Shut off the lights, shut off the noise in your head, relax, and really contemplate what you're watching here,
Introduction
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0"]YouTube - Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot" (New Version) Spread This![/ame]
Cosmic Significance
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1w8hKTJ2Co"]YouTube - Planets and Stars in Scale (With Music)[/ame]
Abundance
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ"]YouTube - Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)[/ame]
The BIGGER 'bigger' picture..
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-tF4sF8eq4"]YouTube - Echoes of the Universe[/ame]
I've been thinking a lot lately, if you really sit down and watch these.. you cannot help but feel utterly insignificant.. it's preposterous to think we are in any way 'special' as our ego sometimes leads us to believe. The process that made us is just as mundane as any other law in the universe.
Everywhere we look with our telescopes, we find the same organic building blocks of life that led to us. We go about our daily lives chasing money and scamming other people that, like us, have an iota of significance on the grander scale of things.. 1 million dollars is something I've always wanted, yet, that too is a miserable little clump of paper that fits in a purse, what will that bring? Freedom and happiness for some? egotistical self-indulgence for most?
When you put these things in perspective, the only thing that seems worth pursuing is your own happiness, through whatever means that may be. What is happiness though? why do we strive for so much? Is it because the ticking of the evolutionary clock has driven out the unmotivated? Are we simply happy, when we are, because the order of our A,C,T & G's in our DNA is telling us to be?
Is what drives us, at it's very core, the same thing that motivates little cells & the little fish to wander so purposefully around, looking for their happiness through fulfilling their basic needs? How much of our life can we really call our own? Are we simply slaves of our unconscious & emotional DNA rewards?
A lot of people find happiness in helping others, is that too, another selfish reward of our DNA? What are we really aiding in? The further destruction our planet and reproduction of more selfish individuals? What does money really say about us? What good have humans ever caused to this planet?
If ants were conscious beings, I imagine they would see us as the most vile, incessant, greedy, unproductive scum of the earth. What if we all died? The world would flourish to its true potential. Plants & animals would work on restoring the equilibrium once had before the apes that led to man brought the world to it's knees
What good will it do, the worlds #1 parasite unseen, and the world is beautiful again, when another million pound chunk of ice comes crashing down on our insignificant lump of rock doing circles around a massive body of nuclear power, that in total indifference will eventually consume us in a fiery inferno?
To me there is no good, no evil, no morals, no ethics.. all of them are evolved by us to help our own selfish desires at stability and prosperity. There is only the utter indifference of physical laws & time.
Probably tl;dr for most(not really busy at work this morning lol), but even if you just watched the videos.. What do you guys think?
Introduction
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luAteAz3WQ0"]YouTube - Carl Sagan "Pale Blue Dot" (New Version) Spread This![/ame]
Cosmic Significance
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x1w8hKTJ2Co"]YouTube - Planets and Stars in Scale (With Music)[/ame]
Abundance
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fgg2tpUVbXQ"]YouTube - Hubble Deep Field: The Most Imp. Image Ever Taken (Redux)[/ame]
The BIGGER 'bigger' picture..
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-tF4sF8eq4"]YouTube - Echoes of the Universe[/ame]
I've been thinking a lot lately, if you really sit down and watch these.. you cannot help but feel utterly insignificant.. it's preposterous to think we are in any way 'special' as our ego sometimes leads us to believe. The process that made us is just as mundane as any other law in the universe.
Everywhere we look with our telescopes, we find the same organic building blocks of life that led to us. We go about our daily lives chasing money and scamming other people that, like us, have an iota of significance on the grander scale of things.. 1 million dollars is something I've always wanted, yet, that too is a miserable little clump of paper that fits in a purse, what will that bring? Freedom and happiness for some? egotistical self-indulgence for most?
When you put these things in perspective, the only thing that seems worth pursuing is your own happiness, through whatever means that may be. What is happiness though? why do we strive for so much? Is it because the ticking of the evolutionary clock has driven out the unmotivated? Are we simply happy, when we are, because the order of our A,C,T & G's in our DNA is telling us to be?
Is what drives us, at it's very core, the same thing that motivates little cells & the little fish to wander so purposefully around, looking for their happiness through fulfilling their basic needs? How much of our life can we really call our own? Are we simply slaves of our unconscious & emotional DNA rewards?
A lot of people find happiness in helping others, is that too, another selfish reward of our DNA? What are we really aiding in? The further destruction our planet and reproduction of more selfish individuals? What does money really say about us? What good have humans ever caused to this planet?
If ants were conscious beings, I imagine they would see us as the most vile, incessant, greedy, unproductive scum of the earth. What if we all died? The world would flourish to its true potential. Plants & animals would work on restoring the equilibrium once had before the apes that led to man brought the world to it's knees
What good will it do, the worlds #1 parasite unseen, and the world is beautiful again, when another million pound chunk of ice comes crashing down on our insignificant lump of rock doing circles around a massive body of nuclear power, that in total indifference will eventually consume us in a fiery inferno?
To me there is no good, no evil, no morals, no ethics.. all of them are evolved by us to help our own selfish desires at stability and prosperity. There is only the utter indifference of physical laws & time.
Probably tl;dr for most(not really busy at work this morning lol), but even if you just watched the videos.. What do you guys think?
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