Is it possible to publish a translated version of this article in another linguage without violate copyrights? The parable of Skeeter and the Geek. Skeeter knows fishing, logging, and tailgate parties. The Geek knows calculus, Excel, modeling, and culture. Skeeter provides the food, the Geek makes it feed more than ever. We stop communicating at our own peril. Religion is manmade. Fearful man created God. There is no wisdom in proclaiming there is God. There is wisdom in being intelligent enough to reflect and realise, that God is a construct to help fearful man to live.
Wherever religion is colluding the minds though, not helping to overcome fear, even infringing on the freedom of the mind for others, it should be defeated. One of the stages of a human life is toward the end when our assessment of the younger generations is less than generous. The young people I know have a pretty good understanding of the situation.
Whether or not they can participate without being corrupted is the question. The quote is pasted below. Whether you are religious or not, utilizing knowledge to avoid such catastrophe is good. But to find the truth, we need imagination and skepticism both. We will not be afraid to speculate. But we will be careful to distinguish speculation from fact. I find that to be a reasonable pursuit. The dumbing down of America is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the second sound bites now down to 10 seconds or less , lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.
Carl Sagain did not turn out to be the paragon of finding out what is true and cutting throgh the b. I read his book about the candlestick in the dark and became an annoying bore and agitator to my friends who were exploring things like other ways to understand consciousness through astrology, etc. Now that I am learning ancient astrology as a system of so many systems of thought from the past, I am convinved all our rational science mindedness has helped ruin the planet.
We needed a good mix of spirit and matter and an even greater understanding of how they work together. Ancient cultures may have been superstitious or naive, but they had a greater connection to and respect fr the earth, cycles and trythems of light and darkness, And in a way, I feel like science, at times, is its own mythlogoy passing away.
Overall, I value his contributions. It was unchecked capitalism. Sagan was percent right on the money about the effects of non critical thinking.
Superstition and spirituality may make some people feel good but in the end they only hold us back. God fearing people are usually the sneaky,two faced, hypocrites that hide behind religion hoping it cloaks how immoral they really are. Or its old people who are scared of death and find religion eases their fears of the Big Sleep.
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