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When a picture paints a thousand words....
« on: March 14, 2018, 09:23:06 PM »




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Its taken a little bit of digging to find and credit the original author of this image.
https://twitter.com/MitchellToy/status/973774076803248128
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #1 on: March 14, 2018, 09:25:37 PM »

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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #2 on: March 14, 2018, 09:28:54 PM »

Yes, indeed.
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #3 on: March 14, 2018, 10:40:34 PM »

What a moving picture that is.
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #4 on: March 14, 2018, 11:03:53 PM »

A remarkable man not sure we will see the like of him again

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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #5 on: March 15, 2018, 12:18:00 AM »

Some of the replies on Twitter are rather surprising with some people taking offence at the image  ???

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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #6 on: March 15, 2018, 01:54:33 AM »

Indeed.  I'd seen the image earlier in the day and it struck me as so apt that he is now free amongst the stars which he has spent so long studying and ie We all come from stardust.   I thought it was a lovely tribute.

It was only because I searched to attribute the original artist, that I saw some of those comments and was dismayed that upon his death people had nothing to do but pick fights over a what I saw as an apt piece of art in recognition of a great man.


I didn't for one minute think it was religious or anything to do with Heaven related to God as I knew he was a non-believer.  Nor did I see it as being offensive to his disability. 
The big man himself used to make jokes about being restricted to his wheel chair..  nor would he get a more up to date text to speech system voice because he knew others saw it being as distinctive to him.   

I stopped reading the comments when I got to the one with obscene language who said the artwork implied that people in wheel chairs ought to die. :'(
Some people really have nothing better to do than moan and bitch.  I think that's why I don't much like twitter.   
 
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #7 on: March 15, 2018, 06:57:07 AM »

I'm glad I didn't look at the Twitter link. That picture encapsulated Stephen Hawking's life so beautifully and movingly that I'm sickened by those comments.
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #8 on: March 15, 2018, 10:10:07 AM »

Good job they haven't seen some of the pictures that have been going round if they are getting upset over this particular picture.
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #9 on: March 15, 2018, 11:02:47 PM »

As far as I am concerned, that picture is a perfect tribute.

(May those who do not like it be swallowed up by a black-hole and, thus, finally to disappear in Hawking radiation.)
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Re: When a picture paints a thousand words....
« Reply #10 on: March 15, 2018, 11:40:19 PM »

Well said, that cat ^
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