I still feel great sadness when i see the film clips and see the pictures from the horrible and tragic day one year ago.
Even though we are proud over our civilization, we are still animals. Despite the Dark Ages turned a bit brighter when the Age of Enlightenment (Rennaissance) changed the world long ago, it's still a bit dark. Religion, superstition and fundamentalism makes up the darkness in our world. Science, logics, reasoning and liberty are the candles that are still burning, fighting off the darkness. Terrorism threatens to blow out the candles. Friendship, understanding and tolerance are yet other candles being lit.
We need more oxygen for these candles... We need more candles... ...before it's too late and the darkness wins. The darkness wont let you see. If you can't see, you can't think your own thoughts. If you have no thoughts of your own, you're dead. We're all dead.
Light two candles for today:
One real candle that burns with a flame, and
One candle which is you doing something good for a fellow man/woman. It could be anything, from helping your friend move to a new apartment, to comfort a child who's lost and can't find his mom. Or, why not just give someone a smile.
Great words by Carl Sagan:
... 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.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors, so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light.
Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.
What else is wind energy than a way of indirectly tap two other sources of energy; 1. the rotation of Earth, and 2. the sun heating up our athmosphere.
I would sleep for 12 hours straight.
I would spend endless hours at the library.
I would borrow all the books I could and not worry about all those darn late fees:(
I would travel the world, first of all to USA and Canada.
I would buy a ticket to space, when that's possible.
I would design homepages for free, for fun and for money.
I would code and hack all day.
I would sit in front of the TV and watch sitcoms, documentaries and action all day.
I would sign up for any courses that might be fun.
I would have philosophical, political and other discussions with that nice smart chick I know;)
I would do two chicks at once;)
In other words, as the restless soul that I am, I would do anything.
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Even though we are proud over our civilization, we are still animals.
Despite the Dark Ages turned a bit brighter when the Age of Enlightenment (Rennaissance) changed the world long ago, it's still a bit dark.
Religion, superstition and fundamentalism makes up the darkness in our world.
Science, logics, reasoning and liberty are the candles that are still burning, fighting off the darkness.
Terrorism threatens to blow out the candles.
Friendship, understanding and tolerance are yet other candles being lit.
We need more oxygen for these candles...
We need more candles...
Light two candles for today:
Great words by Carl Sagan:
What else is wind energy than a way of indirectly tap two other sources of energy; 1. the rotation of Earth, and 2. the sun heating up our athmosphere.
I would spend endless hours at the library.
I would borrow all the books I could and not worry about all those darn late fees
I would travel the world, first of all to USA and Canada.
I would buy a ticket to space, when that's possible.
I would design homepages for free, for fun and for money.
I would code and hack all day.
I would sit in front of the TV and watch sitcoms, documentaries and action all day.
I would sign up for any courses that might be fun.
I would have philosophical, political and other discussions with that nice smart chick I know
I would do two chicks at once
In other words, as the restless soul that I am, I would do anything.