RE: Looks like Kepler has gone tits up
May 18, 2013 at 11:56 am
(This post was last modified: May 18, 2013 at 11:57 am by starchild.)
Quote:You can blame and be irritated all you want, at least the Christian community is doing something about water for those who are in need.
What a bunch of self-righteous nonsense. Christian Missions are not altruistic endeavors to benefit humanity, they are recruiting tools to replenish the ranks. Charity is to give to someone unconditionally, because you want to help them and expect nothing in return. Giving to someone conditioned upon them listening to your religious propaganda and joining your "spiritual army" is not charity, but a contract. The consideration for this contract is the exchange of food and water for unwavering loyalty. If any these people were to take water from these wells and reject your god, you would have leave them "high and dry" because they would be "poisoning the well." (pun intended)
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“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Recognize that the very molecules that make up your body, the atoms that construct the molecules, are traceable to the crucibles that were once the centers of high mass stars that exploded their chemically rich guts into the galaxy, enriching pristine gas clouds with the chemistry of life. So that we are all connected to each other biologically, to the earth chemically and to the rest of the universe atomically. That’s kinda cool! That makes me smile and I actually feel quite large at the end of that. It’s not that we are better than the universe, we are part of the universe. We are in the universe and the universe is in us.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson
