Saturday, May 24, 2008

The challenging life of our world today

Here we all come again to a challenging time of the year.All of a sudden the spring brings incredibly busy tragedy our world.Lets faced it..when I saw the tradegy disaster news,I felt very sad and it's reminds me of the tsunami that happened two years ago.I can feel how the victims feel because I was in a resort during the tsunami.It was a shcocking experinece to me and the kids.Today,I still can't forget the shocking moment.Last December it was a cyclone in Bangladesh and now a cyclone in Myanmar and an earthquake on China in occurence.Some people said God create those disasters around the world.

Do you think so?I don't think so because what I know natural disasters have been happening for many years.However,I do believe that natural disasters are increasing in frequency and intensity as a result of climate change not create by God.I believe everyone has to go through trials and tribulation.God did not promise that life would be easy but he did promise to be with us on every step of the way.Eventually every part of the world will have some sort of natural disaster.It will probably get worse in years to come and the natural disasters are all weather related.I blame it on global warming.We need to stop global warming.Change the way we treat the world and the nature.If we want to love our family and friends why not love the world first.

Here I found a video which is very touching and it's hard to find anyone who can put things in perspective more than Carl Sagan statement.

Pale Blue Dot


Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph(Pale Blue Dot)

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.

3 comments:

janice said...

i like this post... and the thought... but it's always easier to say then done.. esp in our country..

posh_post said...

wow! so profound. just dropping by bebe. hope u can pass by mine, too. take care dearQ

posh_post said...

how are you??/