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And my fear of it.
I used to have this talk with a friend of mine, the things we don’t think about when thinking about things. Mine is pondering the Universe. Doing this is like experiencing all the side effects of most prescription drugs: May cause nausea, dizziness, diarrhea, malaise, vomit, headache, dermatitis, dry mouth, etc.
Yes, it freaks me out that much!
I will admit that blatant fictionalization has helped me. From Battlestar Galactica to Mass Effect, I love it all, but it still freaks me out. Don't get me wrong, I do a lot of reading about the universe and try to keep up to date on what is happening out there, but if I sit and think on the Universe and try to ponder it as a whole rather than in small news bites or specific discussion, I just seize.
Thinking about it makes me realize how small and how insignificant I am in the grand scheme of things. How much I pray for mankind and the way we are contributing to our own extinction. How arrogant we are at times to assume we are the only intelligent life anywhere. How quickly and easily we discount stories about UFO's and anything remotely challenging our place on the evolutionary ladder. How much I think that my country is the main problem with global society today. (Oil consuming, hummer driving bullies that are in power with their like minded greedy minions backing them. =( sorry ) The media touting their own ideas and philosophy or promoting the next 15 minute man of the environment, like it were gospel. And saddest of all; the loneliness that is consuming our children as parents are trying to keep up with the “Jones’s”, instead of being there for the kids.
This is the image I think, as a whole, we put out into the Universe. And who knows what or who is out there watching? I imagine we leave the universe wondering how long we’ll last, and waiting for the next evolutionary top of the food chain society to come along.
Please do not discount these irrational fears as lack of respect or awe or intrigue on the final frontier though. I hope one day we do find “something” out there.
I just hope we won’t do what we normally do when we do.
Peace.
~Tet~
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Posted by VarahnTet on 2008-05-28 13:49:43 | Rating: | Views: 47
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