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Cobblestone, somewhere in Brussels (lemmy.today)

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Years ago, I found this cobblestone on the street in Brussels with the golden inscription “I USED TO BE A MOUNTAIN.” Like a speech bubble rising from a choked rock. After all these years, I still haven’t been able to find out who made it—there’s no record of it anywhere as a listed artwork. I see it now as a poetic intervention by an anonymous city dweller.

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[-] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 months ago

The complex atoms that make up you and me were born out of the hearts of exploding dying stars billions of years ago. Those atoms drifted, floated and danced across the universe, onto our planet where they were again moved, mixed and rearranged to make this walking talking meat skeleton powered by electricity.

[-] oce@jlai.lu 2 points 6 months ago

Orchestrated by electrical messages but I think powered by ATP.

[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 3 points 6 months ago

No. That used to be flowing magma.

[-] Fluffy_Ruffs@lemmy.world 0 points 6 months ago

That's actually a mildly depressing way to put it. Reduced from a majestic, imposing, mass to something humans tread on without a second thought.

[-] athairmor@lemmy.world 4 points 6 months ago

Oh, for fucks sake not everything is holy and should remain immutable forever. Not everything humans do to their environment is bad.

Besides, this is probably granite which would have been under a mountain that got worn away. It was probably buried underground and quarried. No one saw a big impressive mountain and chopped it down.

[-] Tlf@feddit.org 0 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Going off, chopping mountains, as one does. On a more serious note, are there examples of this? I only know of humans raising mountains and usually they're not of the good kind.

Edit: It appears this is a thing humans are doing. And it looks just as horrific as I feared it might.

this post was submitted on 09 Oct 2025

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