What Fascinates and Amazes You?

OneEyedDiva

OneEyedDiva

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For me it’s seeing people with:
~Green eyes, curly hair and/or dimples. I love seeing these and always take a second look when possible (without seeming rude).

~Huge machines responsible for mass production, especially of delicate products (ie perfectly shaped Cheerios, Hershey’s Kisses, etc.)

~Apps that give verbal directions or information within seconds (GPS, Google Assistant, Siri, etc.)

~How composers and musicians come up with their musical arrangements, including embellishments. I’ve gotten many compliments on my music, even from accomplished, professional musicians, so I’ve experienced the process. Yet I still marvel at other musicians’ brilliant arrangements.

~Nature. The millions upon millions of species on this Earth. We’ve got beautiful, colorful flowers, a multitude of trees and bushes. Some of our animals and marine life look like they belong in fantasy or horror movies…yet some are so beautiful and graceful. It seems no two sunrises or sunsets are exactly the same. Nature is awesome!
 

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A lot, but the thing that has grabbed me the most recently was after visiting the Very Large Array radio telescopes near Socorro NM in 2019 was that they are giving access to forms of information for scientific interpretation vast, vast distances. ! I have an 8x10 enlargement of a photo of one prominently displayed where it can pull me out of the daily rut out into the universe. The new space telescope the same. And that the amazing scientists working with this look like just ordinary people, eating sandwiches for lunch.
 
That:
We are souls who grow and evolve with each lifetime.
The beauty ,constant growth and expansion of the multiverse.
that worlds without end exist and some are completed bliss.
Everything has an aliveness. (just on different vibrations)
More wonders await the soul than can be imagined.
Feeling LOVE; the opening of the heart and mind of the soul is
unbounded, eternal and a celebration of our aliveness.
Talents, the qualities of the soul, how things we learn and accomplish
stay with us through eternity.
how the intense power of directed, focused THOUGHT sent into the
atmosphere can affect the entire world,
most of all, HOLY ANGELS! The love they hold is immeasurable!
 
OneEyedDiva said:
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~Huge machines responsible for mass production, especially of delicate products (ie perfectly shaped Cheerios, Hershey’s Kisses, etc.)
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I get caught up thinking about how, for each of these large extremely specialized machines, there is a whole industry of people and other specialized machines to design, create and maintain them.

As it happens, I know someone who is a robotic vision engineer that designs and programs the vision systems that auto manufacturing robots use. It's fascinating to hear them talk about what it takes to have a robot recognize a wheel with lug posts and to make it accurately see those posts and be able to screw on the lug nuts.
 
Ancient Egypt. Especially, the people, who built the Great Pyramids. It just wasn't the huge building, but the intricate planning of a massive construction site. They had to divert the Nile, feed everybody, clothe, and shelter them, quarry stone stone from many hundreds of miles away. And they were so far back in history, they were coming out of the Stone Age. Yet, if your broke your arm or leg, you get the same care you can get at our medical centers. They were just like us-murders, guys running off with each other's wives, crummy neighbors, labor strikes,. etc, etc, etc,
 
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Bonnie said:
What amazes me the most is the growing process of our grandchildren ... from babyhood into young adults.
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My grand children are 9 months (boy), 5 year old girl and a 15 year old girl. I am always speaking of how wonderful it is to see these different stages of life and how different each phase of life is. The newbie still innocent and unaffected by the world, the five year old just starting to be influenced by the other little ones around her and the fifteen year old experiencing teen angst. The great part is I am always with them, except for the teen, she's always in her room watching videos on her phone or texting friends, She is a lovely wonderful girl. Tough age for most kids.
 
On a relative scale, I'd rate near the highest levels of the tendency to be fascinated by nature and complexities. Each of us as we age, develop, learn, educate ourselves, by the process of neural plasticity, create what we become as our brains connects neural paths, and chemical structures depending on what we do and experience. That is why I've spent fair amounts of time over decades as an adult studying science, especially natural sciences, and technology instead of more common leisure activities like, watching the boob tube, playing video games, and myriad other pursuits people fill their lives with. That is not to say I also do some of those things in balance but rather far less that average nor that those with such pursuits are misguided or wasting their time.

The more one understands this world, this universe, this existence, the more interesting and fascinating it all can become to our creaturely intelligent entity minds. And of those things I study, the physical nature of our energy, matter, space, time, organic life existence is so vast and complex that I could happily live into eternity experiencing it here on our incredibly unique and precious blue water world with its 4,540,000,000 years of physical and biological evolution.

The less a person understands what their eyes are looking at, the less they will tend to be fascinated. As an example, consider the behavior of many that visit Yosemite Valley. After driving into the world class valley on the one-way loop road, the first place many stop is at the Bridal Fall view. People get out of their vehicles and gawk at all the extraordinary features, 3 world class falls and El Capitan. Telling is how long many do so. Numbers becomes impatient after just a couple minutes as though they are wondering what they are supposed to be doing beyond a few gawking looks. Of course many in this smartphone era quickly snap a couple photos and then a selfee. I saw it, now what else? Soon they are back in their car driving off to Yosemite Village where they spend most of their day, not visiting the park's sights, not hiking at all, but rather watching other people at the village, joining them at restaurants and shops, and probably at some point taking a single free open air guided bus trip around the valley. Why? Because it all might as well be an abstract painting given little in their head to relate any of it to.
 
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