Demetria Blouin: Quick question about free to use and free to download pictures... Do I have to ask for permission to use them in publishing my book? If I note where i downloaded then from? What exactly are the rules? Please?
    CD Richards: If they are clearly described as public domain or CC0 (Creative Commons) by the author or a trustworthy source, you can use them without acknowledgement. If they are some other form of CC license, you can usually use them if you acknowledge the source. Just check the license for conditions. Anything else, you can't use for a book, without permission. The safest thing if you are seriously looking to publish an illustrated book is probably to hire someone from Upwork or Fiverr and get original illustrations done. Last thing you want is to be sued some large amount of money. -


FanStory wrote to Demetria Blouin: Imagination finished second in the contest "6 Word Poetry"
    Daylok: Congrats on second place!! Very cool.
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    juliaSjames: Congratulations on placing with this thoughtful entry

    Julia
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    Demetria Blouin: Thank you! I'm so happy my poem touched others as it did me when I wrote it! -


Demetria Blouin: Sarcasm is the void between what was said and what was understood.
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    Ideamesano: Excellent point, what is said is stemming from your will, your realization is different from others. -
    Ideamesano: Was too tired to complete the sentence. From your conscious which is different from that of others.
    Your intention is not to be found, holding your -


FanStory wrote to Demetria Blouin: Worthy ~A Reverse Poem~ finished second in the contest "Love Bites"
    Demetria Blouin: I'm so excited I placed in the contest! Thank you! I've never won it placed for anything before. -


Demetria Blouin: It was said that time is a construct of man and did not exist before man did. My brain cannot resolve this thought. My question, when it was only dinosaurs roaming the earth, no man in existence, did they not be born, get mature, and die? Does that not show time? I'm trying to make it make sense, and failing miserably! 🤔
    phill doran: Hello Demetria
    Birth, death, sunrise, sunset - this is how we 'observe' time, or - as you say - how time shows itself.
    The better question to ask is: What is time?
    We can't say 'the passing of the hours' as that is a circular argument (What is time? The passing of the hours. What is an hour? The passing of time.)
    Perhaps time is 'change', caused as the universe expands.
    I think the point you start with (the 'construct') refers to some of the artificial measures we have (like there being 7 days in a 'week', or 31 days in some months, 30 in others, that a 'day' starts at a point we call midnight, as opposed to the point we call dawn, etc.), these are our constructions.
    I would like to think that a lunar month is observed by many organic things, not just as an instinct - the passing of the seasons certainly is, but I doubt if the dinosaurs had the concept of "Tuesday" being different to "Wednesday."
    What do you think time "is"? That's maybe the better question to apply yourself to, I think.

    So: what do you think time is?

    (I must go, my pterodactyl has a 10 o'clock at the nail bar)

    cheers
    phill -
    Bonnie Seach : Your question is profound. I admire your thinking. The answer is quite simple. It comes from the one who made all things, the Creator himself. He had it recorded for mankind in the Bible, his inspired Book of true science, knowledge and his purpose for mankind. Genesis chapters 1and 2 explain the time taken for creation. It speaks of 7 days. Further to that, hundreds of years later the Psalmist was inspired to write that a thousand years are like a day in God's sight
    Psalm 90:40; and the span of our life is 70 years, 80 if especially strong, verse 10. The Bible reveals the age of many faithful servants in years, and it tells us how long Noah and his family were confined in the ark before the water subsided. God is a time keeper and Solomon endorsed this thought in the book of Ecclesiastes ch 3 where he recorded that there is a time for everything under the sun. You are invited to read more about your thought provoking question on the free website www.jw.org. There is no obligation attached. You are welcome to direct message me if you would like to discuss this further. Kind regards -
    AnnaLinda: There were no dinosaurs...they are manmade. -


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