It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
Originally posted by ottobot
reply to post by greyer
There's nothing wrong with stage 1!
Yes, I've always been fascinated by the references to flying ships in ancient literature, paintings, even cave art. It's amazing to me and something that is too prevalent to be written off.
Originally posted by greyer
hey ottobot, I cannot begin to describe how much this thread has shown me what Home really is.
If I ever thought I had emotions, if I ever knew time, I didn't. Home is a complete transition. A 360 degree turn around. An emotion that never before was experienced. A perception never before seen.
Originally posted by TKDRL
"Where I lie my head is home"
[Metallica - Wherever I May Roam]
Anywhere I roam Where I lay my head is home
(And the earth becomes my throne)
And the earth becomes my throne
I adapt to the unknown
Under wandering stars I've grown
By myself but not alone
I ask no one
And my ties are severed clean
Less I have the more I gain
Off the beaten path I reign
Roamer, wanderer
Nomad, vagabond
Call me what you will
But I'll take my time anywhere
I'm free to speak my mind anywhere
And I'll never mind anywhere
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by ottobot
Always, no, it wasn't until I felt that I accepted myself, and felt like I was comfortable in my own skin. I feel much more at home in the wilderness and country than anywhere else, but I survived a few months on the streets on NYC. I think if I can survive that, I can survive almost anywhere OK.
Originally posted by Wang Tang
A place where regardless of how long I'm gone, or how often I come back, there will be people to welcome me back. Without the people, there is no home.
EDIT: let me expand on this, I posted without reading the other comments
There are memories that flood back to you, and some sights that trigger powerful emotions when you visit your home. These are all caused by your connection with the people of your home.
For example, you might value the sight of a road where you went on your first date. Or you might value the sight of mountains in the clouds because you associate this with the feeling of loneliness you had.
But regardless of what emotions and memories these sights trigger, it's only your home if there are people that welcome you back. Without the people, this place just becomes a "former home," and it ceases to exist as a home.edit on 29-4-2012 by Wang Tang because: let me expand on this
EDIT: one more thing
P.S. Great thread, I especially love when the thread title is a question, especially one that you would never ask yourself, but when you do it changes your outlook on life.edit on 29-4-2012 by Wang Tang because: P.S.
Originally posted by TKDRL
reply to post by Wang Tang
Yeah, I know that kind of home feeling as well. Like when I used to visit the grandparent's house. May have been years since I was last able to go, but when I got there, it was like I just went for a walk to the store, and never really left at all.
Originally posted by Bkrmn
reply to post by ottobot
I'm in my early sixties, married to a wonderful woman for almost 27 years, yet still am unable to find a place where I feel really at home. Since early childhood I've never been able to look up at the night sky without a feeling of not belonging here. More than once the feeling has caused a lump in my throat, and even a tear in my eye.