One in Five Stars Has Earth-sized Planet in Habitable Zone

[Peace Patriot]

50. "...we don't deserve a second chance." ???

This sounds like Koch Brothers' shills talking about the unemployed, the homeless, the mortgage-drowned, the hungry, the sick, the poor, the tens of thousands in prison for non-violent crimes, the lazy, the "good for nothing," the "welfare queens," the broken soldiers, the disabled, the elderly, and others who oughtn't to get Food Stamps or medical care or free education or any kind of help, who are "non-productive' or "failed human beings" who ought to be kicked off the island!

WHY don't we "deserve" a "second chance," hm?

It's that kind of thinking--cliche thinking, Old Testament-style condemnation--that will ensure that we don't summon the creativity, intelligence and determination--creativity, intelligence and determination that we are certainly capable of--to solve our planetary environmental problem.

Do you really want to consign all of humanity to eternal oblivion, like some Bible-thumping preacher? The whole human enterprise from beginning to end--with all of its effort, all of its beauty--is dismissible as not deserving of a second chance?

People who say "never gonna happen" are often proved wrong.

Will women be allowed to vote? Never gonna happen.
Will blacks be allowed to vote? Never gonna happen.
Will all workers pay into a common pension system to ensure an income for the elderly? Never gonna happen.
Can people fly in the sky? Never gonna happen.
Can electricity be harnessed and provided to every household? Never gonna happen.
Can an exploited colony successfully rebel against an empire? Never gonna happen.
Can a pathogen be used to inoculate people against the disease that the pathogen causes? Never gonna happen.
Will people ever walk on the moon? Never gonna happen.

On and on and on goes the list of things that somebody said are "never gonna happen" that, in fact, happened. Millions of "impossibilities" have been made possible; millions and millions of problems solved by human creativity, intelligence and determination.

I think you may be suffering from being inside of a dying democracy that, like Rome, has become an overstretched and rapacious empire, with extreme propaganda aimed at us every day about our "inability" to change anything. You have a jaded view. But looking just at our own history as a country and a people--let alone the history of other countries and peoples, and all that is happening in other places right now, and things that are happening here as well--and I mean ALL that is happening, not just what you get from the corporate propaganda media--there is much reason for hope. Human beings have an extraordinary capacity for innovation, and are amazingly adaptable. We also, as a characteristic, have a tremendous desire to cooperate, to help, to contribute to the common good. Who is to say that these positive qualities will not win out, or that, facing catastrophe, we will not rally to the crisis and find solutions that ensure human survival? We are very adept at creating second chances for ourselves!

Our beautiful planet evolved us. It is not a matter of "deserving" anything. The Old Testament is FICTION. There is no "Garden of Eden" that we got banned from, no "sin" that we are guilty of, no God pointing a finger at us and saying "You don't deserve this." What is happening now, on earth, is the development of consciousness of our planetary environment and of our place in the huge, huge, HUGE universe. We DON'T KNOW what will happen to us, nor what we may, collectively do, as this new consciousness develops. It is NOT predictable. It is open-ended. That is the human story--NOT predictable.