tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715000491060630089.post8296398267454149407..comments2013-05-21T04:31:29.894-06:00Comments on Commonly Grounded: I can't take it anymoreDan Ghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11251521409405998087noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715000491060630089.post-5410148286902294092010-08-19T19:10:15.833-06:002010-08-19T19:10:15.833-06:00Hi, I am from Australia.
Please check out these r...Hi, I am from Australia.<br /><br />Please check out these related references on the non-humans and the politics of peace.<br /><br />www.fearnomorezoo.org<br /><br />www.dabase.org/p2anthro.htm<br /><br />www.dabase.org/not2.htmAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715000491060630089.post-8586081649037273442010-06-15T17:02:17.086-06:002010-06-15T17:02:17.086-06:00That's good. Sagan's observations are so p...That's good. Sagan's observations are so poignant and there is so much truth there. Endless cruelties... frequent misunderstandings... eager to kill... fervent their hatreds. Those are such common threads in the history of our species.<br /><br />Why are we so bent on our own destruction and so deaf to the voices of blood that cry out from the ground?<br /><br />What would I do without a story that made some sense of it? A narrative that winds through each age of the earth and brings meaning to each fragment of the whole.<br /><br />When I look into the sky at night I am overwhelmed, but not by loneliness and despair at the final black deadness that awaits our cosmos. No, I am surprised by hope.Dan Ghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11251521409405998087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7715000491060630089.post-33142553778341847762010-06-15T15:59:27.143-06:002010-06-15T15:59:27.143-06:00I am reminded of the words of the great Carl Sagan...I am reminded of the words of the great Carl Sagan regarding the image of Earth as seen from space (seen <a href="http://ropata.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/pale_blue_dot2.jpg" rel="nofollow">here</a>):<br /><br />"Look again at 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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />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.<br /><br />It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. <b>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."</b><br /><br />Carl Sagan; May 11, 1996 (emphasis mine)Lexrsthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06874167785683028268noreply@blogger.com