tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310981.post1138511463897359363..comments2024-03-04T07:45:15.155-07:00Comments on Hackman's Musings: Stuff Fundies Like #2Andrewhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12494823779999456396noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5310981.post-60468489841070590802010-08-08T05:08:57.506-06:002010-08-08T05:08:57.506-06:00this is nice. :) #2 only further illuminates the i...this is nice. :) #2 only further illuminates the incredible irony of #1. <br /><br />for, to my surprise, i found myself agreeing with mr piper. specifically when he said, 'we're the problem.'<br /><br />"Yes, john, you're right.<br /><br />For here we are on a tiny mote of dust in an unfathomably big universe - a planet that supports life in a complex and diverse ecosystem we barely understand & currently features 6 billion *unique* human lives at any one time. each one as wonderfully mysterious as the universe, with the capacity to not only imagine but to speak complex languages & tell stories of love & pain so as to make sense of their place on the planet & wonder what is up in the stars above.<br />humans with the capacity to work out how to record this meaning-making as literature with written alphabets, & develop technologies to reproduce it in book form... <br /><br />All so that you could then hold just one fragment of all those thousands of years of complex human stories in your hand &, in your wisdom, declare that this world is... wait for it..."Boring!" <br />there's your problem, John, right there."<br /><br />you gotta cue up the laughter track. it's the best medicine.<br /><br />LBLittleBirdhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06265499967129516159noreply@blogger.com