Pale Blue Dot

On February 14, 1990 NASA commanded the Voyager 1 spacecraft, having completed its primary mission, to turn around to photograph the planets it had visited. Earth was observed by Voyager 1 at a distance of 4 billion miles away.

What was seen from that distance was a tiny, single bluish speck of light floating in the center of a single huge sunbeam.

From this distant vantage point the Earth may not seem of any particular interest. But for us it is different.

Consider again 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 sufferings.

THOUSANDS of confident "Religions".

Ideologies and economic doctrines of men.

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 and hopeful child.

Every inventor and explorer.

Every teacher of morals.

Every corrupt POLITICIAN.

Every Super Star.

Every supreme leader.

Every Saint and Sinner in the history of our specie lived there on the mote of dust suspended on 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, Emperors and Presidents.

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 EGOIC posturings. Our totaly imagined self - importance.

The DELUSION that we have some devine, privilaged place on this planet and position in this Universe are challenged by this point of pale blue light.

Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping Cosmic Dark.

In our collective ignorance and obscurity in all this vastness there is no hint that HELP, " OF ANY KIND ", or Name will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

Like it or not the Earth is where we make our stand.

The Earth -- The Only HOME we've ever known. Or will ever know. WAKE - UP PEOPLE. It's all about time ... we don't have decades left to play stupid anymore like we have been doing for the last 2009 years. Se'lah.