A disturbing thought

[Napoléon]

Sorry if this has been posted elsewhere (hell I probably came across it on this very site) but I really want to share this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rDRXn96HrtY

[Psykhronic]

He is daaamn sexy when he speaks

[Napoléon]

You're telling me.

You can't imagine the amount of toilet paper I've gotten through watching his videos.

[naimless]

Interesting thought... I don't find it disturbing though. It's more disturbing when people don't realise their current version of truth will be laughed at in the future.

[Napoléon]

I don't laugh at people in the 1st century who may have thought the earth was flat. If I lived in that time period then that would probably be a rational outlook. I laugh at the people who still believe that today.

It's also not disturbing in the slightest that we are hopefully going to know a lot more about the universe in a thousand years time.

[naimless]

I laugh at the people who still believe that today.

It's just a ride... it isn't any more or less significant what they believe.

It's also not disturbing in the slightest that we are hopefully going to know a lot more about the universe in a thousand years time.

Unless we explode and give our life back to Mars again...

[Napoléon]

It's just a ride... it isn't any more or less significant what they believe.

So why is it disturbing again?

[naimless]

It's just a ride... it isn't any more or less significant what they believe.

So why is it disturbing again?

It isn't. It's disturbing when they don't accept that their belief could be wrong, and that goes for any belief.

[Napoléon]

True that.

[jonb]

Actually I don't find the thrust of the speech disturbing, People are always trying to magnify tiny differences into huge gulfs of separation. But I would add there are quite a few, reasonable speculations that would mean any possible alien intelligence would be broadly of the same cognitive ability as ourselves.