Crusader 8 (princelypublictimeline)'s status on Sunday, 04-Mar-12 18:40:18 UTC
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@sebastian1314 @ your melancholy post... I'm not sure which "big picture" you see, but worrying about life passing on is small imo. As long as people will survive, culture will survive, and as long as people are willing to die to preserve culture it'll thrive. Individuals may be forgotten, but what each person stands for will pass on and mature into a shape beyond the mere need for those ideas to be credited to a single person. When the time comes when life on Earth is threatened by people, there will be people to step in and do something; it's always happened that way and always will. We're not going to wipe ourselves out in other words. To me, the BIG picture is what our civilization is TRULY dependent on, which is that heavenly bodies behave so that we don't fall victim to the universe doing its thing, whether it's meteors/asteroids hitting us, or the Sun dying, etc. It's like how you can argue that quitting smoking doesn't guarantee longer life cuz you can get hit by a car.
