Matthew McConaughey
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I think it'd be arrogant not to.
And if and when we cross it.
unlike we've had a tendency to do when we try to go with some nation takeovers, I think it would be our inherent glitch to go in
believing that any other life form civilization wants to take over territories, to go into it with thinking that, okay, this is an opposition.
I mean, I think that's a human trait of ours.
And to consider that another life form would have an interest that more land or more territory on
It's good for them, I think is a shallow idea.
I think of it more like when I think of heaven, those considerations are not in anyone's mind, heart, or intent in the heaven that I think of.
So in other civilizations, these things, I mean, I hope that we would just see and learn that it would be the natural side of welcoming.
It wouldn't be a primate response to, no, I have fire and you're coming over trying to put it out, or I have food and you're trying to steal my food.
I don't think it would be.
I think it's a shallow thought to think that, oh, it's going to be about ownership and we'd be trespassing.
I think it would be, I don't think they would have a sense of borders as we do.
It's a great question.
quote that someone told me, this astrophysicist told me this, how accurate it is or not.
Someone else can argue the validity of what I'm about to say or not, but I thought it really was a perspective grabber for me.
Like, look, see, the universe was created at midnight.
Humans came around at 11.59 and 36 seconds.
I love the little analogies that put that frame, like that make, oh, yeah, the pale blue dot.
There it is, that perspective.