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

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Thu May 3 21:13:32 PDT 2012


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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