Quotes to Ponder:

"Better the hard truth, I say, than the comforting fantasy"

"Keeping an open mind is a virtue - but as the space engineer James Oberg once said, not so open that your brains fall out"

"'Thou shalt not suffer a witch to live (quote from the bible)'. Legions of women were burnt to death".

"I meet many people offended by evolution, who passionately prefer to be the personal handicraft of god than to arise by blind physical and chemical fores over aeons from slime...evidence has little to do with it; what they wish to be true, they believe is true...(I began to see how easy it is tobe fooled by your desire to believe - Susan Blackmore)...if you accept the literal truth of every word of the bible, then Earth must be flat. The same is true for the Qu'ran. Pronouncing the Earth round then means you're an atheist".


-Carl Sagan

Copernicus gave us an idea to think about, science gave us the ability to see the truth, religion maintained ignorance and predisposition to rely on a fary tale than to accept knowledge. With belief comes power, and if power comes then why curb belief, no matter how false? Every culture had its myths, greek, roman, Mayan, ..., and in retrospect those myths were seen as mere stories depicting what they noticed in nature - they are seen as fictional premises to lull children to sleep. How long before we realize that current beliefs are but a fictional story, on which was created a megacoporation of unjust persecution and strife. Burnign witches, condemnation of science, persecution of intellectuals, warfare to protect fictional beings, cultural elimination and conformation, sexually and racially hierarchical systems...where do we as musing species limit our proliferation of belief and focus on truth?
Why are astrology, homeopathy and religion allowed more public awareness than simple truths and investigations of nature? Of health? Of culture? Of geopolitics? Of geological history? Of evolution? Why do most people know their astrological sign but few know what a star actually is - or that Sun is a star for that matter and that it is only our perspective of the 'other' stars that give us 'our' constellations? Or that humans did not evolve from Monkeys, nor apes, but share a common proto species? Why is this not common knowledge? Why are people continuously purchasing token belief systems and rebellng from knowledge, from research, from investigation...why do so few pick up a telescope, a microscope or a textbook, yet subscribe to set beliefs against without any primary experience?
Belief, over investigation, will never allow a culture to surpass our follies and disseminate truth and knowledge.

The beauty of nature, of life, all life, is in the details. The details are worth looking for. So gaze away...

That is all, for now.