Having a Carl Sagasm...
Sep. 17th, 2008 05:41 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
logansrogueThis Carl Sagan documentary is fucking brilliant. As I said in a comment on the youtube, it's like the Sergeant Peppers of documentaries, man. Watching it high would be a spiritual experience. Fuck, watching it straight is a spiritual experience.
I *love* it when science and spiritualism come full circle. In certain little offsets of Gnosticism (mostly new Gnosticism which isn't so fatalistic and anti-life) there's a belief that God was once all there was. Just this great ball of energy. And it wanted to know itself. In that moment it split into two, because to know yourself you have to look at yourself (sort of like looking in the mirror) ... but it's still you there. I kind of believe that at this point, the universe was born (big bang) and that everything that happened since, to get to us, is this great energy wanting to know itself. It's the basis on which my spiritual outlook is based.
And then Carl Sagan comes out with that organic life is made of the stuff of stars (I love that fucking line) and that it's the Cosmos' way of getting to know itself.
Oh man, I came! That's just brilliant! He's all about science, and then there's dudes all about the spirit (I'm a bit of both, I think) and BAM! FULL CIRCLE. Back to the SAME FREAKIN' CONCLUSION! MAN!
You know it's a good day when you start it feeling this exhilirated! It's moments like this I love being human.
Anyway, I paused the docco for a minute to go do something, and when I came back I noticed that Carl was pulling a totally awesome expression. So I made these:
HERE'S A BLANK - SURPRISE ME FUCKERS! :D
I *love* it when science and spiritualism come full circle. In certain little offsets of Gnosticism (mostly new Gnosticism which isn't so fatalistic and anti-life) there's a belief that God was once all there was. Just this great ball of energy. And it wanted to know itself. In that moment it split into two, because to know yourself you have to look at yourself (sort of like looking in the mirror) ... but it's still you there. I kind of believe that at this point, the universe was born (big bang) and that everything that happened since, to get to us, is this great energy wanting to know itself. It's the basis on which my spiritual outlook is based.
And then Carl Sagan comes out with that organic life is made of the stuff of stars (I love that fucking line) and that it's the Cosmos' way of getting to know itself.
Oh man, I came! That's just brilliant! He's all about science, and then there's dudes all about the spirit (I'm a bit of both, I think) and BAM! FULL CIRCLE. Back to the SAME FREAKIN' CONCLUSION! MAN!
You know it's a good day when you start it feeling this exhilirated! It's moments like this I love being human.
Anyway, I paused the docco for a minute to go do something, and when I came back I noticed that Carl was pulling a totally awesome expression. So I made these:
HERE'S A BLANK - SURPRISE ME FUCKERS! :D
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Date: 2008-09-16 10:07 pm (UTC)I was so sad when we lost him.
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Date: 2008-09-16 10:14 pm (UTC)I had only read his books until now. When I found this cache of docos with Carl Sagan in the mix, my head exploded.
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Date: 2008-09-16 10:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2008-09-17 01:16 am (UTC)Hmmm... Must think of something very funny for the blank macro!
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