Thought this was funny and interesting.
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WHY ARE YOU TORMENTING ME
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"Consider again that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there ? on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity ? in all this vastness ? there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner. How frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity ? in all this vastness ? there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known, so far, to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment, the Earth is where we make our stand. It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
- Carl Sagan
msndrstood
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I can't read your post on TT too well, it's a very light gray font. I'm in dark mode. Is this what you usually post in or did you change it? Not sure why otherwise.
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Still a good quote.
Ironically, I watched Contact last night for the first time in years. Good movie, but Jodie Foster was a bit dramatic in the part.
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And consider that the possibility of this glorious dot randomly producing itself is a trillion in a trillion.
I would instead consider the glorious creation that we are part of. The wonders of love and beauty and struggle. Complete with a purpose that started when our time and existence began.
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We are if you're posting something from Carl Sagan.Not sure we're talking about the same thing
Transmitted through spacetime.
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I'd been watching cosmos all night lol, then that quote showed up on Facebook.
Transmitted through spacetime.
I'm thinking of the need for the world to grow up and begin thinking in terms of intergalactic interdependence and to cast off the habit of seeking reasons to fear other people or ideas. The more I think about the moral and philosophical zeitgeist of today compared to where we need to get to in order to sustain, let alone grow, our civilization .... I know why the wolf sings of yesterday.
Transmitted through spacetime.
Transmitted through spacetime.
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But isn't that in and of itself asking people to do what they are asking you to do? If there are people who don't believe the thing you are proposing then who are you to dictate the agenda of what we should do? If we are just flecs of dust that have become who we are then I shouldn't care about anything you say. I should just adapt to any thought or emotion that is naturally occurring. And you should not have the right to impede my natural progression and how it occurs in my life or existence.
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