Humanity in Perspective

[Hawke]

well as Pyro brought the post up in pics.. i decided to bring forth the quotation here.. just for a little enlightment and a bit of thought provoking perspective on this very life we live.. this is based on the famous address by Carl Sagan.. Pale Blue Dot

[Hawke]

http://i145.photobucket.com/albums/r235/planetflipside/palebluedot.jpg


"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."

-Carl Sagan (1934-1996)

[Pyro]

He couldn't have said it better. Makes us look so small and useless in this wide universe. If only we could look at the bigger picture and realise what we have and how best to save it. Soon our spec of dust that is Earth would just cease to exist and no one would miss us.

[Hawke]

"Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot."

this is my favorite line of all times..

[Pyro]

you know i was thinking about this pic last night and it makes us so small and stupid as a planet. leaders wanting more power and ppl killing each other over crap and it isn't worth it in the end because we are nothing but a speck of dust in this universe.

[Hawke]

and they are fighting over a speck of a tiny speck and only just for a moment

[Ali]

so true pie......it's so sad to see us as human beings, the ones gifted with intellect, do such
wasteful things with the gift of reason....some people just make it seem as though we have
no intellect at all..

[Pyro]

we don't even own this planet, we just live here and destroy it.