a pale blue dot

The 3rd session with the Republika’s Consul

on the cosmos and learning from it

Ton: Consul, I came along with this picture. I 1^st heard of it in An Inconvenient Truth by Al Gore. This picture is about us. All of us. Well, actually it’s a picture of earth taken from a satellite millions of miles away from earth. Earth simply appears to be a small pale very pixilated blue dot floating in the dark cosmos. It really made me think. And think deep.

Consul: The pale blue dot is us. It is indeed where humanity evolved, all human wrongs, all human accomplishments, all the things, places and people we know of is on that pale blue dot young one. It indeed radiates something, something humbling, yet marvelous.

Ton: Exactly consul! It seems like, even how great we think we humans are, it just happened on a tiny dot in a film. All the wars, the famine, all we strived for, all we fought for happened on that dot! It really amazes me because the very idea of our existence as microscopic bits of life in the universe translates into a wonder, a divine wonder.

Consul: Young one, this image constantly reminds us, all of us that there is something greater than this reality. That in all of humanity strived for; we still are small living things In God’s vast universe. At the same time, it reminds us to be caring. Caring for our home for this is the only one we have in the vast darkenss of the cosmos.

Ton: Thank you consul! It is indeed true that when I think about this picture, it really has that divine effect in me. It enforces my faith and urges me to act about the environment. Whoh! What a great fundamental idea for a new environmentalist! Thanks consul!

God loves you!