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Fire Touch Fire Night
"Jupiter are we almost there?!" The cries of my little brother being lost in the howling wind as we ran through the dimly lit forest. My grip tightened around my little brother's small wrist pulling him. The rain had pelted our hair, the loose strand of hair stuck to my face as we raced through the forest. The clawing of the branches ripped and scratched at my wet skin and clothes. I didn't know where we were going, but all I know is that we must get as far away from them as possible. My legs began to turn into jelly, chest heavy with bricks as I kept pushing. Looking back to my little brother whose tripping over his little stubby feet. The forest was silent, the only thing we could hear was the harsh breathing of our breath.
By Camille Tarver7 years ago in Futurism
Aries (June Energy Reading)
Aries... I know what you did last summer... JK but I know what you did this year. You didn’t. Aries why so prideful? Why is it that no one can tell you about yourself and that only you know you? I can tell you right now that some of you barely have the right to self assess because people have let you get away with so many things for so long. Yeah, you look great, yeah you have this person wrapped around your finger, and yes you keep your appearance polished but the motto for you is not “look good, feel good” this season.
By Prof. Personal 7 years ago in Futurism
The Beauty in the Bad: A Love Letter to Everything That Is Wrong with 'The Phantom Menace'
A wise man once said that your focus determines your reality. And well, to me, it actually rings the most true in regards to the very movie it came from in form of Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace. Simply put, I've gone from loving it unconditionally as a kid to being more than a fair bit conflicted with it during the emergence of in depth YouTube reviews, to eventually making peace with it it's flaws and loving it for it's amazing world-building, technical prowess, and some truly memorable scenes. However, in recent years, I've also come around on many of its flaws.
By Art-Peeter Roosve7 years ago in Futurism
Cancer (June Energy Reading)
*crickets, crickets* So Cancers... what did we learn? (Cancer Moon here with the full spillage). Did we learn to cut out the dramatics? Did we learn that just because we throw up our hands, and say “fuck it” that it still won’t make your issues disappear? Did we learn that we couldn’t fight the things that had to be shown to us beginning in April, and peaking mid May. How many of you got burned?
By Prof. Personal 7 years ago in Futurism
Witching Hour Madness
It should have been a peaceful Halloween Ball and the envy of every well to do not invited. This year some of the wealthiest families gathered here in Atlanta, GA, to celebrate the thinning of the vial for a night long celebration. This grand affair was being hosted this year by a rising star organization, the Oasis Group, and expectations were running high.
By Jessie White7 years ago in Futurism
The Everlight Sacrifice
Corina White had agreed to it. When the witches of the Everlight Coven came to her with an offer, telling her that if she agreed to be a sacrifice in their ritual, she would gain powers, Corina had been expecting it. She knew it was going to happen. Her father had told her story after story about the Everlight Coven, about how they worshiped dark Gods, how they had to give a sacrifice every twenty years to appease them.
By Shera Prague7 years ago in Futurism
Divine Decree vs. Free Will
For centuries, people of all religions have debated the existence of fate. It’s become one of the most common conversations to be had despite the ever changing religious beliefs of the world. Yet, no one can seem to come to an agreement. It’s a topic that creates passionate arguments within science and all regions of religion, whether it be within the one most common God, or all the Gods in history that are now obsolete. It seems that most people believe free will and fate work together hand in hand, guiding each other along a path, where fate only intervenes when necessary. Unfortunately people fail to see that these philosophical constructs are contradictory to each other. Their purposes reverse that of the other which in turn diminishes their value of existing in the first place. If they mutually exist then their purposes become invalid just by the mere presence of one negating the function of the other. So either they both exist with no true function whatsoever, or only one exists. And if only one exists, then rationally it must be fate.
By Seneca Basoalto7 years ago in Futurism
Tackling 'See You Yesterday' at the Goal Line
Well, Spike Lee's production of Stefon Bristol's first film feature, See You Yesterday was released the 17th of May and I still haven't seen it, which is fine. I've seen enough to be hacked off that I will have to go out and lecture at STEM schools to offset the bad and pathetic way that Bristol and his writing accomplice, Fredrica Bailey, portray STEM education, physics and time travel. Why me? Because I actually am a recognized STEM educator and leading expert on time travel science. I've lectured to and tested kids smarter than the two characters in Bristol's fantasy flick, on such subjects as parallel universes, time travel, wormholes, and the nature of time, and I don't like it when people come along and relieve themselves in my field of endeavor—just so they can make a buck. When that happens, there will be repercussions and frankly, I have no second thoughts about making an example out of Spike Lee and his "mentees." As they used to say, "It makes me no never mind..." because I've proven my cred—which is unmatched by pretty much anyone else. That's right. I am that guy.
By Marshall Barnes7 years ago in Futurism
Why Are Bees So Important to Our Planet?
The job of the bees There are around 25,000 different species of bees on Earth. Bees are essential pollinators to our planet and play a very important part in our everyday life. Without them, we will not be able to survive. They help us by pollinating flowers and with crop growth, which is extremely vital for the survival of agriculture, as well as our population; simply put, if bees have food, we get food. Bees affect crop productions, increasing outputs of most of the food leading food goods worldwide alongside with many plant-derived medicines and skincare products based on honey that the bees produce. Knowing that these creatures have such power and that humans are dependent on them is incredibly fascinating yet so scary.
By Vanessa Kaszyk7 years ago in Futurism
Please Start Helping the Bees
In the past 15 years, the bee population has declined eighty-seven percent. Habitat loss rates are at an all-time low, mainly because of deforestation and excessive use of pesticides. Bees pollinate eighty percent of the flowers and seventy percent of food-producing plants in the United States. They keep our ecosystem running and plants growing, if we do not start creating an environment that bees will be able to thrive in now before we know it, there will be no bees left in the United States to pollinate our plants. Bees do not typically fly to new continents especially one surrounded almost completely by water, so we would need to have another country send us bees or go to another country and bring bees back, which is not very good for their health and would limit their ability to pollinate and reproduce when they actually arrive in America. If we would have to transport bees here it would still take a very long time to get them back to the population amount they were at before. We can start this journey to bring back a substantial amount of bees by planting insectary gardens, using smaller amounts of pesticides, and understanding what could happen to agriculture in the future if we do not help this cause right now.
By Kamari Grace7 years ago in Futurism
