Comments | tafkaj99: What would you do?

tafkaj99

What would you do?

Aug 25, 2009 21:13

It is important to note that I strongly discourage you, the humble reader and your sphere of influence, from taking steps to bring about the negative outcome as described below. Instead this is merely a hypothetical question meant to provoke inner reflection and raise awareness overall. Your answer should be based on your knowledge, experience ( Read more... )

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Comments 8

Proving worthiness obadiah August 26 2009, 07:30:14 UTC

I would just play them a CD by Ali Akbar Khan. Best argument ever for the worthiness of our species.

Seriously.

Re: Proving worthiness tafkaj99 August 27 2009, 02:23:44 UTC

Damn you for making me like humanity again...

...Damn you to hell...

*shakes fist*

Spreading Joy and Happiness obadiah August 27 2009, 19:31:21 UTC

Heh heh. My work here is done.

tweekedcat August 26 2009, 16:27:25 UTC

Standard Goethe's "Faust"/Star Trek: TNG finale answer -- we're not perfect, but we are evolving and our potential to accomplish even greater good than we have achieved thus far, our collective striving, is what redeems us.

Also, in line with obadiah's answer,
Blind Willie Johnson's "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground":
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNj2BXW852g

tafkaj99 August 27 2009, 02:16:55 UTC

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I'm going to have to agree. A picture speaks a thousand words, but music speaks an infinite to the soul.

leighgion August 26 2009, 23:08:27 UTC

The question is a little ambiguous to me. Are you asking what we'd do to try to show the species worthwhile, or if we'd choose to do it?

tafkaj99 August 27 2009, 02:07:38 UTC

Show that humanity is worthwhile.

It can be a "Yes," followed by a: "Ask ten different scientists about the environment, population control, genetics, and you'll get ten different answers, but there's one thing every scientist on the planet agrees on. Whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand years or a million years, eventually our Sun will grow cold and go out. When that happens, it won't just take us. It'll take Marilyn Monroe, and Lao-Tzu, and Einstein, and Morobuto, and Buddy Holly, and Aristophanes…[and] all of this…all of this…was for nothing. Unless we go to the stars." (praise be the Great Maker).

tafkaj99 August 27 2009, 02:15:22 UTC

To further clarify, if you'd chose to save humanity in the first place given what you know. Are we worthy of continuing on.