[Vision2020] Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers

Chasuk chasuk at gmail.com
Thu May 3 21:20:38 PDT 2012


I adore Sagan, but I disagree with him here. In my view, the possible,
happens. The impossible, doesn't.

On Thu, May 3, 2012 at 9:13 PM, Tom Hansen <thansen at moscow.com> wrote:
> In the words of Carl Sagan (I'm paraphrasing) . . .
>
> "If it is possible, it has been done. If it is impossible, it will be done."
>
> Seeya round town, Moscow.
>
> Tom Hansen
> Moscow, Idaho
>
> "If not us, who?
> If not now, when?"
>
> - Unknown
>
>
>
> On May 3, 2012, at 21:05, Chasuk <chasuk at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Art Deco wrote, "But let us not be skeptical to the extent of: "Man
>> will never fly."
>>
>> I am accept all factual claims only provisionally. That's an easy
>> position for me to take, because I have _literally_ no interest in the
>> supremacy of one theory versus another. If, tomorrow, the best
>> explanation for gravity became squadrons of fairies beating their
>> wings rapidly in unison, so be it.
>>
>> I accept today that light is the ultimate speed in the universe
>> because that seems true, today. If that became "false" tomorrow, so be
>> it.
>>
>> In other words, the assertion "man will never fly" has no place in my
>> current paradigm.
>>
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