[escepticos] Un converso

[Pastronomía]

Exactamente!!!

Hace un tiempo atrás lo puse en el facebook.
Buen momento para reflotarlo!

Salu2
C

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I dare do all that may become a man.
Who dares do more is none.
What man dare, I dare.
Macbeth - Shakespeare

“La reina es una mujer desgarbada, sin belleza, gracia ni dignidad. 
El único atributo real que la distingue es una perfecta impasibilidad en
todas las circunstancias, y ésta acompañada de una expresión huraña.”

Charles Darwin

"No se puede insultar a una persona sensata pues la verdad no insulta y la
mentira no merece ser tenida en cuenta"
Robert Heinlein - "Ciudadano de la Galaxia".
 
" Estudien mucho para poder dominar la técnica, que permite dominar la
naturaleza.(...)Sobre todo sean capaces de sentir en lo más hondo cualquier
injusticia cometida contra cualquiera en cualquier parte del mundo.(...)”
Dr. Ernesto "Che" Guevara - Carta a sus hijos.
 

" Vivimos en una sociedad profundamente dependiente de la ciencia y la
tecnología y en la que nadie sabe nada de estos temas. Ello constituye una
fórmula segura para el desastre." 
Carl Sagan
 

" The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility…
The fact that it is comprehensible is a miracle "
Albert Einstein (1936)
(Claro, esto lo decía Einstein)

 
Para que parar acá...
"Let me give you a little inside information about God. God likes to watch.
He's a prankster. Think about it. He gives man instincts. He gives you this
extraordinary gift, and then what does He do, I swear for His own amusement,
his own private, cosmic gag reel, He sets the rules in opposition. It's the
goof of all time. Look, but don't touch. Touch, but don't taste. Taste,
don't swallow. Ahaha! And while you're jumpin' from one foot to the next,
what is he doing? He's laughin' His sick, fuckin' ass off! He's a tight-ass!
He's a sadist! He's an absentee landlord! Worship that? Never!"
>From Devil's Advocate

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De: escepticos-bounces en dis.ulpgc.es [mailto:escepticos-bounces en dis.ulpgc.es]
En nombre de Pedro J. Hdez
Enviado el: jueves, 19 de agosto de 2010 15:22
Para: Lista Escépticos; esceptican en yahoogroups.com
Asunto: [escepticos] Un converso

Estaba leyendo a un new ager de esos que escribían libros y todo
convertido al escepticismo y la ciencia (increíble pero cierto). Y me
ha parecido importante este párrafo
http://www.csicop.org/si/show/bridging_the_chasm_between_two_cultures/

"One of the biggest falsehoods I've encountered is that skeptics can't
tolerate mystery, while New Age people can. This is completely wrong,
because it is actually the people in my culture who can't handle
mystery—not even a tiny bit of it. Everything in my New Age culture
comes complete with an answer, a reason, and a source. Every action,
emotion, health symptom, dream, accident, birth, death, or idea here
has a direct link to the influence of the stars, chi, past lives,
ancestors, energy fields, interdimensional beings, enneagrams, devas,
fairies, spirit guides, angels, aliens, karma, God, or the Goddess.

We love to say that we embrace mystery in the New Age culture, but
that’s a cultural conceit and it’s utterly wrong. In actual fact, we
have no tolerance whatsoever for mystery. Everything from the smallest
individual action to the largest movements in the evolution of the
planet has a specific metaphysical or mystical cause. In my opinion,
this incapacity to tolerate mystery is a direct result of my culture’s
disavowal of the intellect. One of the most frightening things about
attaining the capacity to think skeptically and critically is that so
many things don't have clear answers. Critical thinkers and skeptics
don't create answers just to manage their anxiety."

Ya lo decía Asimov "Examinen fragmentos de pseudociencia y encontrarán
un manto de protección, un pulgar que chupar, unas faldas a las que
agarrarse. Y, ¿qué ofrecemos nosotros a cambio? ¡Incertidumbre!
¡Inseguridad!"

saludos

-- 
Pedro J. Hdez
Ecos del futuro
http://ecos.blogalia.com



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