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Carl Sagan on God

submitted by moesephoes
1 decade 5 years 4 months ago

The wonderfully eloquent Carl Sagan discusses humanity's religious origins for the universe.

6 Comments

Is this 70's, 80's?

think its late 70s

To be specific, late 1980. Cosmos aired between September 1980 and December 1980

dag

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag.(show it anyway)

*80s. I miss Carl. *promote

Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, July 28th, 2009 12:49am PDT - promote requested by dag.

Adding video to channels (80s) - requested by dag.

There is a saying, that Im too slack to google who said:
me thinks it was some big player in the hindu catalouge - a prince maybe...and well I fear I may be mixing hindu with buddist...but anyway

A religous leader said something like,

[Raaagh sic]
"Religion is like a canoe, once you have crossed the river, it would be fool to continue carrying the canoe"

I always loved that.

And I love this for the same reasons: all that "lotus", "harvest" stuff just confuses the issue. What the deep thinkers 3500 years ago ended upon has a wonderful sentiment,
'Though i observe humans and their scale and scope, I have to admit there are other scales and scopes. The only consistency I really observe is cycles, and...if I completely release myself from my surroundings I can imagine (whilst failing to comprehend) cycles, with scope, and scale, in the infinite'.

That I think, is where the humility comes in.

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