  And he longed for to see the Falls.

When he was there, at the Falls, he watched the water falling from the height down making a lot of big noises all days and nights never stops; and a lot of mists created by the falls of water looking like big white clouds floating over the current of water.  Then he put some words to tell what heard and saw of at the time he was at the Falls as you've seen in the first post.

Quote: "Quote: "i dont long for anywhere but where im at."
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You sound like you are a homeless man, Mr Shayne."
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not homeless..........i live with my gf. in a trailor.

she likes to go to atlantic city and gamble and such, i dont. she says im boring and no fun. haha. i go grant you...........but i dont LONG to go.

Quote: "see, told ya "
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haha.

Quote: "I don't think he heard me. "
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who?

Quote: "Quote: "Yeah, know the feeling.. I have always wanted to see Hawaii (since I was a little kid btw!) Sigh..

Guess these old bones never will get to see the land of Aloha. If only some rich uncle or something could take me there before I die, but guess that is to much to ask God for, sigh...

Sorry. always start to cry every time I think of the splashing of the sea waves (which I might very well never get to hear), the endless blue beaches (which I might very well never get to see) and the bare breasted hola women (which I might very well never get to fondle)

Sigh... guess I`m stuck here.. "snff" Hawaii... The dream... "
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Stuck or non-stuck,
Non-stuck or stuck,
It depends on the kind of pan
that one uses to cook.
"
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hahahaha sense of humor

Quote: "Must be those falls, once they get in there it's like, talkin' to a doctor, from behind a closed door. Let's keep it closed! "
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door to the hallway ? how would one get i and out?

"sweet" icecream

but I suspect asking for brother what one wants for oneself