Slackr

Apr
5th

Thu

Imagine our ignorant ancestors gazing towards the heavens and contemplating the mystery of its nature; and imagine them recognizing the universe as we understand it today. Imagine them being blessed with the realization that we live on a speck of cosmic dust in a vast universe that supports billions of worlds just like our own.

Would they still claim that mankind is the main creation in the universe?

Would they still enforce their own nature upon the heavens?

Would they still surrender their will to the gods?

What stories would they tell their children?

(Source: youtube.com)

Tags:
perspective

Nov
29th

Mon

We Are Here: The Pale Blue Dot (HD)

I could watch/listen to this all day long. Come to think of it, that’s how I spent a good chunk of October.

Feb
8th

Sun

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily.

— Schlink, Bernhard, The Reader, Vintage, (New York, 1997), 37.

Aug
24th

Sun

Think of all the good things human beings will not do in this world tomorrow because they believe that their most pressing task is to build another church or mosque, or to enforce some ancient dietary practice, or to print volumes upon volumes of exegesis on the disordered thinking of ignorant men. How many hours of human labor will be devoured today, by an imaginary God?

— Sam Harris, The End of Faith, (W.W. Norton & Company, 2004), 149.