Pale Blue Dot

May 21, 2008 19:12

This is a picture of insignificance. It makes me cry.

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homophobic_fag May 22 2008, 21:38:00 UTC
that's pretty much what i was thinking of yesterday
but the god aspect of it, if there is a god aspect in that picture, whateeeever

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I don't like to talk about god. thepavement May 22 2008, 23:10:32 UTC
"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 ( ... )

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