Starting at 4:00, he points out, "We are made of starstuff, we are a way for the cosmos... to know its self.".
That is like... moving . We are the universes way... of discovering its self. Everything we see, feel, taste, breath in, breath out, hear, create or destroy... we are entwined together with it, distant relatives, perhaps, but never the less family...
But yeah... I just find that part really cool. _________________ "I Cant Pass Up This Opportunity To Make Myself Observed, I Cant Pass Up This Opportunity To Let Myself Be Heard..." - Seether, Out Of My Way
"Hold me now I need to feel complete...Like I matter to the one I need...I'm so afraid of the gift you give me...I don't belong here and I'm not well. I'm so ashamed of the lie I'm living, i'm right on the wrong side of it all...and I so ashamed of this...yes I am so ashamed of me" Seether - The Gift
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Posted: Sun Aug 10, 2008 1:59 pm Post subject:
We are far more removed from being 'starstuff', than we are from being the genetic information that has competed to survive and reproduce throughout the history of this planet's ever changing biosphere.
Think about it, the DNA in your cells, is a living history, of what came before you. _________________ ...Oozing my brain chemicals in your general direction...
Joined: 17 Jul 2008 Posts: 520 Local time: 5:35 AM Location: Detroit, Michigan
Posted: Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:58 pm Post subject:
carl sagan is the bread to mah buttah _________________ Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative - H.G. Wells
O wonder!
How many goodly creatures are there here!
How beauteous mankind is!
O brave new world
That hath such people in't!
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Posted: Mon Aug 25, 2008 1:08 pm Post subject:
Wickedtruth wrote:
THX 1138.
"What are we going to do tonight, Brain?"
"Same thing we do every night, Pinky. Try and take over the world." _________________ "The very existence of flame throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, 'You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I'm just not close enough to get the job done.' - George Carlin
"I hope that someday we will be able to put away our fears and prejudices and just laugh at people." - Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey
Starting at 4:00, he points out, "We are made of starstuff, we are a way for the cosmos... to know its self.".
That is like... moving . We are the universes way... of discovering its self. Everything we see, feel, taste, breath in, breath out, hear, create or destroy... we are entwined together with it, distant relatives, perhaps, but never the less family...
But yeah... I just find that part really cool.
It is cool. It might be original in those words but it isn't original in the idea or similar phraseology. Philosophers have waxed similar thoughts previous to him, some of them were theists. Kahil Gibran comes to mind.
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:00 pm Post subject:
Stardust children! Oh the love. _________________ http://freethinkernation.com
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Posted: Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:17 pm Post subject:
Moloth wrote:
I think Sagan is probably my #1 personal hero.
I finally got the DVD set of Cosmos from the public library and watched the first 9 (saving the rest I don't want to get to the end just yet!) and I have to agree. If I were to ever have a personal hero or idolize someone, Carl Sagan would be at the top of that list. _________________ "Years ago, we hardly had anything to eat. Now I earn more money and see every opponent as a man that tries to put me back to that poorer period.
That man has to be eliminated."
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