Put music to our troubles and we'll dance them away.
Black Man.
Hi, I'm Jamie.
Let's see.
Honestly,
I'm nothing special.
I've got my faults and I'll probably let you down.
More than once.
I'm me.
That's it.
That's Earth.
"We succeeded in taking that picture [from deep space], and, if you look at it, you see a dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever lived, lived out their lives. The aggregate of all our joys and sufferings, thousands of confident religions, ideologies and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilizations, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every hopeful child, every mother and father, every 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 in 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 the dot on scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner of the dot. 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. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, 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 and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known."
-Carl Sagan
ChimChim1040: i'm going to marry bradley hathaway, and you're going to be that one guy who's got a thing for the 'soon to be bride' who never says anything until it's too late... yeah, that one who begs them not to get married.... who's ALWAYS at the wedding..
Drummr1309: Yea!!! But in all those movies the bride always marries the guy who has always had a thing her, so I don't need to worry.
ChimChim1040: true..
ChimChim1040: in all honesty....i didn't even talk to bradley hathaway.
Drummr1309: Well how come?
ChimChim1040: well, what's the point? we're going to get married, right?!?!
Drummr1309: Yea you're right.
Drummr1309: I should have thought of that.
ChimChim1040: ... i'll hold you to that...
Drummr1309: You had better!
ChimChim1040: oh, i will.
Drummr1309: Sweet.
yep!
JESUS.
YOU made a holy fool of me, and I've thanked YOU ever since.
Save me a spot,
I'll be there sooner than not...
I'm picking up the pace and starting to trot...
I am dead to life,
and alive to something I don't know if You would have me feel...
BUT THIS IS FOR REAL.