Research Notes

Research notes on the mystery of Death.

Research Notes

 

Death is an experiment

Science should not miss.

It’s our way to implement

paths to Hell or Bliss.

 

Careful notes should supplement

Satan’s deep abyss,

or the faithful compliment

of an Angel’s kiss.

Reviews

[John]

Faithful compliment seems a pretty pallid reward compared to Satan's deep abyss. We find evil inexplicably more attractive than its opposite, and I am reminded of Blake's comment that the true hero of Milton's Paradise Lost is Satan and not God. Science, of course, with the arrogance of Lucifer, has an an answer for everything, and I think this is what the poem cleverly satirizes. The experiment of death can be repeated endlessly, under the same or very similar conditions, even if the subject will never be unable to return and report on his or her experience.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your detailed review, John! Perhaps Death is Change because for Change to take place something must be destroyed for something to be created. It’s a paradox is that without Change there would be no life. That which brings forth must take if it is to bring forth. We’re neither alive nor dead, just an eternal process of Change going through endless transformations.

[Pryde Foltz]

Death is an experiment
Science should not miss.
It’s our way to implement
paths to Hell or Bliss.

I say bliss for all … you made it through … you've earned it.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, Pryde! Yes, bliss for all.

[Aethereal]

Yes, my friend, what turns around comes around, once again, I remembered your words, we came all out of the supernova, and we shall return to it, as a circle. We are those little particles. But in the middle of it, it's our responsibility to make the best out of it. (in Research), yes.

- Elisa

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your karmic review, Elisa!
It’s nothing more than this:
Tumbling down an abyss
into an angel’s kiss.

I like the juxtaposition, of it my friend, like all is intermingled... and each others opposite...

[Aethereal]

You’re filled with Eurasian insight, the best of both worlds.

[Troy Henson]

Is it necessary to study to pass life's test. This had depth to it and is quite thought provoking.

Troy

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, Troy H! Given the extent of infinity, it's always possible that each of us gets a chance at being most everything possible during past lives, but the good possibilities must go to those who deserve them, and the bad possibilities must go to those who need them to be enlightened. Karma is at work here.

[Troy Henson]

So true are your words. Karma is most certainly at work.

[Glen Yumang Manese]

Death is a fact...Science can prove, since you do not come back...as for an experiment is not knowing if there is facts to base it as such...there are two facts...life and death...the other is completely --- a belief...does not render in science...since I could say Death is my God...you may think I'm a bit Looney Tunes by saying that...but you cannot prove it is not my God...or take pink elephants if you may...whatever floats your boat...Science and Religion do not intermingle...one is man made and the other is a divine will...

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your complex philosophical review, Glen! Death is a transformation the equations of which we have yet to solve. Research is on-going. Science is a never ending quest, incomplete at best. Proofs always crash upon the rocks of Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorem. Scientific knowledge is fragmental and tentative, but it's the most reliable kind of knowledge that we have. Paradox abounds! The Source of Reality neither exist nor non-exist. The Mystery is deep!

[Glen Yumang Manese]

you're welcome...A...

[Rita L. Sev]

Perhaps if I study the notes, I'll pass the ultimate test... Flawless rhyme and rhythm in this deep yet witty piece, Aethereal.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, Rita! Rhyme may leap into the deep.

[jacob erin-cilberto]

I really like this...if only someone could come back with the notes intact...someone who had been on the other side...
love the technical feel of this...well done.

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, jacob! But didn't we each come from the "other side" originally? Where have we been for the last ten trillion years? The "other side" is our home"; life is the journey back.

[Matching Socks]

But... I want to be naughty AND nice.
Where do I go for that?

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review, Ana! Just rub the handsome Genie’s sensitive lamp three times if you want him to give you “naughty & nice“. We always get what we wish for.

[Baby Ricochet]

Good rhymes. It kicks ya in the arse

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review! We only get what we need to be happy within the eternal scheme of things.

[The Revisionist]

Interesting view point and perspective. *claps*

[Aethereal]

Thanks for your review! Perspective is subjective.